We are extreme casual too. There are company shirts around in case we have to go somewhere and look close to dressed. Flip flops, shorts, and tank tops are the norm.

My work is all shirts, ties and taylored suits. They make you button up your top button. I HATE THEM ALL.

In my previous job, which had no dress code, there was g guy who wore shorts all year round. In the winter, he would wear socks with his sandals.

My dad wore sandals with socks every day of his life, and he lived in Utica, NY. He wore boots over his sandals in the winter. Everyone else in his office was in suit jacket and tie, he wore a flannel shirt. I didn't know the rest of the office dressed until I was in my teens and visited his office. He was an odd duck.

My office's dress code is "smart casual," which as far as I can tell means you have to be wearing clothes. I don't know anyone who's had their clothing remarked upon by HR, and that includes my co-worker who spent most of one day last week in his pizza-print pajama pants.

Quoting from my companies dress code policy:

• The following items are not permissible:-

• Printed clothing with advertising logos (other than those which are tiny and discreet) or slogans that could offend others.

• Strappy, strapless, midrift or halterneck tops, vests or camisoles.

• Frayed or torn cloths.

• Sandles (men only), flip flops or sports shoes.

• Leggings, shorts or cropped trousers.

• Tops or trousers/skirts worn in a manner that allows bare midrifts to be visible.

• Skirts higher than two inches above the knee.

• Transparent materials through which underwear can be seen.

• Open low-cut tops or dresses (as a guide a collared neck shirt should only be unbuttoned at the collar and one button below the collar).

• Denim clothing.

We don't have a dress code. I wear a black tshirt and jeans almost daily. The other admin staff dresses up in pretty clothes, but I'm the only one of them who has to crawl around on lab floors looking for errant cables and hidden bottles of hydrofluoric acid. So screw pretty clothes, yo.

Such is the way in lab settings, I think.

Yeah, I wish my work was sane like that, Allyson. I'm in a fully taylored suit ('cos I have to have that, apparently) and I'm climbing under desks and floorboards cabling shit up. I just wreck everything I buy within a month.

No Sandles (men only) cracks me up.

Except for jeans on Fridays, I follow Kevin's company dress code. I think I'm the only one that regulary wears heels.

No Sandles (men only) cracks me up.

My prep school had rules like that. The fact that girls didn't have to wear socks, but guys did, was one of the biggest bones of contention.