sourceGwen Stefani designed the new uniforms for female beertenders at the W hotel. Gwen is one of the few celeb designers who actually designs herself and her L.A.M. B. line is respectable. I like her sketches, it looks like you could wear a good support bra under that and dress it up with different accessories and shoes. I've had to wear uniforms to bartend in..it was so boring you couldn't stand it or it was something that wasn't flattering for every body type, so some girls looked like poo..every friggin' night. Uggg. In one place I even made up a story about how my religion prohibited a certain color (fire engine red) so I could get out of it. They believed me..no one even asked what religion I was. Good thing, but, there's a hint for you if you're stuck in some uncomfortable yuk every night. Anyhow, my question for YOU is..have you ever had to wear a uniform to work and what was the worst one you had to wear??
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I was a teenager and had just moved to a ski resort town with my boyfriend and got a job at a fast food place called A&W. We had to wear orange and brown polyester pants and tops. I quit after 3 days. I don't have the personality to wear uniforms.
That's pretty bad. Why do employers think anyone would be happy wearing that all day?? I miss the A&W teen burgers though, they were soooo good.
I wore an awful PINK uniform as a nurse at a private hospital in Britain. It included a starched white collar, a starched lace hat, and a short pink cape called a 'tippet'. And of course, there was the one-piece dress. (I didn't train in Britain, and had NEVER woren a hat before then). Quite a change from wearing OR greens!
Still wish I had a photo so I could laugh now. Friends still don't believe me.
Did I mention my PINK uniform was polyester??! Ewwwww...
Many years ago I worked as a bartender during the summer. We ladies had to wear what looked like sequined baton twirler outfits and high heels. This was a club on a beach in Florida. The thing was tight and hard in texture and it made your breasts almost fall out the top. Cheap imitation I guess of playboy bunny outfits. What a nightmare!!
I wonder how those would look with black and white striped thigh-highs, a la Stefani?
Hollaback, now!
At a cafe we wore these hanious A line wrap around skirts in poo brown & the ties wrapped around your waist 2 or 3 times had like a cumberbun look, if you can visualize it, with dark vomit yellow bibbed blouses, that were pintucked over the bibbing, had poofy capped sleeves and a ruffle around the neck that had to be tied with a brown satin ribbon. Topped off with cow dung colored newsboy caps. One HAD to wear beige pantyhose and brown pumps no higher then 2 inches.
I looked like a fool on daypass waiting for the short bus to come pick me up.
I was a waitress one summer for Cleopatra's Barge at Caesars Palace in Atlantic City, NJ back in the '90's. I had to audition/interview in a bikini and 4 inch heels to get the job. Once landed, the all black "uniform" consisted of tuxedo shorts(?)and a tuxedo jacket w/tails and an attached inset vesty-bustier thingy. Strappy maryjanes and fishnets completed the look. 100% polyester NON-STRETCH!!!
RULES: no bras, no panties, no wedding rings,no Lee Press-On nails, or short haircuts.
If I looked hot it was because I was, literally! The tips were worth the "burning" and I was able to return to school with some cash.
Ok. I have nothing to top that. But my best friend spent a few years working a Tim Horton's (a Canadian coffee chain) where the store owners kept changing the uniforms every 4-6 months (all various incarnations of some brown and orange polyester theme). The problem is they made the employees buy their own uniforms. So at $40 a pop, these poor women (all of them single moms, struggling students, or otherwise financially strapped ... and working for minimum wage) had to shell out a whole day's pay 2-3 times a year because the multi-millionaire owners had a whim to change the look of their store. That's just plain evil.
I've worked at Tim Hortons too back in the day and the uniforms were ugly as sin and generated heat because of the material. Hateful place to work too.
Oh god those are so bad! The polyester look, wtf are employers thinking?? You wouldn't talk any man into wearing that shit, but, they expect us to for minimum wage.
They claim polyester is the number one choice because it's hard wearing and will last longer. Who the hell wants to wear cloths that won't be affected by a direct nuclear hit.
It's so ugly and uncomfortable and you know every patron in the place is snickering at it. Wish they'd grab a clue.
I worked at the Grand Teton Lodge Company Jackson Lake Lodge Mural room last summer (yeah it's a mouthful). anyway since you live up at the lodge with everybody who works there the owners wanted to allow no room for sexiness or even mild good lookingness. I had to wear: Black pleated pants that the waist was at my ribcage and the crotch was at my knees, a vest, a white tuxedo shiry and a bow tie. I shudder just remembering that outfit.
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