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<p>I wonder if she dresses this way because she has a date after work and doesn’t have an easy opportunity to change her clothing.</p>
<p>A thoughtful announcement about company dress policies could include information about where employees who have plans after work could hang up their evening outfits and where they could change their clothing. This isn’t necessarily obvious.</p>
<p>D1 went to a local job fair this week that was advertised to have companies looking for seasonal employees, as well as for full time local jobs. Figured it was a good place to hit up some summer job employees. Turns out there was some false advertising (it really was just for “grown up” jobs) but D1 ended up learning a valuable lesson. She had gone dressed in a cute little suit while most of the other attendees were wearing jeans & tee shirts. And these were grown ups applying for jobs way above entry level grade & in high profile local employers.</p>
<p>I wonder if she dresses this way because she has a date after work and doesn’t have an easy opportunity to change her clothing.</p>
<p>Hey, that’s what “Cami Secrets” are for, a quick removal and voila…the girls are on display.</p>
<p>My son’s former principal was a very attractive woman in her 40s. Impeccable dresser, stylish to the extreme, perfectly appropriate. She set a tone for that school with incredibly snappy dressers. However, she had a thing for shoes. Her finances were such that she was able to wear Ferragamo, Jimmy Choo, etc. and she did every day. They were all the highest, shiniest, brightest, pointiest, sexiest shoes we’ve ever seen and had a way of making every outfit sexy and glamorous. I don’t know how she got around on them all day every day because some were well into the 4-5 inch range, but she did.</p>
<p>3Trees said that they don’t have a dress policy… so reminding her of “company policy” wouldn’t work…</p>
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<p>I make it a point to tell young people that certain discrimination in hiring is absolutely permitted. No, I cannot discriminate based on gender or age or national origin or disability. They are legally protected classes. But the woman who shows up for an interview with entirely too much cleavage or they guy with obnoxious tatoos on his neck…I am totally allowed to not hire them.</p>
<p>Rob, its weird what people wear to things like that. On one hand, its not an interview… But on the other hand its their first look at you. I know we didn’t get all dressed up at the job fairs at my college… But we didn’t go in ratty t shirts either. Were hiring seasonals too but ours are till the end of the year.</p>
<p>my company policy prohibited ‘Hawaiian print’ shirts. So odd - the CEO (a European) doesn’t like them, as a guy wore one shortly after the office was established. </p>
<p>Shortly after I started, I wore a lovely silk blouse with a palm tree print and was told it was not acceptable. (Have a great email exchange w the bimbo that used to be HR person that a dress, skirt or matching blouse/skirt w such a print would be OK, but the shirt alone would not).</p>
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<p>Must have been a “slow news day” if she had to time to not only notice but to analyze the print on your blouse and determine that it was “Hawaiian.”</p>
<p>Oh lordy…</p>
<p>to not be able to distinguish between a lovely blouse and the standard boxy Hawaiian shirts is just looney.</p>
<p>This thread makes me love having techy/nerd job. I wear jeans/colored jeans more than half the time. On Fridays a large percentage of the guys wear Hawaiian shirts proudly. </p>
<p>When I pass one of our marketing girls in her 4" heels I’m grateful to be on the “other” end of the building :-).</p>
<p>I prefer to dress like a Lumberjack… Costco flannel shirt (these are good but heavy), vest, jeans, dark sneakers… Thankfully our dress code has deteriorated sufficiently that I am actually well dressed…</p>
<p>So today, I wore my college team’s sweatshirt to work with a denim skirt-- way more casual than usual (the skirt covered my ample bottom;)). I was teaching inference in a reading class and asked what they could infer from my dress. Several knew that March Madness has started. Hurray! My boss commented that they could infer that I was nuts because it was 80 degrees out. In my defense, my classrooms were very cool early this morning, so I was comfortable.</p>
<p>“Hey, you’re talking about my beloved Cuddy.” - Ha, Cuddy came to my mind too.</p>
<p>There have been times when I’ve been tempted to walk up to stranger young ladies in our the halls of our big corporation to mention inappropriate dress. I’ve never done it. But my assumption is that friends don’t want to hurt feelings, but maybe as a stranger I could risk it for their benefit.</p>
<p>I have a 30-something colleague who has worn white pants with a thong. Now, how on earth would I know that? I wondered whether I should say something to her, but figured it would not be a productive conversation. Sometimes, I prefer panty lines.</p>
<p>Several years ago a company I worked for was in the process of shutting down our entire location and so we were allowed to wear whatever we wanted. Most people wore t shirts and jeans. I still shook my head when someone came in wearing a t shirt printed with marijuana leaves. What was he thinking? (on second thought, I think I know what he was thinking…)</p>
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<p>Many many (many) years ago - in the days before ladies wore slacks to work - some of us were moved to a branch office and were told we could wear slacks the next day so it would be easier to unpack. We all did - except for my secretary who wore the shortest, tightest skirt she could find. It made me angry, but it was pretty brilliant of her to make sure she dressed in a way that made her totally unable to unpack the myriad boxes of files.</p>
<p>^^Dumb as a fox.</p>
<p>Dress policy in my office gets circulated all the time. People had really pushed the everyday business casual, so management sends reminders as part of the “clients coming to the office” memos on a weekly basis. At first I felt the frequency of the message diluted its impact, but now I think the management wants to be able to say “you should have known.” Collared shirts, no flip flops, no shorts, no denim, and length of skirts/dresses must be within 2 inches of knee. Nothing about covering up cleavage, hmmm.
My hubby’s major corporation got rid of business casual when people wore super casual stuff. Bummer for him - now it’s suit and tie except for Fridays.</p>
<p>So ,doesn’t anything in college cover appropriate dressing for work ? What business casual is ? Photos of unacceptable work clothing ? My 19 year old D is super modest ! Yesterday we found a vintage 60ies swimsuit and she is thrilled ! The kind women wore white bathing caps with . Oh ,she is a size 6 and 5 ’ 5" so I wish she would wear more age appropriate clothing .</p>