Do you have people at your workplace who dress out of step with everyone else?
I’m at University so pretty casual in general and wide range from some suit and tie folks to T-shirt and jeans but I’d say most are wearing khakis and a polo or button shirt.
Then we have a new administrator who dresses like he’s a VP at an investment bank or something. Really high end suits every day, nicer suits than I’ve ever seen anyone else wear and it’s every day. Looks like he’s about to do a video shoot for GQ or something.
The other one that stand out is a professor who wears dress pants and long sleeve button shirt but then always has a wool hat on. I’ve literally never seen him without the wool hat.
While we were still in the office our dress code relaxed over the years, following the lead of our client. When I first started started the dress code for men was business casual or business dress, depending on what or who was about. Then the client shifted to casual, so we did as well. But there was always one guy, who always wore a tie. Even when the rest of the team was wearing jeans and a polo short, he’d still be in business dress.
Now that we’re 100% remote, when we do turn on cameras for Teams calls, he’s wearing a wife-beater, every time. He’s less dressed than everyone else now.
Our director of operations, when he comes into town, he always wears a suit and tie. He does that also when he’s in his usual office in San Francisco. I think it’s because he started out at the bottom, in the actual mail room, and has worked his way up.
Hospital environment is sort of a free for all with providers. Some wear scrubs, some wear dress-casual, some a combination of the two (reference Noah Wyle in The Pitt, cargo pants and scrub top), some wear a white coat over some combination of the formers.
My every day is Carhart scrub pants and a matching dark fitted t-shirt and scrub cap. Typically in and out of sterile attire for procedures frequently so it’s the most utilitarian of my options.
You can pretty well tell which specialty docs and PAs work in based on their overall appearance. There are definitely types.
I’m outpatient ortho, so when I see people in white lab coats I have to shake my head and laugh. I used to work at a clinic where the owner (who was always trying to live up to his cronies’ standards) wore expensive dress shoes, dress pants, button down, and a tie. In an OP clinic. The clinic was an old creaky farm-style house in drastic need of upgrades and face lifts…but he had his Italian shoes and silk ties lol.
My clinic is inside of a gym now and about 50-60% of caseload is athletes/endurance junkies. Another 15-20% are our loyal “regulars” who don’t care what we wear. I dress accordingly but I wear a backwards hat a lot now (can’t do the trucker or high top style that exists nowadays) and I’ve even asked if my patients mind or think it’s unprofessional…every one has laughed at me and said they didn’t even notice. I used to think a backwards hat is unprofessional. Then again so was facial hair.
One of the trainers at the gym (out of about 7) loves to ditch her branded “TRAINER” shirt in exchange for her always lower cut or smaller than necessary sports bras.
I can’t recall ever having a colleague who dressed inappropriately in this way, but pretty much a given each year with the students. Skimpy attire is pretty much the norm now, or at least the norm for lots of students.
I live right by a university and a highschool, and 99% of the time my tenants are university students.
It seems to me like for women the fashion has gone back to 90s baggy clothes. Every college girl looks like she is wearing a potato sack. However, then you go to the gym and their gym attire is so scant and form fitting it almost looks like it is painted on.
Nothing atypical in my military career. Uniform of the day or occasion was always prescribed. Once though our ops boss decided to go summer whites short- we were afloat at the time and it was the first and only time I saw this outfit - Bermuda shorts and white knee socks - worn by a US Naval Officer.
The attire worn by those in my second career as a bicycle messenger, lets just say nothing would surprise and the only thing typical or uniformly consistent ( as in a uniform item ) was the bike lock key worn on the wrist suspended by braided rubber bands.
We’re business casual (nice jeans allowed) and for the most part people are pretty good at following it. But once in a while you’ll see someone in a hoodie at the office. I don’t know when the hoodie became business casual. Maybe I am just out of touch?
Not for nothing… my 13 son thinks jeans are “dress pants” and would never wear them to school. My son and all of his friends wear trackpants and hoodies every day.
But the tie was left loose, and your tie, shirt and jacket combo was paired with baggy ripped jeans and a long chain connecting your wallet to your pants, correct?
I work an office gig in a municipal PD. I wear some variation of the same uniform every day … chinos in basic colors and an Oxford shirt; I vary the color and patterns but all are boringly neutral. All of my chinos will pair up with all of my Oxfords so it makes selection very easy. Occasionally I’ll wear go up a notch and wear dress pants and shirt with a tie or, rarely, a suit (for depositions, court, etc).
My co-workers broadly speaking dress poorly. Lots of PD logoed polo shirts and cargo pants. Plain clothes cops aren’t known for being snazzy dressers.
Tech firm in downtown Seattle: We are “supposed” to have a minimum standard of a shirt with a collar, jeans ok but not with holes, no shorts. It’s not strictly enforced so t-shirts and hoodies are pretty common. I rarely wear jeans - usually kaikis or similar dark colored work pants. The only one that bothers me is they guy that seems to wear the same pair of crappy looking baggy cargo hiking pants most every day.
Bingo. 90s are all around again where I live as far as daily wear. But where I work, in the gym, it’s astonishing how skimpy the outfits are. It’s basically an anatomy lesson for labia, buttcracks, and cleavage. It’s also very easy to tell who has nipple rings nowadays. There’s no attempt at hiding anything.
This belongs in the higher education thread as the reason colleges are so expensive. The administrator should not be able to afford those suits…Perhaps the doctor that discovers a cure for cancer. But not the admins…
