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Originally posted by RecRef
Our contract with the schools state that we have to wear a coat, dress shirt and slacks, tie. A turtleneck may be substituted for the dress shirt and tie. On really cold days or snow days we can skip the sports coat or suit coat and wear a heavy parka. Woman are similar dressed/business dressed but no tie.
Some of us have taken to just buttoning the top shirt button and no tie. I don?t like that myself. What I do is wear a dark colored undershirt that compliments my dress shirt, this when I where a V-neck sweater over my dress shirt while wearing a sports coat.
Last minute call to do a game, you get what you get.
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I think this is really excessive to be required. If someone doesn't regularly wear suits in thier career, this can be very burdonsome. I would never think it reasonable ask someone to spend 10-20x a game fee to buy clothes to show up in, particularly at the rates we get paid..Or to expect someone to change clothes from their professional day job where such attire would only draw jokes.
I know many people who show up in various levels of attire from jeans/t-shirts all the way to suits. I know several of the best in our area that regularly make the state tourney that arrive at games in jeans. It doesn't seem to impact their ability to officiate nor the coaches/ADs perception of thier ability to officiate. The coaches around here are certainly more intelligent than to think that a suit makes the ref a better ref.
Me, I'm usually in jeans and a nice shirt, sometimes dockers or something similar. The requirement of wearing of suits/ties in my profession was elminated about 20-30 year ago when they realized that it didn't add to the ability of the engineers to do the work.
[Edited by Camron Rust on Feb 21st, 2003 at 12:37 PM]