[speaker001:] okay um I was just trying to think about how I how I dress for work you know TI is a very casual atmosphere
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh what I usually do on the weekend is is lay out five outfits and uh on Monday I I wear the the worst looking one because it doesn't seem like people are really are you know are that alive on Monday you know so
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and then progressively through the week I'll I'll wear nicer looking things and then on Friday most everybody wears jeans jeans and sweatshirts or you know jeans and blouses or something like that uh but mostly what I wear are skirts and blouses or you know skirts and uh pullover sweaters or uh you know little two piece dress suits suits like but
[speaker002:] yeah uh you know that's a good way to approach it I've never thought about um I do plan my clothes a week in advance actually I plan them a month in advance I usually do a month at a time so I don't repeat an outfit
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh
[speaker002:] but um I've never thought about wearing your worst outfit on Monday because really no one's paying attention but anyway um I really I don't work outside of school um I work in the computer lab at school so I can just wear whatever I have on for school and and um and really it's I try to dress dress presentable but very comfortable
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] like um in the warm weather it's always shorts and a T-shirt or a button up or something like that and then in the winter time it's jeans or or pants I usually um you know college is so casual you really don't want to dress up unless you you uh have a job and you have to be there right after school or something like that
[speaker001:] right like where I work it's it's pretty casual um
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] it's it's I guess it's more like a a college campus also I mean there's hundreds you know hundreds of people work for TI
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and um a lot of people just just wear jeans and and uh sweats all the time and they dress up like when customers are coming in or uh when we have department meetings or something like that and um you know a lot of people like those that work in the legal department for their the real um higher ups like the the lawyers the TI lawyers and uh
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] those that work for the the higher executives those secretaries they uh they really dress up all the time so there's a good combination in the hallways all the time you know
[speaker002:] oh well that's good that they're so casual I mean uh my brother works for TI and he's a computer programmer or computer engineer
[speaker001:] yeah uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] and um you know whenever he was going to school he was expecting to having to wear uh a tie or a dress shirt everyday but uh he goes to work in his blue jeans T-shirt and tennis shoes and he just loves it
[speaker001:] uh-huh and that's very acceptable at TI I believe at IBM they they make you wear a blue suit and uh some kind of colored shirt and a tie
[speaker002:] yeah that's what I've heard
[speaker001:] uh-huh I would I would hate to be in that atmosphere
[speaker002:] but uh I mean they they just moved into the new building he calls it the new building I don't know it's where all the executives are
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and um and so they were they were going to try to take their blue jean code with them and trying to get all the all the upper level to start wearing blue jeans but he just left for Italy today at four
[speaker001:] uh oh
[speaker002:] and he'll be over there until July first setting up some kind of computers for them
[speaker001:] I see
[speaker002:] over in TI mean for TI but over in Italy uh
[speaker001:] yeah oh TI is everywhere
[speaker002:] oh yeah he was so excited about going
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but uh he didn't carry any ties or anything because he he just went over there with the that attitude well if I don't take it then they won't make me wear it because uh he just
[speaker001:] that's true that's a good idea
[speaker002:] he didn't you know he's not really into all that he would wear it if he had to for his job and all but you know if he had the preference I mean his his preference is um blue jeans and a T-shirt so
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but I think that's great about TI and also uh to get off the clothing the smokers you know how they have the the different designated areas for smokers and stuff I think that's great
[speaker001:] the no right yeah and if you happen to go into one of areas that is a smoke smoke area and you don't smoke you almost strangle
[speaker002:] oh really do you smoke
[speaker001:] because there is so much smoke in the air yeah areas the smoking area you know it's closed in and if you don't if you don't smoke and you go in there that everybody that goes in there smokes so it's full of smoke when when you go in there
[speaker002:] uh-huh I think that's um
[speaker001:] I used to smoke a long time ago I used to burn my clothes talking about getting back to clothes I used to burn my clothes with cigarettes that's one of the reason that I stopped
[speaker002:] well um you you mentioned your daughter had graduated from college well when she was in high school did she always have to have all the new fashions and uh
[speaker001:] yeah she always had uh yeah she always had to have a lot of clothes
[speaker002:] see that's how that's how I am but my mama was not raised like that and so
[speaker001:] uh-huh no I I wasn't either she my daughter um she's real good at finding sales though you know she she she'll buy a lot of she yeah she'll buy a lot clothes at the end of seasons you know and uh just have them for the next year
[speaker002:] oh me to boy I have to hunt hunt them down uh-huh
[speaker001:] and she you know she finds all the outlets and all the discount places and uh buys clothes um when you know when they were coming up I I didn't sew but now I've I've learned how to sew so I'm well I'm I'm still learning how but I'm getting and I'm getting much better at it and I
[speaker002:] that's great
[speaker001:] I'm going to be able to make my own clothes
[speaker002:] I wanted to take a sewing class at school but I just haven't fit it into my schedule yet but that I mean that can really benefit
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] um that's something that I'd be very interested in very interested in learning
[speaker001:] right because clothes are some are really expensive you know uh uh a little simple shell shell blouse you know that you can make for about
[speaker002:] uh they're outrageous
[speaker001:] say ten dollars at you know at at the most out of a decent fabric
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] boy runs you like twenty something dollars in the store
[speaker002:] yeah it's it's marked up
[speaker001:] just a little shell to go under a suit you know
[speaker002:] it is it is really outrageous but uh I mean like whenever I I was growing up and all my mom I never understood this then but I do now but she never would buy me like the new designer jeans that had come out that were thirty dollars or
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um or she wouldn't buy me the fifty dollar tennis shoes and stuff like that and she always told me it was because I was still growing and she wasn't going to buy me something I was going to grow out of next week
[speaker001:] right especially to to pay that kind of money for it
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I have a friend who um she had a she had a baby a little boy and uh she she used to dress him out of Neiman Marcus I mean she dressed him
[speaker002:] oh no
[speaker001:] oh fabulously and then seems like every time she turned around he was outgrowing stuff and she finally learned that you just can not do this you know
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so now she finds the basement sales and just like you know everybody else
[speaker002:] that's the best way to shop I mean I always thought my mom was being mean to me but I look back at it now and my child is going to I mean I'm going to raise mine the same way
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] um I don't know I just ah they're just so outrageously priced it's just incredible I try to uh always catch the sales
[speaker001:] yes and yourself right
[speaker002:] always
[speaker001:] and yeah and you just have to keep buying them you know if you if you if you're not buying the most expensive clothes out there the the quality is really not that great you know for the price that you pay
[speaker002:] yeah it it depends on um yeah there's there's always a reason why they're on sale
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] so that that has a lot to do with it
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] but um
[speaker001:] like I bought I bought the most
[speaker002:] well
[speaker001:] beautiful sweater uh sweater from uh I believe it was Ross Dress For Less and it was it was really pretty it was just you know it was just plain a plain uh round you know round uh necked uh sweater sweater
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and it had uh like it was embellished around the the top you know it had uh leather leather designs and um some other other little things on it and I just thought it was so pretty and I got I got it at a real good price I think maybe it was nine ninety nine or something and it was so pretty
[speaker002:] oh that's great
[speaker001:] and after I wore it a couple of times I realized why it was
[speaker002:] huh oh
[speaker001:] why it was it was so cheap there was in the middle of the back of it there was it's like there it had been slit and they had like just sewed it back together
[speaker002:] oh no
[speaker001:] right in the middle of the the back you know wasn't a seam or anything you know
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and that's why it was so cheap although it's not it's not really noticeable um from the outside but but still it's you know it's really not not not a good quality and then I was told by somebody that works for JC Penney's that um Ross Ross is just one of those places that sells sells seconds
[speaker002:] the defect
[speaker001:] yeah yeah um they don't really buy the first quality they buy the second and uh places like JC Penney's that they'll reject the seconds they'll send them back every time but
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] places like Ross Dress For Less and uh TJ Max um uh-huh
[speaker002:] TJ Max does that yeah we have a TJ Max over here and um