LADN bans jeans, sneakers, flip-flops, etc.

If Sam Zell owned the Daily News, there would be no problem here...

Personally, I'm all for a dress code, as long as it's not too stringent, and, as Mizzou exemplified, as long as it takes into account what somebody is doing.

I have no problem with nice shirts, dress-casual pants, etc., but the shoes requirement seems a bit tight, at least for sports people.

I go along with the no-sandals/flip-flops. But, sneakers/running shoes are staples of most sports reporters', and certainly, most sports copy editors', wardrobes, and, most of the time, they make sense in the setting.

Hardwood courts aren't supposed to be walked on in anything other than running running shoes. They are also the best, most comfortable and the most effective and efficient option for going up/down stadium/arena steps and racing around while running quotes on deadlines. They're practically the only option, outside of rubber rain gear/galoshes, when it comes to walking on muddy sidelines and fields, and they're probably the better, surer bets in icy conditions, too.

There's almost no setting in sports where such shoes would look totally out of place, as long as they're relatively clean and not full of holes, or sporting worn threads or laces.

And unless people are looking under your desk while you're sitting at it, they wouldn't be too noticeably out of place in the office, either.

The thing to do should be to dress appropriately, whatever your role.

 

I must have missed the bit where they mentioned hair

 

Must be a treat for the co-workers who just can't get enough of your feet.

 

Heh. I dressed up. The ME walked in wearing a t-shirt and jeans.

On an unrelated note: every time I've seen him on the sidelines at an NFL game, FOX's Chris Myers has been rocking the suit-and-sneakers look.

 

I know sports anchors who do the suitcoat-tie-jeans look. Why not? You can't see below the table on-set anyway.

 

Steve & Barry's (at least, until they die).

Exactly.

 

A photog I worked with at a paper once kept getting the gears for the way he dressed (shorts, sandals, t-shirts, hats). He was told to wear "pants that weren't jeans" and "shoes, not sandals."

He went to the Salvation Army and other thrift stores and put together the most horrible looking wardrobe I've ever seen — think high school kid dresses up in '70s clothes for Halloween . . . on a daily basis.

He wore for a few weeks straight, always telling management the clothes fit the code. Management finally relented.

NOTE: This is the same photog who wore a shirt to work that read "I'm a photographer, not a reporter" silk screened on the front. And "So, don't ask me questions" on the back.

 

If you can train photographers not to take dumps on the carpet, you've done something.

 

The dress code policy is apparently mandated by the owners of the new building the Daily News is moving into in September. Not that it makes it any better. Pretty much everybody did wear jeans to work on Friday. I plan on wearing shorts and sandals on Sunday, like I have done every Sunday since I started working here in 1999. I wonder if Doug Hanes would approve of my sandals if one of them was shoved up his a**.

 

Is shorts with a blazer acceptable? [/crossthreading]

 

I would say flip-flops and sandals aren't appropriate for the office. I would say an unkempt tee shirt isn't appropriate, although some tee shirts cost more than dress shirts. Heck, I bet the condition of some carpets should rule sandals out.

To apply no sneakers and jeans rules to somebody covering a game is dumb, and it is the sort of management which has brought Singleton to the low point where they currently reside.