LogFAQs > #967563590

OhhhJa posted...

There are a lot of jobs where looking professional and wearing a suit shows customers that you're taking your job seriously.

Not remotely. There are a lot of jobs where looking "professional" and wearing a suit means you're willing to conform to arbitrary cultural concepts of "professionalism" for the sake of appeasing people that assume that not conforming to those arbitrary standards means somebody doesn't take the job seriously, but it doesn't indicate anything about your actual willingness to take the job seriously.

OhhhJa posted...

A lot of people don't want someone to handle... for example... their will or your divorce case while wearing cargo shorts

Which is not "this is a thing because there's an actual purpose behind it," it's "this is a thing because a lot of people want to think it's a thing." These are arbitrary standards that serve no purpose. The erosion of those standards is a consequence of more and more people realizing that having your will drawn up by somebody in cargo shorts just means that the person likes cargo shorts and not that they're in any way less qualified to draw up a will.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Yeah, but there's an in-between there, where things like "be clean-shaven" and "cut/comb your hair" sort of fall. And those are things that have sort of fallen by the wayside as well.

Excepting cases where being clean-shaven or having well-managed hair are operational requirements (such as respirator use or food service), why would those things be considered in-between? Basic hygiene matters for ensuring a clean, healthy environment. Everything past that is just a matter of making up flimsy reasons to gatekeep based on people's appearance. Those standards are being lowered for the same reason they've been lowered from the days when everyone's professional outfits consisted of like 40 different garments and required three servants to put on: Because it's a bunch of wasted time, money, and effort that nobody actually cares about.