Originally Posted by
gloopy
True, and I know a guy that got hired with an olive suit, wine colored shoes/belt and a beige shirt. But its the exception not the rule. Chicken or egg though I guess. Is it the exception because DL prefers Blue/Red, or just that applicants think they do so the vast majority wear that making the others look like outliers?
The world may never know.
Whatever you chose to wear though, look good in it. The suit should fit properly and everything should look new and shoes shined.
Back in 1985...
We had a guy in our new hire class who dressed like Don Johnson's character on the then popular TV show, Miami Vice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNA3OA7cY5U
So much so that we all started calling him Mr. Vice! The rest of us were all dressed like clones, but not this guy. Blue suede shoes, narrow purple tie, longish wavy hair, with the sunglasses on a string around his neck, inside, all day.
He was so cool in fact, he would argue with our instructor about the 727 systems and how to run the panel. Later, when he got out on the line, he would get into arguments with the Captains, about the B Scale, etc. He just had a way of pizzing people off.
Well, after 12 months on property, and two warning shots about keeping his mouth shut, from the Chief Pilot, on his 'end of probation' checkride he got into it with the check engineer on the first leg!
He was terminated at the end of the trip...and I moved up one number!
