'Dress Down Friday' now 'Dress Down Everyday' in my office.

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Huzzah! After 4 years of 'Smart Casual' (shirts, shoes, trousers, the odd tie here and there) the company has changed it's policy to 'no policy' and you can wear literally whtaever you like.
I think i may get my nose re-pierced at the weekend.

Has this ever happened in your 'work' ? How have you taken advantage of this?

I say dress codes suck and anyone who enforces such a thing in a humble office is a twunt.

― Dressedupfordancing (piscesx), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:42 (twenty years ago)

Exactly this happened at my place about a ofrtnight ago. I've just carried on as normal though. I've got 20 nice shirts now, and if I don't wear them at work, where AM I gonna wear them?

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:44 (twenty years ago)

I've never worked in a smart office and sometimes I wish I did as I look kind of hott in a suit (speaking relatively of course).

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:46 (twenty years ago)

I also wore shorts to the office for the first time last week, and no-one batted an eyelid. I wore long trousers though when I had to meet a client.

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:46 (twenty years ago)

I'd only ever worked in casual offices until this year, when I have to be at least in a shirt and tie at all times. I don't mind it actually, it means you don't have to make any actual decisions first thing in the morning.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:48 (twenty years ago)

we've never had a policy. I stopped wearing shirt and tie some years back, apart from guys in the field I was pretty much the only person in the offices wearing jeans and tshirts. my bosses never said anything. The past few months I've noticed more and more people wearing casual stuff.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:53 (twenty years ago)

i wonder if the steady and somewhat recent decline in office dress codes parallels the sudden and annoying trend of people wearing pajama pants in public.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.indiadaily.com/images/editorial/3376_320.jpg

Dress too far down?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 09:28 (twenty years ago)

i wonder if increase in casual dress has anything to do with increases in swearing and abortions

― badg (badg), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Yes, inasmuch as hippies and blacks are obviously to blame for it.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

also, party foul, mr. grout.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

it's pretty casual where I work. I however do tend to wear nice shirts for similar reasons to Johnney. Also I like to have a contrast between what I wear in work and out of work.

The exception to this is when we have meetings with ppl from outside the company when smarter clothes are required. Eg yesterday when I was wearing a tie.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 15:34 (twenty years ago)

We've been told that we don't have to come in smart dress tomorrow. Because the air con is broken and it's hitting upwards of 30 degrees in here. Yeah, cheers.

(Mind you, I haven't worn posh clothes to work in months but that's coz I'm in MI)

― Silver Machine Manor (kate), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

you should wear your hat with the wheat in it!

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

I will say that while I dislike my company's business casual dress code, I do find that I'm more productive when I'm dressed up.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

(Mind you, I haven't worn posh clothes to work in months but that's coz I'm in MI)

I read MI as "Michigan" and it still made perfect sense. :(

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

I have no nice clothes at all, as a result of working in casual offices for the last 6 years. I have a suit for weddings and other fancy occasions, but if I was required to dress "business casual" for some event, I dunno: I have a couple short-sleeve, collared knit shirts? But nothing button-down, no Dockers, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Our only policy is no demin. Shorts, halter tops, t shirts, matching khaki pants and short sleeved shirts from 1980, stains, holes, missing buttons, anything's fine as long as its not demin.

This riles me slightly, but generally I rather like dressing up (a blouse or cardigan, skirt, stockings and nice shoes) for work. Because it separates working from my other time.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I think dressing formally for work is sort of like trying to find new places to study in school.

― youn (youn), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:47 (twenty years ago)

howzat?

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 02:10 (twenty years ago)

ugh. when i worked in an office, it went from talk down friday to talk down everyday.

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 02:18 (twenty years ago)

Iloved my first ISP helpdesk job. It were all geeks, roleplayers, goths (some were all 3) and they said we could literally wear anything, as we didnt face to face with the public so why make us dress up?

People wore big dyed hair, piercings, running shorts, no shoes, leather greatcoats... one guy used to come in in a kimono until the boss jokingly took to calling him "Pyjama Man" but in a way that implied "and thats going to far you stoner, knock it off" (so he did). The only thing they ended up enforcing was "please wear shoes" due to this one beefy geek who never did - some kind of OH&S rule there I think.

We'd often do the night shift in full club regalia and makeup and then just go off clubbing right after our midnight shift ended. Fun times.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 03:34 (twenty years ago)

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