1. What is the general profession you are in (finance, law, engineering, retail, duck trainer, etc.)?
2. Work location (City, suburb or rural)
3. Region (Midwest, South, Northeast etc.)
4. What do you wear to work on an average day in non-summer months?
5. What kind of shoes do you wear to work on an average day?
6. Are you older or younger than most of your co-workers?
7. What has someone worn to work that makes you cringe?
I'll start
1. Law
2. City
3. Midwest
4. Varies, but the midrange is a blazer, wool or cotton slacks, oxford shirt (with or without pattern, but rarely solid white)
5. Allen Edmunds Park Avenues or Johnston & Murphy equivalents
6. Middle or slightly on the older side.
7. Bad mixes of pants, shirts and jacket.
1. Surgeon/doctor
2. Moved from city to resort town now - rural
3. Midwest
4. Shirt and tie, white coat
5. Black shoes - Johnston & Murphy
6. On the front side of the old group of doctors
7. I knew someone who once wore scrubs to a bar. I know you meant at work, but this bugged me so much, I still have to mention here because it’s close enough. :)
Regarding work, my Dad once told me to always show the patents respect, and they will respect you. Thus, I always tried to wear a tie.
And are you going to the FSU game, I plan to do so.
However, stranger things have occurred. You?
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1. Technology (R&D)
2. suburb
3. NW
4. Jeans & crewneck sweatshirt
5. Sneaker or boots, most time boots including today, Jack from Alfani
6. A little bit older than average.
7. Since we don't dress up working here, very casual. Others look plain & normal to me.
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I rarely wear suits anymore. I have two HF. I recently got 2 Tom Ford. They're amazing.
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8. Do you ever get laid?
I'm kidding. Pretty interesting results - keep them coming.
Land development
Rural
True North
Wool/cotton pants, dress shirt, always with a blazer or suit jacket but never a tie.
Steve Madden (casual) or Luca Del Forte (more formal)
Same age
When men wear jeans and untucked shirts to meetings (can't you at least try to look presentable) or when larger women wear sleeveless blouses that show off their flabby biceps (not the gun show I need to see).
Engineering.
Small Beach town
SouthEast
Shorts, company polo ( keep work pants and construction boots in the office for when I have to go to job sites)
Nokona Hari Mari flip flops
younger/middle
I am literally the only one in my office, my closest co-worker is in New Orleans
for cas, older, meh, I’m to lazy to care except for blatant violations of office dress code that I have to enforce.
1. Software Development & Industrial Controls Engineering
2. My basement office or the client's location (Industrial).
3. Based in midwest, nationwide client base.
4. When visiting clients, typically khakis and a golf polo. At conferences, trade shows or visiting a corporate office I'll pull out a sport coat.
5. I am partial to my Doc Martin Slip On shoes. They aren't fancy or dressy, but they are comfortable and seem more work appropriate than tennis shoes.
6. In the middle.
7. I really hate the short pants and flamboyant socks look. I don't really care what anyone else is wearing, but that just screams "trying too hard" to me.
I can't see walking around in short sleeves in February.
Cold does not bother me. I prefer it over being hot.
Law -- but in-house
Midwest
Jeans, polo shirt (even in winter), blazer as a jacket if it is cold. Our office is extremely casual, so I am usually one of the better dressed person, even in jeans. I buy nice jeans for work, though. They are as dressy as you can get in jeans.
I have a standing work station (so much healthier), so shoes are important. Also, I travel, so slip-on dress shoes are useful (for security checkpoints). I have some Ecco shoes that are dressy and comfortable.
Older.
An attorney wearing a hoodie to work. I mean, really? Some people take a casual work environment too far.
Regarding the short sleeves in winter: I wear long sleeve shirts only for formal events, or if I am addressing an internal audience, or if I want to show respect to a senior manager visiting. Then, I'll wear a formal dress shirt, almost always with a sport coat over it...for the CEO, I'll throw on a suit without a tie. For negotiations with other companies, always a suit with tie. (I had a company showing up with a legal claim, asking us for money, and they dressed like slobs. We were all in suits to show respect for them, even though we despised them. I felt like telling them they just added 6 months on to the negotiation, but I didn't...but they did. They did not show us respect. Dressing up is about showing respect to others, not about impressing them...it may be a subtle difference, but it is a real difference, I think.)
Polo shirt is usually the base layer and usually all I need.
I would love to wear polos in the winter, but thought it a bit off. It seems that quite a few of you do.
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But as I get older I do find myself putting long sleeves on more often.
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1. Higher ed
2. City
3. South central Louisiana
4. Tie, with or without jacket depending on temp, on teaching days; casual friday wear to you guys when I have meetings on non-teaching days; shorts otherwise
5. I am currently in Rockports
6. I'm probably near the mean
7. The undergrads today sometimes wear shorts that are essentially thongs
1. Management Consulting
2. Client location (or my couch)
3. Nationwide (my office is in DC but I am based in Ohio)
4. Typically business casual. I like to wear Polo style shirts made of dry-fit type material. Sport jacket if I am meeting with Execs. The older I get, the less I give a shit about what anyone thinks about how I am dressed.
5. Dress shoes.
6. Usually in the middle.
7. Typically, I'm only surprised by what some women wear. Nothing that makes me cringe, but occasionally some of the more attractive ones wear outfits clearly intended to show how hot they are.
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