What do you wear to work?

[Jokerman]

Poll question: What do you wear to work?

If I had my way I wouldn’t wear anything but a t-shirt, shorts & flip flops. Unfortunately its business casual for me on work days.

[CO Liberal]

1. Depends On The Day Of The Week

Per company dress code:

Mon - Thur: Dress shirt, tie, dress slacks.

Fri: Casual shirt (with collar), casual pants - no jeans, no sneakers.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Very close to that for me

Mon - Thur: dresss shirt, tie, slacks or khakis.
Friday - JEANS DAY!!!! :bounce: Either a shirt with a collar or a sweater. We might be able to get away with sneakers, but I don't wear them. Sometimes, I wear khakis and a polo shirt.

[VelmaD]

14. *snort*

You dress like such a narc. :P

[GOPisEvil]

15. Uh...I *do* work in criminal investigations, Miss SmartyPants!

If I worked for a different part of the agency, I'd have a MUCH more relaxed dress code. x(

[VelmaD]

17. Best part of my job...

is when I go out in the field to do audit work I actually get to dress down. The dress code on our facility campuses is much more relaxed than at central office. We wear jeans a lot, especially it we're gonna be on the dorms, so we fit in with the correctional officers. Less intimidating.

[GOPisEvil]

18. I'm wondering what the dress code at the new agency will be.

We meet the new boss tomorrow. Maybe someone will ask. :D

[commander bunnypants]

47. I thought you were anudist

Seriously


DDQM

[SlavesandBulldozers]

3. business casual

occasionally our overseers allow us to have an ice-cream party and "Hawaiian shirt day"

[TrogL]

4. Unofficial tech uniform

• clean black jeans or cords
  
• open neck long sleeve dress shirt
  
• black leather jacket (it gets cold in the server room)
  
• runners (for running between buildings when the network's down)
  
• white socks
  
• cell phone
  
• ID tag
  
• black briefcase jammed with network gear and laptop
  

They gave up expecting us to wear suits because of the amount of time spent crawling under desks and on server room floors.

[IronLionZion]

11. right on tech

but my conservative company still made us wear dress shirts and ties where I co-oped last summer.

You know why? because some stupid tech wore sandals and tie die shirts (it wasn't me) and employees feel confident when a tech is dressed professionally

[AndyTiedye]

28. Sandals and Tiedyes Are Fine Here

> sandals and tie die shirts

That's what I'm wearing at work right now.
The pants are tiedyed too.
My hair is halfway down my back.
Nobody has ever had a problem with any of this.

I've even done my last couple of job interviews in tiedyes.
They went a helluvalot better than the ones where I tried to
follow "the rules" on dressing for such occasions.

> employees feel confident when a tech is dressed professionally

"Dressing professionally" varies with the profession. Wearing a
suit to work in our industry implies that one is a manager or wannabe,
and probably NOT all the technical. Real software engineers
don't wear coats and ties to work.

There was Bloom Country cartoon about this topic some few years ago.

[geniph]

24. Same as Trogl...

mostly cords or jeans that aren't blue and sweater sets for me, with comfortable shoes. On Fridays and during school vacations (I work for a school district), blue jeans are okay, and not-too-casual shorts during summer. I prefer not to wear t-shirts at work...makes us look too much like the high-school kids.

[Jokerman]

26. Back in the boom days for IT

I worked for a company that wanted all the field techs to wear dress pants. Fortunately, they needed us more than we needed them so we just ignored the policy and wore jeans.

[SoCalDem]

5. Since I do not work, does that mean I wear nothing??

:)

[underpants]

6. Jeans,slacks, "dress"shirt, sweater, etc.

:thumbsup:

[omshanti]

7. The "grad student" uniform...

jeans (usually with holes in them but not to be cool, just because I am THAT poor), T-shirt, some times a sweatshirt if it's cold.

[Nikia]

8. A uniform

In some ways, it is nice not to worry what I wear to work. On the otherhand, there are many days that I wish I could wear nicer clothes. Of course, they'd get ruined anyway as I found with my shirts before we went to uniforms. It's hard to feel professional when you wear a uniform that is all one non flattering color.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. silk thong, cape, cowboy boots, sometimes an eyepatch.

[omshanti]

19. Are you this guy? (Angle-Grinder man to the rescue!)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

22. Does he trawl the streets of London rescuing cars from clamps?

[omshanti]

25. Yes he does! He's ANGLE-GRINDER man!

he's my hero!! Are you him?

here's his webpage (you can read all about him and his political premise)
http://www.anglegrinderman.co.uk

[Screaming Lord Byron]

27. No. I'm Organ-Grinder man! Quite different!

[damnraddem]

10. Business casual during the semester, while I'm teaching.

But it's finals week now, so I've got on jeans. Bwahahahaha!

[arwalden]

12. First... Imagine The Leather Guy From The Village People...

Okay... got it? It's nothing AT ALL like that. I just wanted you to imagine him for a moment.

-- Allen

[terrya]

29. Can I imagine the Construction Worker, instead?

Because I'm imagining HIM....

[arwalden]

49. Funny... I Almost Typed "Construction Worker"...

but decided on the Leather Man because it seemed a lot less likely for daily work wear. (I guess it would all depend on your occupation, SIR!)

-- Allen

[VelmaD]

13. That amorphous middle ground...

between business casual and business formal. Makes it jus tthat much harder to figure out what to wear in the morning.

When we're having Board meetings or other big meetings we ramp up to business formal. During the summer and on Fridays we can wear jeans. The rest of the time it's "dress nice". Whatever that means.

Today I have on a black velvet shirt, black slacks, and black Mary Jane's with big chunky heels. Seems to work. :shrug:

[maxanne]

16. It depends

on what I'm doing. Anything from suits to jeans. Great variety in my job.

[ZenLefty]

20. Bathrobe, slippers, sometimes sweats too

:D

[Bertha Venation]

21. If I could I'd wear jeans & a baseball cap every day.

It's how I'm most comfortable.

(Oh--and a bra & shirt, of course.)

[Hubert Flottz]

23. Candy Apple Red Tuxedo with Gold Brocade, FL Yellow Cod.......

Piece, Black Chuck Taylor High Tops with Hot Pink Laces, Lime Green Pork Pie Hat With Rattlesnake Band and a Smile! I'm the little short person who greets you at the Ripley WV War-Mart!

[WWW]

30. I don't work outside the home..

We run a business from the house. I do the adminstrative assistant stuff and all of the email and web work. Outings (meaning getting out of the car) include going to the grocery store and the dump. One day I actually contemplated putting on eyeliner and mascara and a pair of real pants to go to the transfer station...Nah!!

[MrSlayer]

31. Whatever I want.

Being in construction means I get to wear just about anything regardless of how offensive and I do push that envelope at every opportunity.

[Maeve]

32. Other---costumed storyteller

And it varies depending on the stories, venue, etc.

[salin]

33. am thinking that even if you COULD... flip flops wouldn't have been a good

choice for footwear in central indiana today...

[Jokerman]

45. I left out part of "If I had my way"...

I'd live on a tropical beach somewhere far away from Indiana winters.

I did wear my flip-flops when I took out the trash the other night and that was a big mistake.

[salin]

34. oops

double post... nevermind.

[OKNancy]

35. Tights

or Jazz pants. I used to wear leotards but now that I'm a "granddame", I wear a shirt with a tunic-style jacket. I wear jazz oxfords with special insoles for my poor tired feet too.

[THUNDER HANDS]

36. suit and tie

And I'm glad, because it's what I look best in. :D

[JohnKleeb]

37. other:

I wear a Giant shirt, Giant is the name of the store I work at, and I wear a sweater over that with khaki pants, and sometimes I wear a baseball hat. My job in the summer generally had me wearing a simple T shirt and khakis or jeans.

[Padraig18]

38. I'm an owner, so...

Usually chinos or nice jeans, and a comfortable shirt.

[SOteric]

39. For job number 1:

conservative casual. For job number 2: casual business wear. For job number 3: jeans, a flannel shirt and a lot of Goretex.

[BritishHuman]

46. Your third job still washing yaks?

I thought you got out of that racket.

[sleepyhead]

40. scrubs!

Sometimes a scrub top and black jeans if I'm feeling formal.

[greatauntoftriplets]

41. Clothing.

Okay, business casual.

[Philostopher]

42. The same preppy crap everybody wore in the early '80s

When I was in high school. In other words -- academia business casual (chinos, Oxfords and sweaters). Twenty years out of high school, I've reverted to almost the exact same wardrobe I had back then.

[HEyHEY]

43. always At least a sport coat....sometimes a full suit

[BiggJawn]

44. Lobster-shell codpiece and nipple clips.

And if I had the bod for them it might be fun....

[davidinalameda]

48. I can get away with pretty much anything but sweat pants

but I do business casual

I work at a law firm and I don't have any contact (anymore) with clients

[Sentath]

50. What? No blue collar options?

How the heck is it a gay guy w/ a comp sci degree gets to represent the blue collar faction?

I wear heavy duty T's or light denim
decent weight jeans ('cause the light stuff dosen't last a full month)
and RedWings (steel toe and shank)

For various ocasions you can add to that:
thermals
raingear
a field jacket
or even insulated coveralls