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Article: These guys still wear ties: ; Some area businessmen and lawyers say they still cling to dressy tradition
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- June 30, 2008
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DAILY MAIL STAFF
Bob Gray is conservative when it comes to dressing for work.
As vice president of business development at Thomas Memorial
Hospital, he wears a suit and tie every day.
"I have a closet full of ties," he said. "I guess I've got 150 or
more. I hate to admit it, but I still have ties from the 1970s."
Gray doesn't believe the recent statistics that say only 6
percent of American men now wear ties to work.
"I read the article in the paper and I couldn't believe that
number," he said. "It seems too low."
The story referred to a recent Gallup Poll that showed the number
of men who wore ties every day to work had dropped to a record low
of 6 percent, down from 10 percent in 2002.
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