Workwear
Special clothing or work wear is clothing that is worn in the exercise of a service profession, a craft or an engineering profession. It is supported if the activity requires protecting the own body (protective clothing) or a clear identification, or for reasons of hygiene is necessary (eg doctors or when working in cleanrooms body dust or hair to hold back ). In other cases, special clothing is worn tradition (eg Zunftbekleidung ). In some professions, the wearing of special clothing is required by a dress code.
Subgroups of workwear workwear and uniforms. As workwear garments are understood to be wearing a worker to protect his own clothes during working hours, for example coat. Uniforms prescribed by the employer to allow the employee gives a uniform appearance, such as in a restaurant or at the hotel. A particular form of work clothing is the clothing - this is required for occupations that are exposed to special risks during the performance of their duties. For protective clothing include about helmets, safety gloves or masks.
The procurement of special clothing shall in principle to the employee, by law arranged protective clothing must provide or assume the cost of the acquisition by the employer. If the employer arranges a uniformed dress in a certain color, material and appearance, one speaks of uniforms. Usually, it is provided without charge.
Work-related clothing other occupations and activities
In certain areas of public service, eg fire and police departments, the military, Church service, in court and in special volunteer Tätigigkeiten in politics a certain clothing is required, see
- Official clothing Amtstracht
- Uniform
- Uniform
A special role is played by the business attire and office attire, which has no functional necessity, but has become established in certain fields of professional life as a standard.
History of workwear
Workwear, went out their function by a pure protection against hazards, already developed in the Middle Ages. Even then wore craftsmen garments which they identified as belonging to their profession. Over the years, these garments are developed further in order to become the new production and working conditions. Many occupations in the trades have still a traditional craft clothing that is either worn continuously upon exercise of profession or is but at certain stages, such as the completion of the training, applied.
The Workwear by nurses and carers comes from the Ordensornat. The Nursing Sisters was for the most part, these dressed in simple robes and wore hoods on their heads. This classic nurses bonnet has disappeared from the Workwear in nursing, the traditional and easy-care white color for coats and trousers but was replaced only with the advent of more resistant materials by colorful shades.
Parts of workwear
Headgear
- Chef's Hat
- Head cover ( especially in operating theaters and clean rooms )
- Sport helmet, forestry helmet, football helmet
- Bump cap
- Bergmütze at the German Federal Post Office (until 1994), the German Federal Railways, Technical Relief, the German Red Cross, Malteser, highway maintenance, ADAC
- Boat with cabin crew, youth organizations like the Boy Scouts, cooks
- Sailor's cap
Outer garments
- Caban
- Cargo pants
- Fisherman's Shirt
- Kittel ( eg food production, Medical )
- Kasack (doctors, health and nursing )
- Overall ( Blue Man )
- Dungarees
- Flares
- Protection trousers
Hand and Footwear
- Protective gloves
- Oversleeves
- Wellington
- Safety shoes ( with steel toe )
- Waders
Carrier
In Transportation
- Marine personnel
- Railway personnel
- Aviation personnel
In crafts
- Carpenters / Joiners (brown)
- Mason / Painter / Plasterer (White)
- Chimney Sweep (Black)
- Electrician ( Red)
- Sanitary technician ( blue)
- Drywall (gray)
- Garten-/Landschaftsbauer (green)
- Baker / confectioner
- Butcher
- Fisherman
- Cooks ( with double-breasted chef's hat and towel in the covenant )
For Medical Personnel
- Doctors
- Surgeons
- Nurse
- Rescue service personnel
- Pharmacist
In the service sector
- Undertaker
- Guards
- Sales staff ( partial)
- System catering
- Postal workers in the field and in the switch service
- Parcel service personnel (mostly )
- Staff
- Servants
In Sports
- Athletes as members of teams in competitions
- Referee
Market
In 2007, about 750 million euros was reacted with workwear in Germany.
Workwear Fashion
Since the 1980s and even more in the 1990s, established a regular workwear fashion. Professional clothing became fashionable props. Particularly widespread this tendency was among hip- hoppers and skaters. Occasional gave this tendency, however, much earlier, the classic denim jeans is a garment which originally comes from the work clothes. Skinheads began around since the 60s work clothes in the spare time to wear (especially work shoes ).