Originally Posted by
JMKSTL
There is a common theme about scruffiness and how people dress, casually, suited, very casual, etc. It seems like at best, people think the way they dress has a neutral impact. I don't care which cabin I'm in, I never go to the airport dressed like I would for my morning workout, or working in the yard.
I can't point to statistics, but it just seems things go better, I get treated better, people bother me less, etc., when I dress more than casually. I often am in a suit if I was at a meeting, but more typically just in business casual including a sport coat. I don't think that makes me better than anyone else or entitles me to anything, I just can't help the feeling that I still get better treatment than at those times that I happen to have been more casual. Maybe its all in my head, maybe it is a placebo. Regardless, it seems to work
I was wearing a Murano dress shirt and dress pants. Maybe it was the Swiss Gear backpack. I do admit that I was wearing a company logo fleece and not a suit jacket. My response was yes and I kept moving. That's what I do since it's useless to argue with a GA. This used to happen to me a lot at my home airport, but as the personnel have shrunk with the shrinking number of flights, I fly less, and F more often.