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kalberts3-Apr-20 3:33
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At IBM, at least some years ago, you were not "presentable" without a tie.

The essential point: There is no law of nature setting the limit between "presentable" and "not presentable". It is 100% personal and culturally defined. In your culture, appearently, pants define the limit. Fair enough.

In my childhood, a lot of restaurants would not let (adult) males without a tie. In one comedy sketch on Norwegian TV, the door guard at a restaurant refused a guy in an elegant tuxedo (but no tie), while he let in two guys in tie only. You would most likely bawl at adult men being displayed stark naked (except for the tie) at public television. They did fulfill the restaurant's requirement for "properly dressed", wearing a tie, but not your requirement of wearing pants.

Obviously: If I am going to meet a sensitive American, one that would feel offended if I were not satisfying American dress codes, I would wear both pants and tie (and probably even a shirt and shoes). But I do not let American culture dictate my life at home here in Norway. That goes for both dress code, pictures and movies I watch, music I listen to and food I eat.
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