Work wear

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

I wish I could get away with wearing a suit and tie to work. As it is, my boss doesn't wear a suit (although he does usually wear a tie, just not a jacket) and I'm not entirely sure how cross-dressing would be reacted to.

What do you wear to work/ would you wear in an ideal world?

(I tend to wear some sort of skirt or trousers and reasonably smart top. If I wear sexy stockings, like the seamed ones, I pair them with my frumpiest skirt, and that tends to average out well. Yesterday I was wearing a fitted crew neck jumper, a green wool skirt, tights, black and silver ballet pumps, and a green necklace. Hair in a bun.) Now I'm not so highly involved with children, I can get away with wearing higher heels, but I still sometimes spend my days crawling under or over things for various reasons, so I have to be comfortable. Also, I don't feel comfortable wearing too casual clothes, and tend to dress smarter than dress code (which is no jeans).

Comments

[gerald_duck]

I wear jeans and t-shirt to work. That's what I'd wear in an ideal world.

Oh. I might go naked in high summer in an ideal world, but that's hypocritical of me because my work colleagues wouldn't follow suit. (-8

I have one or two risqué t-shirts I won't wear at the office but will wear at weekends, but this isn't much hardship. Especially as I consider the t-shirt that says "fuck" on the back safe for work.

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

1. Red woolly polo-neck sweater over plain t-short, blue jeans, trainers. This should be compulsory wear for women too, by the way, but maybe that's just my kink.

2. Full business suit including waistcoat (US: vest).

3. Cassock and surplice, including blue scarf.

What I actually wear is closer to 2, of course.

[aldabra]

Black. T-shirt and trousers. I've recently branched out into coloured jumpers and got disproportionately enthusiastic compliments on them, and I'm imperceptibly upping my T-shirt quality.

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

In my ideal world it is warm and sunny all the time, but rains when I am asleep, (like in Camelot). So in my ideal world, I'd be in T-shirt and shorts, or some kind of lightweight short frock. Of course, in my ideal world, I would have longer legs, and look good in the frocks, and they would never need ironing.

In my real world, what I would ideally wear is anything warm enough and comfortable enough, which is at the moment shirt and trousers, jeans or other casual, warm woolly or woollies, and I must get some new, very warm, slippers, with soles suitable for going outdoors in the wet in.

I think ladies in suits and ties look a bit too 'not right', but one can get very smart trouser suits, and maybe add a scarf at the neck. I don't think I'd have a problem with outdressing the boss, but then what care I for social niceties?

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I saw a frock the other day in Debenhams, which I thought you would look fabulous in. It was very expensive, though, so I didn't buy it.

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

you could always email me the link: it's the thought that counts, after all.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

This one

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'm not sure. Maybe not for when it's raining.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

There is a dress code at NASA, apparently, but I've never actually met anyone who knows what it is. Generally, remembering to wear clothes is appreciated, and I think there is some safety rule about wearing shoes (not that everyone always does in their offices) but that's about as far as it goes.

My usual thing will be jeans, leggings or yoga pants (very rarely a long skirt if I'm feeling so inclined) with a t-style top of some kind. On ninjutsu days, I'll generally wear black yoga pants and a heavy black T-shirt so all I need to do at the dojo is tie my hair back, put the gi jacket on over the top of what I'm wearing already and tie my belt on.

I heart silicon valley geek culture.

[jacquilynne.livejournal.com]

I work from home. I generally wear a red fuzzy bathrobe.

You might be amused to know, though, that if I know I have to talk to people on the phone that day (press interviews, conference calls, whatever), then I get dressed -- not in anything special, just whatever, slacks and a blouse of some kind. While I can do my internet based job and chat with people in text in a fuzzy red bathrobe, I feel awkward and unprofessional if I do that on the phone.

[jacquilynne.livejournal.com]

And I feel compelled to clarify that slacks and a blouse of some kind is pretty much what I wear when I go shopping or whatever, as well. I'm not dressing up, it's just the sort of thing I own. I did recently buy some new jeans, so I've started wearing them again, but not often. When you're fat as fat as me, your clothing choices are generally limited by what you can buy that fits and doesn't make you look even fatter than you are, so I don't own much in the way of casual clothing unless you get down to gym clothes.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I always used to take me shoes *off* to talk on the phone, in direct contradiction to most advice I've seen on the subject. I can see, though, that one might want to be dressed for phones but not so much for internet.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

What I actually wear is t-shirts and black jeans - except at the time of year when it's too cold for jeans outside, in which case subsitute fleecy pants and an appropriately warm shirt over the t-shirt. In re work-suitability for t-shirts, I consider the one that says "BITE ME" on the front in large friendly red letters to be appropriate, particularly for situations where an unnecessary meeting is going to waste a large part of my day, but I draw the line at the Death Aid one.

I could go for workplace nudity given hot tubs in which to do one's work. (Gosh I miss hot tubs). But failing that, what I would ideally wear to work would be my black silk pajama-type suit with red dragons and phoenixes on, and my red-lined black-on-black silk kimono over it, which has the huge draggy sleeve-pocket thing going for it, with my dragon hair ornament and my elisem necklace "Charm School", which is largely haematite and entirely black.

[naath.livejournal.com]

In an ideal world I could work from home and not have to get dressed.

As it is T-shirt+jumper+fuzzy-jumper and 2 pairs of black trousers is doing me quite well at the moment. In summer I might branch out into skirts.

Wearing a suit+tie would be cool for a bit but after that it would get tedious. What with nice suits being dry clean only and looking smart requiring extra faff with hair and stockings and polishing shoes to make them nice.