Dress Standards and Should P1 get CL access?

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Come 31 March they're pulling out 4 A380s a day so I'd expect some reduction in the numbers using the lounge.
 
When I arrive in the lounge, it's usually because I've been with a client and therefor am wearing 'business' attire. I usually then freshen up in the showers and change into 'casual' clothes (t-shirt, jeans, sneakers). I thought that the lounge was provided specifically so I could get comfortable before getting on a flight. I'm not comfortable wearing a suit and tie for what is essentially the evening commute home.

Drunken or noisy louts should be thrown out still, don't get me wrong
 
I haven't seen any of these issues in CBR. Getting my hoity-toit on, I'm also a self-funded WP, so I'll let the other self-funded WPs (or maybe just the self-funded WP1s? :) ) throw the first stones if my clothes aren't up to their preposterous standards :)

In my rapidly-shrinking field of IT, the dirtier the jeans and the greyer the beard, the smarter the wizard!

(these wizards also make the world tick more than most others would care to admit)
 
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Not familiar with drron but I do appreciate a splash of colour on the links!

Not so much a splash of colour, rather the whole palette :eek: :D - see serfty's post above which has a photo of us with drron in the shorts

Some dress comfortably for travel (particularly long haul), whereas others dress for business (some hoping for an op up :D).

So long as the standards are maintained, to each their own.
 
Don't be too sure about that! -
In the Second World War, the US Eighth Air Force painted the bombers of the formation leaders in garish colours to enable the formations to assemble easily. Bold colours, chequers, stripes and so on. I wonder if this extended to the clothing worn by the bold flight crew, and maybe the shorts in the photograph are a relic of those grand old days?
 
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Perhaps I am wrong but how someone dresses is extremely important and is a good way to judge their character.
No, it's an atrocious way to judge their character.

For example: rather unexciting attire for a female office worker in Australia would be outrageous in many Middle Eastern countries. That outrage is not a reflection of said woman's character or capabilities, but of the inability of those judging her to get past their irrational beliefs.

e.g You are invited to a wedding at a church so you turn up in t-shirt, shorts and thongs. Hmmm....
A wedding at a church is a formal event (and typically has a dress code specified on invitation, at that). Obviously wearing informal clothes is inappropriate. Even the typical filthy hippy would probably agree on that point.

Catching a plane, however, is not a formal event. Hasn't been for decades. In this century, it rates about as high on the formality scale as dinner at Sizzler.

I'm in my mid-30s. I generally wear shorts, T-shirts, and thongs or sandals most of the time (and especially when flying), unless it's too cold or an event that deems more formal attire (say, work or dinner at a restaurant).

I do this because I dress for comfort and I live in Brisbane, a sub-tropical climate. Not because I'm lazy. Not because I'm a slob. Not because I want to "rebel". Not because I don't care (though, mostly, I really don't care).

Now, I grew up in the country and thus feel predisposed to judge people by their character rather than whether they're wearing thongs at the local cafe on a Sunday morning. But it's an argument I feel quite confident about being on the right side of. So when some stuffy old grump tries to tell me he's offended because I don't feel the need to get dressed up in a suit to do my grocery shopping, all I can do is shake my head at how someone can be so shallow.
 
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