<p>Gee, too bad I can’t raise my rates and go out and buy a new wardrobe…</p>
<p>No joke… I once asked a doctor why his hands look so good? He was a guy after all and his hands were well to pretty imo. He said he did surgery and people expect his hands to look clean and polish. He had manicures done all the time. I was like don’t you all wear gloves. It matters to some I guess.</p>
<p>^But clean, well manicured hands have nothing to do with “fashion sense”. It has more to do with hygiene and the appearance of cleanliness.</p>
<p>I only trust folks who are dressed like preppies (see other thread). :)</p>
<p>Well, a bit OT here, but I just got a reality check about the way I dress. Very loose, Laura Ashley, long dresses with soft colors. Didn’t catch that they are now OUT. Stayed with friends for DS’s Orientation days this month and my dear friend who I was privately thinking looked sooooo 70’s with her outfit, told me to go on and get dressed, that morning…when I was. Her eyes nearly bulged out when I told her so. I returned with a stack of clothes that she culled from her closet as to what is being worn these days. '</p>
<p>She was right. I was the only mom I saw in one of those long, blowzy dresses–though I did change into something a little less pastel when my friend flat out told me I looked like I was in a nightgown. </p>
<p>So Thumper, now I have some preppy threads.</p>
<p>Let’s see: I want my doctor, if male, to be wearing a bowtie or no tie at all. I want the lab coat (and yes, I like a lab coat) to be clean. I am horrified when I see a doctor on the street in scrubs–please don’t bring street germs into the hospital or take hospital germs out into the street–but I’m fine with them wearing clean scrubs in a clinic or hospital setting. </p>
<p>I always look at people’s hands to see if they’re clean and their nails are clipped nicely. Those fake lacquered talons that are so popular give me the willies.</p>
<p>On a recent flight home from the NE, I sat next to a physician who was one of those “fly in for the day and do a whole bunch of procedures and go home” doc. He was in his scrubs on the plane!! Sanitary? Not!</p>
<p>^^^^^ Ewwwwww . . . .</p>
<p>IMHO, dressing fashionably shows that you’re socially aware and therefore more astute in general. I’m not talking super-chic or designer, but at this time one should know, for example, that it’s au courant to wear shirttails out.</p>
<p>It’s a fact of life that we judge people partly from their appearance.</p>
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My lack of knowledge of what either “au courant” or “shirttails” are must mean that I am inept at everything else, too.</p>