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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.)

I think it freaks some of us out because we're old.

HEY NOW! I don't think it's a thing the Young People are into, necessarily. The one person I know who is an advocate is my age. And he taunts me with them when he's wearing them because he knows I think they are freaky. I couldn't articulate why exactly but:

They look hairless hobbit feet of the future.

Is about right. (I do get that they are very comfortable for some folks!)

I also don't like flip flops outside of the beach/pool, your house, or coming from a pedicure. But I'm not going to tell someone they can't wear them where they like. Your feet, your choice!

Cute clothes, Aimee. Franny is getting into sewing and I fret because really I have almost no skills, and no sewing machine. I probably need to address that this summer.

I have never been told of an official dress code, but I feel like there's an implicit one, especially on days when I teach.