Do the news reporters think there is some law against wearing a tie in

[RB TexLa]

Israel or Lebanon?

Everyone one of them, no coat no tie. :shrug:

[benburch]

1. Heat? nt

[RB TexLa]

2. I wear a coat and tie in Dallas every day

and when I am in Louisiana don't think it is hotter there.

[ixion]

6. yeah, a coat and tie... in your air conditioned house, car and

office. Sure, you might go outside for a while, even a few hours, but try living round the clock with the heat and no AC. I think you'd be dropping the coat and tie pretty quick. :-)

The other, and perhaps more relevant, reason is that a coat and tie stands out like a sore thumb, hence presenting a nice target for Israel or Hezbollah.

[RB TexLa]

8. I've been outside wearing one for 8 to 10 hour days before

[benburch]

9. Some people aren't masochists. nt

[RB TexLa]

10. It's not masochism, it's what's proper

[SPKrazy]

13. Are You A Funeral Director?

otherwise, I can't imagine "Proper" meaning wearing a suit outside in the heat

[RB TexLa]

14. no I'm not

[SPKrazy]

16. Why Do You Care What They Wear?

and why is it improper to not wear a suit?

[DrRang]

17. Lot of Arab guys make a point of not wearing a tie, even with a suit.

[SteppingRazor]

3. I wouldn't either...

I mean, face it, you'd look kinda silly wearing a coat and tie in the middle of the desert. Remember Nixon's walk along the beach while wearing a suit? Hell, I wasn't even born yet, and even I know how creepy he looked.

[RB TexLa]

7. the guy on CNN was in downtown Tel Aviv

:shrug:

[Breeze54]

4. Who cares?

:shrug:

[meisje]

5. It's war zone casual

[DavidDvorkin]

11. The real question is why do they wear ties normally?

Dress clothing in general.

Dressed-up news anchors always look absurd to me. Dress clothes should be banned utterly and entirely; if it were up to me, they would be.

[Hekate]

12. Don't people there dress more casually due to the climate?

I've never been to Israel, but I have lived my whole life in sunny climes -- places where if you travel to the East Coast or other hyper-formal (by our standards) places, you have to raid your friends' closets to put together (a) a business-like ensemble that's up to their standards, and (b) a winter wardrobe.

Call me provincial, but in Hawaii there's a sound reason to wear muu-muus and aloha shirts, and in SoCal climate also plays a large role in wardrobe decisions.

Hekate

[jdlh8894]

15. Funeral Clothing? n/t

[cigsandcoffee]

18. If they start wearing cutoffs and old Van Halen concert T-shirts...

...then I'll worry.

[porphyrian]

19. The phallic implications of the tie threaten the local manhood? - n/t

[u4ic]

20. Most of the cbc news foreign correspondents

wear casual - both men and women; war or no war.