My office is actually really weird because my direct boss ALWAYS wears a suit, but the big boss and all the other nurses dress REALLY casually. Three of us who are secretaries/admins dress on the high end of business cash, and two are on the low end (I don't want to see the tattoo on your boob, thanks.)
Buffy! If I wanted to fight, you could tell by the being dead already.
Glory ,'Potential'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 02, 2007 9:47:13 am PDT #1946 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
tiggy - Aug 02, 2007 9:47:51 am PDT #1947 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
i'm very lucky. i pretty much wear jeans, a t-shirt and flip flops to work every day. if i couldn't do that, i'd have to go out and spend a fortune on clothes. especially since i'm not as skinny as i once was when i had "work appropriate" clothing.
sumi - Aug 02, 2007 9:48:46 am PDT #1948 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Remember yesteday when some people couldn't get into WX because they kept being redirected to "should" or whatever?
Now it's happening to me!
Kathy A - Aug 02, 2007 9:50:00 am PDT #1949 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Me too, sumi.
juliana - Aug 02, 2007 9:51:18 am PDT #1950 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I really do not care to be audibly apprised of your sweaty feet.
Le word.
Fred Pete - Aug 02, 2007 9:55:44 am PDT #1951 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
We were formal for a long time. About 10-12 years ago, that started breaking down. Oddly enough in light of the comments about dress codes being sexist (and I'll just point out that the sexism seems to be more in the wording/enforcement than in the concept of a code), it was the women that started dressing down first. OK, along with one man who was good enough at what he did that he thought he could thumb his nose at the dress code.
About 7-8 years ago, we went to the higher end of business casual. No jeans, no T-shirts, no sandals. Dress up if you're meeting with someone from outside. I've been known to push the envelope a bit with Hawaiian shirts but never been scolded.
I think the big difference between the sexes, clothing-wise, is that women have more gradations to work with. Men basically have four levels -- suit, jacket, khakis, jeans/shorts. And there's a pretty clear delineation between each level. Women seem to have more subtle gradations to take advantage of or maneuver through, depending on whether you like the idea or not.
tiggy - Aug 02, 2007 9:57:33 am PDT #1952 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
you know what's addictive? craigslist. now if i could only find an affordale, nice sectional couch.
it's also addictive to constantly look up real estate in my area.
Jesse - Aug 02, 2007 9:59:02 am PDT #1953 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Women seem to have more subtle gradations to take advantage of or maneuver through, depending on whether you like the idea or not.
Absolutely. Although I wonder about the appropriateness of the male sr. manager here who sometimes wears like guayaberas with pants and sandals.
-t - Aug 02, 2007 9:59:21 am PDT #1954 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
especially since i'm not as skinny as i once was when i had "work appropriate" clothing.
This will be a major problem for me if I have to go back to office work, none of my work clothes fit.
Atropa - Aug 02, 2007 10:00:28 am PDT #1955 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
shrift, I just sent some clicky-links to you.