Old School

I am old school.  As a perk of my employment this weekend, Memorial Day, I am able to dress down and wear capris or blue jeans and a red, white, or blue polo.  I wore blue jeans and my usual black polo.  As I was leaving work, my replacement, a pretty nice younger gal came walking up to the store in shorts that were pretty high up on her legs.  They were shorty shorts.  I remarked to my husband how inappropriate I felt they were for work.  I am not a prude but I feel that I know the small community I work in pretty well and I feel for sure that there are going to be a great number of older people who, upon seeing this young person bending to put freight away, may feel the same way I did upon seeing her in these shorts.  It seems that in having the freedom to dress down judgement never seemed to enter this young person's mind.  She was dressing for comfort and not the business climate to which she found herself in.  I am old school in my thought that this kind of attention is not appropriate for a business climate.  I believe that dressing for success in a retail situation applies to dressing down as it does in standard dress.  I'm not sure this current crop of young people really understands that but if they want to get ahead they might want to consider that...just saying it out loud.

Have a happy day out there!