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Title: Dinner Dress
Post by: jaybeckham on October 11, 2017, 04:37:41 PM
Do most of you dress up, sport coat and tie?  Are just casual, but nicer than during the clinics?

Jay
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: deemery on October 11, 2017, 05:19:42 PM
Bee suit is optional.


dave
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: jaybeckham on October 11, 2017, 05:35:11 PM
Dave
I was being serious.
Jay
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: deemery on October 11, 2017, 06:00:17 PM
So was I.  No one has worn a bee suit for a long time, it seemed to be a Scott Mason signature.  ;D


At the one Expo I attended, it seemed most people wore to dinner what they wore to the rest of the show.  A few might have added a sports jacket, but that could also have been because it got a little chilly. 


dave
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: RailroadKits on October 11, 2017, 06:50:44 PM
Yes Jay. A bee suit. No joke. Doug Foscale & I still don't get it.

Take a look through the image gallery. Most are dressed pretty casual.
http://modelersforum.com/gallery/?cat=10 (http://modelersforum.com/gallery/?cat=10)

Jimmy
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: jaybeckham on October 11, 2017, 11:46:06 PM
I googled Bee Suit.  It is the coveralls and head pieces that Bee Keepers wear to prevent being stung.
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: RWL on October 12, 2017, 02:24:59 AM
Jay,


If it had been a beekeepers outfit it would have been more plausible, albeit odd. Instead it was a bee, stripes, antennae and spindly legs, a rather portly bee if I remember right. The reasoning behind the outfit no one but Mr. Mason knows.


As far as dinner attire, as Dave pointed out most people dress casual, and Jimmy's suggestion to look at pictures of past banquets will answer your question. Most of the ladies dress for the occasion, but then they dress better than most of us modelers anyway.


Bob
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: Janbouli on October 12, 2017, 03:11:00 AM
If you can wear a Philly Flyers shirt to a dinner I guess it's everything goes  ;)
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: cuse on October 12, 2017, 06:58:11 AM
Ive been to a few (even the Bee suit event :o )...dress casual, save your luggage space for all of the kits you buy!


John
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: BandOGuy on October 12, 2017, 10:14:06 AM
I've never been to any of the banquets, but I do know that you should dress appropriately if you plan to approach the dais and kiss "The Ring".  8) ;)
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: bparrish on October 12, 2017, 12:13:59 PM
OK...

I'll bite..........

What is a bee suit........... we here in the west don't read the New Yorker and GQ

see ya
Bob
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: S&S RR on October 12, 2017, 12:46:44 PM
Quote from: bparrish on October 12, 2017, 12:13:59 PM
OK...

I'll bite..........

What is a bee suit........... we here in the west don't the New Yorker and GQ

see ya
Bob


Bob


Scott Mason wore a Bee Costume to the banquet a few years back.  I think he wanted to get extra use out of his Halloween Costume. I don't know - it must be one of those East Coast things that we don't understand in the Midwest and West.
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: bparrish on October 12, 2017, 01:20:23 PM
John........

OK...... I think I have it.

As in bumble bee.......

The 60's were pretty good to you boys in the east.

California gets a bad rap.

see ya
Bob
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: Slim Jerkins on October 12, 2017, 02:05:52 PM
Quote from: S&S RR on October 12, 2017, 12:46:44 PM
Quote from: bparrish on October 12, 2017, 12:13:59 PM
OK...

I'll bite..........

What is a bee suit........... we here in the west don't the New Yorker and GQ

see ya
Bob


Bob


Scott Mason wore a Bee Costume to the banquet a few years back.  I think he wanted to get extra use out of his Halloween Costume. I don't know - it must be one of those East Coast things that we don't understand in the Midwest and West.


...or the rest of the East Coast, West Coast and all points between for that matter.


-slim
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: GPdemayo on October 12, 2017, 03:01:10 PM
See the picture here.....click on link & scroll down.


http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/MRHT_CSS2009
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: deemery on October 12, 2017, 04:13:15 PM
Quote from: GPdemayo on October 12, 2017, 03:01:10 PM
See the picture here.....click on link & scroll down.


http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/MRHT_CSS2009 (http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/MRHT_CSS2009)
And you people thought I was making this up!!! 


dave
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: bparrish on October 12, 2017, 04:20:27 PM
No Dave............. I didn't think you were making it up.....

I just didn't know what it was about.

Some things simply cannot be thought up by the clinically sane.......

See ya
Bob
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: jaybeckham on October 14, 2017, 12:02:27 PM
Not a whole lot different from the Pittsburgh Steelers alternate uniforms they wear occasionally.
Jay
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: donatode on October 15, 2017, 05:41:39 PM
When I wore a bee suit, it was something like this ....


(https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7042/6944722201_e0dbbe7628_c.jpg)

Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: JusticeCity on October 15, 2017, 09:36:13 PM
No matter how many times you ask me, I am NOT wearing a Dress to dinner!
Title: Re: Dinner Dress
Post by: Mike Engler on October 26, 2017, 03:22:04 PM
The only tie I ever saw at the Expo was worn by Bob Mitchell, and he always wears one.