Do you "dress up" to fly premium cabin?
Mar 28, 2016, 2:21 am
#227
Join Date: Feb 2013
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If I'm not at work or clubbing I try to avoid full sleeve shirts. I wear jeans, wish I could wear my oxfords and jackets more often though.
Mar 28, 2016, 9:03 am
#228
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Mar 29, 2016, 5:22 am
#230
Join Date: May 2004
Programs: BA blue, LH Senator, KQ (FB) gold
Posts: 8,215
Full morning dress for a day flight, white tie and tails for an evening flight, smoking jacket for a night flight.
Mar 30, 2016, 11:54 am
#233
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: CT, USA
Programs: AA - Platinum (AC); Hyatt Diamond, Marriott gold
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Jeans or slacks and a polo/sweater/long sleeve shirt depending on the weather (No shorts, not because I'm opposed but more because I want as little skin on plane contact as possible) unless I have a meeting or something and won't have time to check in, iron and change beforehand, but I usually plan my travel so I will have the time...I haven't noticed any difference in treatment based on how I'm dressed.
Mar 30, 2016, 7:58 pm
#234
Join Date: May 2014
Location: CMH, HNL
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Dressed-up is not the same as well-dressed. Just like when you see schlubs in suits.
My daydream has everyone around me dressed cleverly, acting civilized, and looking impressively fit. Then I have to wake up.
My daydream has everyone around me dressed cleverly, acting civilized, and looking impressively fit. Then I have to wake up.
Mar 31, 2016, 5:57 am
#235
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Mar 31, 2016, 9:39 am
#236
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Maryland
Programs: Hilton Diamond, AA Ex. PLT, Delta Diamond
Posts: 190
it depends on what I have to do once I get off the plane. If I have a meeting then I probably will dress up if I do not have anything until the next day then I will go a casual as possible. If it is a long haul then I will definitely dress down hard unless someone is meeting me then I make it casual. However, I will have some shorts and socks in my to-go bag so that I can get comfortable on the plane.
Mar 31, 2016, 10:42 am
#237
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I tend to wear what I need to, and if I am coming from or going to a business meeting, then I will be in a suit.
However, I have found that wearing a suit tends to get you smoothly through other aspects of travel. It really makes no difference onboard the plane, however it DOES make a difference when dealing with staff and in unusual circumstances, be it GA's, hotel clerks, rental car agents etc. Right or wrong, if you exude authority, confidence and means, you tend to be treated better than if you are standing at the counter in jeans and a t-shirt.
However, I have found that wearing a suit tends to get you smoothly through other aspects of travel. It really makes no difference onboard the plane, however it DOES make a difference when dealing with staff and in unusual circumstances, be it GA's, hotel clerks, rental car agents etc. Right or wrong, if you exude authority, confidence and means, you tend to be treated better than if you are standing at the counter in jeans and a t-shirt.
Mar 31, 2016, 10:47 am
#238
Join Date: Mar 2015
Programs: DL PT, Bonvoy PT
Posts: 24
I'm glad I wore a "nice" shirt with long sleeves on my SEA-ATL the other day. It was freezing on the plane and took probably half an hour after boarding J for the crew to turn the heat on.
Then again, I probably would have done the same even if I hadn't gotten upgraded, simply because I want to touch the seat as little as possible. Don't know where it's been.
Then again, I probably would have done the same even if I hadn't gotten upgraded, simply because I want to touch the seat as little as possible. Don't know where it's been.
Mar 31, 2016, 2:06 pm
#239
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Maryland
Programs: Hilton Diamond, AA Ex. PLT, Delta Diamond
Posts: 190
I tend to wear what I need to, and if I am coming from or going to a business meeting, then I will be in a suit.
However, I have found that wearing a suit tends to get you smoothly through other aspects of travel. It really makes no difference onboard the plane, however it DOES make a difference when dealing with staff and in unusual circumstances, be it GA's, hotel clerks, rental car agents etc. Right or wrong, if you exude authority, confidence and means, you tend to be treated better than if you are standing at the counter in jeans and a t-shirt.
However, I have found that wearing a suit tends to get you smoothly through other aspects of travel. It really makes no difference onboard the plane, however it DOES make a difference when dealing with staff and in unusual circumstances, be it GA's, hotel clerks, rental car agents etc. Right or wrong, if you exude authority, confidence and means, you tend to be treated better than if you are standing at the counter in jeans and a t-shirt.
Mar 31, 2016, 2:23 pm
#240
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Diamond at Hilton (most likely earned thru countless boring work stays away from home) represents "who" one is?