Dress code for day 1?

[Spacecadet]

Its ok until this happens....

You are kent philip and that was your best date ever and I want my £5

[TheFaQQer]

Turn up in a Stormtrooper costume. Start a clientco trend, and then, who knows who could turn up?

Star Wars convention 2007 - http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1034/8...7e192d3a39.jpg

[northernladyuk]

You are kent philip and that was your best date ever and I want my £5

I think that is kentphilip.

[norrahe]

My first job was at a syndicate of Lloyd's of London where the ladies were not allowed to wear trouser suits, if you were in the Lloyd's building you were not allowed to take your jacket off ( Ladies and Men), only exception was made when the air con broke down during a particularly hot summer and it was about 37 indoors.

[Ticktock]

3 piece suit with a tie - apart from recently when they need dry cleaning but I have been too busy to get it done so I have managed to wrangle shirt and trousers.

Two reasons - I like looking smart and my aspergic daughter gets confused if I am not dressed in, basically, a grey three piece suit with a tie. She thinks I am not going to work so wants to come with me to wherever I am going.

I wear my 3 piece from day one and casually mention to people in conversation why I have to come to work dressed like a mafia hitman etc. No one seems to be bothered either way.

3-piece for me too. On my first real contract got told not to wear it anymore on day 1 (I was making the other contractors look bad), so I switched to jacket and trousers, no tie. Smarter than most, but not too ostentatious.

Day one I always turn up in 3-piece with tie. For some contracts I wear that for the duration, rotating my suits every day. On the current contract (4 weeks in) this is the first day I have broken with convention - it's a hot day out so I've removed my tie. Starting this week, on Fridays (they don't really do dress down, but it seems people wear slightly scruffier trousers and shirts) I'll wear suit trousers and a shirt just so I don't have to worry about flying home in and suit and having to carry it back on Sunday, as I have so far.

[TheFaQQer]

Last time I wore a three-piece suit to work, I was asked whether I was going to make it to the church on time.

Won't make that mistake of trying to dress smart for the users demo again.

[stek]

I worked with a contractor who wore a bow-tie (with a suit, not just the bow tie).

Wonder if he's on here? Initials CS, drove a four wheel steer Prelude. Round about circa 2000....

[Mich the Tester]

Philips Semiconductors was interesting.

Half the staff looked as if they were about to climb a mountian or empty the bins, the other half were suits, ties, blazers etc.

Was that in NL? A lot of Dutch men seem to like wearing outdoor action pants, of the type shown below. Can't think why.

[norrahe]

3-piece for me too. On my first real contract got told not to wear it anymore on day 1 (I was making the other contractors look bad), so I switched to jacket and trousers, no tie. Smarter than most, but not too ostentatious.

Day one I always turn up in 3-piece with tie. For some contracts I wear that for the duration, rotating my suits every day. On the current contract (4 weeks in) this is the first day I have broken with convention - it's a hot day out so I've removed my tie. Starting this week, on Fridays (they don't really do dress down, but it seems people wear slightly scruffier trousers and shirts) I'll wear suit trousers and a shirt just so I don't have to worry about flying home in and suit and having to carry it back on Sunday, as I have so far.

I thought 3 piece suits went out of fashion in the 50's

Unless they've come back in fashion with the "mad men" effect

[SimonMac]

When I worked at the Met Office there was the usual mix of smart business wear, and hippy academics with shorts, socks and sandals