Tuesday, October 04, 2005

A Rant: White Pants

Alright, so one of my three new jobs is serving at the Cheesecake Factory (sounds familiar, no?). As many of you know the uniforms consist of the following:
white shoes
white socks
white dress shirt
non-clip-on tie
and white pants

Now I'm a guy. I'm a guy living his mid-twenties in the year 2005. I haven't seen guys wear white pants since Miami Vice. Then it was cool. Then it was driving around in a boat hanging out with my friend who flew a helicopter.
But the GM says its a clean look. Yeah it's a frickin' clean look before you work a bunch of shifts around grease, dirt, and FOOD.
Ok, I can try to make my peace with the required uniform. So I head out downtown today to what I thought was a busy city shopping area...
Oh, on a side note, my GM joked during orientation "I know, no white after Labor Day!" Ha Ha HAAAggrrrr... Damn right no white after Labor Day. Listen funny man, stores pull their spring/summer fashions right around that Monday we have off in the beginning of September. Therefore no more white.
I went to many stores. And by many I mean like 10. I found white pants for 93.00. I found white tuxedo pants, sweat pants, baseball pants, and one pair that was fairly see-through. Unless seeing my boxers will get me better tips, I'll pass.
I finally found a pair of white jeans at the Levi's store. It was one of fifteen pairs in the whole store that were white. You know, for a store that is solely jeans, couldn't they make them a bit more comfortable?
So I have my clean look for my first day at my new waitering job. We'll see how long it takes for "clean white" to become "food stained grey".

How about black pants folks, that might look nice.

bye

nate

2 comments:

Nicole said...

My white pants are kinda hot

Rachel said...

white pants are ruff and unclean. they are dirty. i wish i could see you and nikki and jeremy in ruff white pants. what is the cheescake factory thinking??? like, all black looks nice, too? jesus, why don't they have you dress head to toe in all pink. its really oc.