• Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    32·
    3 days ago

    My workplace put out an internal notice of how to deal with the heat. One of the points is “Adjust Dresscode”.

    Yep, that’s certainly one way of putting it.

    • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Tl;dr: turns out heatwaves can melt dress standards.

      One coworker bantered with another yesterday because of the latter wearing shorts, along the lines of “pants or skirts only here”. I pointedly rolled back from my desk to show I was wearing shorts too. He suggested they should all pitch in to get me a Kilt. We met two others on the hallway wearing shorts. I guess he was out of jokes.

      In general, the more traditional business dress standards seem to have relaxed these last weeks. Particularly when women wear short pants, pencil skirts are swapped for loose ones and summer dresses replace pantsuits, that indicates they’re less worried about comments than about heat stroke and I don’t think it’s just due to shifting workplace culture.

      (Though I do hope that this is also indicative of a shifting workplace culture; there is a push for more progressive policies but I don’t think I need to elaborate on the resilience of some mentalities.)

  • nikkiEnglish
    47·
    3 days ago

    got it I’ll wear this to work

  • maria [she/her]English
    16·
    3 days ago

    outfit for the day:

    • long-sleeve turtleneck
    • jacket
    • leggings
    • one more pant
    • yes also underware and bra-
    • sockies
    • sho
    • flip flops

    am hiding from outside peeps. u never know if they r nice. i never know if im noce-looking enough to be accepted.

    • KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      You look very nice :3 If nice-looking required to be accepted, these are not your peeps.

      Also genually hoping you are on the southern hemisphere where it is winter rn.

      • maria [she/her]English
        8·
        2 days ago

        hehe no dear KokusnussRitter 🥥 im from the Germany… hehe apparently in the hottest section of Germany according to tagesschau. lets see those 42 degrees!! >o<

        am only wearing jacker outside… long sleeve stuff is a must tho… for myself- or something.

        winter rules tho <3

    • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I think happiness is the most (platonically) beautiful thing about anyone, regardless of identity, presentation, age, clothes, whatever. I know not everyone thinks like that, but I wish they did.

      Also, acceptance should never be conditional on looks. The only condition for acceptance should be that it’s mutual.

        • luciferofastora@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          I originally meant to reply to the “look nice enough to be accepted” sentiment, but ADHD butchered it front to back and impulse control didn’t catch it.

          My half-finished thought was that you should wear what makes you happy instead of wondering whether you “look nice enough”. Basically, trying to reassure / validate you that you look nice as you are.

          Then I remembered that many people hold others to some arbitrary standars of how they have to look and lamented that. That reasoning probably should have made me scrap the first part because it kinda contradicts it.

          Then I felt I should emphasise that “to be accepted” shouldn’t depend on being “enough” by any standard. I’m not entirely sure in retrospect what point I was going for with that either.

          All in all, it was a chaotic train of thought, unfinished, phrased with the eloquence of sleep-deprived AuDHD and posted without overthinking it. Sorry.

          I don’t think there’s a good way to salvage it, probably shouldn’t have posted it, but I did and so I’ll leave it up for context’s sake.

  • SCmSTREnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    Just a sundresssssss it’s tooo hotttt