Dressing for the Office... Men vs Women

[AviatorTom]

Woman and Man working together at the Office

Have you ever wondered why men and women dress differently for the office? In particular, women tend to wear dresses while men wear shirt and pants, sometimes with a jacket.

Here's a typical woman dressed for the office ...

Woman dressed for the Office

... and here's a typical man.

Man dressed for the Office

Notice the major difference? It's the amount of skin that's exposed to view.

The woman's face, arms, hands, legs and upper chest are uncovered, compared to the man who only shows his face and hands.

Ever wonder why that is?

It goes back to basic biology ... and history.

The innate instinct in every species is to reproduce, to procreate and continue the species. To that end, a female's role is to attract a worthy male, while the male's role is to respond to the female's attraction.

In humans, the best way to do that for the female is to show off her body, which also increases the amount of attracting pheromones. Okay, not every woman wants to procreate every day at the office, but the basic instinct is still there.

Historically, men worked in dirty and sometimes dangerous jobs, where covering up was a benefit, to protect their bodies.

So, now we know ... what do you think?

[Red-Blaze]

I honestly dont think its so much on the recreation part
In tribes that are yet to adopet todays life style man and woman wear about the same or the woman wears more, there closer to the times you talk about

I think its much more possible its
A. The time Man and Woman got into the office
Man where origanlly the main office pepole dressed very officel
By the time woman come more into the work fource with likely more free dressing with a more open fation
Or before hand worked more "Sexy" jobs that meant showing skin may be part of the job reqrerments

B. Simply are fation outside and in work

Did not do research on any of this just guessing for now

[Red-Blaze]

Thank you for the MHO again :)

[OlderAndWiser]

I think women's fashions are designed to expose more skin, to look sexy in a non-obvious way, and women simply follow the fashion without giving it any consideration. Also, women's fashions change cyclically while men's fashions evolve VERY slowly.

[OlderAndWiser]

Thanks for MHO!

[ChrisMaster69]

Nope, men are more controlled by social constraints mainly by fuckwits that say they must wear a suit to the office, where no customers or anyone else other than fellow workers will see them.

the guy in the photo has a tie on, which is fine if he is with a customer, but fucking pathetic if it’s his normal work and everyone else is an employee.

One of first changes I made with my role was people not customer facing dress comfortably within reason, you do not need to wear a tie or shirt.

if you want to wear shorts, make sure they are smart casual but you can wear shorts, it’s only your work colleagues that will see you.

Anyone working for a company that makes them wear a suit and tie and is not customer facing is fucking stupid and is working for a control freak organisation.

employees wear what allows you to get maximum effort out of them, if by not wearing a tie, John works an extra 15 productive minutes in the morning without a break and same for afternoon, that means losing the tie increased productivity by 30 mins.

Historically men dominated the work place and set the standards, which in some places have never ever changed.

Women come along and do not have these same standards, also their fashion is far wider in regards to colours etc, they have more choice, greater latitude in types of outfit, dress, skirt, blouse, jumper, trousers, jeans, shorts,

Also for the showing off body and history, historically women were covered pretty much head to toe.

[susie22]

My workplace is basically "business casual", there really isn't a defined dress code. Guys wear dress slacks and usually a button-front shirt, and I normally wear a miniskirt/blouse combo or a short dress, nobody seems to have any issues.

[ethanallen]

I have worked with a lot of women who show a lot a cleavage and wear tight skirts that show off their ass. Why do they do this? Because their male supervisors will fuck them and then promote them. Women who don't have the ability to create value for the firm will spread their legs for their boss to get themselves up the ladder. Some guys will call them whores but it is just female nature. Women want a man to take care of them. That includes being taken care of at the office and being taken care of at home. A woman's vagina is like a bank account that will be depleted by the time she is 40 so she has to make astute transactions with her pussy.

[Snsl153]

What do I think? I think you're wrong, because people aren't so simple and predictable. Instincts are something we have the capacity to overcome or ignore, unlike the animals you clearly compare us to; in other words, we're not always just thinking about having sex and "reproducing". For most of us most of the time we have other priorities (like keeping our civilisation running, which is why we go to work in the first place).

[LaineyLuiza]

I work from home generally but if I have to dress for business I will wear a skirt suit, with a pencil skirt, pretty blouse and heels. It is not about impressing someone else it is about how I feel.

[NathanDavis]

actually... men wear suits to conform to the uniformity and fit in, so most men end up looking the same to one another and also every day

women usually like to stand out and then go for variety, which then tends to turn into creativity

[lizardbc]

All I'm gonna say is that if I wore that dress into my internship I would get told to leave lol. Women have a lot of leeway and its harder than you think.

[exitseven]

I think ifa guy showed up to the office in a skirt there would be a lot of talk.

[AviatorTom]

Unless he's a Scot wearing a kilt 😏

[purplepoppy]

Also men don't look good in short skirts and haven't the intelligence to realise the office is climate controlled and there's no need to cover up.

[zagor]

That's WHY they need to cover up. Most offices I've worked in are over AC'd. And in the places I've lived the AC is used a lot more than the heat.

[TroyDT]

This is great. This type of discussion is usually in regards to how men can get away with wearing the same suit every day if he just changes his tie while women get asked if they wore that outfit last week.

[RuthlessAggression]

Thats because society has told us that women wear dresses and men don't

Which is funny because the skirt, was originally meant for, and created by, men

[Boldy_Erin]

I almost always wear either a dress or blouse and skirt to work

[humanearth]

I've always worked in dangerous lines of work

If I wore a dress for work. That dress would be the very last thing I would wear

Because I would be dead, it got caught in a machine

[andreasderjuengere]

To 'dress for the office' in a certain way makes for an opportunist.

I think: pity the lemmings.

[bamesjond0069]

Women always trying to get that sexual attention. Lmao. This is why most men just see them as sex objects.

[LimitedBenefits101]

Women love showing skin