http://shine.yahoo.com/secrets/not-wear-office-180500140.htmlI thought I would post this. The subject didn't seem so interesting at first, but reading the comments, I am surprised how many times I have come across some of this stuff before. I am sure some of you have as well. It is also primarily focused on women's clothes, but most of them apply equally in their own way to men (I don't men wearing skirts too short either).
I think #3 about wearing excessive perfume is the one that bugs me the most. Years ago at an older office, the site labor contractor had a time keeper that wore too much perfume. You could always tell where she had been for 30 min or an hour after she left. The same was true more recently for a guy that used to come out and calibrate our gas meters at one site. It seemed the excessive smell of cologne would hang around for an hour or so.
The comment I saw below the article was "Your perfume/cologne should not enter the room before you do". IMO, it shouldn't hang around after you leave either.
Most guys in chemical plants these days wear fire retardant uniforms so most of these are not an issue. As for the office, please let me say that if a girl wants engineers to notice her, she doesn't really need to display anything. They'll notice anyway.