Did you wear a uniform?

Well, let me think, I've had 30-odd jobs, full time, part time, temporary and permanent. School was the first one, and I rebelled to wear trousers like the boys and got suspended. Then as a riding instructress it was a 'practical' uniform with riding cap, boots, jods, gloves and riding jacket when teaching and wax jacket and waterproofs when working with the horses. Next was a delivery driver's uniform (for a household catalogue) which was the same as the men had to wear and was quite practical if horrible brown colour (was the only woman among 26 men drivers in the depot and ended up meeting DH there). I worked in building societies and banks that had uniforms after that. I quite enjoyed them all, apart from the discomfort of wearing 'heels' which were required for all the banking and secretarial jobs I did.

Only ever school uniforms and guide, etc uniforms

Jaxjacky

Only at weekends for MrJ..

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Black & white for 40 years of my life in the catering trade. When I retired I had 30 white shirts and a dozen skirts and jackets. Never worn black & white since.

School uniform times 3
Brownies
Guides
Graduation gown
Cocktail Server
Supermarket Assistant.

I'm very partial to a man in uniform.

Dental Surgery Assistant, Dental Hygienist, Orthodontic Assistant, Nurse, even in a supermarket all had uniforms.

DH wore uniform for 30 years.#1 DS currently owns one but does job where it's not required but will wear on parade of needed! I must say they have a certain attraction! My friend used to get all unnecessary whenever she visited and DH would turn up from work half uniformed ( always cover uniforms when off duty) he once put full lot on just for her! She almost squealed! It was hilarious! " It's all those buttons and chains!" She giggled.......Okey dokey.....
TV dramas where they show cops in uniform sitting down to tea/going in pub/picking kids up, just does NOT happen, it's home.Uniform OFF asap shirt and others washables all straight in wash or bin of contaminated!. Civvies on!

I wore school uniforms at both the schools I went to and liked the fact that we were dressed the same and that the other girls couldn't know that my parents couldn't afford to spend so much on my clothes, as some of theirs could on theirs.

Working in kitchens we wore uniforms - the first few years that was fine, but then to save on laundry costs, kitchens started using man-made fibres that I am allergic to, so I had to buy my own pure cotton overalls.

later on, I had jobs were no uniforms were worn, and it was more or less up to us how smart we wanted to be.

I had to wear a uniform in my last job as a holiday rep. Woollen mix navy skirt, thick cotton blouse and a polyester neck scarf all worn with navy court shoes. In temperatures regularly in the high 30s and low 40s it was not ideal. To cap it off we were not allowed to wear sunglasses so the guests could see our eyes, I suffered radiation induced cataracts caused by too much sun exposure. Still the months of living in the sun doing a job I loved made it all worthwhile.

I wore one as both a home care worker and end of life support worker also as a volunteer at the dogs trust

Always worn uniforms from School up to my Nursing career, thats all my life.
I loved my nursing uniform, and it saved a lot on clothes.I think uniforms always look smart and they represent something.

Hanne my school uniform was brown and I don’t wear brown either.

I worked in a bank when I first left school. The male staff all wore suits, shirts and ties, and the female staff blue nylon overalls. Now, in the same bank, all staff are wearing jeans and T shirts!

I worked for new home builders before I retired and over the years had collected quite a few different uniforms about 7/8 winter and summer uniforms in different colours and styles,when we sold our family house I took all my old uniforms to a local charity shop and was amazed they all sold as they had builders names embroidered on lapels of most of them.

I had to wear a rust coloured A-line skirt, matching waistcoat and cream nylon blouse in my first job when I was 17 years old. I was so embarrassed when my friends saw me in it, especially with my American Tan tights, it was hideous, plus my red hair clashing with it did me no favours either. The company changed it to navy a couple of years later and I was delighted. It still wasn't very nice in my early 20s to be wearing it, at that age you want to be all trendy and gorgeous lol. When I was made the manager I was allowed to wear my own suits so I could shop for trendier ones.

Hanne

Yes, my school uniform. It was brown and to this day I never wear brown.

Same!

I wore uniforms as a dental nurse and receptionist. Then all black for working in a deli with an apron.
Next was a clothing and souvenir shop. We had to choose a new top every summer and a new long sleeved blouse every winter.
Being older and fatter than the other women meant I was usually uncomfortable and out of my comfort zone. But that’s life.
In my current job I can wear what I like. It’s great and I get to wear my favourite stuff.
I hope this job can see me until I retire!

School uniform x 2 (one was bottle green, put me off that colour for life).
Brownies - worn once
Guides - ditto (my poor mum!).
32 years flying as cabin crew, I wore five different uniforms. The British Airways “deck chair” uniform of the late ‘80’s/early ‘90’s was the ugliest. My favourite? My first Dan-Air uniform in 1983 because I felt so proud. The hat was something else!

Yes, I was a Cabin Service Director for British Airways for 20 years - before that a Purser and main crew… (sorry about title rather overly-grand; we were just known informally by regular passengers and crew as CSDs!). I hated wearing a uniform at school; constantly “modified” it and got various detentions as a result, so can’t believe I actually ended up wearing one quite happily for 35 years! One thing actually that was useful was the convenience of just pulling on the same thing for work and not having to think or plan for what I had to wear the next day. That said, occasionally we would have to “position” in plain clothes and that always caused some head-scratching as there was a bit of a dress code as well.

Prison Service .... saved having to decide what to wear everyday !

I wore a uniform all my working life. I loved the uniform in Glasgow Royal Infirmary. They were so neat and well fitted. I don't like a lot of the uniforms now. Some of them look quite slovenly.

I wore one briefly behind an enquiry desk at in a civil service job, it was very easy knowing what to wear every day and washed well. It started because the receptionist, most junior member of the team couldn’t afford nice trousers so the manager thought this was the best way to address and indeed it was.

I wore a variety of uniforms in various temporary jibs while studying. Worked in shops, waiting on tables, nursery uniform, jacket and trousers for research etc. Loved uniforms as I didn't have to think what to wear.
No uniform for my career though.

I was a Nurse. I wore a unf

AIBU and a million acronyms.
Every forum you join has its own set of acronyms. Which is fine if you know them. Would it be difficult to use the full term the first time the phrase is used in a post and then the initials used if it is repeated in the same post. I have recently had to join a fairly technical forum and feel ridiculous having to ask multiple times what the acronyms stand for.