Metroliner telephone article 4123

*+-The guys who serviced IBM Selectric typewriters used to wear three piece *+-suits. My first job out of college was at a medical center. The IBM *+-guy would borrow a lab coat so he could clean out the schmutz from the *+-carbon ribbons without getting it all over his suit. I don't know what *+-they did in places that didn't have a locker full of lab coats handy.

My uncle was a photocomposing service engineer (1968-74) and he used to crawl under the computer in his suit. He didn't stop wearing a tie until like 1992 (he worked for a newspaper 1974-2003). We used to buy clothes together and he always told the taylor he needed his clothes to be nice and roomy so he could work. Have you seen pictures of people who built stuff like 1910. The construction workers had jackets, vests, ties, and bowler hats. I think I've seen a picture of them building the "lions" NYPL or Columbia's Butler Library like that. I've seen old farmers tending fields in 1970s Greece with vests and white oxford shirts (no jcket or tie).

Danny Burstein prolly remembers me wearing a suit and tie all through my years at Columbia. I, too, kept the habit until 1992. I had to wear a tie in grammar school, and even though my high school didn't require it, I did.

But the trend is reversing. I'm told "Casual Friday" has become "Sucker Friday" as in seersucker.

- = - Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Reagan Mozart Pindus BioStrategist ---{Nothing herein consbreastutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards Yellary Clinton & Yellalot Spitzer: Nasty Together