[Ask the Gulch] Is there any moral standard for dressing code? Can you argue morally against or in favor of a dressing code? For example, if you see a naked person walking the street and this happens to be normal in his cultural code, is that imoral?
Posted by vinicius 7 years, 10 months ago to Ask the Gulch
I have a younger brother who has had trouble keeping clothes on most his life. Was a nudist
as a young teenager. Now at 70 he runs a nude cleaning service in the LA area. Likes to vacuum in the nude. Sometimes has trouble explaining himself when someone comes home and their spouse did not tell them whom they had hired.
Personally, I am against dress codes, especially while in involuntary servitude in mandatory school, including private schools where one should be getting an education and not the results of someone getting their jollies see little ones obey.
When in Rome...
sexually private parts in public, either genitals or
breasts, making public and common that which
should be held private and sacred.-- Not saying
that there should be a law about it, except as it
might also be harmful to children if done on the
open street.--And, in some contexts, it could
perhaps rationally be interpreted as a threat,
even if it were exposure to an adult.
---I also do not think it is right to make
it public in the case of photographs or
films (though drawings/paintings/sculp-
tures might be different,being imagin-
ary).--Photographs in the case of
evidence in a rape case would be
different, of course, as the main damage has al-
ready been done.--And I don't care
if people consider me a Victorian
prude.
Only in certain ancient religions as far as I can tell.
function and a very private value.
"My brain is my second favorite organ." -- Woody Allen
Other than that, dress codes are silly and not needed. However seeing a man or woman dressed to the nines is a pleasant experience regardless of physical beauty since good clothes worn well always enhances appearance.
It can also be a form of "Advertisement"! Come and get it!!!...from thongs to pants worn below your ass.
With all these muslims around that have No Self Control...One should probably wear Armor!
When I saw this headline the context I thought of was employment -- some employer wanted his staff to dress more formally than they felt was necessary. That is not really a moral issue. The employer should be free to have what rules he wants -- but there are cases where it's enough of a burden that it should be negotiated. (The recent case covered in media, where a dozen new hires petitioned the boss to get rid of a dress code and were fired for it, seems to me an overreaction and I don't approve, but that's a "cultural libertarian" issue; morally the boss was right.)
Last part of this choice is subjective, if you want to cover yourself completely or wear a string depends mostly on you then you have to decide where you will live to exercise those choices.
Back to nakedness. An interesting concept based on how we might have been raised and whether or not it has any value to not be naked. A small tribe in the Amazon forest wears only a string around their waist once they hit puberty, prior to this no string. Once they put on the string they don't take it off, if they do they fell 'naked and ashamed'. I wonder where the feeling comes from, perhaps it is more about being out of place because everyone has a string. I don't know if I personally ever want to be evaluated by strangers when I am naked. If I had a string perhaps I would be okay with it.
Should there be a dress code? When I have had a business I had one, you were expected to be at a certain standard of clothing if you were meeting the public, in sales. There was another when I was in construction that was more for safety - you don't want that getting caught in the lathe (imagine me pointing to the nether regions) - but people do feel more comfortable when others are dressed appropriately for a job.
I see no harm in having a dress code for your property or business or school and if others do not choose that code go where they are comfortable (there should be no public schools and you choose where you want your child to go).
Further the notion that kids are sitting in math class thinking about what everyone else is wearing all the time is pure sophistry which falls under logical scrutiny. Nobody is sitting there thinking about for all day. If they were they would still do so even with uniforms - an obsessive always finds an object for obsession.
In order to sit in a chair or a stool where food and/or booze was served, a nudist was required to first place a towel there.
Their own towel. For sanitary reasons.
I think I'd rather wear a pair of pants than to have to carry around a towel around all day.
Hang it around the back of my neck? Naw!
The business is not there to accommodate someone's need for an income. It's their to accomodate the customers and the owners investment.
For me... it was easy and is easy for me to say and to apply. . I was raised properly with a work ethic. For my employees it was on the sheet of paper for conduct in the work place. They didn't like it hit the bricks. They didn't comply hit the bricks.
On the other hand if the employees suggested something that might help production and it worked their pay check had a bonus or a raise. That did not include distracting activities. One I recall distinctly was job rotation to combat what at times could be very boring work that still had to be done. That one suggestion worked into a ten percent increase in job completion. A second was pricing. I hated .99 and other idiotic prices. so all my stuff was marked in even dollar amounts. .99 became 1.00. The suggestion was return to the .99 pricing. with examples. sure enough sales rose 40% in two months. Not my fault you think 19.99 is a great price while $20 is not. We found we could raise prices and it woul work. 18.00 became 19.99 Anyway that was promotion time for one individual.
But earbuds to accomodaste employees while they are being distracted from work? No even if it's Bach or Sibelius. But as for dress code? I wouldn't look at an application if the baseball cap was on backward. A sign of moronic stupidity unless they are welding.
I sent them out to find the job bush. Big green thing jump up snag a leaf and wow your working. Kerry had them in Massachusetts when he was governor.