I’m working right now in the HR office of a big bank, so the dress code is business casual (no shorts, no jeans, etc.) But I’m working in the file room, so I’m always either climbing stepstools to reach top shelves or sitting on the floor to reach bottom shelves, and dress shoes are just not possible. So I started wearing my ugly old scuffed and battered sneakers with my business casual khakis and semi-dressy blouses. It looks weird, but nobody seems to object, and my feet don’t hurt anymore.
I’m a legal writer for a publishing company, and our dress code is very casual. Most employees, including department heads, wear jeans, T-shirts and sneakers or sandals. The only restriction is that we can’t wear shorts to work.
Originally posted by Lissla Lissar
Same here. We’re actually encouraged to dress up for Halloween. 
I’m told the company gives gift certificates for the best costume.
I work part-time in fast food, so of course our dress code is strict. We have to wear polo shirts in the company’s colours, navy blue pants, closed boots [so that if we drop hot oil/water, it won’t go in our boots], company hat [logo, name etc], name-tag, hairnet…blah blah.
We aren’t allowed to wear any jewellery, no nail polish of any colour…yeah it sucks but you find ways around it.
I have a school dresscode.
Parts of it we don’t follow:
- no midriff showing (generally, if you don’t run into the principle, you can get away with at least a half-inch to an inch showing.
- shoes with backs: I think this is a safety thing. If, however, they started pulling all of us aside who weren’t wearing shoes with backs, 3/4 of the school would be sent home.
- No ostentatious hair colors
- nothing distracting
- skirts/shorts must be at least finger-tip length.
When I think of more, I will post.
SCRUBS!!! I get to wear scrubs to work. Woohoo! I get to be absolutely comfortable at work. 
I’m so superexcited about this. I just started working as a receptionist/tech at an animal hospital. I thought I would have to dress up every day, but nope. Get to wear what the vets (and doctors and nurses at human hospitals) wear.
I work in the oil industry in the office & offshore.
Office: I can wear anything I like but generally stick to comfy trainers, dark jeans and cotton tops.
Offshore: Bright orange coveralls with name and company logo, steel toed boots, hard hat & safety glasses Underneath I wear anything that is comfortable - Oh and warm Norway gets pretty chilly this time of year.
Here, it’s pretty much “wear clothing”. Of course, we’re working out of someone’s house right now, but in general the game industry’s like that, anyway.
I’m a software designer/tester at the moment.
I’m pretty sure my company has a dress code, but I don’t know what it is. I’ve been ignoring it for years, anyway. I typically wear black jeans, black sneakers or black/green Faire boots, and black t-shirts (often with Celtic knotwork, dragons, or Sluggy Freelance images on them). No one seems to mind.
How’s the MMORPG business going, Lightnin’? Need a tester with gobs of RPG play balance experience?
Federal Courthouse, judge’s staff. Suit and tie, pressed shirt, as conservative as can be. Like DarkVorona, I’d dress that way even if allowed to dress down, and ten years ago I’d have slapped myself if I’d have said that.
Mind you, if I showed up for work dressed like I dress on the weekends, the U.S. Marshals would figure me for an escapee and throw my tatooed ass in the tank. SLC Punk and all that.
I work in a school for violent kids so pretty much anything goes as long as it’s decent and clean. Most wear either sweats or jeans, I wear jeans or occasionally dress up.
I’m starting my graduate job in January. I already have a good idea what I’ll be expected to wear: a dark, conservative suit. Apparently, coloured business shirts are okay (some guys even get away with those pink or purple shirts), but none of that cartoon tie nonsense. Fridays are “business casual”, which in this city means slacks – not blue jeans – and a collared shirt.
I work in a factory and have to wear clean clothes, so sayeth the company literature. I could show up in a bearskin and no one would complain.
I’m a grad student, so anything goes as long as its clean and decent. Although, when I put my TA hat on, I do try and look slightly smarter than normal (I wear my black jeans instead of my blue ones :))
I work for a small environmental firm. Most of the employees in my office worked their way up from the field into a supervisory/management position. As they say, you can take the bum out of the field but you can’t take the field out of the bum. Nothing but jeans and regular shirts here.
I work for a large (but reducing) aerospace company in the Seattle area. For me it’s blue jeans, flannel shirts, and hiking boots. I wear the same clothes on my days off too, that sure simplifies the wardrobe.
Right now I’m working in an underground facility, and there doesn’t seem to be any dress code I can discern. One of the chaps there wears a tie of his of volition and today wore a black trenchcoat. I personally prefer neat but casual; pants that are like dress pants but casual and dress shirts or quasi-dress shirts, or semi-casual shirts.
I wore sandals all summer, until last week when it started to get too cold, and nobody minded in the least. I’ve grown my hair long again, 
past my shoulders, to go with my beard, and it doesn’t matter there. We’re stashed away down where nobody can see us anyway.
VP of HR here. My dress code? Pajamas if I want. Sweatpants or leggings with a nursing top most days. I work from home. I go into the office only once in a while - my job is largely paper pushing without the paper (electronic files) so I don’t need to. When I do, though, it’s business suits just out of habit. The office is a “neatly comfortable” (so says the corporate literature) environment so people there wear everything from suits to shorts. I like the suits. When I’m in the office I like to feel business-like.
But it’s great to do a phone interview with a potential candidate (I do the last interview before an offer is extended, because I talk money) in a nightgown and my fuzzy bunny slippers.
Two jobs:
Software consultant: I work at home 75% of the time, so it’s jeans and a sweatshirt. (I like to keep the house cool.) And at the client site, it’s “wear what the client does,” so generally business casual, though I have some nice suits.
Rally co-driver: Nomex undies/longjohns/t-shirt/balaclava by Sparco. Sparco Prima Top suit. Sparco shoes. Peltor/YES helmet.
Though they’re not quite as comfortable, I like the racing clothes more.
- Bjorn240