yes they are but not scruffy worn out ones that look like you’ve just come off your allotment.
I know it’s the trend for women now to wear trainers with everything, even dresses but they are designer trainers not these horrible I saw yesterday.
I dont give a monkeys what they wear as long as they do the job they are paid ro do.
And are polite too.
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There is that I suppose, but personally I would have more confidence in someone who took care of their appearance, like I expect them to take care of my money. It’s just a more professional approach, in my opinion.
I wouldn’t go and speak to anyone in this context if they looked like that. 
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Absolutely no idea. Am amazed that it wasn’t sorted out within a couple of days though.
Would you be happy if your barrister turned up in court wearing smart but casual clothing?
A line has to be drawn somewhere, one of my jobs is in hospitality, I wouldn’t wear tatty clothes and grubby trainers even if I could, It’s polished shoes and a well ironed shirt and trousers, all in black, a bit Johnny Cash really.
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Yes I would , no problem, dress code has never impressed me, as long as one is presentable, …of course if you deal with millionaires, then my Son tells me the dress code is different, 
…to much status in this world for my liking…hey ho, everyone to their own.
How one dresses ,doesn’t define you as a person,imo.
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Excellent. Has to be asked, where would one stop though? Police not in uniforms, pilots and airstaff wearing ordinary clothes without a thick layer of cosmetics? Do you think some people ought to maintain a professional dress? How about the concept of school uniform?
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I guess that’s how we recognise our professional/ staff, in their uniforms,( some) because that’s what we have been brought up to recognise, also we have been influenced by certain people ,on how to dress, my mother was immaculate, guess what it rubbed off on me, I was the same with my two elder boys, much more relaxed with my youngest one,…now, I dress casual, I cannot stand looking immaculate, on saying that I am extremely fussy about my hair, that’s it.times are changing, whether it’s for the good or not, I don’t know.
Professionals aren’t revered any more either, in other words they aren’t treated like god’s as they once were by some,imo.
Everyone has their part to play in society, we all need each other. Many wouldn’t see it that way I’m sure, anyway I’m starting to ramble,
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True. Although I did tend to observe that teachers wearing suits were allowed to get at least one “honeymoon period” sentence out before being on the receiving end of the usual torrent of abuse from pupils and senior staff! 
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Do teachers have to still wear suits,.Dex,?
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Nope. Most are smart, but a very small few are an absolute shower (as Terry Thomas would say!)
I asked one terribly clad visiting primary school teacher about the apparent lack of dress code expected, as he was wearing a CheGuevara teashirt, ripped jeans and manky shoes, with long, unwashed and unkempt hair, which made me think he was a vagrant who’d walked in looking for something to steal, hence why I got chatting to him.
He told me that it would be illegal for anyone to dictate what he should wear and that he had the right to express himself freely.
After pointing out that I was also thus free to express myself and calling him a selfish egoistic prick (out of earshot from children), I left him to it.
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So you didn’t think he was setting a good example to the children he was teaching, is that what you mean?.
…because of the way he was dressed?
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Because of his selfish and arrogant attitude, which I didn’t think was what teachers should be showing youngsters as an appropriate role model for them to try and aspire towards becoming.
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I understand that.
There’s a time to comply with generally agreed standards of comportment. (not used that word for a long time:wink:
) including one’s dress sense. It’s down to what might be seen as “reasonable” that we might argue over. But trying to make overt anti-establishment points on a daily basis to a group of 7 year olds is, IMHO, not one of those times.
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I prefer employees in business premises like banks, building societies, medical centres etc to wear corporate work clothes. If it’s the way of the world to wear your own clothes then I guess I will have to accept that but they should wear clean, smart clothes of their choice and look presentable. Those women yesterday looked terribly scruffy.
My old schoolfriend worked all her life for Midland Bank which then became HSBC and she preferred wearing what was provided for her by the Bank as she didn’t have to think what to wear nor buy work clothes. She usually had a few tops and either a smart skirt or trousers. Yesterday’s Bank was actually HSBC!!
I can’t think of any large supermarket that doesn’t provide uniforms for their staff and I think if they were all wearing their own clothes you wouldn’t know who was staff and also what they considered OK for work might not be what their employer would want.
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The news that HSBC are closing 114 branches (including the one I use and which I highlighted here) probably answers my question about scruffy staff! Maybe they heard the news a few weeks before we did!
I do prefer bank employees to be easily recognisable as such instead of ( like Lady Hussey ! ) one has to peer at their chest to a clue as if they are an employee or not .
However soon there won’t be any banks so it doesn’t really matter .
Yep… there won’t be any bank staff to recognise soon anyway regardless of what they might be wearing.
Just option after option on the phone and maybe, just maybe the opportunity to actually talk to someone.
I’m clutching at straws I fear.
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