This dress code is described in a Wikipedia entry:
""Planter's Orders" is a dress code derived from a military term. In hot climates, a commanding officer could order "Planter's Orders" and the men were permitted to remove jackets and ties (usually - this varies) and roll shirt sleeves up. There would be a required sleeve rolling technique, usually 4 neat turns, possibly ironed, so that the rolled fabric formed a neat band around elbow length. So in a non-military sense, Planter's Orders is neat trousers (i.e suit trousers or similar), long-sleeved shirt with the sleeves neatly rolled up, without a jacket or tie."
A few questions for the board:
1. Is this exclusively UK? If so is there a US equivalent?
2. Where does the term "Planter's" come from?
3. How many buttons should be undone on the shirt? Some say two, some say three.
4. Hat? Shoes?
""Planter's Orders" is a dress code derived from a military term. In hot climates, a commanding officer could order "Planter's Orders" and the men were permitted to remove jackets and ties (usually - this varies) and roll shirt sleeves up. There would be a required sleeve rolling technique, usually 4 neat turns, possibly ironed, so that the rolled fabric formed a neat band around elbow length. So in a non-military sense, Planter's Orders is neat trousers (i.e suit trousers or similar), long-sleeved shirt with the sleeves neatly rolled up, without a jacket or tie."
A few questions for the board:
1. Is this exclusively UK? If so is there a US equivalent?
2. Where does the term "Planter's" come from?
3. How many buttons should be undone on the shirt? Some say two, some say three.
4. Hat? Shoes?
