Commuting Advice (Suit Care)

I start a new job next week and will be needing to wear a suit, until I get
the company car in Feb I'll be on the bike.

It's a 30 minute commute, anyone have any top tips for attempting to keep my
suit crease free??


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Matt G
'00 SV650S

 

1 Leave it at work and change.

2 Buy 10 shirts and find a local dry cleaner. Five shirts in every
Monday and 5 shirts out.

 

Leave your suits at work.

 

Change in the office

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Why wouldn't you just wear a normal shirt under your bike gear?

 

Well through rainy old London, it's not a good idea. Oh, and I hate
ironing.

 

What he said.

 

Sometime around Mon, 03 Jan 2005 14:58:47 +0000, prawn babbled on about:

Look for another job sharpish then. One of the key reasons for taking my
current job(1) was dress code was minimal, ie wearing Jeans and a T shirt
is fine in the office, suits are for special occasions.

(1) IT Security.

 

I have.

 

This is the way to do it. No question.

 

Leave it and dress shoes at work and just take a fresh shirt in your
luggage every day. Get changed at work.

 

Work from home, leave the suit hung up in the wardrobe.

;-)

 

Sorry, I don't understand? Surely you'd be wearing waterprooofs if it
was raining?

Still don't need to take them in five at a time, though.

 

Matt (IS Team) says...

Just wear what you like, and pride yourself on being the scruffiest
sales rep on your patch.

 

That's a crap key reason for a job choice.

 

Matt (IS Team) wrote

Get two identical cheap washable three piece suits from the co-op and
leave the jacket of one hanging on the hook behind your office door and
the other in your wardrobe.

 

prawn wrote

Non Iron shirts. The Only Way.

 

Ben Blaney wrote

Actually no. It is a particularly good criteria to use when assessing
the suitability of an employer. If they have rules which put your nose
out of joint then you are not going to give value for money, which is
not a good thing.

 

I do this, almost. I wear my shirt and tie under my bike jacket and

I find my armpits leak too much for that, even in cold weather. So I take in
a shirt in a backpack. Maybe I should start being kinder to my wife and join
the "buy ten shirts and find a local dry cleaner" faction.

 

This is how I've done it in the past with the suit packed as luggage.
Just remember to bring some shoes or you'll be clomping about in a nice
suit and para boots.