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tri_sarah_tops · Marc Jacobs

Casual Friday Rant - Seriously, WTF?

kenzie · Chanel

Ugh, that's irritating. At my old job, there was this woman (who was in her late 40's) who would wear mini-skirts, tank tops and flip flops to work. And not just on Friday. She wore this crap any day of the week. And no one told her about it. Just one of the many issues with that place...

XtinaStyles · Marc Jacobs

The interns at my last job used to dress like hookers every day. Shiny metallic mini skirts, low cut tops, high heels. I saw one girl in a seethrough crochet dress... she wore a tank top underneath but you could see her black thong very easily bc her whole lower half was exposed. Oh yeah and it was a very large Fortune 500 white collar company!

tri_sarah_tops · Marc Jacobs

Ick. Too sleazy is worse than too casual, definitely. I can't believe that their managers never said anything - that would drive me insane. I'm a big rule follower (thanks to super strict parents, and subsequently, the military), and I hate hate hate it when people are obviously inappropriate or wrong, and it's just ignored.

Kelly · Hermes

Well, while that's not an outfit I would personally wear, I could see how she thought it was appropriate. My workplace is super casual - everyone wears jeans every single day (although I try to only let myself wear jeans once a week because I don't want to fall into that rut), and I could see that outfit at my office. For heaven's sake, the other day a lady showed up in a velour tracksuit and huge ugly white sneakers! I wouldn't even wear that to Walmart! I guess it really depends on how dressy you guys usually are on Friday, but I could see how someone might think those are on par with jeans. (Not that I do personally, and I also hate people dressing below an appropriate level, but I've seen gauchos in enough places and with enough wildly varying outfits that I think many people see them as highly versatile and able to be "dressed up.")

Last year, I interned at a magazine which was kind of a baby project of a much larger PR firm. It was pretty dressy - the men wore suits every day and I was in heels and a skirt every day (except the graphic department, who somehow seemed to be immune to the overarching dresscode everyone else followed, although it was never actually stated anywhere). A fellow intern showed up one day in the same top that I did, but I put a cami underneath because it was way too low for the office. She didn't have a cami. And she was in flip flops. But they were embellished, so I'm sure she thought they were kind of dressy :rolleyes:

I really hate how casual everywhere is right now :(

Suasoria · Chanel

I've had this battle with employees before. Some young women are not just clueless, they're wrongly clued thanks to too much exposure to media.

A former receptionist, a 21-year-old bimbo who was also a car show booth babe, told me that women in the workplace are dressing more provocatively now, and if I didn't believe her I should watch 'Sex and the City.'

cat · Marc Jacobs

I don't know what people think sometimes. This is off topic but I think it goes with the same mentality of dressing to casual. I just had conversation today with two of my friends about fashion,and found out that they think abercrombie and fitch is like high fashion.

I have to admit I have worn knit gauchos to work before,however; mine have a beaded waist band.

Metric · Gucci

I started my new job this week as inside sales/office asst for a heating company. Our office is by no means formal. However, my supervisor wore the same clothes-the same pair of jeans and a white hoodie- every single day this week. Every.Single.Day. Bleh.