Brunettes - All American Pin-ups

A couple of weeks ago I bought a fun t-shirt at this new store on Milwaukee. I’ve been waiting for a good place to wear it, so this morning I decided I would just wear it to work. Now, I’d like to point out that my work has no dress code, especially on Fridays. But to class it up I did throw on my nice jeans and some heals (and I went ahead and did my makeup).

However, when Becca saw me this morning she chuckled and said “nice shirt” or something to that affect. I defensively asked what’s wrong with it and reminded her that we don’t have any dress code. She then took back her comment and decided I looked cute.

Well, I made it until about 9:30 before someone said something. Who said something? Rhonda of course. And why wouldn’t she; she is the epitome of proper etiquette.

Anyway, I apologized and told her I didn’t realize we had any sort of dress code here. She said we do. And I said “o, so sweat suits are part of the dress code then?” She sighed and said she didn’t really like those either but that my shirt was just too t-shirty.
(Side note: there is another women of our department who has literally worn gym clothes for the past 3 months, and yet she has said nothing to her.) She did however compliment me on my nail polish, so looks like last night was put to good use.

So, not ten minutes later, Sam told me my shirt was cute! Naturally I informed her of our new dress policy and that apparently I am in violation. And, naturally Sam was annoyed so she wrote a nice blog about it. I'll be sure to keep you posted of any new updates to our dress code here.

Busines Casual???

Since when does business casual mean Addidas running pants??? Seriously.

I swear every week I am shocked by at least one person's outfit. Today I discussed this over lunch with a friend and she informed me that our office is actually just casual. Fine, our office is now casual, but I still don't understand why people think that it's ok to wear sweatpants or, on the other extreme, club shirts. Perhaps I should nominate some coworkers to my favorite show.