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Old 01-28-2013, 02:01 PM
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Question How liberally can you dress at work?

So how informal can you dress for your place of work? Its pretty casual where I work but I wouldn't push it with a Metallica shirt.
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Old 01-28-2013, 02:04 PM
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Black suit for normal working day. Jeans and some obscure band t-shirt on staff training days.
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Old 01-28-2013, 02:05 PM
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Old 01-28-2013, 02:06 PM
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Our company has always been pretty casual. Id wear a Metallica shirt if I liked them any.
These days, though, I try to dress a bit more business casual.
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Jeans and collars.
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Old 01-28-2013, 02:10 PM
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Flip-flops, cut-off jeans and a tank top wouldn't raise any eyebrows where I work. Unless it was January.
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Old 01-28-2013, 02:16 PM
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I am wearing nice, dark blue jeans, collard shirt tucked in and Clark's Desert Boots. This is fairly typical, only a few VPs will wear suits and I have never seen them wear ties. Depends on the meeting, I will wear a suit with tie, but never on a regular day.

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Old 01-28-2013, 02:21 PM
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Jeans and collars.
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Old 01-28-2013, 02:26 PM
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Jeans, polo shirts most days but I wear t-shirts too. I'm in engineering and the most contact I have with customers is on the phone. Our salesmen dress a lot nicer.
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Old 01-28-2013, 02:34 PM
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Jeans and a nice shirt. On Friday you can wear sneakers and a t shirt if you want.
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Either black jeans or generic black work pants and a company polo-style shirt.
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Old 01-28-2013, 02:47 PM
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jeans & a collared shirt, usually a freebie from one of our vendors
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Old 01-28-2013, 02:49 PM
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Suit and bowtie are mandatory. I'm expected to look like a man in black.
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Old 01-28-2013, 02:55 PM
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Always a tie, usually a suit, but sometimes a sport coat or just a collared shirt with slacks.

I'm a very socially progressive person, but one of the few things I'm conservative/traditional about is that I loathe how professional dress codes have become painfully lax. I HATE that polo shirts have become accetable professional wear.
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Not very, I have a strict uniform. BRIGHT yellow polo shirt (that actually hurt to look at on sunny days), with black multi pocketed trousers. actually, the slacks are pretty cool. The shirt I could wear for road safety on my bike

They dont give me hassle about my long hair though, so I guess thats a bonus.
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Old 01-28-2013, 03:05 PM
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"Business Casual" here: slacks & dress shirt, no tie. Can get away with Dockers & a polo shirt, but not often.
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Old 01-28-2013, 03:05 PM
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I mostly work outside fixing things, so I wear the same stuff I wear all the time. Jeans/cargo pants and a company tee shirt. I don't wear band shirts to work. I wear flannel over my tee shirts in the winter.

I don't mind wearing suits (I actually kind of dig it), but dry-cleaning bills would eat up all my overhead if I did! lol
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Old 01-28-2013, 03:07 PM
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Men in Black dont wear bowties.
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