100. It will last 20 times longer than a $20 iron. No need to dry clean if you can press a shirt yourself. If you use spray starch only do it on the inside so it doesn’t make your shirts shiny. I personally only spray the back of the collar when I’m ironing. Answer from caln93 on reddit.comLike the title says I am starting a new job in a management role with a food service division for a private hospital. The dress code says slacks for management. I am mixed on what slacks infers like Chino's, khakis or actual dress pants. Any help would be appreciated.
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Slacks implies pants of certain materials which are not part of a suit (jeans are not slacks, and you would not refer to the pair of trousers that came with a suit as "slacks".) It is also more common to use "slacks" to refer to pants worn by women, while men would wear "trousers". Meanwhile, "pants" could refer to slacks, or trousers, or jeans, or just about any form of two-legged outer garment for the lower body.
Note that in AE, "pants" by itself is never understood to mean underwear of any kind, and must be altered in some form (either as "underpants" or as "panties") to have that meaning.
Bill: What's this I hear that the boss walked into your office while you were changing your clothes and caught you in your underwear? Tom: No, but she nearly caught me in my underwear; luckily, I had just put my pants on.
This is an AE perspective but, I would say that trousers and pants are synonyms. With both being any outer garment that covers both legs separately and goes from waist to ankles. Technically slacks is also a synonym, but the informal definition I most frequently hear is that slacks = dress pants. I.E. Pants that you might wear if you were trying to look nice.
I know the question is tagged AmE - but that wasn't in the original, and hasn't (yet) been confirmed by OP, so I don't see anything wrong with answering from a BrE perspective.
In the UK, pants almost always means underpants. And as OED says, slacks are loosely-cut trousers for informal wear, esp. those worn by women.
I think for many Americans, pants and trousers are effectively synonyms. But so far as I'm aware, "esp. those worn by women" tends to apply to slacks on both sides of the Atlantic.
So I'm going to a client site next week and my manager asked me to wear slacks every day while I'm at the client site. In our office I wear chinos every day. I thought slacks were any, long pant that are not jeans? Is it a matter of fabric or color? Any guidance would be appreciated.