okay
um i was just trying to think about how i how i dress for work you know TI is a very casual atmosphere
uh-huh
and uh what i usually do on the weekend is is lay out five outfits
and uh on Monday i i wear the the worst looking one because it doesn't seem like people are really are you know are that alive on Monday you know so
yeah
and then progressively through the week i'll i'll wear nicer looking things and then on Friday most everybody wears jeans jeans and sweatshirts
or you know jeans and blouses or something like that
uh but mostly what i wear are skirts and blouses or you know skirts and
uh pullover sweaters or
uh
you know little two piece dress suits suits like but
yeah
uh you know that's a good way to approach it i've never thought about um i do plan my clothes a week in advance actually i plan them a month in advance i usually do a month at a time so i don't repeat an outfit
um-hum
uh-huh
but um i've never thought about wearing your worst outfit on Monday because really no one's paying attention but anyway
um i really i don't work outside of school um i work in the computer lab at school so i can just wear whatever i have on for school and
and um
and really it's
i try to dress dress presentable but very comfortable
right
like um in the warm weather it's always shorts and a T-shirt or a button up or something like that and then in the winter time it's jeans or or pants i usually um you know college is so casual you really don't want to dress up unless you
you uh have a job and you have to be there right after school or something like that
right like where i work it's it's pretty casual um
so
it's it's i guess it's more like a a college campus also i mean there's hundreds you know hundreds of people work for TI
yeah
and um a lot of people just just wear jeans and and uh sweats all the time
and they dress up like when customers are coming in or uh when we have department meetings or something like that and um
you know a lot of people like those that work in the legal department for their the real um higher ups like the the lawyers the TI lawyers and uh
um-hum
those that work for the the higher executives those secretaries
they uh they really dress up all the time so there's a good combination in the hallways all the time you know
oh
well that's good that they're so casual i mean uh my brother works for TI and he's a computer programmer or computer engineer
yeah
uh-huh uh-huh
and um you know whenever he was going to school he was expecting to having to wear uh a tie or a dress shirt everyday but uh he goes to work in his blue jeans T-shirt and tennis shoes and he just loves it
uh-huh
and that's very acceptable at TI i believe at IBM they they make you wear a blue suit and uh some kind of colored shirt and a tie
yeah
that's what i've heard
uh-huh
i would i would hate to be in that atmosphere
but uh i mean they they just moved into the new building he calls it the new building i don't know it's where all the executives are
uh-huh
and um
and so they were they were going to try to take their blue jean code with them and trying to get all the all the upper level to start wearing blue jeans but he just left for Italy today at four
uh
oh
and he'll be over there until July first setting up some kind of computers for them
i see
over in TI mean for TI but over in Italy uh
yeah oh TI is everywhere
oh yeah he was so excited about going
uh-huh
but uh he didn't carry any ties or anything because he he just went over there with the that attitude well if i don't take it then they won't make me wear it because uh he just
that's true that's a good idea
he didn't you know he's not really into all that he would wear it if he had to for his job and all but you know if he had the preference i mean his his preference is um blue jeans and a T-shirt so
uh-huh
but i think that's great about TI and also uh to get off the clothing the smokers you know how they have the the different designated areas for smokers and stuff i think that's great
the no
right
yeah and if you happen to go into one of areas that is a smoke smoke area and you don't smoke you almost strangle
oh really do you smoke
because there is so much smoke in the air
yeah areas the smoking area you know it's closed in and if you don't if you don't smoke and you go in there that everybody that goes in there smokes so it's full of smoke when when you go in there
uh-huh
i think that's um
i used to smoke a long time ago i used to burn my clothes talking about getting back to clothes i used to burn my clothes with cigarettes that's one of the reason that i stopped
well um you you mentioned your daughter had graduated from college well when she was in high school did she always have to have all the new fashions and
uh
yeah she always had uh yeah she always had to have a lot of clothes
see that's how that's how i am but my mama was not raised like that and so
uh-huh
no i i wasn't either she my daughter um
she's real good at finding sales though you know she she she'll buy a lot of she yeah she'll buy a lot clothes at the end of seasons you know and uh just have them for the next year
oh me to boy i have to hunt hunt them down
uh-huh
and she you know she finds all the outlets and all the discount places
and uh buys clothes
um when you know when they were coming up i i didn't sew but now i've i've learned how to sew so i'm well i'm i'm still learning how but i'm getting and i'm getting much better at it and i
that's great
i'm going to be able to make my own clothes
i wanted to take a sewing class at school but i just haven't fit it into my schedule yet but that i mean that can really benefit
right
um that's something that i'd be very interested in very interested in learning
right because clothes are some are really expensive you know uh uh a little simple shell shell blouse you know that you can make for about
uh they're outrageous
say ten dollars at you know at at the most out of a decent fabric
uh-huh
boy runs you like twenty something dollars in the store
yeah it's it's marked up
just a little shell to go under a suit you know
it is it is really outrageous but uh i mean like whenever i i was growing up and all my mom i never understood this then but i do now but she never would buy me like the new designer jeans that had come out that were thirty dollars or
uh-huh
um or she wouldn't buy me the fifty dollar tennis shoes and stuff like that and she always told me it was because i was still growing and she wasn't going to buy me something i was going to grow out of next week
right especially to to pay that kind of money for it
yeah
i have a friend who um she had a she had a baby a little boy
and uh she she used to dress him out of Neiman Marcus i mean she dressed him
oh no
oh fabulously
and then seems like every time she turned around he was outgrowing stuff and she finally learned that you just can not do this you know
um-hum
so now she
finds the basement sales and just like you know everybody else
that's the best way to shop i mean i always thought my mom was being mean to me but i look back at it now and my child is going to i mean i'm going to raise mine the same way
right
um
i don't know i just
ah they're just so outrageously priced it's just incredible i try to uh always catch the sales
yes and yourself
right
always
and yeah and you just have to keep buying them
you know if you if you if you're not buying the most expensive clothes out there the the quality is really not that great you know for the price that you pay
yeah it it depends on um
yeah there's there's always a reason why they're on sale
right
so that that has a lot to do with it
right
but um
like i bought i bought the most
well
beautiful sweater uh sweater
from uh i believe it was Ross Dress For Less
and it was it was really pretty it was just you know it was just plain a plain uh round you know round uh necked
uh sweater sweater
uh-huh
and it had
uh like it was embellished around the the top you know it had uh leather leather designs and
um
some other other little things on it and i just thought it was so pretty and i got i got it at a real good price i think maybe it was nine ninety nine or something and it was so pretty
oh that's great
and after i wore it a couple of times i realized why it was
huh oh
why it was it was so cheap
there was in the middle of the back of it there was
it's like there it had been slit and they had like just sewed it back together
oh no
right in the middle of the the back you know wasn't a seam or anything you know
uh-huh
and that's why it was so cheap although it's not it's not really noticeable
um from the outside but but still it's you know it's really not not not a good quality
and then i was told by somebody that works for JC Penney's that um Ross Ross is just one of those places that sells sells seconds
the defect
yeah yeah um
they don't really buy the first quality they buy the second
and uh places like JC Penney's that they'll reject the seconds they'll send them back every time but
uh-huh
places like Ross Dress For Less and uh TJ Max um uh-huh
TJ Max does that yeah we have a TJ Max over here and um
