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.
I remember at school, girls weren't allowed to wear trousers. I've no idea why. They had to wear skirts.
If we wore pants, we had to wear a blazer, but no tie. This also was much disputed by the guys.
The girls at our school took up the trouser issue. And good on them.
My work's dress code includes things like:
2.2 Grade 3 and Above Employees
For men - tailored suits to be worn so as above with tailored matching jackets. For women - as above with tailored jackets.
They don't have any grade 3 or above female employees. It's this massive company and there's not a single one. The ladies are all answering phones.
It's like being on the set of Mad Men. It's really disturbing.
We actually have a "business attire" dress code written by NY headquarters, but no one in SF follows it.
In fact, we just had a marketing guy out for meetings and the head of our office made a point of starting off by telling him that he really didn't need to be wearing a tie.
My attempts at cutting in by the ceiling using a sponge brush taped to a pole have failed. Back to drawing board....
