Do You Wear a Uniform?

[Dipstick]

I don't mean a formal uniform with a company logo, etc. but something that you wear every day for most occasions. With me, it's black denim trousers and a short-sleeved tee-shirt. Rarely, if ever, do I wear a collared shirt or slacks.

 

[Runcharger]

Nope: I'm not a Harley rider.

 

[hemi71x]

Not any longer, but when i was a full time, wrenching auto mechanic, earning a living, i wore uniforms with the company's name, over one of the pockets, and your name over the other.
Just depended what weekly linen service the company was hooked up with.
Then way before that, the green, fatigues, Air Force uniform, back in the 1970's for me.

 

[YY1]

I have an Interstate Service mechanic's uniform shirt with "Kevin" name patch.

My name is not Kevin.

 

[Don Frelier]

 

[eldubb440]

sometimes I work in my jammies

 

[Belvedere408]

I just wear a couple different pants and sweatshirts to work. Whatever I don’t care that gets ruined at work, cutting, grinding and what not.

 

[Ron H]

Since retiring it’s t-shirt, jeans, hiking type work-shoes, during colder weather a hooded sweatshirt. Gets hot enough, wear shorts.

For nearly 20-years, had to wear a uniform of sorts, a mandated tie, until biz-casual dress came around, at first casual only on Friday’s. Lol, got written up once in the late-70’s when I wasn’t wearing a tie doing field engineering work being 90-degrees in the shade with 95% humidity. The CEO where I was working had a group photo taken, NONE a them had a tie on, but my boss saw the photo seeing their company newsletter with that picture of me w/o a tie. He didn’t want to write the warning, but admitted fearing his boss would see it and get on his *** about it.

How times have changed, being old enough to remember those days. Hell, guys would pick out a tie to wear to go take a dump, lol. “Honey, I have to take a dump, should I wear my striped or polka-dot tie?”

 

[Black_Sheep]

My uniform during the summer is carhart shorts and some kind of car t-shirt…

 

[68-500]

Wranglers snd short sleeve pearl snap, a hoodie in the winter.

 

[Dennis H]

Lifetime. Kept the overhead down while working. Public Service. Provided by Employer. Taxpayers. Still wearing some of them. When wanting to feel useful (or remember my name) I wear the ones from the 2004 stint in Houston. Can still button it. Barely.

 

[cr8crshr]

I wore one for 34.5 years so I guess you could so I did so. No longer as now my uniform is whatever I feel like putting on for the day...cr8crshr/Bill

 

[dadsbee]

Works for me. I'm not out to impress anyone, I'm already married!

 

[RiverRaider]

Not including uniforms with name and logo that have worn most of my life, I wear Steel toe boots, blue jeans, button short sleeve shirt, blue jean jacket and a Hobart apron
if I am working on anything or at a swap meet.

 

[68BabyBlue]

Lifetime. Kept the overhead down while working. Public Service. Provided by Employer. Taxpayers. Still wearing some of them. When wanting to feel useful (or remember my name) I wear the ones from the 2004 stint in Houston. Can still button it. Barely.

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Well played. I had the opposite situation with private law practice in 1983. Out of pocket cost of my three piece suits was nearly as much as the revenue I generated. When I was a corporate general counsel 15 years later, the company paid for dress shirts with the company logo, but I still had to buy my own slacks.

In my last career chapter, hauling hazardous waste, I dressed like a homeless guy. My wife often threw my clothes out, rather than contaminate our washing machine. Now she demands I wear new jeans and T shirts.

 

[mmissile]

Nope: I'm not a Harley rider.

That's a costume....

 

[moparwacko]

I wore Cat2 & 3 FR clothes as a Lineman for many years. They were long sleeve, year round matter what temperature it was. If anyone has had to wear them, they know what I'm talking about. How about a Cat4 "beekeeper" suit for UG network vaults- you haven't lived until wearing one of those for 12 hrs. I swore I would never put them on again, but actually are good for welding and grinding in the shop.

 

[Ron H]

Out of pocket cost of my three piece suits

Yeah, spent a lot on suits, ties, shoes, etc. getting promotions – peer pressure thing with the other exec staff. Well, have to say was making great money, stock options, company ride, other perks, before I couldn’t stand the BS any longer, starting my biz. That span set me up pretty well for my retirement fund though. There were only two-years, for the next twenty, with my biz that I made as much as I did then. I made more money in 1999, year before starting my biz, than I did in 2021 when I retired.

Lol, my wife gets on my case as well, when some of my clothes are tattered; but damn it seems when I wear anything new or ‘nicer’, I ruin it. Just last week working in the garage wearing a new t-shirt, I ruined it with a nice grease stain on the belly. Now it’s a ****-shirt.

Sorry, I’ve digressed, back to the OP’s topic.

 

[RT68440]

We have uniforms for the shop that I work at. Monday through Friday I'm in them from when I wake up and get dressed for work and take them off at night before I hop in the shower. If we're going somewhere in the evenings then I'll throw a T shirt and jeans on. Even on the weekends if I'm going out to the garage to work on the Charger or work in the yard I'll throw my work uniform on. No sense in beating up my own clothes...the boss does the same thing.