A phrase I leaned last week is "business mullet" - shirt on top with boxers below, the ideal outfit for video conferencing
Reg fashion special: Top designer says 'video chat accessories' are in for spring!
The fashion industry has carved itself a new niche – outfits and accessories for video chats – but kept all its old double standards about what different people need to look their best. As spotted by CNN journo Sonia Moghe, Gap's posh workwear brand Banana Republic shows off the spring trend with a new "What to wear at home" …
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Tuesday 7th April 2020 07:58 GMT Chris G
What would we do without fashion?
Answers on a postcard can be posted in any receptacle affixed to a lampost.
It's nice that fashion designers should think of those working from home in these difficult times, obviously want them to look their best, the fashion companies will go all out to have those designs manufactured by children in sweatshops that are located in countries that have no lockdow in place.
Might I suggest a line of pre-pizza stained T shirts for those working from basements?
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Tuesday 7th April 2020 11:02 GMT T. F. M. Reader
Re: What would we do without fashion?
@joeW: Come back, Telephone Sanitisers - all is forgiven.
They are back!!! So says the BBC.
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Tuesday 7th April 2020 09:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
Amateurs. Video chat accessories are things you leave in the background such as whips, chains, spatulas and the occasional blow up doll. If it's an important meeting always have a scotch egg to hand so when someone makes what they think is an important point loudly say "I couldn't agree more" and take a nice big bite out of it.
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Tuesday 7th April 2020 10:12 GMT My other car WAS an IAV Stryker
Ah, to be part of the military-industrial complex
...where cameras are a hyuuuuuge no-no and all meetings are webcasting slide decks / spreadsheets / etc. instead of video. (Just don't have an embarrassing desktop wallpaper!)
No one wants to see my messy home office anyway. Been in this house almost a year and I'm still trying to organize old paperwork (whole boxes of paid bills, receipts, etc.). If I do manage to sort them, I have a ceiling fan that still needs to be changed (ugly 80s/90s brass affair out, modern brushed nickel in); new matching cabinet/drawer handles are on their way from the Home Despot's warehouse. And maybe re-sort the bookshelves we randomly refilled just after the move. THEN this room might be camera-ready.
Taking months to improve on the semi-minor things in our living space: still better than the years we wasted waiting to improve anything in the last house. Besides, procrastination is like the bureaucracy at work: it comes standard with this industry/customer.
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Tuesday 7th April 2020 13:44 GMT Stuart Castle
This is easy for me. I use my home tower PC for remote working. It has no webcam. While, as a technician, I initially got some ribbing for this, I don't normally need a webcam, and actually consider it an unnecessary potential security hole. When I got some comments about this, I said if work wants me to use a webcam, they can buy me one and send it to me.
So, while I do wear my normal work uniform (which is a shirt and jeans), this is more for me than anyone else. It's important to maintain a sense of what is normal.
And yes, I do have a laptop with a perfectly functional webcam, usually the kids are using this for homework.
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Tuesday 7th April 2020 15:17 GMT vir
And So It Begins
Anyone else reminded of the aside in Infinite Jest where David Foster Wallace describes the evolution of videotelephony through facial software enhancement, followed by physical masks of your own enhanced face, then of your whole body, then of your surroundings until a video call became "essentially a heavily doctored still-photograph, one of an incredibly fit and attractive and well-turned-out human being, someone who actually resembled you the caller only in such limited respects as like race and limb-number, the photo's face focused attentively in the direction of the videophonic camera from amid the sumptuous but not ostentatious appointments of the sort of room that best reflected the image of yourself you wanted to transmit".
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Tuesday 7th April 2020 21:25 GMT CountCadaver
Re: Green?
You can buy webcam apps that can green screen your background to create the illusion of a house beautiful office instead of a disorganised real life chaos theory demonstration (for example my wife's art studio.....I'm contemplating a skip outside the window and shovel to resolve it)
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Wednesday 8th April 2020 14:52 GMT Daedalus
The struggle is real
From monitoring an old acquaintance on Twitter, and her feminist journalist coterie (yes, they do write for the Grauniad), it turns out that video chats expose that dread horror, the old lady neck. The article's image of an ad for neckerchiefs seems particularly appropriate.