What do you wear to work?

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I work in an office that is extremely casual, some ladies wear sweatsuits! I don't go quite that far, I usually wear jeans and some kind of shirt (I'd hope so!!) t-shirt, sweater whatever is clean- my other job is in a restaurant and i wear black pants and the company supplied blue polo shirt
 

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We don't have a uniform where I work. It's good in some ways but not in others. I've ruined so many clothes in that place. I like to look nice for work but when we have to do the cleaning, there's always a risk of spilling stuff and ruining your clothes, which has happened to me a lot.
 

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i wear business casual to businessy. Mostly dress pants and a nice sweater or button down top, and always heels. In the summer I can get away with dressy sandals occasionally. We have casual friday so tomorrow i can wear jeans, a normal dress shirt, and heels.

The worst dress code ever was taco bell. I don't look right in hats at all
 

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Business casual here, I work in special educ. at an elementary school. Friday is jeans day, but no ripped or torn jeans.
I carry a tote bag that says, "I
Cats" and the kids always ask me, "do you have a cat?"
 

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I work in an office on a 500 acre farm, so it's very casual, I think the only restriction that I know of is your shirts have to cover your belly. I think we could even wear shorts if they were tastefull.

We usually all wear jeans.
 

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Pajamas here! Or, when I feel like being dressed up, I'll put on boxers and a tank top


Seriously tho, I work from home... so usually it's whatever I fell asleep in the night before... hows that for lazy? Sometimes it makes me chuckle that owners of banks and mortgage companies call me for advice and here I am with a bad case of bedhead working on my first cup of coffee in Hello Kitty slippers, popeye boxers and a paint covered tshirt. If they only knew!

On the odd chance I have to go into the office or show up for a meeting, it's my version of business casual which basically means "business enough that my boss is happy without being *so business* that I'm nauseous and enough to cover my seriously large tattoos"

As for bad uniforms.... back in the day I was the eletronics supervisor at Office Max and the uniform at the time was black dress pants, a white dress shirt, a clip-on bow tie and a red apron. Ugh! But, since I'm the type that can't follow the rules worth a darn, I finally convinced my boss to let me wear a real mens tie instead of the bow tie. She finally agreed, so I wore this blue tie that Absolut Vodka came out with as a gag gift for fathers day... If you werent paying attention it just looked like a blue tie with white dots... if you looked close you realized the white dots were actually absolute bottles made to look like sperm. Yeah! Stickin' it to da man!
 

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Sweats or pajamas- I work at home!
 

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I work in the cheese shop at a groccery store & it's 50 degrees! I choose between a uniformed sweater, a uniformed long sleeve light cream coloured or a uniformed black long-sleeved polo depending upon my mood for the day. Uneather I wear ATLEAST 3 long sleeved shirts, a tight red or orange one and then two baggy ones that I borrow/steal from my boyfriend. My pants are either checkered chef pants, black pants or a pair of nice looking black pants that are actually jeans (dont tell
). As for shoes, it's black leather kitchen shoes so I dont slip. And of course, who can forget my lovely baseball cap, hairnet & name badge!

My last job was as a cook, so I wore a basic chef's uniform, chef's coat, checkered chef pants, shoes & a white skull cap.
 

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I work in a court, so I have to look semi-decent.. From Oct-April I almost always wear dressy pants, some kind of decent shirt. I can't walk in high heels. I usually wear a mary-jane style of shoe with socks that match my top or black or white socks. My favorite pants are these bill blass pants that are cut like jeans, but are made out of fake suede material. They can go in the washer and drier. I refuse to wear an expensive suit! I spend time on the cell block at work and during my first couple of months there, some kid decided to spit water out of his cell and it almost hit me! I wear a lot of clothes from petite sophisticate, unfortunately they are going out of business. During the summer I wear more skirts, and I have a lot of shirts with sheer sleeves that I like.
 

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I work in a retail store where the dress code is black or tan pants with a black or white collared(sp?) shirt. BORING!


At first I hated it, but now it isn't as big of a deal. Every now and then we have "dress down week".



Bobbie
 

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Uh! Some of you have it soooo good! I want to work from home so bad lately!

My first job was khakis and a uniform polo. My second was khakis and a button down denim shirt.

Now it's business casual. Since I'm supposed to be helping people get ready to work in a business setting, we have an office dress code. It's killing me lately though. I wear 'mommy shoes' every day. I can't stand heels anymore. And forget being cute! Thoes days are over! (for work that is!) It's worn out real fast...I've only been there a year. And it's a pretty good environment too. I just like my home so much more! Anyone wanna pay me to clean my own house!?!
 

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Originally Posted by MoochNNoodles

Uh! Some of you have it soooo good! I want to work from home so bad lately!
The first time a client calls you at 2am you realize working from home isnt all its cracked up to be
The downside of working from home is you're *always* at the office.

But on the upside, I can nap in the afternoon if I want to
 

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Originally Posted by MuttigreeMom

The first time a client calls you at 2am you realize working from home isnt all its cracked up to be
The downside of working from home is you're *always* at the office.

But on the upside, I can nap in the afternoon if I want to
I work with my mother, she works on the road a lot so she has a company cell. Believe me, it rings at all hours on all days, including holidays! I finally convinced her she can shut it off! Our bedroom phone has the ringer shut off too. Plus I'd have a separate line in my study. The naps would make it all worth it for me. Plus to be able to work at night...I'm not a day or morning person. I should do like my friend, her husband built her an office in thier barn to run thier business from. But then I need a house let alone a barn!
 
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