Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?

Xander ,'End of Days'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

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.


Strix - Jun 24, 2011 6:22:31 am PDT #14086 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I am wearing my nightgown and no shoes to work right now AIFG!


Sue - Jun 24, 2011 6:23:07 am PDT #14087 of 30001
hip deep in pie

I will admit to just walking barefoot across the floor to pick up something from the printer. But we tend to take business casual to new lows around here. (I'm wearing jeans and a peasant blouse with sneakery flats.)


le nubian - Jun 24, 2011 6:24:00 am PDT #14088 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Are you allowed to wear running shoes to work, LeN?

ita, I'm a faculty member so I probably could wear whatever I want. I do make a point to have professional dress when I teach and for some meetings. I don't wear pajamas or sweats, but short of that, I do what I want.


Kathy A - Jun 24, 2011 6:25:56 am PDT #14089 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I can't even wear sandals here because it's too damn cold in the building, especially at my desk (my chair is directly below a vent, and Facilities refuses to let me reposition my computer to the other side of my cubicle to let me thaw out). I'm currently wearing the polar fleece jacket which is always on the back of my chair for when I need to get warm.


Consuela - Jun 24, 2011 6:37:34 am PDT #14090 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Had to be talked into allowing sandals - but really wants all of us in heels.

Yeah, no. I'm pretty sure she can't do that.

Dress codes are weird. My last place our dress code consisted of: no jeans unless it was Friday or you were going into the field. And even that pissed people off, but I supported it, after going to a site visit with a client and a coworker who was in torn jeans. I don't care how much you need to make the client comfortable: torn jeans are pretty much never appropriate if you're meeting clients.

Here, I think I could wear jeans and flipflops every day, but I try to dress at least some better than that. We don't see the public here, but it's a government office and I feel I should respect that.

Today I'm in dark-wash jeans with a nice white t-shirt and one of those "boyfriend" cardigans: really long, in dull purple, and my favorite multi-colored flats. Dressy casual.


Jesse - Jun 24, 2011 6:41:25 am PDT #14091 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I don't think we have a dress code here, I'm sure because of the wide range of jobs. My department generally does dress-down Fridays, but no one really cares if you come in in jeans on another day, if you don't have big meetings or whatever.

I'm wearing jeans and sneakers today.


Holli - Jun 24, 2011 6:56:42 am PDT #14092 of 30001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

I have no dress code, other then my self-imposed one, which goes "does it look like it was made before 1965? Then you can wear it."

Sometimes this makes life difficult, like when I'm trying to buy shorts. Actually, bifurcated garments in general are troublesome.


sumi - Jun 24, 2011 7:04:36 am PDT #14093 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

It will be interesting to see how the student workers take to the new policy. (Up to now they can be casual but must be clean, covered up and any tee shirts or sweatshirts should have our university's logo.)


Scrappy - Jun 24, 2011 7:07:36 am PDT #14094 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

In Post-production, there is no dress code. As Admin, I tend to wear somewhat dressy shirts and nice jeans or cargo pants. And clogs, always clogs. But people who don't meet the public wear ANYTHING--one employee (who is a big gal) wears men's board shorts as shorts along with baby t's. Not a good look.


Calli - Jun 24, 2011 7:12:18 am PDT #14095 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Many people wear jeans and flip-flops at my office, but I don't. Part of it is that I hate flip-flops. (On me--they're uncomfortable.) Part of it is that my skirts and trousers are more comfortable than jeans.

I work at a non-profit that does a lot of work in sub-Saharan Africa. People don't care about heels that much. There's a bit of a status thing around how distant and obscure the village is where you got your latest earrings, though. (I do web work in the US office. I lose this competition every day. 10,000 Villages is considered cheating.)