Do you wear a uniform to work?

I don't work right now, but when I do work, I work in IT, which is basically "pretty much what we like (within decency and reason)". Which should I put?

I suspect I'm expected to dress a wee bit smarter than I do (mostly jeans and hoody basically) but I'm good enough at my job that it's never been brought up.

I either don't work or don't wear clothes

lmao this is genuinely the closest answer for the freelancer lyfe

i've always been slightly confused that, when it comes to office-based journalism, most people at broadsheets slob around in whatever, while people at tabloids wear actual suits

i like wearing suits cuz it's always a bit of a novelty for me; would loathe them if i had to wear them for my job. too constricting!

Also you'd probably have to own more than one suit, which I don't.

But yeah I enjoy suiting up for the occasional wedding or party or whatever.

Hm, I'd say 'within decency and reason' = pretty much what you like; 'beyond decency and reason' = I don't wear clothes.

On paper, i don't have to dress very smartly. In practice, there's definitely a feeling that if you don't look like 'a smart young executive' you aren't going to be taken as seriously so i tend to wear a suit.

I also work in IT and am somewhere between There's some degree of smart dress code, but otherwise I can decide for myself and I really can pretty much wear what I like, in practical terms it's the latter because I'm not exactly an adventurous dresser anyway.

I guess what I'm asking is more should I put "I'm on an extended sick note, therefore wearing pyjamas at midday" = I don't work/wear clothes OR what I do wear, when I am normally working, which is "wear what I like".

What prompted the question was realising that a couple of days a week I do wear an actual uniform, and a sort of half-uniform the rest of the time, and thinking that's probably a bit unusual.

"don't work or don't wear clothes" is the closest really, but to the extent I do work it's perhaps more "I massively overdress, way out of any code which may apply" - when I got my first TA duties I bought myself some stereotypical academic clothing, but then while it turned out that the real staff were so many tiers below that in terms of smartness (I'm p sure you can afford to replace your holey t-shirts, professor) that going the full hog seemed absurd, I've nevertheless made use of the items in that wardrobe.

I went through a period, while an undergraduate, of getting suited up everyday for no particular reason. It felt pretty good, but provoked a certain hostility from student colleagues who assumed that was me turning all corporate and flaunting my engagement in networking, recruitment drives, etc. (none of which was true)

I either don't work or don't wear clothes

I will leave it to your imagination as to which option applies.

There's some degree of smart dress code, but otherwise I can decide for myself

I work in HE administration (marketing), where there is a fondness for suits and formal dress, that I'm not sure is actually always appropriate. Our academics pretty much don't wear suits or formal dress, except very senior management. Our students don't expect us to. I suspect our business partners don't expect us to. I tend to wear smart-ish trousers and a shirt to work. I doubt I'll ever have a job that needs a full suit.

Biz caz

smart casual, trainers allowed

can generally wear what i like, and that's worth roughly ONE MILLION DOLLARS a year to me.

yeah i don't think a could cope with a prescriptive dress code

I work from home, wear whatever the weather tells me to wear.

i have started dressing a teensy weensy bit smarter in the 20 one 4 after years upon years of dressing like a teenager and it was awesome for the like, three days that i got compliments on it and now i'm like, why am i doing this

No unless lab coats count, which they don't. I wear any old shit to work, it's on a farm so nice clothes would be ruined pretty quickly

A uniform is great btw - eat the same breakfast every day and you have zero decisions to make before leaving the house.

there's a dude in my department who just wears the same my little pony hoodie every day

xpost it's the david lynch life

Needs an option for "I work from home but when I have to go in and do anything in-person I try to dress professional, as opposed to my everyday Netflix-binge-style lounging around the house fashion"

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ha i am split here because obv i dont make myself wear a uniform or anything, but there is a weird dress code to "dude that deals with musicians all day" that i unconsciously apply. its pretty much the opposite of dress code, if anything i think abt dressing down a bit. which is my natural state. idk.

are there any band t-shirts that would ruin your good name w/them

i do tend to avoid my Gay Witch Abortion shirt

not so much for the customers as lesson parents

Btwn smart cas and what i like, with some pricks suiting up and some slobs wearing the same vest all week, i try to tread the file line

man if i could afford to suit up properly i wd be a prick probably

I've got a full Brendan Rodgers look going now on my suit days. Slim black suit, nice black v-neck under it, white shirt, classy lfc tie. Not his black-on-black look obviously, that'd be terrible.

I like dressing up as if i were a grownup too given the excuse but 'tuesday' is not an excuse

idk man some form of self-expression can be a powerful psychic totem amid life's drudge

i started off looking sassy at my new (unrestricted) gig but i've just lost all heart to bother now. so i still buy clothes, that give me life, and then hang and fold those dreams up neatly and close the wardrobe door on it every morning

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man if i could afford to suit up properly i wd be a prick probably

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have said this before but i feel certain suits really do negatively distort my psyche, uber-cliche american psycho style

think you should go for it though nv, you'd look great! embrace your fast show jazz club destiny

hah i mean i say that about self-expression etc but like with any creativity ever it only counts if it's good *boom tim westwood truth bomb sfx*

(just thought of the dude of work who marries his jeans and t-shirt with this dreadful sailor-lapelled jacket thing y'see)

I work from home, so can wear what I like. I always get dressed properly though, I'm a strong believer that working in PJ's would make me adopt a slovenly attitude to my work as a result.

Come to think of it, I've never had to wear a uniform in any job I've done. The closest I've got is a pretty unenforced dress code that specified smart trousers and a shirt and tie.

Wearing dress-up clothes really does distort my sense of self, and therefore does affect my work productivity. People who have these dumb dress codes always think that if you're dressed sharply, you'll behave more professionally, but the truth of it for me is, if I *feel* uncomfortable, I *act* uncomfortable, and being uncomfortable is not conducive to deep thinking or methodical crafting or creative sidestepping or any of the mental spaces I have to access in order to do good programming or bug-chasing. Best job I had, all the IT people were down in a basement, so a couple of people in that office used to p much wear pyjamas if we had no meetings.

I absolutely refuse point blank to wear skirts or pantyhose (jesus christ, who can think with their legs encased in plastic?) because I don't feel that drag is appropriate for work, but often the alternative in a smart-ish office is those weird plasticy formal trousers that smell odd after about 3 or 4 hours which is also really distracting.

Haha, there was this one office across the road from the Home Office that my boss and I were convinced they had to all be spies because everyone in that place wore tailored 3-piece silk suits and sure, they looked great, but it did make the whole office - whatever they did - just look dodgy as fuck.

yeah if the point of professional uniform dress is to inhibit the personal self so as to fully align with the role then it's p awful if the two are misaligned

have always mentally been a suit guy but sadly coupled with a Primani income/lifestyle

might look for some decent "pre-loved" shizz in 2014, Hull used to be awash with hand tailoring, the trawler guys spent their money to be seen

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