Re: OT Speaker wardrobe

**"* C* <d*@chilitech.net>**

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daryl" <dp2413@comcast.net>

> If anyone has a wardrobe suggestion, I'd  appreciate it.

Anything but fingerless gloves, please.

For many years I ran a commercial cleaning business. More interesting than 
it sounds. I might meet with a chain retail store manager at ten o'clock, a 
bank president (or God help us, his administrative secretary) at eleven, and 
at noon be knocking back fifty cent beers at a corner bar with a crew that 
had done particularly well. I kept several changes of clothes in my 
office -- plaid jacket and rayon tie, blue pinstripe, jeans and sweatshirt. 
Dressing like the people you are dealing with helps with connection.

Same applies to garden talks except that dressing down is always more 
appropriate than dressing up. Jacket and tie for the lunch meeting at the 
country club, khakis and polo for the evening meeting in a church basement.

When in doubt, I fall back on college days. No, not toga and sandals. Jeans, 
tie, and blue blazer. As a garden writer, you are allowed some 
idiosyncrasies, and that dress crosses most boundaries.

So here I am, a guy who now spends most of his life in jeans and flannel, 
giving fashion advice? My wife would laugh.

D 

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