Worst work outfits you see?

[Anonymous]

I’m in my 20s and hear older employees talk constantantly about how bad my peers look. Hope they aren’t talking about me that way! Besides the obvious no crop tops and shorts what else looks bad at the office?

[Anonymous]

Athleisure
Dirty, scuffed shoes
Unbrushed hair
Looking/smelling hungover
Too short/too tight anything

[Anonymous]

Spandex/leggings, halter tops, and too-short dresses/skirts (I don't care how young and in shape you are, it looks trashy if they're too short). Also, avoid patent leather heels, particularly if they're over 2.5 inches.

[Anonymous]

Leggings as pants.
Going braless. One of our 20s staff bent down and her loose top gave the security staff quite a show earlier this summer. Sigh.

Short dresses or skirts. Try to aim right above the knee if you want to go shorter.
Super tight bodycon anything. Goes for the super tight pants some guys wear as well.

Athleisure all the time. If someone wore it once in a while, it wouldn't be an issue.

[Anonymous]

Golden Gooses

[Anonymous]

And, some of this is just common sense. If you want to braless under a loose crew neck sweater, probably no one will notice. But if you go braless with a loose summer top and bend down, not a good look at work.

If you wear leggings under a shorter dress, that would probably be ok. Either by themselves wouldn't look professional. Etc ..

[Anonymous]

Someone wore a top to the office last week that was basically a tube top with a sheer, long sleeve top overlay. It was very tight. And she wore a regular bra underneath, which just made it even worse.

[Anonymous]

Work in healthcare and I cannot understand why anyone wants to wear the scrub jumpsuit I've seen.

[Anonymous]

On the beauty and fashion forum people cough their pearls about wet hair.

[Anonymous]

People really don't dress up these days, not like 25 years ago. I'm 45 and have seen a decline in dressiness for office environments and I work for a prominent consultancy. People aren't badly dressed, none of horror stories you might see on here, but we are not as formal a society as we were in the past. And it was already changing 20 years ago, but even in 2005 we still had certain standards that have since disappeared.

The only industry where people still seem to dress up are law firms.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

bike shorts

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

I'll admit I wore flip flops at work today. There were only two of us in the building working with doors closed (or so I thought) so I slipped off my professional shoes under my desk and put on flip flops. Went to the bathroom and to refill coffee, and staff from another building were using the conference room and kitchen. Whoops.

But I HAD nice shoes. They were under my desk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.