A question for the house

[ksmith]

Mostly for the female half of the workforce. Guys wear black shoes. Black shoes make sense to me. I *like* black shoes. But I commit fashion faux pas on a daily basis. This is why I create polls and throw the question open to the house.


[Poll #859280]

Comments

[merlinpole.livejournal.com]

I'm having cognitive dissonance--wear a suit to work? "Are you going to a funeral or a job interview?" applies, and the second's gotten less applicable, when the people one's being interviewed by are wearing clothing that at maximum level of formality is shirt and pants (ranging down to jeans and t-shirt, and where I was working five years ago, some of the jeans mutated into shorts due to the holes having got large enough to truncate the jeans).

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Hostess has a muuuuch more formal job than some of us.:-) I'd get that same response if I wore a suit to work. Still, I have my dressier 'meeting' outfits when I have to crawl out of my hole and go make nice with higher ups in other departments. On flood warning days, though, man, t-shirt, jeans and those soft plastic clogy things with the holes in them. Same outfit for 'crawling around on the floor' days (don't ask - doesn't happen very often any more due to the current round of complaints from the hip joints) and such.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I sometimes nudge the envelope when it comes to office-wear. Ideally, my most casual clothes should consist of classic "office casual"--nice khakis, nice shirts or sweaters, leather shoes. However, I and most of my co-workers are located near labs and manufacturing sites. We regard office casual as the usual thing, with occasional forays into dressy. We wear jeans on occasion, but with the nice shirt/belt/shoes. The few times I've worn running shoes, I have gotten the odd look. One co-worker once made a crack about my embroidered denim shirt--she said I looked like I was going out for a "Sunday walk."

(I didn't say that my Sunday walk-wear consisted of rock-climbing pants and hoodies because I am oversocialized and will likely never learn to bite back).

Today, I am wearing said denim shirt, tucked into taupe cords. Leather vest. Belt and shoes match--brown leather. No socks--knee-hi hose. I consider that this is as casual as I can safely go.