www.protoolreviews.com: How you look on a jobsite reflects (to your clients, at least) how well you will manage a project or carry it through to completion. There’s something about a well-dressed tradesman or supervisor that sends the message: “This is a person who cares about his or her own appearance.” The perception is that they’ll care about the appearance and care of your jobsite as well. Conversely, someone who’s not well put-together can give off the impression that he might not care as much about how your project looks in the end either. Details are important.
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I love this article. I love wearing workwear. There are so many ways to dress on a jobsite and different people pull off different looks. There are the guys that dress in sloppy clothes with paint all over them and while they are probably really good carpenters, id rather hire a guy that wears clean carharrts or khakis and a tucked in shirt. You need to dress to impress even on a job site when it is often that people never see you. You need to feel like you know what you are doing. I am always treated differently in Home Depot or the lumber yard in the summer vs the winter because in the summer I typically wear carhartts and other workwear and in the summer I wear tshirts and shorts you wouldn’t see 500ft from a construction site. In the summer people treat me like I have no idea what I am doing, but in the winter the associates talk to me like I am an experienced carpenter and it all has to do with how I dress.
Appearance is important, there's no doubting that. I'm really glad that someone took the time and the effort to design pieces of clothing that are both professional looking and able to be worn on a job site. So much of my wardrobe has been decimated by crew that I actually had to buy a few new black shirts because mine had been stained and ripped. However, it makes all the difference. If you aren't looking presentable, then people will look down on you, plain and simple. We might think that we don't judge people for looking messy, but something doesn't switch when we see the clean-cut carpenter over the one with paint-stained clothes. Also, women need these clothes too! I doubt that anything I would buy from this shop would actually fit me. I was disappointed to not see anything geared towards women besides the shoes. I know this is a new product and they're probably going to expand in the future, but I was really looking forward to that. Also, the only thing for women is a pair of shoes that's pink. Do I really have to go into that? Come on guys.
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