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deessell
Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:14 pm Post subject: Re: Public School Teacher Dress Code |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| JacktheCat wrote: |
| What do you public\private school teachers wear to work? Do you have a dress code? |
The teacher before me wore t-shirts so there couldn't have been any strict dress code at this hagwon. I see that some other ESLers in town also wear t-shirts.
I have my own dress code.
It includes wearing a button-down shirt, even if more casual looking, and a tie. And no jeans.
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| My private high school is a little draconian in that area, as I have to wear a tie, long sleeve dress shirt, slacks, and dress shoes (kept shined) and a suit jacket in winter. Doesn't really bother me as I like to stay neatly dressed anyway, and my school makes up for it in other areas. |
Unless there's world-class air conditioning throughout the building, I would not be dressed to their code. Even then, probably not.
I wear short sleeved shirts and long, dryclean-pressed dress shorts in summer (a dress shirt with tie, of course). It is sexist to require me to do otherwise. Just look at what the women can wear in summertime. There's no way I'm wearing long pants and wrist-length shirts in 30+ C and humid weather. Just the walk to work alone would feel like I'm some Moslem woman obeying some gender-specific absurd requirement to cover everything up. If I found out about the dress code after I was hired (despite indicating my dress code in my job application/resume) then I simply wouldn't conform with those aspects of it, and state why on principle, nicely and matter of factly. They could fire me for it if they want.
There are too many jobs out there to put up with such nonsense.
But to each their own. If you don't really mind, then take such a job. Conform. And complain about it at Dave's.  |
Van do you really wear shorts and a tie????? I don't like to be the fashion police but i don't think that I have ever seen that!!!! Do you also wear socks n sandals? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:19 am Post subject: Re: Public School Teacher Dress Code |
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| deessell wrote: |
| Van do you really wear shorts and a tie????? I don't like to be the fashion police but i don't think that I have ever seen that!!!! Do you also wear socks n sandals? |
Of course not sandals while socked. Never have, never will.
You aren't East coast American, eh deessell? I worked for a few years in a Men's Wear store and got all the fashion mags, and GQ itself often had long dress shorts with top-button-done-up dress shirt and dress coat, admittedly less often with tie, top button down, stroll by the pier type of poses. (I think it was considered fashionable for a time due to its throw-back look to the old boys' short pants suits of the fifties and sixties prep schools, and it gave a man a boyish look in modern fashion mags. A theory.)
I know of a few thirtysomething men in Canada who've gone for that dressy casual look. It's all in how you do it.
Anyways, I'm otherwise coordinated. So I don't care if others think it quirky. |
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