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inre dress, Gina writes: 

>It all depends...
>On what works for the individual. :-)

    Yea verily!   After ruining enough clothes with dirt in the pianos, I 
began wearing one piece jump suits with the business name over the pocket. 
(Wear-Guard, about $27).   Customers love it, even strangers talk to me in 
supermarket check-out lines, and there is always someone at a gas station 
that expects me to fill their car up for them!  I write the cost off totally 
as a business expense, of course.  I can also get dressed in about two 
minutes, with no thought to "matching".  Fashion may or may not be my 
strongest point.     
    There is a curious juxtapostion between this "industrial"  appearance and 
the preconceived notion of what "the piano tuner" should look like that tends 
to let me start off with a clear slate.  I guess it makes a visually neutral 
first impression and how things go depends on myself and what I say.  It 
doesn't hurt that there was a  piano butcher in the area that always wore a 
three-piece suit and played well enough to impress, for a while. 
    I think the shoes are probably the most important part of any outfit, 
though.  They gotta be either shined or, if your feet like the New Balance 
shoes like mine do, clean as new.   And yes, I make sure that there are no 
holes in the socks, ( but am I the ONLY person that has whacked my big 
toenail into the front edge of a worn, sharp, damper pedal???)
 
 Then Gina writes: 
>Of course, we Southerners are more casual today, especially since the influx
> of all the rest of the country who has recently discovered who wonderfully
> beautiful the South is. :-)
 
  Shhhhhhh!  Do you want all them infiltrators moving in?  Just let'em keep 
on thinking that snow and slush is beautiful.  (:)}}
Regards, 
Ed Foote RPT