Working clothes or working clothes is clothes, which are carried during the practice of an occupation of service, either protecting the body (therefore also protective clothing) or however a clear recognizability requires. In some occupations carrying working clothes is prescribed.

Working clothes is usual clothes of an occupation, whose procurement is incumbent on in principle the employee, but are limited according to the requirements of the owed work in the selection. (see judgement Federal Labor Court from 13 February 2003 (Az. 6 AZR 536/01).

Special kinds of occupation-referred clothes

Beside working clothes into above mentioned senses service clothes become between uniforms (e.g. with the military), and Amtstracht differentiated.

Special pieces of working clothes are the Dresscodes of the so-called guild clothes (gap), which are particularly carried by men on journey.

Furthermore a special role takes the Business clothes, which do not have any functional necessity, but in certain fields of the working life a respectable radiant emittance to obtain are and as standard was therefore established.

Special parts of the working clothes

• Smock (e.g. Food production, medical range)
• Sicherheitsschuhe (with Stahlkappe)
• Helmet
• Working gloves
• Blue man (pair of overalls)
• determined head coverages (e.g.: Cook cap)

Carrier

• Coworker of emergency services (e.g. Medic, mountain rescue team personnel)
• Welfare army
• Certain personnel in the traffic
  • Personal in the navigation (officers, captains, all sailors of the navy (of armed forces: everything; Merchant fleet: only officers), harbour master, Kommodore, Schiffsstewards)
  • Course personnel (so far with external effect; in 20. Century were German station custodians member of the military)
  • Aviation personnel (so far with external effect, e.g. Pilot, flight engineers, flight companion)
  • Personal of transporting enterprises
• Sport associations, sport crews
  • Professional sportsman as a member of crews with matches
  • Professional sportsman as representatives of a national whole with meetings (e.g. Introduction of the national teams with Olympiads)
  • Arbitrator
• Craftsman and
  • traditional carpenters (in Europe)
  • Chimney sweep (in Central Europe)
  • Guild master (with festive causes)
  • Craftsman of an enterprise (with special orders)
  • Cooks (with two-heron, cook cap and towel in the federation)
  • (Bestatter)
• Service industries (see also Corporate Identity)
  • Hotel personnel
  • Cooks and kitchen assistance
  • Awake people (in Germany stretcher obligation in the field service)
  • Sales personnel partially
  • Personal the system catering trade
  • Personal the post office in the field service and in the service at the counter
  • Personal the parcel services

Workwear mode

For the 1980er years and still more strongly into the 1990er years was established proper Workwear mode. Pieces of occupation clothing became fashionable Requisiten. This tendency under HipHoppern and Skatern was particularly common. Punctually there was this tendency however already much in former times, then the classical Jeans is an article of clothing, which originally comes of to the work clothes. Skinheads began to carry for the 60's work clothes in the spare time (particularly work shoes).

See also: List of the articles of clothing, school uniform, field jacket, badge, rank, rank insignia, Tracht

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