Are dress codes outdated?

[dirtychinchilla]

I wear "chinos" and a shirt to work, and Dr Marten's. It's passably smart, and I deliver presentations in the same attire unless it's a big event. When I go and visit consultants, they are dressed like they're WFH most of the time. So the general line at work is that you should be the best dressed in the meeting. That's quite easy to deliver.

Our bosses both wear a suit and tie every day, but I think it's mostly out of habit. There are a few guys that wear ties, but I take the **** out of them.

 

[cheesefest]

The school I did my GCSEs, is an academy with a sixth form. When I was at my one year at sixth form, before changing college and qualification, we could wear what we want - within reason.

Now wants 6th formers to wear stuff like smart trousers, skirts, jumpers, shoes. No trainers, jeans, hoodies etc.

Friend’s daughter who did her GCSEs this summer chose to do further education at another college due to the dowdy dress code.

It’s actually easier for her to travel to the college than the academy.

Is the above dress code the norm for academies with 6th form?

 

[cheesefest]

My dad was not impressed with my cousin wearing demin knee length shorts for his wedding in one of the Greek islands. His wife wearing a simple white floaty dress

 

[nam]

Suit with plain stealhy airforce 1's

 

[ttaskmaster]

Is the above dress code the norm for academies with 6th form?

When I was at school, all the 6th forms at all the schools used to insist on shirt, tie and sport coat or blazer.
Every school had a uniform for 1st-5th years too, though, so it was like a first taste of freedom of choice for the grown-up students.

 

[SPG]

Not enough Tophats, caps and a nice trilby these days. This baseball cap nonsense is like chav central.

 

[ttaskmaster]

Not enough Tophats, caps and a nice trilby these days. This baseball cap nonsense is like chav central.

I believe the kids at Harrow school still wear straw boaters, if that's your sort of thing....

 

[Jim99]

Maybe I'm a bit out-of-date myself, but I'm far happier when places explain their dress code clearly.

I've been out for the occasional meal in expensive places, and I'd far rather they state unambiguously up front what the expectation is, and at least then I'm not debating what I should be wearing.

I'm far more comfortable in jeans and a t-shirt, but not if everyone else is wearing a suit.

 

[taB]

My work was mandatory ties when I joined (it's a shop - lol). Jeans & Polo shirt fine these days.

I'm very happy to dress up for the right occasion though. Quite enjoy rocking up with a properly tied bow tie when all around have clip ons.

 

[robj20]

I hate to dress up for anything. Much prefer to dress for function and comfort.

 

[Lightnix]

Yeah I think fair play if you want to dress to whatever you think your style is or whatever, but enforcing a dress code is just pretentious.

 

[Noxia]

imagine you're going on holiday, at the airport and see the pilot dressed in shorts and a scooby doo t shirt

I've imagined it, now what?

 

[OldKitMan]

Not worked anywhere with a mandatory smart dress code for years but a high quality suit, shirt and shoes is very comfortable. Suppose the main thing with that is that a £15 t-shirt will be a lot more comfortable than a £!5 shirt but a £75 shirt will be as comfortable, if not more so, than a £75 polo shirt.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

imagine you're going on holiday, at the airport and see the pilot dressed in shorts and a scooby doo t shirt

Not going to lie I would refuse to get on the plane.

 

[cheesefest]

Night clubs with dress code.

Come on, we are going to be in the dark with flashing colour lights.

 

[dowie]

This is what really pee's me off.
At the hospital with the job I'm in I should have a dress code which is shirt, tie and trousers all year round but women can dress how they like.
Like I said above I usually wear shorts and polo shirt, will even wear my rock band t-shirts for the first hour and nobody bothers me.

Yeah, I think the gendered stuff has an obvious flaw too these days as strict gendered dress codes (at least in the workplace) also has to deal with gender ideology being widely accepted by HR types. All you need to say is you're gender fluid but still mostly prefer he/him pronouns and you could pick and choose from either the male or female regulations and if the female ones don't require a tie then you're sorted!

I was thinking this the other day when I saw a bloke in a suit while I was walking to work and it's now the exception that I see someone dressed like that rather than the norm. I'm not just talking about work either I mean dress codes for bars, clubs, restaurants, football (as a spectator), cricket (spectating), etc.

Yes and no, suits + shirt and tie aren't necessarily all that comfortable, particularly not the budget off-the-rack types that many people would buy if they had to wear them every day for work, it's much more practical to just wear a shirt and trousers or polo and jeans or perhaps even more casual in some tech or marketing type firm.

Conversely, though I don't think we should completely ditch needing to dress up sometimes, this celeb couple were just going out for donuts apparently but still if your wife or gf has made an effort then this is a bad look:

 

[Rroff]

Conversely, though I don't think we should completely ditch needing to dress up sometimes, this celeb couple were just going out for donuts apparently but still if your wife or gf has made an effort then this is a bad look:

Each to their own and all but the guy who used to cover my role on my days off dresses like that outside of work, I don't mean the red dress, and personally I just don't get it - wouldn't catch me dead with something like that on my feet.

(Though on the flip side I do wear my UA Rival hoodie which looks quite close to that a lot).

 

[robj20]

Not going to lie I would refuse to get on the plane.

Really, why? I bet you wouldn't.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Yeah, I think the gendered stuff has an obvious flaw too these days as strict gendered dress codes (at least in the workplace) also has to deal with gender ideology being widely accepted by HR types. All you need to say is you're gender fluid but still mostly prefer he/him pronouns and you could pick and choose from either the male or female regulations and if the female ones don't require a tie then you're sorted!

Also forgot to mention that when I do wear footwear at work they are ladies black slippers
They look like the old Kung Fu slippers I wore in the 80s in a Dojo.

 

[Nasher]

And your point is? Remind us all what Jimmy Savile wore?



I'm minded of the story of the pilot who used to turn up wearing dark glasses and carrying the stick blind people use.

A suit, a shell suit.