{"id":19813,"date":"2008-12-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/12\/16\/microspeak-suited-and-booted\/"},"modified":"2008-12-16T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T10:00:00","slug":"microspeak-suited-and-booted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081216-00\/?p=19813","title":{"rendered":"Microspeak: Suited and booted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Microsoft&#8217;s consulting divisions, customer visits are a part of the job. A shorthand has developed to describe how formally dressed you should be at the meeting with the customer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Suited and booted<\/i>: Business suit including necktie. <\/li>\n<li><i>Business casual<\/i>: Collared shirt and trousers (no jeans). <\/li>\n<li><i>Microsoft casual<\/i>: Jeans and a t-shirt. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> (I leave it as an exercise to develop the comparable attire for women.) <\/p>\n<p> Note: This Microspeak entry was submitted by a colleague from the UK, so it may be peculiar to the UK dialect of Microspeak. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Microsoft&#8217;s consulting divisions, customer visits are a part of the job. A shorthand has developed to describe how formally dressed you should be at the meeting with the customer. Suited and booted: Business suit including necktie. Business casual: Collared shirt and trousers (no jeans). Microsoft casual: Jeans and a t-shirt. (I leave it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,103],"class_list":["post-19813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>At Microsoft&#8217;s consulting divisions, customer visits are a part of the job. A shorthand has developed to describe how formally dressed you should be at the meeting with the customer. Suited and booted: Business suit including necktie. Business casual: Collared shirt and trousers (no jeans). Microsoft casual: Jeans and a t-shirt. (I leave it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}