If you could dress anyway you wanted to work everyday how would you dress? (office, hours)
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How would you dress to work if it was your choice? Would you stick with the status quo or go more casual?
At my previous job the girls wore T-shirts and jeans in the summer or a "nice" top and appropriate length shorts in the summer. I would typically wear a "nice" button down blouse (always pressed regardless of "permanent press" label) and "nice", pressed jeans in the summer and a very "nice" turtleneck sweater and pressed jeans in the winter with casual but season appropriate dress shoes for fall and winter (not heels), dress sandals (not flip-flops) in the summer.
I certainly would not mind working from home in my jammies and slippers.
In my "younger days" I did the whole dress/skirt, suits, pantyhose, and high heels look...what a waste of time, energy, pain, and money spent on dry cleaning and buying worthless pantyhose. I am so glad those days are gone forever; I don't care if Kate (Middleton) is bringing back pantyhose or not...I will never own another pair of those; never, I say!
My current job is casual-to-business casual. I dress on the higher end of business casual most of the time, which is how I usually dress on my own time, and how I would dress if there was no dress code.
However, I should point out that business casual includes a wider range of options for women than it does for men, in my experience. I'd probably get very bored with the 'business casual uniform' if I was a guy.
IT Industry, I would absolutely wear jeans and a t-shirt daily if allowed.
However, I do take solace in the fact that IT isn't usually held to as strict a dress code as everyone else.... so I'm allowed little things like sneakers (all black). Basically, at work I live in khakis and a polo even though I'm a woman.
Skirt Suits are impractical since I'm crawling under desks managing wires, etc and pants suits are uncomfortable as hell.
How would you dress to work if it was your choice? Would you stick with the status quo or go more casual?
It pretty much is my choice- we don't have much of a dress code here. I mostly go with nicer, dark jeans (occasionally slacks) and a tucked-in, button-up shirt or polo. I figure that's dressy enough to stand out a little but no so much that I look like I don't belong here.
I don't mind dressing well for work; I'm proud to work here and putting a little effort into how I present myself is a reflection of that.
Clean solid-color polo and khakis, my usual choice when not subject to someone else's foibles ... probably would replace them more often since I wouldn't have to waste money on more elaborate, expensive, high-maintenance, and non-tax-deductible tomfoolery.
Given the numerous low wage/skilled positions that require people to wear suits, I doubt this is relevant currently (I do not know when you were a teen). It seems the lower level the job, the more the requirement is to wear more formal business attire.
This seems very true. I work for a large bank and the tellers are required to dress better than I am. Of course, I never come in contact with a customer, but I am paid much better than any teller. The Chicago Loop is FULL of people in suits and I have a feeling that most of them are not CEOs.
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