On: Why you should wear a bow tie.

[jimsilverman]

professions where a bowtie is suitable for a job interview:

- clown

- english professor

- that is all

[jgj → jimsilverman]

- bowtie retail clerk

Though if I found myself wanting to sell bowties I'd rock an ascot to the interview

[DanBC → jimsilverman]

I've met a number of doctors (UK: "Consultant" / US: "Attending physician") who wear bow ties.

Many surgeons have a certain personality. I find this is also true of people who wear bow ties.

Am I missing the trend?

[scrumper → DanBC]

These days, long neckties are banned in hospitals because they transfer infections. Your bow tie-wearing doctors likely figured this out for themselves years ago, and settled on a bow tie as an alternative way of looking presentable. For a certain generation of doctor, it'd be unforgivable to appear in front of a patient in an open-necked shirt. (A cravat, of course, being suitable only for confidence artists, gigolos and Europeans.)

[will_work4tears → scrumper]

Continental tie would be acceptable, no? Or do only 50's band members and western outfits get those?

[scrumper → will_work4tears]

Heh :) Permissible by the regulations perhaps, but definitely not acceptable (at least not in the UK).

[gadders → will_work4tears]

What is one of them?

//edit//I have googled those. Good grief.

[ido → jimsilverman]

As a programmer I can't think of a single job interview I went through where it would have conceivably put me at a disadvantage.

It would have at worse been taken as a harmless eccentricity.

[nathan_long → jimsilverman]

That's preposterous. You've neglected:

- English professor at clown school

[nessus42 → jimsilverman]

- and old-school physics professors at Harvard

[gadders → jimsilverman]

You might as well wear spats as well.