This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Oh Z!, Oh dear Z!, I have been waiting several years now to pass on the = following wisdom: "A female should wear a skirt and blouse, or slacks. Do not try ot out = dress the teachers, and some dress pretty casual. But you want to look = like a professional, not like a janitor. ......They always wear skirt = suits. And they carry coveralls in their car. When they need to do = pedals, or repairs that involve crawling around, they excuse themselves = to the rest toom to put on their cover-alls. When they are done with = this portion of the work they redress in their skirt." .........Direct from the Randy Potter School of Piano Technology = coursework. There you have it Z! Any other questions? Seriously though, my jaw dropped to the floor when I read that. Let me = be clear - I think the Randy Potter School of Piano Technology = correspondence course is a goldmine of piano technology instruction - = BUT, you have to weed through a bit of "stuff & fluff" to get to the = meat - of which there is plenty. :-) Just could not pass up the opportunity. I live in Florida. Nine months of the year I wear dress shorts and a = polo shirt. The other three I wear nice long pants and a polo shirt. At = least here, I should think the same would be appropriate for a woman. Terry Farrell =20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Z! Reinhardt=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 12:22 PM Subject: Re: Appearance Any sage advice for the women technicians? Skirts and working under (between the 3 legs of) a grand piano don't = mix for modesty's sake. Those floppy bow-ties of the corporate mid-80s are (thankfully) out. Dressing "like a man" still doesn't cut it in the more conservative = circles (although that is changing), yet is still generally preferable = to a man dressing "like a woman." What's a woman to do? She has to look professional and feminine, yet = not afraid of the tools in her toolbox or what she might encounter upon = opening up a piano. + + + About 13 years ago, I did a little impromptu "research" on this very = subject. I called a number of the clothing catalogue companies and = asked whoever answered the phone to imagine that they had made an = appointment with a woman piano technician to come and work on their = pianos. What did they envision her as wearing when she came to the = door? The responses varied tremendously. Some thought it was a crank call = and hung up immediately. Some ran and got their supervisors, who in = turn relished the challenge. Some gave it the ol' college try ... and = wondered what inspired such a scenerio in the first place. The = suggested clothing articles ranged from the jeans-&-t-shirt routines to = simple shifts to chinos-&-blouse and all the way to full corporate drag = (skirted business suit) complete with the floppy bow-tie. Unfortunately = my sample size was not large enough to do a meaningful statistical = analysis, to determine the most common assumption of how a woman = technician would dress. We're back at Square One on this. What do you all think? Thanks for your responses. Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Billbrpt@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 8:39 PM Subject: Re: Appearance >><< Clean, neat clothing which indicates that you are a professional and = serious=20 about your work may, in fact, allow you to get a better fee without = too much=20 complaint from your customers but in my opinion, dressing too = formally and=20 uncomfortably won't.=20 Bill Bremmer RPT=20 Madison, Wisconsin=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/82/40/38/3a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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