People no longer have pride In how they drsss.

[Welliesandtweed]

I've increasingly noticed that people are getting scruffier and scruffier in how they dress.

Some of the secretaries where I work come in, In trainers, band t shirts, coloured hair, loose fitting, cheap tops. I wouldn't do the garden in some of the outfits I see. They aren't typically patient facing but on occasion are. I think it really lacks professionalism to turn up scruffy to work.

Same for people out for an evening meal in jogging bottoms.

On Saturday we had sports day at school and every woman was in a nice dress and men in chinos / short chinos and shirts. Children all in proper PE uniform. It was so refreshing to see.

being alternative is about your beliefs and the music you enjoy more than fashion. I mean, right now I'm wearing my dua lipa t shirt I got on Friday, and when I went to the gig I wore a led zeppelin t shirt with fishnets, lol. I wear / buy what I'm comfortable in. My septums a 0G and I'm yet to meet another person irl with the same size septum. It's all a lifestyle not a fashion statement.

I take serious pride in my comfort. That includes my heavy metal tshirts and shorts.
I'm allergic to skirts and dresses. I own a few, but that's for places like church or a cruise.

I agree that 90% of my wardrobe is dresses. I have casual dresses, summer dresses, midi, maxi (not mini), dressy dresses etc etc etc.

Other than leggings when it’s a bit colder, my every day outfits are dressed and trainers - I don’t own shoes, just around 60 pairs of trainers.

I haven’t worn trousers in about 30 years and never owned jeans.

And my dresses are a rainbow of colours - some even bright and vibrant (but certainly not ‘lurid’)

I have to wear band t-shirts so people know I’m cool.

That's the only reason I wear them

Worn trainers for years, feet look amazing, no bunions, lovely toe spread & arthritis under control.

You couldn't pay me to wear proper shoes. Trainers cost a fortune too.

i must admit in covid we moved out of our usual place of work and other staff who always dressed more casually made me realise i should also be more casual, i think the casualness is gradually smartening up and we have also moved back again.
at the weekend however, dog walking, shopping, i care much less, <<and hope I am not seen>>

Where is the best place to get band t-shirts from? Asking for a friend.

”it’s came up”

Just goes to show that dressing formally for work doesn’t make you more intelligent. I’d generally want to employ someone with a basic grasp of grammar over someone who wears a ‘nice dress’ to work and sneers at other people’s style, so I’m afraid you wouldn’t make it past the CV and cover letter stage with me.

what an attitude!
luckily i am not working for you, at least i hope i am not!

get over yourself

None of the people who wear jeans to work started a thread attacking the style of people who dress formally, though, did they?

The OP and others have been extremely rude and made really nasty judgements about the competency of other people, based on the shallowest conceivable measure. Why would people like you and OP expect to be rude and judgmental about people without any comeback from those you’re being so unpleasant about?

So it’s OK to criticise people’s clothes and hair, but not OK to criticise their ability to use language correctly? I see.

I employ communicators. I need them to be able to write well; I do not need them to wear smart clothes. There is no correlation between the two. My point is simply that clothes do not indicate competence.

It isn't meaningless. It's the name of a whole style.

MN has always been incredibly hypocritical about what you are or are not allowed to criticise people for. You can have whole pile-ons on posters tearing apart their hygiene, their housecleaning and clothes washing habits, what they call their children, how they bring up their children, how they drive, how they cook, you name it; but dare to suggest that it would be nice if they tried to write reasonably comprehensibly or just used the right verb tense, and you've committed the most terrible crime ever.

Why are you even asking? She's answered already. She wears a dress, except for the gym when it's leggings and t-shirt. Why question her as if it can't possibly be true? Why do you assume everyone does those activities you've mentioned anyway? Plenty don't. But even if that poster does, why do you assume she wouldn't be wearing what she's already stated she wears? You think energetic activities can't be done comfortably in a dress? They can.

I'm surprised parents would want to wear dresses to run in a race or sack race. The image of Diana and other parents in running and sweating in stiff dresses and skirts would seem impractical in this day and age, but I'm not in the UK.

I would dress smartly for afternoon tea. And many schools don’t have parents races; our kids’ ones didn’t, thank goodness!

Dresses tend to look smart though, if that’s what you wear!

French manicures/pedicures look tacky to me. ‘A ‘zeleb’ on her wedding day look. Taste is very subjective, as this thread shows!

People are being far more unpleasant to the OP than she has been to others. Nasty digs, silly comments about her typo and judgements about the kind of person she is. Unnecessary I think. And hypocritical.

(Though I do need people to stop writing, ‘sandles’).

because I am alternative(emo)

I have never heard anyone over 20 describe themselves this way!

Actually most people would agree that we've become more casual.
plus Covid made us more casual.
plus nipping to the supermarket in very casual wear eg your pyjamas is now more common.

I myself do often wear a dress to work, it's so easy to throw one on.

The thing is @Taytayslayslay what you describe - the piercings, stretchers, clothes, tattoos - is just as much of a uniform as the “dresses and heels to a sports day”, or athleisure school run moms, or any group is wearing. You wear what you wear to signify what tribe you belong to, just as much as the more conventional people you look down on and to claim that you are unique or special for having this look it is a bit rich

Actually I think things were pretty bad before. In early 2020 I saw a grown man sitting outside a cafe, wearing a cow onesie.

This has all proven a lot of my point. It's those in casual dress that have an attitude. " I deserve thos, I'm hard done by that" "I'm too stressed because you asked me to do my job".

So many people here have a real attitude about being able to do what they like.