You are a 4th Year apprentice, what do you do next?

[spuorgelgoog]

And was evacuation delayed because people weren't wearing pyjamas?

Owain

[Thomas Prufer]

... for the cell phone?

Thomas Prufer

[Martin]

LOL Just goes to show that you can write effective brief posts :-)

[Max Demian]

I used to find "dress down Friday" and the like rather annoying as I prefer to wear different clothes at work and leisure. And I would probably have had to buy a pair of blue jeans specifically to wear at work on Fridays.

[Andrew]

I grew up in Barry, South Wales.

A local scrap dealer called Dai Woodham bought up the dock sidings where all the redundant coal hoists used to be connected to, and when BR decommisioned all their steam locos, he bought up hundreds and stored them in these sidings where they would sit and rust. He only sold off the tenders for use by the local steelworks, but didn't cut the engines up immediately, as happened elsewhere, so many were 'saved'.

There were no fences or jobsworths in fluorescent jackets in that era and the place was a magnet for kids. We would climb all over the engines, and pull out the insulation around the boiler and make 'snowballs' out of it !.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Quite - essential for a teenage boy. ;-)

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Foot was a 'corbynite', was he, Bill? Anything else you'd care to invent today?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Well remember a 'suit' in BBC junior management many years ago. Telling off a sound guy for wearing denims. Reason being he was in contact with the talent and they'd be reassured by seeing someone in a suit. This sound guy's main skill was pop music...

[Martin]

Germans still wore their Rommel desert caps when working in their allotments at the same time.

[Huge]

OTOH, I wear jeans and a sweat or T-shirt virtually all the time and once the stupid "dress code" at work was dropped for back-room staff who never saw a customer, that's what I wore to work, also.

[Huge]

Tee-hee.

[Martin]

You'd stick out like a sore thumb dressed like that in some supermarkets.

[Martin]

Too big to put it where nudists put their tram tickets.

[charles]

In yesterday's Sunday Times Culture section there is an item about someone who had a "sudden departure from the job of Artistic Director of Wigmore Hall in 2005". It is suggested by the writer of the piece that it was because of "the fact that he didn't always wear a tie."

[michael adams]

Or a suit.

No mention of pyjamas though.

michael adams

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[The Other John]

I remember working along side BBC OB crews where the riggers wore suits!

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Smart dress was sometimes required on a specific location.

[Chris J Dixon]

I guess from glimpses one catches, that the aim is to blend into the overall look of those attending the event.

IIRC it was said that one of the TOTP directors donned a cheap "rug" so that his shiny pate didn't stand out amongst the teenyboppers.

Chris

[Bill Taylor]

Yes, sometimes dinner jacket for formal evening events, especially if royalty was present and morning suits for the likes of Royal Ascot. (But only for staff who were likely to appear in public.)

[Marland]

tim... wrote

Occasionally the construction of the early Motorways gets featured in some documentary that gets shown on the box ,or you can find them on You Tube.

In those it can be seen that a good proportion of McAlpines Fusiliers worked in all weathers and conditions wearing suits and ties while wielding shovels and pick axes,usually with a white shirt.

Possibly it was the only clothing they had.

GH