Sometimes I think that it must be hilarious to work in our hospital’s paging center. We have both the ability to text page from our computer and have our paging service staff find individual people. Cell phones are moderately effective in the building and I probably abuse my paging privileges. I am also a crappy individual because I almost always set my paging status to “unavailable”. I hate getting paged.
Yesterday I returned some things to one of my favorite stores called Maurices. We have a dress code in the hospital, so I’m always on the lookout for clothes that are both professional and practical for having to go down to the lab. They’re a pretty great spot for things like that. While I was finishing, the lady at the register said to me, “You really have a great figure. We just got a new dress in and it would be perfect for your shape.”
This is the dress:
I tried it on and the shop ladies went wild over it. I bought it and am wearing it today, but I am still a fat kid on the inside and was having second thoughts about the wisdom of pouring myself into this very form fitted dress. That lead to this morning’s irrational text to my friend in cardiac imaging lab:
“I need you to come check and see if I look like a sausage.”
No need to sign it. She’ll know who it was.
I can only imagine what the folks in the paging center must think as they see these zoom by.
R U brave enough to let us know what size you wear??
I don’t know that it’s “bravery” to tell you that I bought a 12 in this dress, but there you are.
It’s gorgeous. No one would like a sausage in that dress.
Sigh. *look like*
gorgeous, darling!
Love the dress!
We have a dress code in the hospital[.]
I never heard of such a thing before, so I went and checked out our medical center’s. Allz it says is no jeans, no workout clothes, no bare midriffs, and no potentially offensive tattoos. It also seems purely exhortatory, as it says that the institution “would appreciate your cooperation in avoiding” these horrible items.
Our dress code is four pages long and is certainly not “exhortatory.”
There is also a dress code in our medical center/school. The basic scientists usually ignore it within reason: the bare midriff is certainly a no no either in the basic science departments or in the medical school. But jeans and work out clothes are a standard, especially during days where there are no commitments outside the lab.
As far as the dress goes–it is really quite pretty.
Pretty dress! So glad I don’t have a dress code though – I had one through high school and something about having those rules just makes me want to dress like a petulant teenager, and really I’m too old for torn jeans and doc martens.
Man, if my lab/company were “no jeans” we’d all be naked! What else do you wear in the lab? Dockers?
It’s only a problem if I sent that page. That nice dress can’t save the bearded guy.
If I’m doing something that could ruin my clothes, I wear either a labcoat or scrubs and danskos.
there is a large difference between the basic science and clinical science communities. It is often a non-overlapping difference. It is irritating as all get out. But the dress is gorgeous. What shoes?