Worst work outfits you see?

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Anonymous wrote:TLDR men need to stop wearing skinny slacks hemmed an inch or two above their shoes. It looks like a bad fitting elementary school outfit that they never grew out of. Also, now that it’s summer, please wear an undershirt. No one wants to see your pit stains first thing in the morning. The pentagon special of slacks of slacks, ties and sneakers is a bad look. Finally, get everything tailored. Untailored and wrinkled clothes are just the worst.

Fortunately, the little lord fauntleroy suits seems to have come an end. No man over the age of 15 can look good in that tight, short, cropped thing. Any man wearing that today is very fashion backwards. Baggy - excessively so - is where it's at now.

As for women, men are going to note all the curves no matter what anyone wears. There's no avoiding that. Fortunately, women can ridicule men for wearing tiny little suits or for looking like a disheveled blimp in their fashion-forward baggy suits. There's no win anywhere. So wear whatever is comfortable and unobjectionable.

At least for the men, just wear nice, tailored suits with a modest break, no pleats and natural shoulders, preferably full canvas. Sadly, all those guys with high water dress pants will have to buy new ones since you can undo the hem or else will look like they’re repping 2010. I have always avoided extremes and focused on tradition to avoid these issues. Avoid fashion. Focus on timeless style choices.

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Open toed shoes
Sandals of any type
Dirty worn out shoes
Bed head
Ripped jeans

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OP, my DD is 22 and has built a small, but nice, wardrobe for her work. She found that Aritzia is a good place to look for appropriate but not stuffy clothes for the office. She got these pants in grey, tan, and black:
https://www.aritzia.com/us/en/product/new-agency-pant/127437.html?color=1274

She found a couple of other tops at Artizia but several of the "wear to work" section are not work-appropriate. She found cute short sleeve tops at Quince.

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Anonymous wrote:I personally think shorts or skirts for work should be closer to your knee that to your crotch. So whatever that midpoint is, don’t go above it.
Also, I see this all the time on metro…..check the back of your skirt. Lots of young women seem to not realize that if a skirt is the same length in the back as the front, if you have any butt, it will then be shorter in back. If you have a really curvy butt, it might be a LOT shorter in back. I see women all the time that have skirts that are reasonable length in front, but from the back we are staring at the bottom of tjeir butt cheeks. Check the back and keep in mind the angle of the metro escalator and whether you want to give a show to the person behind you on the escalator.

I don’t care about wet hair so long as it’s not a client meeting or court or you’re leading a presentation.

Ill add carrying a backpack tends to pull up skirts in the back somehow.

No sneakers (fine for commuting but change at your desk), no flip flops, no shorts, no sweatpants, no sweatshirts. No visible bra or nips. If a trendy high schooler would wear it, don't wear it to the office.

I’m the previous poster and I wear sneakers all the time. Foot health is more important than anything else. Your should see my mom’s bunions from years of professional shoes. Sneakers are fine.

I am 60 years old, and I basically wear nothing but sneakers anymore. Sneakers with my suits, with dresses and skirts, etc. I am the highest-ranking woman in my office--happy to send the message that heels are not required here.

I love you for this, but I’m still uneasy with sneakers (Such a funny word! We were more literal and called them tennis shoes.) with dresses or skirts.

Are you literally going to play tennis in them?
My tennis shoes (for clay or hard courts; grass are different) are literally tennis shoes. Otherwise they are, yes, sneakers in this country. Or "kicks" if you're cool.

DP - Tennis shoes vs sneakers vs gym shoes is a regional thing throughout this country.

NP- Actual tennis shoes have a different sole. They're not the same as sneakers.

Yes but a ton of people in the country describe any athletic shoe as “tennis shoes” no matter what they’re designed for. Like pop vs. soda.

My whole life it’s been tennis shoes. Sneakers just sounds so funny to me! Didn’t realize it was almost solely a northern thing.

I now use "trainers."