Re: [93attendees] IETF dress code policy

[Robert Moskowitz <[e-mail]>]

On 07/24/2015 01:34 PM, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
> On 7/24/15 7:05 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 07/24/2015 12:43 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>>> On 24/07/2015 22:37, Rodriguez, Iben wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> Are we seriously thinking of instituting a dress code policy for
>>>> these events? How would it read?  Let’s not go down this road.
>>> We've had a dress code for years:
>>> http://www.ietf.org/tao.html#rfc.section.3.4
>>
>> I resemble that code!
>>
>> I can't see wasting any money buying slacks or jeans just to wear them
>> to an IETF....
>
> I don't follow the logic of that reference. We provide lanyards for 
> badges, so shirts should also be optional. The badge is the one truly 
> non-optional piece of apparel. (You can be discrete by adjusting the 
> lanyard.)
>
> OTOH, we (usually) conveniently provide free t-shirts for the 
> shirt-challenged.

T-shirts just don't go well with suit jackets and it is challenging to 
keep a tie neat when wearing one!  Though if you remember back to the 
Memphis IETF, I DID wear my IAB shirt over my white shirt and tie and 
under my suit jacket!

As Popeye said:

I yam what I yam.


Oh, and I dislike lanyards.  They are too sloppy.  So I keep my old 
clipon badge holders and reuse them year-to-year.