You Are What You Wear

Posted: Jul 30, 2009 |Comments: 0 | Views: 174 |

Next time you visit an office building, think about the different styles in dress you see and what positions they each signify. While each company has a different dress code, “lower totem pole,” behind-the-scenes employees are usually going to dress in a much more casual way (since customers or corporate partners only hear their voice) than managers, supervisors, presidents and human resource managers. Chances are anyone in a position of authority or having outside physical contact with clients and stockholders will be donning a suit and tie during their workday.

Another locale to keep an eye on work uniforms and wear is at middle to high end restaurants. Here, everyone from the busboys to the managers are dressed in different, telling attire. A busboy is mostly working on clearing and setting tables, so they are usually dressed in simple attire that is good for the constant moving and collecting they are prone to do. Since a waiter has more one on one interaction with the customer, they are going to be dressed up, usually each donning the same uniform throughout the workplace (men and women vary of course) with a sport coat sometimes included. A restaurant manager (or owner) is usually the best dressed one out of the lot (especially in a fancy restaurant), wearing a different colored shirt or sport coat than the waiters so that he can stand out. Then there is the kitchen, which is a whole different animal as head chefs usually don custom aprons, coats and hats that distinguish them from the other chefs.

One workplace where you might not pay much attention to the work uniforms and what they may signify is at the hospital. While a lab coat is a functional and very important piece of clothing to a medical professional (many are custom made with breathable fibers and advanced stain guards), few people know that its length may hold a secret to the medical professional’s seniority in the office.

In many hospitals, senior doctors wear longer lab coats, while medical students tend to wear shorter lab coats. One way to tell a student doctor apart from a senior one is that their lab coat is around hip-length. It is not until they graduate with a professional title, that they wear knee-length white coats, which signify seniority at many teaching hospitals. Today, some nurses, physician assistants and technicians wear long lab coats or medical scrubs, which are becoming a more comfortable option for many male and female nurses. Each hospital has its own tradition that determines the code.

Again, these aren’t steadfast rules in today’s workplace, but just something to keep your eye out for. A person’s work uniform might give off a little more information than you might think.

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