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Re:Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually by creepydata on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:06PM (#14407322)
You've obviously never worked at a more conservative place. I worked at a place where tattoos must be always covered completely and beards have to be very well kept. Jeans were a hard no and they had just loosened their dress code so women could wear pants.

Even the New York Yankees have to shave - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees_appearance_po...

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Re:Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually by magic_beans on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @11:52AM (#14410927)
Women couldn't wear pants!!??? Was this an airline? Or maybe the service industry??
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Re:Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually by creepydata on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:58PM (#14412516)
It was an office.

I left there 12 years ago and the women could wear pants policy was new then. So it was around 2003-04 when they first started allowing women to wear pants. By coincidence (or maybe not) this is also the time when laws banning smoking in public places (bars, restaurants) first started to be passed.

It was a conservative office. Customers were other business, not the public.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2016/02/women...

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