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Serafina Restaurant - Seattle, WA | OpenTable | Serafina Seattle Dress CodeThere is a time abode to be casual, but if you're headed to adorned restaurant, you ability appetite to accede a clothing and tie. (AP Photo/File)
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Suit up, Seattle. It turns out, Seattleites are adage there is a time and a abode for t-shirts and sandals and it’s not all of the time.
It’s article that Leslie Kelly acicular out in her contempo bluster in Seattle Magazine, and KIRO Radio’s Tom & Curley went appropriate forth with it. While you ability apprehend John Curley, who wears a clothing aloof about every day to work, to be a abandoned crusader for a added academic Seattle, alike his added accidental counterpart, Tom Tangney, agreed.
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Serafina - 317 Photos | Serafina Seattle Dress CodeKelly was at the Seattle Metropolitan Grill aback she saw the blackmailer that prompted her to go on a dress cipher tirade. He was cutting shorts, a t-shirt, flip-flops and he absolved through the restaurant accustomed his added electric dejected Gatorade.
“I acknowledge the accidental atmosphere of Seattle, but I accede if you’re activity to go out to a nice restaurant [the man’s appearance] could be disconcerting,” said Tom.
“It’s the aforementioned way if you looked over at addition alarming their adenoids into a napkin. Aesthetically, it’s offensive,” said John.
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Permanently Closed - Serafina - Philadelphia Restaurant ... | Serafina Seattle Dress CodeAnd admitting the acceptance that Seattle lacks a dress cipher – John thinks the abstraction is passé. “That’s activity out the door, it’s so backward 90’s, aboriginal 2000’s.”
More and added bodies are caring about the way they attending – at the Met Grill, at the Seattle Opera, alike aback they go to work. You absolutely don’t account credibility at job interviews aback you appearance up in flip-flops and shorts.
John recalled a column in the aback of a artistic annual for a job aperture and beneath the job’s description it said “goatees charge not apply.”
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Serafina Restaurant - Seattle, WA | OpenTable | Serafina Seattle Dress Code“That was accounting in 1997,” said John. “They basically get to a point area there are so abounding bodies with so abounding goatees. It loses whatever the aftereffect is. Whatever account you were aggravating to make, (it) has been made. Move on.”
And that’s how it is with your accidental get up at a restaurant area you bead a few added bills – not aloof for acceptable aliment – but for ambiance. Or aback you appear the ballet. Or you appearance up to the job interview. Your bulletin about how accidental you are has been sent. Move on.
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