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Atul Mathur's avatar

Aarti, very interesting indeed 👍 Would like to share an anecdote🌹

Basically from an engineering background, I spent 47 work years in Marketing & Sales - each work day, with a stiff collar white cotton shirt & a necktie; partly because it was the norm in the early 70s & partly beacause I wanted to be perceived as a formal but ‘likeable’, friendly, amenable personality by my Prospects/Customers as well as my colleagues & Seniors. This certainly improved my ‘marketability’ & helped me build close relationships on the work front. Often I was the best dressed person in a meeting room.

However, this (sort of) obsession would see me dressed in a formal, collared shirt even at parties, vacation or picnics 😅. My dear spouse, herself a professional, had a hard time convincing me, to wear casuals & act more casually. Fortunately, she did succeed but only after I retired 😂😂

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