What is the best thing to do with a suit jacket on arriving in the office in the morning?

1. Coat stand
2. Back of chair

I can't see that either is ideal, mind you! :icon_pale:

Coathanger on back of office door for me. I did the chair thing, but then realized that I had 19 inch shoulders and probably a 24 inch chair.

 

Hanging the coat up properly would certainly result in less wrinkling of and potential damage to the coat. I learned that the hard way several years ago when after hanging my coat on the back of my office chair, I went to push back from my desk and the tail of the coat somehow got entangled in one of the rollers on the chair. Never did that again!

 

I use a valet stand that I bought at Bombay Co. Looks good, does the job well and has a drawer for keys/wallet.

 

There is a third choice. You could wear the coat.

 

I generally keep it on unless it's boiling hot, in which case either the chair wears it or I just lay it down gently on a spare chair.

 

I read somewherethat hanging it on a chair ruins the coat and that you should always hang it on a hanger or on a coat rack.

 

I think hanging the jacket on a coat rack looks like it's causes it more disfigurement. The small peg on the coat rack looks to be stretching the collar unnecessarily.

 

If a good hanger is not available, I fold my jackets.

 

There is a third choice. You could wear the coat.

That would be the first choice imo.

 

If I don't wear it I fold it over a spare office chair, or, as right now, it is laid out across a low file cabinet.

 

There is a third choice. You could wear the coat.

I'd opt for the hangar also.

I just don't see the benefit of sitting at your desk in a coat. Now, if you're dealing with clients all day long then maybe sitting in your coat is acceptable. If you're just at your desk working, talking on the phone etc., I think wearing your coat might be a bit unnecessary. If you work in an office where everyone else hangs their coats, then keeping your coat on might look as out of place as if you didn't wear a tie and everyone else had a tie on.

Just my 2 cents

 

There is a third choice. You could wear the coat.

Now that's just crazy talk! :icon_smile_big: More seriously, most offices these days are kept heated for the lowest common denominator tolerance for cold. As a result, I often find myself sweating just sitting at my desk in a shirt and slacks. Keeping a jacket on would get very ugly indeed.

 

Definitely keep a spare hanger in your office and just hang it up. Wearing a coat while sitting at your desk working makes you look pretty ridiculous and hanging it on your chair is not good for the coat (I know this from personal experience - one time I managed to ruin the roll of a coat's lapels by leaning on them with the suit hanging on my chair and basically crushing them).

 

Wearing a coat while sitting at your desk working makes you look pretty ridiculous

Why? I'm at my desk now with a coat one and don't feel the least bit ridiculous. If anything, I find people in shirtsleeves are the ones looking ridiculous.

 

Now that's just crazy talk! :icon_smile_big: More seriously, most offices these days are kept heated for the lowest common denominator tolerance for cold. As a result, I often find myself sweating just sitting at my desk in a shirt and slacks. Keeping a jacket on would get very ugly indeed.

I find the opposite around here actually, where offices in the summer are kept at sub-arctic temperatures and that a coat is essential to keeping hypothermia at bay. :icon_smile:

 

Why? I'm at my desk now with a coat one and don't feel the least bit ridiculous. If anything, I find people in shirtsleeves are the ones looking ridiculous.

What you don't know though is that secretly your co-workers are laughing at you and talking to each other about you. Wearing a jacket while sitting by yourself in your office working, where there are no clients or whatever there, makes people look stodgy and like they are trying too hard.

 

Whenever possible, get out from behind the desk and wear the jacket! It will also keep your butt from spreading which will have a better long term effect on your appearance.
I prefer to do most work standing and I note that several captains of industry and government agree that we are more productive that way. Weekly meetings became quicker when all parties were standing!

 

I always put it around my chair because I have nowhere else to put it. I am afforded the small luxury of a cubicle. My space is limited, so my chair is the only suitable place for it.

 

I prefer to do most work standing and I note that several captains of industry and government agree that we are more productive that way. Weekly meetings became quicker when all parties were standing!

In my early days I spent two years as an auditor. I would spend 8+ hour days standing around tables without sitting down once. It just felt so right.

I worked independantly most of the time, so could work how I pleased. But on the odd occasion when accompanied by a colleague, they clealry thought me mad to never want to sit down.

Your most has been most encouraging :icon_smile:

 

I am a firm believer in wearing your jacket or suit coat at your desk. Wearing a shirt and tie without a coat looks very third-rate under any circumstance...the kind of thing the produce manager at the local supermarket might do! (Not that I have anything against produce managers, but they are seldom arbitri elegantiae.)

Very rarely do I feel any discomfort from wearing my jacket, so cold do they keep this place in the summer.

 

I am a firm believer in wearing your jacket or suit coat at your desk. Wearing a shirt and tie without a coat looks very third-rate under any circumstance...the kind of thing the produce manager at the local supermarket might do! (Not that I have anything against produce managers, but they are seldom arbitri elegantiae.)

It's more civilized at AAAC. This past weekend, I narrowly avoided a lynching by produce managers at another forum for suggesting that gentlemen wear their jackets.

 

What you don't know though is that secretly your co-workers are laughing at you and talking to each other about you. Wearing a jacket while sitting by yourself in your office working, where there are no clients or whatever there, makes people look stodgy and like they are trying too hard.

Well, since I am an academic, and therefore don't really do any work, I suspect I am safe from the mocking glances. :icon_smile:

 

Wearing a jacket while sitting by yourself in your office working, where there are no clients or whatever there, makes people look stodgy and like they are trying too hard.

I never take my jacket off at the office.

Almost never, at least. When required to do so by unavaoidable circumstance, I have my valet stand a few feet away, holding it in his gloved hands.

 

I have a hangar on a hook on the back of my office door. When I come in, the jacket goes on it, and there it stays until I leave for the day unless I have an outside meeting during the interim.

I wear braces every day and I think they make me look "finished" enough without a jacket. Even if that wasn't the case, I'd feel too constricted to wear one while sitting at my desk.

 

i wish i had the opportunity to wear a suit to work to even be preoccupied with these questions.
i guess i can wear one, but i would really look strange amidst everyone else and they would want to know what the special occasion was.