if you cant agree on the the shirt , good luck on the rest of the business plan !!

Not a polo
not a T-Shirt



The Safari Suit

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SandS said..

if you cant agree on the the shirt , good luck on the rest of the business plan !!

Fair comment, but it's not really an issue, neither of us are dead set on anything and are open to compromise.

Some good posts here.

Who said a uniform can only consist of one type of shirt?
As some have suggested, a uniform can consist of one type of shirt for field work, and one for office wear.
I don't see why this can't be followed through to different types of shirts being used by different people as per personal preference; you might have one guy in a normal polo, one guy in a 'Steve Irwin' shirt. as long as the colours follow a theme and the logos are there, it shouldn't really make any problems as far as professional perception goes.

And, we're not fencing installers, we do something different, and awesome.
It's related to colorbond fencing, but different to anything on the market, which goes towards my thinking of trying to look different than just wearing the average polo shirt.

I've been looking at alternatives and I reckon these shirts look the biz - polo shirts with a mandarin/banded collar:

I purchase and wear my corporate Polo Shirts most days...

Company Logo = Tax Deductions

Wrong place to ask oceanfire.
There's too many old people here entrenched in the social conditioning that makes them think polo collars, and the other lame safari collars etc that have been posted, are awesome, and if you don't wear an old boy collar, you're nothing but unprofessional.

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oceanfire said..

SandS said..

if you cant agree on the the shirt , good luck on the rest of the business plan !!

Fair comment, but it's not really an issue, neither of us are dead set on anything and are open to compromise.

your first post said your partner is " insisting" on a type of shirt . that is not "open to compromise"

In my little business,we have 1 regular customer where its high vis,full stop.
we Take a good clean T shirt which we change into as soon as we get offsite.
We need cool loose simple clothing to work in. I have tried the "Irwin style" shirts but you just sweat all day..
I buy $5 blue plain tshirts from Kmart in bundles of 5 as that's all the room in the clothing draw.. looks respectable.
As soon as they look grotty ,holey,or stretched they go into the rag bag for servicing tools
OUr trousers are long heavy duty which only last a few months. If your wearing shorts in our job your not trying hard enough for me.

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oceanfire said..

SandS said..

if you cant agree on the the shirt , good luck on the rest of the business plan !!

Fair comment, but it's not really an issue, neither of us are dead set on anything and are open to compromise.

your first post said your partner is " insisting" on a type of shirt . that is not "open to compromise"

Perhaps the wrong word. He's unfortunately a polo shirt cult convert and prefers it for himself :)
He's got no problem with me choosing something else.
As I said previously, I don't think the type of shirt matters so much, as long as all who wear a 'company shirt' are all following a the same colour code and are clean with the company logo.
Definitely a bonds type shirt I'd not go for, but there are other shirts without polo style collars that are dressier than the bonds type.

whether it's a polo, safari or traditionalbusiness shirt, I just am not keen on the collar that comes with them.

I still like the mandarin/banded collar polo, too bad they aren't common enough to get at a good price.

Will probably have to go with a normal polo for now, and upgrade to something nicer when the biz is making money and it will

@kiterboy - lol, keep pushing buttons, I'm surprised no one has arked up at you, there's a lot of us oldies here


edit: yeah, I do agree with trousers, work or otherwise, jeans are ok too as log as they aren't crappy and worn out.