/fa/ - Fashion

>>15116882
used to do what you’re doing in my 20s
now I still ride a bike but long distance in country side (from your pic I guess you live in France) and hand drawing architecture and landscape with only one ink pen

>>15117721
How formal are you willing to go? I slap a blazer over an ocbd most days and I'm considered the "sharp" guy at school. But honestly? If you do rock the polo khaki combo make sure you're wearing good quality stuff. A sunspel polo will look immaculate next to an old Navy or Uniqlo one. Also what's classified as secondary? I've been in kinder for like 10 years now so idk anything else

>>15117721
wear what you'd wear on a regular Saturday, maybe a casual button down instead of a t shirt, generally the more you look like a dad, the better. In the winter do fleeces and solid color sweaters. If you want people to take you seriously, save the stylized and "/fa/" stuff for home. Just focus on being supportive, kind, patient and flexible with the students. Good luck!

>>15117768
the best and most popular teachers at my high school were the ones dressed like plumbers or white people at a bbq, the ones who dressed like fags got bullied, not cause of their clothes, but cause they happened to be douche bags and the way they dressed was just more ammo to harass them with.

>>15117756
I'm qualified to teach grades 7-12 social studies and english. Ideally I want to teach high school, but if I got a full-time offer for junior high I'd probably take it. I'm willing to go to the higher end of formal without being try-hard - right now I'm poor though so a fitted grey suit is really all I have that would fit that.
>>15117768
Thanks for the encouragement, my dude! I tend to feel better and more confident when I dress up, which is why I'm trying to go a bit more formal - there are obvious first year jitters that I can mitigate by feeling I look the part, ya know? Also my greatest fear is losing the room so I believe a more formal look than the basic teacher look would lend itself better to establishing myself as an authority figure.

>>15117813
>Also my greatest fear is losing the room so I believe a more formal look than the basic teacher look would lend itself better to establishing myself as an authority figure.

I'm a middle/highschool (our education system works differently here) teacher for a couple of years now. And my experience is that if you "dress up" and are not completely yourself in your outfit, the kids will immediately see it as a sign of weakness. They might not pick on it (depends on the kids though), but they will feel your insecurity. I've seen the most badly dressed teacher connect perfectly with the kids, or subdue the most rioting class.

The only things in terms of dress that I would consider are the following: Be generally clean. Neat hair. No bad breath, or offensive body odor. Dress clean and neatly as well. Avoid looking like your students. Plain shirts/pants sneakers or shoes, no overtly visible brands. What style you pick should be one you feel comfortable in. That's all that matters. True confidence is key here.

And if you honestly look like pic related, I think it would demand more respect than a suit. These are horny kids, remember.

>>15117721
Bit tight for teaching. Remember you'll have to reach up to write on the whiteboard. You don't want your shit to ride up, most schools will want you to tuck your shirt in anyway. For some reason there is a crazy double standard where men have to suit up to teach and women can wear leggings and t shirts. Try not to be one of the tryhard fashion teachers and just wear nice understated clothes.

>>15117721
I'm sure this is area dependent, but I sub, and teachers generally dress casually (e.g. a school branded shirt and casual pants). I've worn everything from a sport coat and tie to a flannel and jeans, and unless the administrators mention dress, it probably won't matter what you wear.

you probably picked the shittiest time imaginable to become a teacher, holy shit

>>15117902
Lmao not wrong. The province I live in just elected a government that straight up eviscerated educators, too. Oh well.

>>15117842
I appreciate the advice, my dude. My wardrobe right now is pretty bro-tier so what I'm most comfortable in (t-shirts, henleys, denim) is a bit too casual as is. I'll find something a little dressed up that I'm confident in, I'm sure. Also I am the dude in the OP so I want to cover my physique a bit to de-sexualize myself.

>>15117925
If there is one thing I've learned from getting a job is that you should let go of your dreams of being that /fa/ guy from the movies who combines business casual with making women wet on the spot.
I just wear mainly loose fit polos and such now. You just don't want to dress too offensive, it's not something you want to be known for. And the polo in the OP is definitely something which coworkers et such will talk about

>>15117813
Should have gone for secondary math and be in a high-need area like I did.

Blending in and looking neutral is the name of the game for teachers. Except polos, don't fucking wear polos because they look good awful.

>>15117721

Are you going to smash some hot high school white girl poon?

>>15118557
No because I'm not a degen. I just want to stake my claim in a little slice of the world and hopefully make a positive impact. Plus, it's a well paying career where I live.


>>15118555
Yeah I know, I was pretty narrow in my undergrad so would have needed an extra 18 credits to pick a more marketable teacher. Most english/social departments where I live are female dominated so I might fill a niche though.

>>15117721
I would wear a polo or sweater with black dress pants or chinos and with a peacoat.

>>15117721
/TIP/ fag here. First of all depends on where you’re teaching, if you’re teaching kids in the ghetto they’re going to respond differently then white suburban kids. I wouldn’t recommend wearing a polo, it gives too much of the body away and I think it drags away at your authority. I would say straight fit (or the equivalent for your body type pants) a tie maybe once a week or two, an occasional blazer over an open collar shirt, take advantage of sweaters. In a business casual environment I feel like this a good happy medium for dress code. I am into classic menswear (and went to a parochial highschool with polos in warm weather and ties in the winter, where all the males teachers had to wear ties) but in terms of clothes= respect I thought the teacher who best executed it was the football assistant coach plus AP physics teacher who wore black or khaki pants, blue or white button down colors and taste fil cosnservative ties, he was a big guy and his clothes didn’t always fit perfectly and he was a bigger guy but his clothes commanded respect to me.

>>15118577
not doing it makes you a degen

>>15117721
Holy shit my electric guitar teacher dresses like this.

I teach in Texas, so I wear polos and ocbd button, in short sleeve as well when it's not winter.
Fit is King since you can't wear crazy shit. I wear my clothes fitted since I'm not fat.
I would say my kids don't care too much about what I wear. They like my orange polo jacket and my Jaguar pace cologne, but at the end of the day it has minimal impact on my teaching. Setting procedures and not accepting anything less than your expectations is where it's at. Good luck. My first year was brutal but my second year right now is 100s of times better because of what I learned.

>>15117721
Go full Yohji

>>15118598
I had a 13 y/o ex-student sent me nude pics on grindr onetime. That shit can cost you your job.

>>15118941
What should you do if that happens? Just ignore it? Tell it to her parents? Looks like a situation in which you can only lose.

>>15118941
oh so you're a faggot lmao

>>15118952
It was a guy (grindr) and he started by sending nudes and getting dirty chatty. Honestly I wasn't paying that much attention and just send a pic of my own. Suddenly he asked if I was his teacher last year (Luckily I wasn't working at that school anymore). I found out who it was and said I really didn't feel comfortable at with all this. He told me he just wanted someone to be his "mentor" in gay life. Which I understand, but me being his ex teacher and he sending nudes was just too much. On top of that he's 13. I deleted my profile though. He later send me a message through linkedin to get in touch again. Told him the same, and he said he understood. He even asked if he could contact me again when he turned 16 lol.

Really felt like I dodged a bullet there. If this had come out, and I still had been working at that school, there would have been no winners. I probably would have had to quit.

>>15118976
Let alone you actually screwing one of your students. That will get you into jail.

>>15118976
Glad to see that it ended well. Since I aspire to be a teacher myself I need to know how to dodge that bullet.

>>15118976
Gay men are such fucking predatory nonces

professor core

picrel my dads teacher in the 70s

>>15119236
Dassit Mang.

I’m a high school teacher in Germany and I literally only wear outdoorsy stuff like the North Face, Fjällräven and Patagonia.
I’m well liked by the kids, you’re not trying to be friends with all colleagues anyway and I don’t see anyone giving a damn here either. Maybe this works different overseas but here it’s 99% how you treat the students and maybe 1% how you look. I definitely agree that being clean and well groomed is much more important. One substitute guy didn’t shower once and was forever known as Mr. Smelly. I’m not joking.
We do have a try hard that wears business casual but since he’s an arrogant maniac nobody likes him. I don’t think this would be different if he wore anything else

>>15118941
>grindr
>male teacher
you shouldn't be near children

>>15117721
are you a teacher in gay porn studies?

>>15121239
Dude EPIC. You wish you had a body like his.

>>15118941
that shit can cost you 5 years in jail

>>15121242
A steroided gay body, nope.

These are just show-off muscles (biceps, shoulders), no core. Definitely a faggot body.

People laugh at you if you look like that around here.

>>15117721

You've gotta keep in mind that first year is gonna suck no matter what you wear. Hopefully your collegues will be willing to help you with that.

Other than that I can only jump on everything guys said:
1. Shower and do your laundry, brush and take care of your teeth. Your smell means a lot, it connects to people's memories.
2. Pay attention to your haircut. It doesn't have to be especially fashionable but it has to be neatly groomed. Back when I was started teacher I used to have that "cool undercut" but it took too much work to maintain. Now I just buzz my own hair regularly, same level of confidence while saving lots of time and money.
3. As time goes and you get better at what are you doing you start to notice your students copy your style. Right now, at the start of the road your appearence mostly matter to your collegues. Later it will be students dressing up the same way you do, get similar watches, glasses (and ditch the glasses for contacts if you do so) and so on. That would be the time to actually pay a close attention to your wardrode because you're becoming the living archetypical image of "male" for your students.

>>15121300
>That would be the time to actually pay a close attention to your wardrode because you're becoming the living archetypical image of "male" for your students.

Yep, i remember wanting to look like my teachers... NOT.

>>15117721
>Hey Mr Anon! Where did you get big arms like that? Is it from jerking hobos cocks after class, lol.

>>15117721
Sweater vests and tweed jackets with patched elbows.
Go bit or go home.

>>15121626
Tweed jackets are based desu
>>15121314
Honestly this would btfo any jacked teacher into oblivion.

>>15117721
Maybe a tattersall buttondown shirt? And a khaki straight cut jeans?

That guy who became a teacher due to thirst for middle school girls

>>15121724
There was a guy in my program who did this

>>15117721

The best is to go neutral, everything else will attract mockery, unless you have enough charisma and wittiness to take this kind of criticism >>15121314

Black, grey, white, navy t-shirt, shirt or jumper + jeans.

>>15121766
>T shirt and jeans everyday
Enjoy teaching at a title 1 school

>>15121786
If OP was teaching at MIT, he wouldn't be here

>>15117721
Hey bro, how do I become a teacher? I’ve been considering lately since it seems like a stable career and you actually get to make an impact. I have a Bachelors in Math. Do I need to go back to school or should I just start meeting certain people? Thanks in advance and good luck!

>>15121854
Do most math majors go into post grad? I feel like you need all that for "important" math stuff and all that

>>15121949
Not all, unless they plan on being researchers or teaching in colleges. I had originally planned to work in IT but that wasn’t for me. I do remember a lot of my classmates who took math classes were actually not taking as many pure mathemarics classes like I did, since their program required other teaching courses instead.

I don’t necessarily want to teach math either. I’m just wondering how much demand there is for teachers and if they’re perhaps flexible with hiring.

>>15118976
This thread started off pretty fucking based but nah fuck you homie
>yeah I get wanting a mentor in the gay world
Nigga if you didn't teach that Brockhampton listening Jojo watcher you'd be pozzing him on God bro fuck you

>>15117721
choke me

I’m a high school teacher in Brooklyn. I keep a rotation of blue or khaki pants, white or blue shirt, tie (yellow, blue, etc.) Inoffensive, professional, clean. As long as you’re presentable and not trying too hard then your clothes should be a non-issue. In fact your clothes should blend so well that they don’t have any effect on the students at all

>>15117925
what province If you mind me asking?

>>15123936
A newly blue one out west where the pay is pretty damn good.

>>15117721
I would wear something that is entirely non-sexual. You're asking for some teen girl with daddy issues to start barking up your tree if you try and look nice and you're probably dumb enough to do something with her too. You really shouldn't be teaching, bro. That sort of thing is for women and always has been.

>>15117721
Mate just wear a suit and tie. I don't know how dress code for teachers works elsewhere but for most of the year male teachers (England) wear a suit and tie, though then again we were all wearing shirt/jumpers/ties so they would be the odd ones out if not

>>15117721

>>15118976
>He told me he just wanted someone to be his "mentor" in gay life. Which I understand
>Bro I understand an adult fucking a 13 year old, it's just sexual guidance
Fucking hell

>>15121854
Im in a similar position but with a CS degree.
How exactly do you become a teacher? What certifications do i needand how do i get em

>>15124570
you can't even say the state?

>>15118941
>teacher
>faggot
>grindr

fuck off u pedorast

>>15125345
Not a state and I said it without saying it, I just dont trust this website enough for someone not to ruin my life if they caught even a hint of who I am.