"you want to look cute, cool, hip"

you can take the woman out of high school but you can't take the high school out of her.

I wear whatever I want, workout clothes, hat, shorts, flip flops....

if i'm there on the weekend they're lucky i'm wearing clothes at all.

Unless you're meeting with a client or a super-stuffy equity partner, just about anything (jeans, t-shirt, shorts, Tevas, etc.) goes.

whatevuhhh... i do what i want

if you're working on the weekend, no one gives a crap what you're wearing.

How about: Whatever the fuck I want

Anything goes.

This is moot for anyone who has a job that doesn't suck. I might make half what you tools are making but I'm at home on the weekends, drinking beer and playing ping-pong. My bills are still paid with plenty left over. Go-go common sense!

Girls in my high school used to want to look cute, cool, and hip while working on the weekends all the time, it was no big deal.

-SORORITY STUD MARE

I prefer no pants.

no one cares what you wear on the weekend --I wear what ever suits my after work activity for that day. jeans,t shirts, cut offs, running shoes, flip flops, baseball cap. I am there and no one else who is there give a flying f..k what i am wearing.

My firm just went to Casual Saturdays. White shoes are still mandatory, but they do not have to be polished.

i don't get this thread at all. i mean, if you're there on the weekend, you can wear whatever the heck you want. isn't it that way everywhere?

I have never heard of a law firm that cares what you wear on the weekend. Anything goes, monochromatic sweats, shorts, t-shirt, whatever.

Who cares about weekend fashion when weekend mischief is so much more fun.

I like to smuggle in potato sacks with a big E scribbled on the end to leave in some neocons office.

4:44, good for you. i'll work a saturday once in a while for that extra $80,000.

At a major DC firm, I was told by a partner to stop dressing up and just wear jeans on the weekend. And this was when we had client witnesses in the office to prep for a hearing...

In my building, they basically turn off the HVAC over the weekend. So, yeah, I'm wearing proper summer attire and bringing a cooler of Corona.

4:42...love it. Meet me at Super Phun Time.

Respectfully disagree. If I am spending my free time working at the office -- as I often end up doing on weekends -- I will wear whatever I want, including frayed jeans (shredded/totally ripped jeans are just in poor taste, period, although ok if we are talking small naturally worn out areas).

But then again, I work at a west coast law firm where the outfits pictured would be ok for Friday wear (and Thursday wear, too).

I don't plan to work weekends. I feel that if I tell them up front that I won't work past 7pm or on weekends, there shouldn't be a problem.

What's up with the picture of the flip flops?

Most people have nasty looking feet and shouldn't show them. Ever.

You should definitely do that, 4:52. And make sureyou tell them what you want for breakfast every morning - if you don't get those things straight up front, you'll never get the breakfast burrito of your dreams.

Most people have nasty looking faces and shouldn't show them. Ever. USA to burqas!!

Don't forget that Lat worked at the whitest of whiteshoe firms, so he may be a bit out of touch with reality.

At QE you wear shorts and t shirts with flip flops 24/7 and i do mean 24/7

Worst two things about summer in an office: ugly feet and cankles.

4:55(2) - Agree. I think that Wachtell requires business attire even on Fridays in the summer.

The guy that offices next to me walks around barefoot on the weekends. Next time I see that, I'm going to sprinkle shards of glass onto the hallway carpet.

Do you have to work on the weekends? I am a summer and it looks like no body really comes in to work on sat or sun???

I've never even considered wearing anything but flip flops and shorts to work on Sat or Sun. This post is irrelevant.

They turn off the A/C in my building at 7 p.m. on Fridays.

I worked last Friday night from 7p.m. to 11:30 p.m. wearing no pants, newscaster style (or Maestro style).

Anyone notice how 4:57 used "offices" as a verb? I don't blame him/her for it personally, but isn't it kind of lame how that word has gained acceptance in law firms?

Are you all kindergartners? Anything more formal than a diaper and bib is uncomfortable and reminds you too much of Daddy?

Take pride in being an adult. Always wear a suit to work, regardless of the day or season. Buy a couple of linen suits, have them tailored, and stop trying to look like a child. Try to cultivate adult style, rather than regressing to the slovenly, redneck mean.

4:44 - Where do you live? In SF, I'm only slightly over paycheck-to-paycheck on 170 (not including bonus, since there's no way I'll hit hours this year).

i usually wear a suit to work. i store the suits/shirts in a closet in my office, and i come and go in shorts. (we have a cleaners in the lobby - great system - the clothes never leave work). I have a lock on my office door and can change in there. However, i fear the office across the street is beginning to tire of seeing me wandering my office in my undies.

I've been cutting out the pockets of my pants for years in order to shoot some pool when the mood strikes and staying on the right side of the dress code during the workweek, however, on the weekends, when I just wear shorts, I've found that hiking up the leg works just fine. . .

I have a better question: Ever come in on a weekend and find 2 partners making out who were both married to other people? I thought that was hot and gross at the same time. Luckily they did not notice me walking by their door. Pretty stupid considering I was not the only one who would come in.

BTW: For fun, I used to wear Texas A&M shirts because my two bosses were diehard Texas fans and it pissed them off to no end.

4:39 = comment of the week.

Jeans and polo, t-shirt, or sweater, but this is CA where some people (senior people) feel fine wearing that all week.

Even when I was back east, people didn't dress up on weekends. If you have to be there, you can wear whatever you want (absent a stick-up-the-a55 senior or partner).

I don't think I would ever work for a firm that expected you not to wear jeans on the weekend. Hell, most firms in SF let you wear jeans on Friday. Reason #1,238,478 that NY sucks?

5:08 - I disagree; 5:07(2) gets it.

This is gross and falls in the category of too much information, but when I go in on the weekends (I'm a female), I rarely even shower or wash my face. The first time I ran into a partner, I was a little ashamed, until I realized he looked like an 8-year-old kid in his nasty, stretched out t-shirt and swim trunks.

I'm miserable to be at work. I'm doing it anyway. Whatever I wear and however I wear it should be good enough for you firm people!

This is gross and falls in the category of too much information, but when I go in on the weekends (I'm a female), I rarely even shower or wash my face. The first time I ran into a partner, I was a little ashamed, until I realized he looked like an 8-year-old kid in his nasty, stretched out t-shirt and swim trunks.

I'm miserable to be at work. I'm doing it anyway. Whatever I wear and however I wear it should be good enough for you firm people!

flip flops/sneakers, jeans, t shirt... occasionally, a wifebeater; no shave;

Hey 5:03, aren't you taking this a little too seriously? Whatever happened to "to each his own"? Nobody says you have to wear a trucker hat to work - but if some of us have a normal self-esteem without getting all duded up - then why hate?

Anyone who works on the weekend is a chump. Have some self-respect.

I wear whatever I happen to be wearing for my other Saturday/Sunday activities. Usually this means yoga pants and flipflops. Why the fuck do you want to look cute to be miserable in the office on a Saturday while all your non-lawyer friends are sleeping late or shopping?

5:14 - maybe you should reconsider placing personal hygiene in a category of things you do as a huge favor to others. Don't you...like to be clean? Have some pride, for hell's sake.

5:14 - agreed, shower is optional and often based on whether I'm doing something ELSE that day besides going into work that would require one (or if I feel particularly atrocious and wouldn't feel OK going out to get the paper without showering).

A partner in my office and I joke around about how nasty looking his shorts & sandals are compared to my ragged cargo pants and t-shirt.

Board shorts are in one Saturdays.

5:14 I thought I smelled you that day.

5:07 <--- huge moron.

Why wear Texas A&M shirts to piss off your bosses. You should just get an A&M tattoo on your head and a T.U. tattoo on your chest and walk around shirtless.

5:19(2), you can have all the time in the world to respect yourself when you are out of a job.

4:37...if that's high school, what's an adult woman look? Ugly, unfashionable, and dorky? Mom jeans! Yeah! Dyke.

I would like to have sex with the first Corporette girl the most and the last Corporette girl the least! Who says that women suck at detail, they did a good job with gettich the chicks in about the right order here!

Jorts.

@ 5:19,

Ultimately, I don't give a shit what people wear into the office on the weekend. People can work their Saturdays wearing only a leopard-print thong if that's what gets them through the day. It still doesn't excuse a sense of style that venerates a juvenile, sloppy, and pedestrian standard.

- 5:03

5:14 -- Now I understand the title to the movie "Scent of a Woman"

Im in NYC BigLaw. Guys at least wear like cargo shorts and a T shirt. Jeans if its colder.

I usually smell like condom on the weekend.

5:29- 4:37 here, i was referring to the statement. cute is a word meant to define a loli not a full grown woman.

I find it disturbing that Lat uses the word 'cute' in such a casual way. Stop it. Please.

When the weather gets warm I just pop the collar of my shirt, through on some madras shorts, and rock my mint julep, UVA stylee, so suck deez bourbon soaked nutz.

The outfits pictured would be fine M-F here in SF.

The outfits pictured would be fine M-F here in SF.

"We wouldn't recommend ripped jeans and a t-shirt. You never know what workaholic partner might be prowling the halls on a Sunday afternoon. Rodge Cohen, holla."

I'm at S&C, and I've never seen anyone dress up for weekend work. Tshirts, shorts, jeans, and PJ bottoms (on the ladies) are pretty common.

I'm in my second year, and I've worked only one weekend day since I arrived. Granted, I'm not in NYC (though we are on the $160k scale), but that just means I'd get a crappy bonus regardless of whether I worked weekends.

I usually wear the same thing I wear every day

When I'm in the office on weekends, I usually walk around in nothing but boxer shorts with my dick hanging out.

not only do I wear what I want - I jerk off at least once in the bathroom.

Jean shorts

I never work weekends, but I dress better than most of you anyway. I mean, cargo shorts? Seriously? In public?

Yeah the two times I came into the office to work for an hour I was wearing shorts and flip flops

I wouldn't go so far as to wear sweatpants, but I'd definitely do jeans or khakis. I spotted a partner in raggedy old shorts and a Jamaica t-shirt once and realized I didn't have a damn thing to worry about.

I wear a tuxedo.

Work weekends? What the fuck does that mean?

as noted, it looks like the consensus is that lat is out of touch on this one. ("err on the side of a collared shirt?" good grief.) i've worked at two firms in the last 6 years and, at both, on the weekends its like a contest to see who can dress in a more aggressively casual manner, with the partners usually winning. i'm talking ripped jogging suits and stained shorts w/ flipflops. no way would i show up in khakis (even assuming i didn't think them hideous.)

6:59 - "stained shorts" - stained with what?

You nasty.

5:07: do you work at Winstead? sounds like some partners at Winstead who are a pain to everyone they encounter and who are incapable of practicing law effectively.

Granted, I work in Houston, but I come into work wearing shorts and a t-shirt on the weekends. As others have mentioned, the fact that the a/c isn't on is reason enough most of the year. I've come in before heading out of town for the A&M game that weekend wearing my game attire. To the extent people are here, I think they appreciate the fact that I haven't shaved and am not there to impress, but rather there to make the firm money and get the work done.

7:14 - no one there cares enough to give thought to whether they appreciate your approach or not. They want to get their work done and get out of there, just like you.

Goddamn SF is the place to be. Thank you for talking me into it, Mr. Recruiter.

5:43 - condoms, seriously? What is this, 1995? Do you hate orgasms or something?

Winning ensembles:
1. Gear from your non-TTT law school.
2. If you went to a TTT law school, gear from the favorite sports team of the partner you will encounter at the office on the weekend.

No one cares what you wear to work on the weekend, just that you were there if your firm is into facetime. At my firm, being physically present on the weekend may actually scream INCOMPETENT TECHNOLOGY AT HOME; LOSER. Just wear layers in case the AC is off or, alternatively, blasting.

I refuse to have internet at home as it prevents the indiscriminate assignment of last-minute or "emergency" assignments that can really wait until Monday.

Look as greasy, unshaven, unwashed and rumpled as possible so it is clear to everyone that you have zero time to sleep or bathe because all you do is work.

7:25(2) is absolutely correct. Also, your breat should smell of a coffee/red bull cocktail to make it clear that you believe sleep is for those who are dead, not those trying to help the partners pay for their newest car, private jet time, or remodel to the Hamptons estate.

Flip-flops are for chumps. One flip-flop, one bare foot--now that's my kind of (work) weekend.

Button down shirt, tie, coat and flip flops.

the problem with dressing really casually on the weekend at work is that you will inevitably run into the most hard-*ssed partner while you are there and he may no ascribe to your belief that the weekend is "my time" so you should be able to wear whatever you want. my view is, why risk undermining the image you project of yourself during the rest of the week just in order to be slightly more comfortable on the occassional Sat/Sun that you have to be in the office? Suck it up and dress like the professional you are paid to be.

Suit and tie...no shirt. The harrier the chest, the better.

On a serious note, I'm up for dressing casually on weekends (and whenever else I can--rebelling from my prep school days of crested jackets and school ties). I also won't shave on the weekends when I go in. Might wear a little rum as cologne (kidding on last part, besides it's probably leaking through my pores anyway).

"hairier" - pardon me (my excuse is that I'm smooth).

7:40 has California envy.

5:32 - WTH are "jorts"? Are they anything like sharts?

Speaking of which: (1) Who keeps an extra pair in the office just in case? (2) Who has had to use the extra pair? (3) Was the extra pair as stale-smelling as mine were after sitting in a desk drawer for so long?

(1) of course, but for more reasons than that one. (namely post-work dates when I can't get home in between to shower. no, i haven't learned my lesson, even though i end up having to cancel half of them anyway.)
(2) not for that reason, but yes. see above.
(3) no, leave a dryer sheet with them and they'll stay fresh. or spray some cologne (or deodorant will do in a pinch).

7:48-- are you saying there are no uptight lawyers in Cali who will think negatively of you when they see you in your stained t-shirt and shorts?

NY SA: attire for weekend = jeans, non-dress shoes, t-shirt, baseball cap. If I have to come into work, then I'm gonna be comfortable as hell.

7:59,

No. There are uptight people everywhere, but I've noticed fewer of them out here than when I was in Chicago (never worked in NY).

I throw away all stained t-shirts (unless they have sentimental value), and generally don't wear shorts as a rule (I'm in NorCal), so it's not an issue. Anyway, I feel lucky to work at a firm where I can be in jeans and (decent-looking/not too trendy) untucked polo or t-shirt and out-dress the partners Th/F through the weekend.

7:48

i promise you that when the "hard-assed partner" sees you in on the weekend you look like nothing more than a big walking dollar sign, regardless of clothes. no need to worry about your carefully cultivated "image."

I personally do not care what people where on the weekend. I just don't see what is so incredibly uncomfortable about showering and wearing business casual clothes. To be honest, most nice casual clothes are not too far off from business casual to begin with, so I really don't see what you are gaining by switching it up when you come into the office on the weekend, except to reassure yourself (falsely) that the weekend is really "your time." If that makes you feel better, great. I am just saying that in many 55 yr olds' eyes, you look no different from their f-up college student children when you dress sloppy, and this may not be a good thing for you.

8:34 - if I worked for them, I'd dress like them (my dad is that way--I could sense his disbelief over the phone when I told him that we can wear jeans and get paid $200k). I work for people who wear t-shirts, so I feel fine doing the same.

"I used to wear Texas A&M shirts because my two bosses were diehard Texas fans and it pissed them off to no end."

HAHA Gig'Em Ags.

The only thing more ridiculous than a die-hard Aggie fan is a die-hard Longhorn fan.

I worked with this douchbag who used to always wear a Bow-tie and jeans. Fucking douchbag.

The AC in my building is intermittent on the weekend, so I have prepare for both blazing heat and freezing cold.

My solution is to wear Uggs on my right foot and Crocs on my left. Best of both worlds.

Douche is spelled with an e at the end and is two words, 9:00, you stupid douche bag.

i call BS on the WLRK comment. i roamed up and down the stairwell in flipflops and shorts on the weekend, careful to avoid certain floors (i.e. 31) if certain partners were entertaining clients.

also during the week if i knew i was going to be in the office past 2, i'd change. the ONE time I got yelled at was running into PCH on my way down into the lobby at 8 am after pulling an all nighter.

I prefer a short-sleeved dress shirt. That way I can go from business to casual by simply untucking it.

8:43 has it right. none of the partners i work for dress up if they're in on the weekends (which is rare), so i don't need to.

few things worse than being known as the d-bag who's trying too hard.

if it's the weekend, i still go with long pants and a shirt with some sort of collar, regardless of how hot it is outside and how saturday it is to everyone else in the city.

I'm there so early on weekends that I still have morning wood - the last thing partner's care about is what I am actually wearing. They only care that the wood is in the stove.

Are crocs okay?

How about FUBU?

"Suck it up and dress like the professional you are paid to be."

I have a pressed suit, fresh shirt, tie, belt, and dress shoes/socks in my office at all time, asswipe, and I sure as shit don't go wandering around the conference floor in jeans. If I need to be professionally attired, I can be. Otherwise, you're wasting time on dressing that could be spent getting to your office, closing your door, doing what needs to be done, and leaving.

You're one of those worthless morons who'd worry about shining their boots before a patrol, aren't you?

Popped collar ... board shorts ... and a whiffle ball bat

4:55(2) & 4:57 - Although Wachtell does require business attire every day of the week, weekends are a different story. You still can't get away with flip flops, or shorts but I have seen jeans and polos-shirts. Not necessarily the MOST casual outfit, but definitely not as stuffy as you make it out to be.

Wife beater -- madras capri pants and a lax stick --- no hair cut and a frayed orange ball cap... money.

9:34 - Did you, like myself, wait until you got home to make that comment?

10:57

I work in the OC. Weekend = Don't shave, flip flops, shorts, and t-shirt. If I'm feeling frisky I'll bust out a soccer jersey.

10:50 -- because you are a fucktard.

7:40 - tell me, what's it like being the biggest sissy on earth?

7:40, How do you know that weekends are occasional? That's not the case depending upon who you work for. For me it's a full weekend or two per month (and facetime matters--the corner office doesn't take kindly to people working from home during daylight hours)--it's not like it's once/year.

Know what? The work gets done just as well, even if he and I have t-shirts on and a beer or three on our desks. It's not quite being out on the boat, but it's a hell of a lot better atmosphere than it would be if we were wearing ties.

The same rules apply equally on weekends and weekdays: (1) wear whatever the partners wear, (2) do not smell, (3) no rips, tears, holes, or mystery stains, and (4) if you're wearing something completely different from everyone else in the place, then you look unprofessional. That includes the dweeb insisting on the suit and tie when all the partners are in jeans and polo shirts. Never show up your boss. Ever.

answer: work at quinn. don't face this problem.

12:51 - excellent advice. I second the "do not smell"--like anything, that includes whatever awful aftershave/cologne one of our summers is wearing. Good lord it stinks.

Same goes for women. The cloud of bubble gum perfume is unprofessional.

Freakin' smelly summers.

In all my time at Cravath, I never wore flipflops once on the weekends, but I used to walk around barefoot latenight. (I know--rebel!)

One of the now-retired London partners would walk around in his socks all the time. It was kind of endearing, in a cute old man way, not in a "I make 4MM+ a year so kiss mine sort of way."

khakis on the weekend? wtf. I just lost so much respect for Lat.

I don't even walk around in my socks at home (when I am home), so sure as hell not doing it at the office. Trading peeing into my Snapple bottle from dinner for a few minutes of looking at ATL.

Will somebody be my friend? Maybe one of you who's been billing 6 hours/month since January?

Back to revising APA. I hate working across from firms that don't know what they're doing. Makes life so much harder.

I prefer Speedo's, Boots and a Cowboy Hat. Seriously, try that just one Saturday and you'll never be asked to work another weekend ... Evar.

Down here in the dirty south, anything goes on weekends. Jeans if its cold, shorts if it aint. I've seen partners on weekends in shorts, but their crime was loafers with white socks to match.

Jeans? T-Shirts? Are you people serious? Work is work. Weekend or not, the office is a place where you are judged by your peers and bosses. Slacks, collared shirt (golf shirt or dress shirt) and shoes.

Related question - how many people either jog or bike to work, or squeeze in a run at lunch or sometime during the day? Thoughts on sneaking into the elevator banks while drippin sweat in your running clothes? Acceptable? Awful? Admirable?

I'll wear whatever the f I want to work weekend or otehrwise. I wasn't hired for my look, I'm not a model. I was hired for my brain, I'm an attorney. Don't tell me what's acceptable to wear to work - I'm not five. If you don't like it, F off. - 3rd Year Gov't Atty

I think as long as you don't come in Saturday morning wearing what you wore out the night before, you're good.

I wish we had guys wearing A&M shirts at the office in NY, itd make working on Saturdays actually kind of fun.

Also, what are cankles? That sounds disgusting, and I don't want to google-image it.

im in a business attire every day of the year firm and it does not bother me, as i have no problem with suit and tie every day. however i totally understand those that despise it and would never do it and on the weekend especially

9:55 -- The State of Texas is a cankle!

What about designer jeans?

Wore pretty much anything I wanted given the Houston summer heat and the fact that at times the A/C ran at reduced capacity. Wife beater and camo shorts on weekends.

I seriously doubt the partners I work for are judging me on what I wear to the office on the weekends. First of all, those guys don't even bother showing up most of the time. That's what they pay me for. Second, the people who are here don't give a flying tinker's damn. That said, jeans/cargo shorts and polo shirt are perfectly acceptable. I've worn warm-ups and sweatshirts on occassion too.

If a partner is judging you on what you are wearing on the weekends (as long as it is not overtly sloppy), that partner (a) has too much free time and (b) is an unbelievable doucheclown. I'd be polishing my resume.

9:55 - Cankles occur among obese people, where the leg is so fat that the point where the calf stops and the ankle starts is no longer apparent.

Jeez, in NYC I wouldn't get caught dead in frayed jeans and a baggy T shirt....ever. Perhaps when going to the gym - but then I would change. Have some self respect here, people!

12:10 - you're the one who needs some self-respect. You and everyone else who's too much of a pussy to dress comfortably on the weekends.

9:55, I did this once back in my single days.

Unplanned sleepover at Friday night date's place. Saturday a.m. get a call on my cell phone (pre-Blackberry era) that client wants to file a TRO and I need to get to office stat.

Date's apartment about 10 minutes from office. My place about 20 minutes from date's apt (the other direction).

Weighed the hour plus time to go home, change, and go to work against being there in 10 minutes and went with the Saturday walk of shame. Date did not own a hairbrush (WTF?), so also had delightful bedhead until I got to my gym bag in office.

Partner could not have cared less.

If you really need to run, do it at the gym inside the building/take a shower before you leave, so people don't need to stand next to you in the elevator while you're sweating.

The gym in our building has a separate entrance where you can go in/work out/take a shower/exit. Shower facilities at work are amazing. No more running home to shower before a date and even if you do come in hung over, just grab a shower and no one would know the difference.

Why go in on weekends anyway? Do you really aspire to the workaholic life ? Do you want to subcontract the raising of your children to somebody you wouldn't trust with your Beemer keys ? Take your big check, get out of debt, stay off the consumerism/debt treadmill, put $ away and figure out what life YOU want, not what your class cohort has chosen.

I was already debt free, with a modest lifestyle, when, two months after my firm of 20 years (and 30 attorneys) merged with a 300+ attorney firm, I told the new managing partner I really wasn't interested in being his partner. I don't think anybody ever said that to him before.

I have downsized my career to my job. I'm now working part time for the merged firm-MY CHOICE. Since I'm very profitable, the HR people and bean counters are at bay--at least for now.

I don't give a rat's behind about office politics. I'm getting some static, mostly from people who are workaholics- I guess turning in my Blackberry and changing my cell nunber was too much for some of them; the new firm was insistent on embedding my cell number in every email. Now, the only people who have the number are two who know what an emergency isn't.

If I wanted to be on call for assholes 24/7, I'd have become a proctologist.

NYSouthernGirl... thanks for the tip, but if my firm/building had a gym, I probably wouldn't have asked. Showers, yes. But you have to get there somehow from the ground floor, and walkinb up 25 flights aint the way.

Sorry 2:45, I just assumed that all law firms were located in corporate buildings with gyms?

You can't go wrong with a thong and tube socks.

Yeah Yeah!

You can't go wrong with a thong and tube socks.

Yeah Yeah!

You can't go wrong with a thong and tube socks.

Yeah Yeah!

Can you go wrong with a thong and tube socks?

Can you go wrong with a thong and tube socks?

Can you go wrong with a thong and tube socks?

The thing that impresses me about double, triple, and quadruple postings is that there are so many people posting on here. It's refreshing to know that it's not just the same 10 of us everyday.

This thread is hilarious. I am a female equity partner, 50s. If you work for me and are in on the weekends the only thing that is compulsory is (a) underwear (preferably covered by clothes of some kind) and (b) a shower if you are anywhere in my vicinity. The chances of me actually seeing you are pretty minimal though as I have been into the office on a weekend maybe once a year in recent years (I'd have to be looking for some very old files or something to need to be in).

In the 1980s we used to wear jeans when working at the weekend, and get looked at askance if work extended through the Monday morning. I still have the pink boots I used to wear (with pants!) if asked to work on holidays, to show that I knew it was supposed to be a day off. I thought those days were long gone...

9:42 - you should post here more often, your viewpoint is appreciated.

(However I don't understand the underwear thing--why? What does it matter whether or not my soldier has room to march?)

I wear whatever the hell I feel like on the weekend. They should feel lucky that I'm there, let alone wearing pants.

It's weekend. And it's summer. So simply it suggest that one should wear clothes and apparels which she feels comfortable of wearing. And this does not limit him to experiment a little bit, ready to take on a little unwind in a bar.