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VIDEOWorst Work Uniforms: Front Page
Service attire is supposed to empower employees and enhance a brand. So what's up with these eight outfits?
As fashion writer Roberta Smith once observed, “It is hard to think of any other man-made object, much less any other garment, that is as psychically charged, socially encoded and historically emblematic. ...Uniforms have long defined tribes, nations, cults and subcultures, divided good guys from bad. They tell us whom to obey, fear or kill; whom to speak to or ignore.”
Then again, some uniforms tell us whom to turn to for a turkey dog dipped in “Party” batter (try the young woman in the striped shirt and oversized jockey hat) and who should have the final “call” on your next pair of Reeboks (why not ask “the ref”?).
In such cases, where the mandated service outfit is ridiculous, tacky, or just plain baffling, you might make the argument that corporations are actually abusing the power of a uniform -- subjecting employees to, at best, eight hours a day in a decidedly unfashionable outfit made from fibers light years from "natural". At worst? A get-up so bad, it almost seems as if someone at Corporate made a conscious decision to put workers through a perpetual public hazing.
Here, Minyanville collects examples of work uniforms gone wrong. Click through our gallery to read on.
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