I’m a lab monkey…
So it’s OLD tennis shoes, OLD jeans and shirt.
That’s about it.
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I agree with you–I think khakis are just dumb. They’re really not dressy enough to be dressy, and not casual enough to be casual, and, except in the lightest colors, look really frumpy when they’re old. And I agree emphatically with the person who said they make him feel as if he’s going to church.
Now then, my office dress code. Very much like EchoKitty’s, but the no-jean rule isn’t terribly strictly enforced. I often wear black Levi’s during the week. That’s Monday through Thursday, then on Fridays jeans are officially OK.
When not wearing jeans to work, I leap over the khaki no-man’s land and wear gabardines, and sometimes a coat and tie. God I hate khakis. I hate them! Hate, hate, hate!!!
Tech Writer
Jeans, tshirt, and sneakers are all I usually wear, but occasionally I’ll punctuate it with a very loud hawaiian shirt. And I often wear a baseball cap. I could get away with murder here. A few years back, my boss at the time suggested that I dress nicer. I told him that if he showed me the official dress code, I would abide by it. Since we don’t have a dress code, I never heard another thing about it.
I’m a software engineer, and our dress code is casual. My own personal code is to dress according to golf course rules. That means long pants but not jeans, (usually I wear Dockers-style pants) and a collared shirt (usually a golf shirt). I only wear a suit and tie if I’m presenting something to the customer (which is rare).
I was told that I had to be dressed. That’s about it.
Bolding mine…
You seem to be implying every single student in the student body has arms so short their fingertips are above the waist.
Bolding mine…
You seem to be implying every single student in the student body has arms so short their fingertips are above the waist.
Ahhh blast I meant to bold just the line about the fingertip length shorts and skirts.
Mine is a flight suit. 
That’s for sure. About the only thing I’m required to wear is a labcoat and shoes that don’t have open toes.
I did once have a boss who wanted me to shave every day.
I work for a woman’s retail store, and I have to wear their clothes and keep my shoulders covered. It’s fairly conservative stuff, mostly. I usually wear a rotating collection of black skirts, a long sleeved shirt of some kind, and my docs. I wore my purple and black stripey knee-high socks last Friday and nobody seemed to care.
I was told I could dress up for Hallowe’een. Whee! 
Slacks, capri pants, any type shirt other than t-shirts. Jeans only on Fridays. No sandals.
I do have a lot of leeway. I wear jeans more often than that.
I’ve been known to wear my flight boots on occasion. Otherwise, slide on shoes of some type.
We have casual Fridays, where bluejeans are de rigeur. For rmost of the rest of the time, I wear dress shirts and slacks. This seems casual to me, as I spent the better part of two decades wearing suits everyday.
I go to school as well and our dress code is similar.
No underwear showing, nothing baggy, no tank tops (though I think they mean specifically spaghetti tanks… ones that cover the bra straps are fine), no funky hair, piercings are okay but only small tasteful ones, shorts/skirts are not allowed above the knee.
Funny thing is I have found a bit of a loophole with the tank top thing… I have a top I wear over it that is sort of a creamy sheer ‘Jesus shirt’ and I wear it off and on. Never got any complaints…
Usually when I have work I wear black pants (not slacks but nice black ones that aren’t jeans) with my black ankle boots, low heel found at Pay Less for 20 bucks that are soooo comfy. Well as comfy as my sneakers, my feet hurt even in sneakers if I’m on them for too long without resting. And usually a top that is provided from the store/place of work.
IE Albert’s Restaraunt bright red top and apron… Yellowhead Casino ‘cowboy’ shirt and vest… Cineplex Odeon purple and black shirt (before they changed to the new ones)… oh and name tags for all.
Flutterby
Soon to be pressing the dress code on Halloween
AbbySthrnAccent, I think the loophole monica found is that while the dress code probably says students cannot wear shorts or skirts that are shorter than fingertip length, the code doesn’t explicitly state that shorts/skirt/pants have to be worn. They probably assumed no one would be brazen enough to try.
At work, I wear a big black body suit with a long flowing cape.
Oh, and a bright yellow belt filled with all sorts of Bat-gadgets.
I work in a university bookstore, and the dress code among the sheaf of papers I received when I hired on. It actually stated that we were supposed to wear clothing that was “in keeping with campus fashion.”
We can wear shorts, but I don’t feel comfortable doing that at work, so I usually wear jeans. We have company T-shirts, but we’re not required to wear them. At the branch location where I work (lovingly known as the ghetto store), the manager doesn’t even require that we wear our nametags, which means people walking into the store are greeted by what appear to be the world’s most considerate shoppers.
Another “no real dress code whatsoever” here. I work as a studio op at a television station, so we’re the grunt workers, so they really couldn’t give a shit. I have five pairs of jeans…four of them have holes in them, and all of them get worn to work. I try not to wear my Evil Dead shirts all too often, but you know how it is sometimes.
My favorite example of how lax it is: Last week, one of my coworkers wore a shirt that was navy blue with a small white box in the middle of the chest. In the box were two simple words, with one small line of text underneath…
Fuck
You
I have enough friends.
She wore it for the full 8 hours, and the only comment was made by an anchor. “I love your shirt, where’d you get it?”
It’s great not every having to interact with the clients/customers.
Can’t wait til I’m a civvie again. I find Army uniforms terribly uncomfortable.
I did a bunch of things in years past, but they all conform with what other folks say about black jeans, etc.
I would live to wear jeans and t-shirts to work (especially since, as I’ve worn uniforms for three years I have no nice clothing and no money to buy any).
Law firm.
We went business casual about 2 years ago (since all the other law firms were doing it).
Know what? Everybody started creeping back to professional business attire again (including me).
Know why? Because coworkers and management treat you considerably better. The better you’re dressed, the more professionally you’re treated. I started wearing skirts again (no, not short ones you dirty minds you) and my boss started treating me like a queen (again).
Now it’s back to skirts and heels for me! (And hopefully a bigger Christmas bonus!)