The recent pleasantly warm weather has resulted in some amusing exchanges on lis-link discussing whether it is possible or desirable to impose dress codes on library users.
For myself, I don't care what they wear so long as they use libraries. As for staff dress codes, though I like to think I am usually fairly well-turned out, years of having to obey an obsessively over-detailed uniform code at school make me resist any attempts to regulate other peoples's clothing. I remember in particular a prohibition on boots which, the headmaster decreed, had 'an indefinable hippy air' and debates about the precise meaning of subfusc. I and my peers were delighted when we discovered a shop selling kipper ties (this was 1970) in the school colours, which we wore to subvert the rules. Whoever had drafted them had not specified the tie width.