Do You Change Clothes After Work?

[ChrisL]

I've fully embraced the casual nature of my company and it's odd to come home and not feel that I have to change into fun clothes. 

For the past 30 years I've worn uniforms or suites.  Weird to play in work clothes.

[Dirtyhip]

I have several looks.

Work clothes

Bike clothes

trail work clothing (carharts and T shirt)

Pajamas

or nothing

OK, I do have grocery shopping clothing, but that is also a form of sports attire. 

[Randomguy]

I like Amish underwear for lounging.  Cotton is nice.  

Do you think Amish people have a lot of wild sex?

[sheep_herder ★]

I do not think that I've ever come home and changed clothes after work.  I might have a few times, if I was extremely dirty. Work and life meshed pretty well for me over the years.

[Dirtyhip]

1 minute ago, Dickbag said:

I like Amish underwear for lounging.  Cotton is nice.  

Do you think Amish people have a lot of wild sex?

One word.  Rumspringa.

[Randomguy]

3 minutes ago, Dirtyhip said:

One word.  Rumspringa.

Oh yeah, they are coked up straight pimpin’ for a year or so, I forgot about that.  Rabid weasels.  

They must think about that the rest of their lives. 

[shootingstar]

At work, sometimes I am in business casual several times /yr. with dark jeans and tailored shirt or top. Other times, more formal, "career" in skirts, dress shoes, etc.

****But still I feel even more relaxed to change into home wear (from cycling clothing if I bike): ....I wear shorts, T-shirt....even in the coldest winter weeks when it's =25 degrees C. Yup. I like my shorts at home.  Wearing jeans at home is not fully comfortable to me or other casual pants with waistband.  If I always wear long leggings at home and never expose my leg skin, then my skin becomes even drier and flakes onto my dark pants.

I don't even wear slippers at home. I'm barefoot....even in winter.  And we get snow outside.

[Dirtyhip]

Just now, Dickbag said:

Oh yeah, they are coked up straight pimpin’ for a year or so, I forgot about that.  Rabid weasels.  

They must think about that the rest of their lives. 

They get a taste.  Just a taste. 

[Kirby]

I almost always take a shower when I get home from work, and I change into comfy clothes after that.

[Longjohn ★]

Back in the day when I worked I wore a work uniform with my name on the pocket. When I was done work for the day I would take off my uniform and put it in the dirty uniform locker and get a shower. Then I either put on a clean uniform to wear home or put on my bike clothes to ride home. I usually either worked second or third shift so I was usually going to bed when I got home.

[maddmaxx ★]

Work?

[Airehead]

Most always change because I don't like wearing dress clothes at home.

[JerrySTL ★]

I usually work out after work. So I do change clothes after work and again after I get home.

[Wilbur ★]

I only wear pilot clothes.  Even to bed.

[maddmaxx ★]

5 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

I only wear pilot clothes.  Even to bed.

Wait......I've got this.

1.  You are a pilot.

2.  You wear clothes.........or not.

3  Ergo anything you do or do not wear is "pilot clothes".

 

You have to get up pretty early to fool me.  

[2Far ★]

Yeah. Flannel pants and a tee shirt. Barefoot in the spring/summer/fall, currently wearing socks. It's my hot look. 

[BR46]

Change as soon as I get home unless I going to the garage to work on things. 

[Wilbur ★]

20 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

Wait......I've got this.

1.  You are a pilot.

2.  You wear clothes.........or not.

3  Ergo anything you do or do not wear is "pilot clothes".

 

You have to get up pretty early to fool me.  

Crap! You broke my code. 

[Longjohn ★]

29 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

I only wear pilot clothes.  Even to bed.

With an eye patch and a peg leg?

[Further]

I wear a company supplied uniform at work & shower & change before I leave.  

Casual dress is a pretty big step up for me.

Cheap jeans & tee or sweat shirt is my norm.

[Longjohn ★]

5 minutes ago, Further said:

I wear a company supplied uniform at work & shower & change before I leave.  

Casual dress is a pretty big step up for me.

Cheap jeans & tee or sweat shirt is my norm.

I'm glad to see we have at least one normal person on the forum.

 

[Dirtyhip]

I change out of my work clothes, before I ride home. My commute is too cold to wear work clothes home.  Besides, I usually wear dresses. 

[groupw]

Run, ride or go to the gym most days after work so I change at least once and usually twice after work. 

[Parr8hed]

There is a VERY good chance that I get blood on my work clothes every day.  We have one patient with the HIV, one with the hep B and several who got the hep C.  

You better believe I change my clothes when I get home.  Probably half the time I shower as well and get into gym shorts and a t shirt because usually I catch Emmy for her pitching drills as soon as she gets off the bus.  

[Longjohn ★]

11 hours ago, Dickbag said:

I like Amish underwear for lounging.  Cotton is nice.  

Do you think Amish people have a lot of wild sex?

Do you know what Amish underwear look like? I see them every Monday hanging on their solar clothes dryer. They look like fruit of the loom whitey tighties.

[BuffJim]

When I go to the gym after work, I shower there and put my work clothes back on. Slacks and button down shirts with dress shoes. Ties are for funerals and weddings. 

At home it’s T-shirts and pj bottoms or shorts. On weekends I wear my fancy T-Shirts. The ones I hang on hangers. 

Not a sweater guy, Lumberjack shirts or hoodies for me. 

[BuffJim]

Just now, BuffJim said:

When I go to the gym after work, I shower there and put my work clothes back on. Slacks and button down shirts with dress shoes. Ties are for funerals and weddings. 

At home it’s T-shirts and pj bottoms or shorts. On weekends I wear my fancy T-Shirts. The ones I hang on hangers. 

Not a sweater guy, Lumberjack shirts or hoodies for me. 

For church I wear my work clothes. 

[BuffJim]

2 hours ago, Parr8hed said:

There is a VERY good chance that I get blood on my work clothes every day.  We have one patient with the HIV, one with the hep B and several who got the hep C.  

You better believe I change my clothes when I get home.  Probably half the time I shower as well and get into gym shorts and a t shirt because usually I catch Emmy for her pitching drills as soon as she gets off the bus.  

Always give me the creeps when I see medical people in public with scrubs on. Though I must admit scrubs are sexy. Not on men though. 

[Parr8hed]

Just now, BuffJim said:

Always give me the creeps when I see medical people in public with scrubs on. Though I must admit scrubs are sexy. Not on men though. 

[Parr8hed]

1 minute ago, BuffJim said:

Always give me the creeps when I see medical people in public with scrubs on.

I agree though.  Scrubs are created to be worn at work.  Anyone that truly works in an acute area understands this.  OR, ICU, ER, etc.  When you see someone out in scrubs 99% of the time I feel like they are office staff or something like that.  It's kinda looked down upon in the industry.  Kinda like bad karma of wearing a race tshirt to a race prior to running it.

[Longjohn ★]

16 minutes ago, BuffJim said:

For church I wear my work clothes. 

I grew up always wearing a suit to church. When I an older teenager I decided I was not going to do that anymore. Some of the older men thought that wasn’t being “proper”. I told them at least I don’t go to church in my work clothes. They were business men and wore a suit to work everyday.

[Parr8hed]

Most men would love to have their wives come home and strip off their clothes at the back door.  When mine does that I just think "Ew, bedbugs again".

 

 

[shootingstar]

17 minutes ago, Parr8hed said:

I agree though.  Scrubs are created to be worn at work.  Anyone that truly works in an acute area understands this.  OR, ICU, ER, etc.  When you see someone out in scrubs 99% of the time I feel like they are office staff or something like that.  It's kinda looked down upon in the industry.  Kinda like bad karma of wearing a race tshirt to a race prior to running it.

I'm not sure where your hospitals are located. But there are 4 major hospitals in downtown Toronto all within 1 km. radius --meaning each over 300-400 beds ...acute care, etc. The whole works. Seeing occasionally some people in scrubs or even nurses in uniform on the street, in stores, is not unusual since they may be off to get something to eat during their break. They maybe tired of the coffee shop/restaurant choice inside their hospital. Or just need to clear their head by going for a short walk.

[shootingstar]

One thing for certain, I don't wear pj bottoms during the day at home.  I never have.  It would feel to me psychologically that I never quite woke up from bed.

It's pathetic when going to a hotel and in morning, at the breakfast hotel rm., occasional adult guests come down in their pj's.  Stupid.  In all honesty, I would have children older than 3-5 yrs. old, also change into regular day clothing.  They  have to learn..early no matter what, even if they whine away.  (Actually most kids I see, look enthused to try the breakfast buffet.)

[The_Karen_Cooper_Incident]

I work from home.  I rarely wear clothes.

DK

[Parr8hed]

42 minutes ago, shootingstar said:

I'm not sure where your hospitals are located. But there are 4 major hospitals in downtown Toronto all within 1 km. radius --meaning each over 300-400 beds ...acute care, etc. The whole works. Seeing occasionally some people in scrubs or even nurses in uniform on the street, in stores, is not unusual since they may be off to get something to eat during their break. They maybe tired of the coffee shop/restaurant choice inside their hospital. Or just need to clear their head by going for a short walk.

It happens.  Lots of people wear scrubs around.  But a lot of the acute areas people are not allowed to wear scrubs in/out.  They have to change there.  OR is a big one on this.  You almost never see true OR scrubs out.  This is done to keep OR germs in the OR and outside germs outside.  ICU can be like this in some places.  It is huge on oncology units.  Nobody wants outside germs in the bone marrow transplant unit.  I really dislike seeing hospital scrubs outside.  

Now the people that may work in the hospital, but in a sub-acute unit?  I am fine with them.  People that wear scrubs at offices, vets, etc?  That's fine.  Just no OR scubs out in public.  That's gross.  

[shootingstar]

19 minutes ago, Parr8hed said:

It happens.  Lots of people wear scrubs around.  But a lot of the acute areas people are not allowed to wear scrubs in/out.  They have to change there.  OR is a big one on this.  You almost never see true OR scrubs out.  This is done to keep OR germs in the OR and outside germs outside.  ICU can be like this in some places.  It is huge on oncology units.  Nobody wants outside germs in the bone marrow transplant unit.  I really dislike seeing hospital scrubs outside.  

Now the people that may work in the hospital, but in a sub-acute unit?  I am fine with them.  People that wear scrubs at offices, vets, etc?  That's fine.  Just no OR scubs out in public.  That's gross.  

Sure, I was referring to clean uniform scrubs in general. But agree with the infection control mandatory procedures for certain units.

What boggles my mind is how "open" some the hospitals are where the patients are in bed.  Security is a big concern.

[Parr8hed]

9 minutes ago, shootingstar said:

 

What boggles my mind is how "open" some the hospitals are where the patients are in bed.  Security is a big concern.

It always amazed me when I worked for Koda.  I would just walk into any ICU in the state of Kentucky (plus a few in Indiana and West Virginia) and just start asking for things. I would just walk up into the nursing station and pull charts.  I RARELY got questioned.  Granted I was allowed to be there, but few people really knew that.  

When I first started working for KODA there was a dude that kinda took me under his wing.  He was well liked.  He told me the secret to going into an ICU in rural Kentucky where you have never been before.  The advice is kinda crass, but it works.  He said just walk in there like you have the biggest dick in Kentucky.  

There is something to that.  See if you walk in and act like you are confident and you have done this a million times then people rarely argue with you.  It is all in how you carry yourself.  When I would walk into a patient room (we rarely wore scrubs) I made a point to start with some techy talk with the nurses.  "What's his ICP? Does he breath over the vent? Does he have pupils?, Is he on pressors..."  Once they figure that you speak the language that instantly makes you more credible.  

But yea, it's very easy to just walk into an ICU.  

[shotgun]

Not usually, except in the summer when I change into shorts, or if I going for a bike ride. I don't usually wear lycra to work. 

 

[team scooter]

I shower and change every day when I get home from work. 

[Square Wheels]

Gotta put on my sweatpants or shorts.  I have a pair of jeans somewhere, I never wear them.

[Wilbur ★]

1 hour ago, Square Wheels said:

Gotta put on my sweatpants or shorts.  I have a pair of jeans somewhere, I never wear them.

This.  I absolutely hate wearing jeans around the house.  

[shotgun]

2 hours ago, Wilbur said:

This.  I absolutely hate wearing jeans around the house.  

What?! I wear them all the time. I like wearing jeans so much I have two pair on right now.

[sheep_herder ★]

3 hours ago, Wilbur said:

This.  I absolutely hate wearing jeans around the house.  

Jeans are essentially all I wear, home and away.  Not sure I have any dress pants that fit, and I do not wear shorts except cycling or at the gym. Needing to work with the critters during day and night, dictates something other than shorts.  This was also true when I was working.

[Dirtyhip]

6 hours ago, shootingstar said:

One thing for certain, I don't wear pj bottoms during the day at home.  I never have.  It would feel to me psychologically that I never quite woke up from bed.

It's pathetic when going to a hotel and in morning, at the breakfast hotel rm., occasional adult guests come down in their pj's.  Stupid.  In all honesty, I would have children older than 3-5 yrs. old, also change into regular day clothing.  They  have to learn..early no matter what, even if they whine away.  (Actually most kids I see, look enthused to try the breakfast buffet.)

I live in pajama bottoms, when I am at home. They are like my version of sweat pants. Fleeced warmth. Our home can be quite cold. 

[Dirtyhip]

I find jeans uncomfy and stiff. Bleh.

[Ralphie ★]

6 hours ago, Dirtyhip said:

I find jeans uncomfy and stiff. Bleh.

Me too!  I am one of the few who chooses not to wear them to work. 

[Dirtyhip]

1 minute ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

Me too!  I am one of the few who chooses not to wear them to work. 

My go to comfy pants are cords. 

[Ralphie ★]

6 hours ago, Dirtyhip said:

I live in pajama bottoms, when I am at home. They are like my version of sweat pants. Fleeced warmth. Our home can be quite cold. 

Sweat pants are my sweat pants - nice fleecy ones.  Fleecy stuff is de rigeur for winter wear in a chilly house.

 

[Dirtyhip]

1 minute ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

Sweat pants are my sweat pants - nice fleecy ones.  Fleecy stuff is de rigeur for winter wear in a chilly house.

 

I don't own a pair of sweat pants.