What's the attire of an engineer?

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<p>Just wondering, is it more business suit or casual?</p>

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<p>if your dealing with clients (usually not the case) it’s business, otherwise in most cases the dress of an engineer is pretty sloppy casual…</p>

<p>kinda wish we’d still dress like in the old days… <a href=“http://www.public.iastate.edu/~isu150/photos/dowscholar.jpg[/url]”>http://www.public.iastate.edu/~isu150/photos/dowscholar.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Dr. Kleiner and a young Gordon Freeman?</p>

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<p>Clothes. 10 char.</p>

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<p>Depends on the environment and type of work you’ll be doing. Generally speaking, if you spend the majority of your time in a office, you will be dressing business casual (e.g. slacks, button-down or polo, no tie or suit). For important meetings, your attire would likely bump up to a suit/button-down+tie. This can vary from company to company.</p>

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<p>At work I wear jeans and a t-shirt. Actually I dress the same as I did in college.</p>

<p>On Friday’s I’ll often wear my collegiate sweatshirts to work.</p>

<p>About the only thing I don’t wear is shorts (I work in a factory sometimes and it’s not allowed) and sweatpants.</p>

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<p>I wear casual clothes 95% of the time.</p>

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<p>Jeans + T-shirt.
Jeans + dress shirt.
Slacks + t-shirt.
Slacks + dress shirt.
Shorts in the summer.
Some people wear workout clothes.
One engineer I knew dressed like a homeless person - white t-shirts with lots of stains, baggy sweatpants or pants in the winter and old shorts in the summer - went on to make tens of millions of dollars.</p>

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<p>BCEagle91, those are the exception rather than the rule though. It seems like the most popular is either slacks and polo or jeans and polo. T-shirts in the workplace still aren’t that common (though it is certainly slowly heading that direction).</p>

<p>In the UK, they still wear a suit and tie.</p>

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<p>How about for a female engineer?</p>

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<p>Same thing, just the female equivalent. I am sure that most females are aware of the relative level of sophistication that different mens’ styles represent. Females wear whatever is the equivalent level of sophistication.</p>

<p>It does seem like women dress up a little bit more than men at most places I have worked or visited.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I’m a college student, but I haven’t really bought “work clothes” yet.</p>

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<p>Yeah, which is not really uncommon. I still only have 1 suit and just enough pairs of slacks to get through a week at work, which I don’t even use now that I am in grad school instead of a full time job (not that grad school isn’t a full time job).</p>

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<p>dress pretty much same as college…most of the people working here are guys so I don’t really care how I look. For meetings etc. just button down shirt.</p>

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<p>Jeans + polo. I rarely wear anything worse or better than that. I’m definitely one of the worst dressed people at the office. Don’t care.</p>

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<p>I wear jeans and my pulp fiction t-shirts.</p>

<p>“DOES HE LOOK - LIKE - A *****?”</p>

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<p><a href=“http://tuvw.bokunic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/engineer_back.jpg[/url]”>http://tuvw.bokunic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/engineer_back.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^Bro we should play sometime, what’s your steam</p>

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<p>ahahahahahaha</p>

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<p>Depends on the company. At the last one I worked for, it was a suit for client meetings and business casual the rest of the time. A polo and jeans are typical for anytime we planned on going into the field.</p>