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citationxtango
Thanks for that, very informative. Is there a certain dollar amount of M&H stuff you're required to buy? I understand getting a blazer and the 'right' tie, but I don't want to buy subpar shirts and pants if I can help it. I was planning on ordering several JetSeam shirts because I went through a lot of trial and error to find a brand/style that fits well. I get that they don't want shirts with eyelets. Pants I am a little less picky on, but it is still nice to be able to pick whatever fits/feels best as long as they match the style and colors the company requires. I realize I'll learn all this soon enough in class but I'm hoping to get all the shirts and pants I needed ahead of time so I don't have to worry about it before OE. I'm coming from 91 & 135 where I just threw on a pair of slacks and a polo and shaved once a week, so this is all new to me....
You will be required to buy, via payroll deduction, 1 blazer 1 tie 2 pair of pants. The “fitting” process was pretty basic, but what I’ve experienced more or less at a previous job. Walk into a room, they have a bunch of sizes of coats laid out. I think it was all even numbers, 38 40 42 44 etc, some Regular some Tall (or long, I forget). The pants, I think I remember they just measured with a tape for inseam and waist and wrote that down. No trying on pants. There was also a standard length tie and a long tie.
If you’re going to buy anything outside, I’d just stick the shirts. You’re going to have to get all the items anyway. And in the cooler months blazer is required (with a carve out for certain cities/domiciles where the winter is warm and a coat would be uncomfortable; I have yet to experience personally how liberal that discomfort rule is applied). I’d rather just have the pants match the jacket this time around, and the kind of charcoal-ish black-ish color is different enough from my favorite black slacks anyway, probably would stand out too much anyway.