Ideal Work Wardrobe
Ideal Work Wardrobe
What would your ideal dress for work be? Going from a 'jeans and t-shirt' job to an office job where I have to dress on the better end of business casual this has been on my mind a lot lately. Do you want to wear a uniform so you don't have to think about it? Do you like to dress nice? Do you like to dress as casual as possible? Khakis and golf shirts? Etc. Also, how does your ideal compare to what you actually have to wear?
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Serious Paul
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I'd prefer a pair of scrub pants, a t-shirt and a bathrobe.
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Seriously, I'm going to get myself a whole wardrobe of bathrobes.
There is then a need to guard against a temptation to overstate the economic evils of our own age, and to ignore the existence of similar, or worse, evils in earlier ages. Even though some exaggeration may, for the time, stimulate others, as well as ourselves, to a more intense resolve that the present evils should no longer exist, but it is not less wrong and generally it is much more foolish to palter with truth for good than for a selfish cause. The pessimistic descriptions of our own age, combined with the romantic exaggeration of the happiness of past ages must tend to setting aside the methods of progress, the work of which, if slow, is yet solid, and lead to the hasty adoption of others of greater promise, but which resemble the potent medicines of a charlatan, and while quickly effecting a little good sow the seeds of widespread and lasting decay. This impatient insincerity is an evil only less great than the moral torpor which can endure, that we with our modern resources and knowledge should look contentedly at the continued destruction of all that is worth having. There is an evil and an extreme impatience as well as an extreme patience with social ills.
By preference, I wear a pair of Dickies and a tank top, but at work I also have to wear shoes, and the wife-beater look is frowned on in favor of something more business casual. I don't mind, because clothing doesn't really matter very much to my level of comfort. Still, I do miss the days when my preference was for suits, and I thus looked a bit less of a thug.
I like how I look in my work clothes (business casual, leaning towards the nicer side of business casual frequently), but they aren't always very comfortable. (Plus, warm-weather business casual clothes are very hard to shop for for me.) Cool weather business casual should be a bit better. I like getting to accessorize with necklaces and such. It's a pain in the ass to have to do something with my hair in the morning. I can only wear two or three earrings, instead of my usual 15, which is unfortunate. I like the extra confidence that dressing nice gives you, though. I feel very important when I'm dressed for work.
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My ideal: Jeans and a t-shirt and a pair of sneakers. Reality however has it that currently business clothing is the only thing I'm allowed to wear (French office life is rather stiff and formal). So it's suits and ties for me as of late...
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Reality is 'wear shoes and no public indecency'. So...yeah I'm good. Generally go for jeans and tanks but every once in a while I say screw it and go for shorts and flip flops or break out the business casual for the hell of it.
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I'm one of the few folk who actually grin upon uniforms, though in the military sense, not the Wal-Mart one. I have to dress professionally every day - skirt/blouse/slacks/dress/jacket/etc. The one thing I do wish they'd let us have is dressy capri's. We can't do certain things like bare-shoulders, wear capri's, etc.
Ideally, I'd want to wear a Chicago Bears jersey and old ripped up jeans-turned-shorts w/ flip flops.
Ideally, I'd want to wear a Chicago Bears jersey and old ripped up jeans-turned-shorts w/ flip flops.
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