Worker's dress in the 50's and 60's
 

Some of the photos here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39295025

remind me of the fact that no matter the type of job, everyone, even labourers would work in a suit. How very inappropriate to wear a suit jacket for this type of work.. I remember my dad always wore a hat, collar and tie, even when he serviced the car. Never seen without them.

I know that modern work gear is a lot more appropriate, but seems a shame that it often looks scruffy!

As an example, every day we cross a manned level crossing. The bloke comes down from his box to shut the gates and is wearing an orange boiler suit and a woolly hat. Just up from him we regularly see track workers wearing the same thing, with the exception of the woolly hat being swapped for a hard hat

In "the old days", the gateman would have been wearing a smart uniform, with a tie and a peaked cap!

I know it shouldn't matter and that I am an old grump, but seems a shame in some ways!

I remember going on holiday with my parents and grandparents - dad and grandad would always wear a suit (and this was driving down from Sheffield to Torquay in the 60's!).

Mike

I remember being on a building site in the 60's and seeing a labourer trying to recover his (suit) jacket from a foulwater drain. It seemed that his sandwiches were in the pocket when it fell in the manhole! :eek:

I have to wear a shirt and tie to drive a 7.5t truck to deliver and fit domestic (and sometimes business) appliances...

Not quite the same as working up to your neck in mud, on a building site. It never seemed incongruous at the time, but now, looking back at the old photos...

Always wore a suit and dust coat as a TV engineer, shoes polished every morning. That was the norm from my first day in January 1970 till i shut my business in 2006.

My Grandfather always wore a shirt tie and a hat when he went outside right up.until his last visit to hospital when he died. My dad always wore a dress shirt but would relax the tie in the summer if not at work.

Strange how times change.

TBH PPE is much better for us that get dirty at work nowadays. Im in overalls all day unless.I am in a meeting then I change into a short and tie

It's nice to see the Eddie Stobbart lorry drivers maintains standard's by having to wear a tie. :}

My late dad always wore a shirt and tie in his last job as a mobile greengrocer, even after he retired , he continued to do so every day right up until a couple of days before he passed away.
Could never understand why,he just used to say," I've always done it"