Levi's Jeans: Work-Appropriate?

Edit: For Lethesoda.

Vote based on your own experience, IMO!

Edit 2, Red Room content: Levi Strauss was a Jew. Make of it what you will.

For what job?

Levi's? What are ya, trying to impress the 5th graders, Mr. Rich Man?

Levi's jeans -- too controversial for even the Red Room?

Yeah, were does that leave us Faded Glory guys?

My "commute" is from the sofa to my home office, so yes. Except in the summer, when shorts are better. But I prefer Lees to Levis.

OMG! What's the ultimate uber jean brand? Lee? Levi?

I bet you drink a mug of beer with your pinky extended, too.

I watched two straight hours of TLC's "What Not To Wear". Does that make me ghey?

Jeans, yes, but I wear Wranglers.

Depends on your fit, I guess. Lees fit like they were made for me. Gap or Old Navy or anything else I either have to roll the cuffs or take in the waist or both.

Ramen, what are you on about now?

I dunno, how far did it go?

Did you just passively watch, or did it give you a special tickle that escalated to a sensation like sneezing, but different?

People walk around my workplace barefoot, so yes.

Depends on the job.

Also depends on the "image" you want to project. I would rather project a more professional image so I wear docker's-type pants and a nice shirt. Other teachers wear jeans as appropriate (shop teachers, etc.).

Wear Diesel or you suck.

Hell, I'd love to go to work in jeans, but for some reason someone thinks that that makes me look less like a nurse and more like a person.
Of course there are those that want to stick nurses back in starched white dresses too.... (and honestly they are the most ridiculous thing to wear doing the job that we have to do unless we sit behind a desk and answer phones....)

Not okay for me, regrettably. Between Levi's and Lee's... Levi's 550's, no question.

But Lee's does make a good pair of brown denim cargo pants.

Depends on where you work.

The place I work has even told me I can't wear them when I come in - on my day off mind you! - for a mandatory meeting! I have to dress up and look spiffy!

At my last job, unless VIPs were visiting, Jeans were ok.

Best fit I've ever had from jeans were from a pair of Calvins...
Other half wears Tesco Value range, cost £3 a pair...

Yes. Or hopefully it will be soon. First and foremost clothing should be comfortable, period. Why we associate style with discomfort I'll never know. Some of the crap people used to wear looks downright painful.

Ditch decorative shoes, ties, starched shirts, polyester, wool and fragile clothes altogether.

I'm wearing them right now.
AND a condom.

My heart says yes, but my employer says no.

I've been the trend setter for several years at my company -- first to drop the suit, first to drop the tie, first to do casual Friday. All of that eventually followed in official dress code updates. But the day I wore my 550s to a company staff meeting and sat next to the President, was the day a new memo went out specifying that jeans were definitely not allowed.

Bugle Boy, IMHO.


And BTW, where do you have to work that jeans are 'Too Formal?' Hooters?

Levi's have been a part of my wardrobe and pretty much daily wear for me for thirty plus years.
Those and my mandatory Chuck's ensure I remain cool.



I like Docker's and clones, they're are Ok for meetings and such, but in my world they tend to get fubared way too easily.

I love my job, we can wear jeans and tennis shoes to work. I've heard that my boss wears shorts in the summer time.



It's nice to have a boss that gets it. Comfortable employees are more productive employees.

I don't entirely agree with this. If your job requires interaction with clients or other external people, you should put on your best face so to speak, which means dressing sharply. That doesn't necessarily mean a suit, but I would have trouble taking seriously somebody who came to my office wearing shorts. There is comfort, but equally important is presentation.

I'd further add that even if your job requires no public interface, how you dress still matters. If the entire office is filled with sloppy looking people, that gives off a message about work style.

And as for comfort, I'm quite comfortable in dress slacks and dress shirt. So I don't really buy that argument anyway. Clothing of every style should be comfortable unless you are buying the wrong size. So that argument is meaningless. Shorts are only okay if the company specifically wants to present itself as beyond casual.

For any job. Work dress codes that go beyond requiring people to be neat and presentable, with an exception for places where uniforms are appropriate and provided by the employer, are pathetically stupid in the extreme. Just because they're the norm doesn't mean that people who institute them shouldn't be shunned from polite society.