# Dress Code

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dress-code/721079>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 28, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dress-code/721079 "2015-05-28T22:59:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dress-code/721079/61 "2015-06-02T20:04:32Z")

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One employer, which was usually suit & tie, had Casual Day stickers on sale for the annual United Way campaign. Normally, they cost $1, but during the campaign, they were just 50 cents. One enterprising guy did the math on his annual dry-cleaning & tie costs, bought 200 stickers and didn’t wear a suit for a year.

They didn’t discount the stickers after that.

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dress-code/721079/62 "2015-06-02T20:23:39Z")

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> [@GrumpyBunny](#):
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> In the late 1990s, my former employer sent an updated dress code email to all employees, which included a list of items that women were not allowed to wear. Included on the list, puzzlingly, was “ball gowns”.

You may laugh, but one time at work, I had clocked off and changed into evening dress - dinner jacket etc - and was waiting for my ride when TSHTF and I had to dash off and sort it out. Had I been female, I would have been in a ball gown.

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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dress-code/721079/63 "2015-06-02T20:26:35Z")

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> [@Quartz](#):
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> TSHTF

The stupid harlot that farts?  
The steel hammer that flattens?  
The shit hit–oh, wait, I got it.

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**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dress-code/721079/64 "2015-06-02T21:01:27Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> The stupid harlot that farts?  
> The steel hammer that flattens?  
> The shit hit–oh, wait, I got it.

Thank you for sorting that out. I was thinking that TSHTF was a poster I hadn’t seen before.Now that I know what it is, I’m thinking it might make a great poster name.

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