<!--quoteo(post=89682:date=Oct 23 2007, 08&#58;35 PM:name=KittenWithaWhip)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(KittenWithaWhip &#064; Oct 23 2007, 08&#58;35 PM) [snapback]89682[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Are you more like That Girl or Beach Blanket Bingo?

They&#39;d have to be extremely small gauge, so they look like patterned tights, but I suppose they&#39;d be alright.  Other than that, I think you&#39;re OK with the That Girl look.  Ann Marie never wore anything horrible, and just about everything I can remember her wearing would still be OK in the office today.  I say go for it.

I quite understand.  I also used to work in a place where the men thought they were OK if no one else could smell their underwear.  I remember once a fellow came over to talk to me about something.  I didn&#39;t hear a word he said, because not only was he the usual scruffy type, his ratty shirt had little speckles of blood all over the collar.  Huh?  I then noticed he had corresponding scabs all over his chin and neck.  Apparently he had shaved with a dull razor that morning - a VERY dull razor, maybe even a fork or something - and had tried to mop up the gore several times with the collar of his t shirt.

Nevertheless&#33;  In instances like this it&#39;s not a bad idea to be slightly more dressy than the slobs with which you work.  As a matter of fact, it&#39;ll get you promoted. 

Good luck.  We&#39;re all counting on you.

Ewwwww&#33;


Okay, okay, so there was this one guy at work who was soooo disgusting...

(How disgusting was he?)

He told me that he never used soap or shampoo when he washed because he believed they had a cumulative detrimental effect on the skin.  He had many, many other issues with hygene, which I&#39;ll probably tell some other time, but your story reminded me of when I thought he was wearing flip flops to work.  You could hear that slapping sound whenever he went by, and I thought "Flip flops with socks?  What a dork&#33;"  Well it turned out that he wasn&#39;t wearing flip flops at all, that the soles of his shoes had come loose all the way from the heel to the ball of the foot and they flipflopped when he walked.  The manager mentioned it to him and he replied that "If the company wants me to wear proper shoes, they can buy them for me."


For reasons unrelated to personal cleanliness he was eventually transferred to another locaton, but I think they should have fired him for oh, so many offenses.

I&#39;m sorry, but I have to chime in with a gross work wear story.

I used to work for a man, who was a great boss and fun to work for and a really nice guy, but EVERY DAY to work, he wore these old gray sweatpants, the kind with the elastic at the ankles.  I might have forgiven him that, but there was a tear in the pants, not in the waistband, but from right under the waistband and it extended down the leg about five inches.  Luckily, this was on the side of the leg so it didn&#39;t expose anything, except his overweight thigh, and the fact that he must not have been wearing any sort of undergarment.  It was horrible.  His excuse was that he didn&#39;t interact directly with clients and he just sat in the office all day.  He said if he was interacting with clients he would wear a suit and tie.

You&#39;d think there would be something in his wardrobe between a suit and tie and ripped sweatpants.

Oh, and on a nice note, I just got a new corsellette (ie, NWT vintage) that holds up vintage seamlesses nicely, and looks perfect under my wool work dresses, so I&#39;m set.