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Chapter 18 Understanding the Principles of Dressing (4)
However, too much is too much.When choosing casual clothes, whether one's age is commensurate with it must not be completely ignored.When service personnel choose casual clothes for themselves, they should generally make them complement each other with their own age, and it is not advisable to make the two far apart.

Generally speaking, in terms of casual wear and the age requirements of the wearer, it can be divided into two categories:

The first type of casual wear generally has no age restrictions on the wearer, and people of all ages have the opportunity to wear it.This kind of casual clothes are mostly classic casual clothes that have been popular for a long time, such as jackets, T-shirts, jeans, and so on.

The second type of casual wear has restrictions on the age of the wearer and is not suitable for people of all ages.This kind of casual clothes are mostly avant-garde casual clothes that have just become fashionable.For example, a tight-fitting low-cut vest, denim shorts cut with raw edges, black knee-high wool socks with high legs, and a pair of thick-soled cowboy boots are more pleasing to the eye if worn by a girl; If you wear it, you will be regarded as old and not self-respecting.

Fit
Everyone's body is different. When choosing casual clothes, although there is no need to "tailor the clothes", it is still necessary to try to make them coordinate with your body, so as to praise the good and promote the good for yourself, and hide your weaknesses and avoid your weaknesses.

Compared with formal clothes, casual clothes have their own unique style.In general, casual clothes often go to two extremes in terms of styling.Either it is deliberately loose and bulky, emphasizing the beauty of comfort with an exaggerated shape of undressed trousers;Looking for casual clothes in the standard size when wearing formal clothes is often not the right way to go.

Service personnel need to pay attention to that when choosing casual clothes for themselves, although they don't have to make them fit too much, they must pay attention to whether they can maximize their strengths and avoid weaknesses for their figure.The most important point is that I would rather not take it as my own figure to grow, but also use it as my own figure to avoid shortcomings.For example, it is wrong to wear a backless dress for a person with a huge baby on the back, and a miniskirt for a person with deformed legs. These are definitely not conducive to avoiding shortness for one's own figure, so it is wrong.

([-]) Applicable occasions for casual clothes
When choosing casual clothes, service personnel must give priority to their applicable occasions.

According to the specific provisions of service etiquette, service personnel can only wear casual clothes in informal occasions.

Formal occasions generally refer to any place where formal interpersonal communication takes place.Usually, it is divided into two specific situations: official occasions and social occasions.Official occasions mainly refer to the places where people go to work. For service personnel, it refers to the places where they serve people in their jobs.On this occasion, orthodoxy, solemnity and conservativeness are the basic requirements for office workers to dress.Only uniforms, suits, and everything else that meets this requirement are appropriate for official occasions.

What is a social situation?

In social situations, there are usually two meanings.In a broad sense, it refers to all occasions of interpersonal communication activities.In a narrow sense, it refers to occasions where people socialize with others after work.

When social occasions are compared with official occasions, they should generally be understood in terms of the latter meaning.For example, the majority of service personnel often have the opportunity to attend dances, watch performances, be invited to dinners, attend parties, date people, visit others and other amateur activities in their spare time, all of which are extremely typical social activities.

All occasions except official occasions and social occasions should be included in leisure occasions.Strictly speaking, casual occasions refer to all occasions where people have free personal activities after work.It includes being alone in one's own home as well as being with other strangers in public.Recreation at home, going on vacation, exercising, sightseeing, traveling, shopping and shopping, etc., all belong to leisure activities.

Under certain circumstances, service personnel at work are sometimes allowed to wear civilian clothes.They mainly include the following three situations: First, when casual clothes are sold, those who sell casual clothes can wear casual clothes and act as models to set an example.The second is that the nature of the work is relatively special, and it is often inconvenient to wear formal clothes.The third is that the service unit uniformly stipulates a certain casual attire as the formal attire of the unit.In this way, casual clothes are actually transformed into formal clothes invisibly, rather than casual clothes in their original sense.

If you do not encounter the above-mentioned special circumstances, for the sake of prudence, it is better for the service personnel not to claim to wear casual clothes when they are working. When wearing a formal dress, you must pay more attention to this aspect.

([-]) Matching of casual clothes
Service personnel must fully consider the correct collocation when choosing casual clothes.The collocation of clothing usually refers to the organic combination of multiple pieces of clothing that need to be worn at the same time for a certain purpose when people wear clothing, so that they are harmonious, well-matched and echoed with each other. Coordinate with each other in order to make it play the best wearing effect.

In modern life, people pay more attention to the issue of dressing. "Know how to wear clothes" is a kind of praise given by the world to well-dressed people.To be precise, any person who "knows how to wear clothes" has his clothes carefully thought out and carefully matched on the basis of his personal good artistic accomplishment.Therefore, if "can wear clothes" is changed to "can match clothes", the meaning will be more accurate.

Of course, the basic requirements for people to wear casual clothes are comfort, casualness and freedom.Therefore, compared with wearing formal clothes, there will be relatively less attention to collocation when wearing casual clothes.And there are also a lot of freedom, which can be played by anyone.

When service personnel choose casual clothes, if they want to match them correctly, they should generally pay attention to the following four issues:
The collocation principle of casual clothes

style coordination
color harmony
fabric match
refrain from foul
◇Style coordination

The casual clothes chosen by service personnel should be coordinated in style.Any style of casual wear has its dominant style.For example, the unrestrainedness of denim, the boldness of imitation military uniforms, the agility of sportswear, the enthusiasm of beachwear, the appearance of beggars' outfits, and the laziness of homewear, etc., are the main features that make it self-contained.

When conditions permit, casual wear should strive to make it perfectly consistent in style.At least, don't make the multiple pieces of casual clothes you wear at the same time far apart in style and "fight" with each other.For example, if you wear a sweatshirt with pajama pants or nightdress, it will give people a sense of absurdity.

◇Color harmony

The casual clothes chosen by the service personnel should be in harmony with each other in color.In any case, the color of clothing is always the primary point of attention.Because the essence of casual wear is to return to nature and be free, so it pays more attention to being close to nature and restoring nature in terms of color.Relatively speaking, service personnel often encounter many temptations in terms of color when choosing their casual clothes.Compared with the monotonous formal clothes, the colors of the casual clothes are really too much.All the colors in the world seem to be available for casual wear.

When the service personnel combine and match the casual clothes they choose, in addition to paying attention to their color preference and color popularity, it is important to keep calm in color matching.

etiquette experts remind you

When wearing casual clothes, different casual clothes should be unified or echoed in color, and strive to coordinate with each other on the whole.If the five colors are miscellaneous and contradict each other, then the beauty will be lost.

◇The fabric matches well

Casual clothing chosen by service personnel should match each other in fabric.The fabric of clothing usually occupies a certain position in its overall beauty.Whether the fabric is properly selected often directly affects people's overall perception of clothing.

In terms of choice of fabrics, there is a lot of room for casual clothes.In addition to conventional choices such as cotton, hemp, silk, and blended fabrics, wool, leather, leather, plastic, and various chemical fiber fabrics can be selected for casual wear.When service personnel choose casual clothes for themselves, if they need to improve the grade, they must give proper consideration to the fabric.

Service personnel consider the fabric when choosing casual clothes. They should not only pay attention to comfort and aesthetic appearance, but also make the fabrics of several casual clothes worn at the same time roughly the same.Pairing a soft, smooth silk top with a chunky, pimple skirt often doesn't look very comfortable given the contrast between the two.

◇Refrain from fouls

The casual clothes chosen by the service staff should not be used as a rule.When it comes to combining it with casual clothes, people can often do what they want.This is one of the important reasons that make it so popular.However, there are also some examples of collocation of casual clothes, that is, the established rules, which people cannot completely ignore when dressing.

As far as the specific content is concerned, there are mainly three categories of examples of collocation of casual clothes:
One is tops and bottoms collocation.For example, when wearing a jacket, it is usually not appropriate to match it with western shorts.

The second category is the matching of outerwear and underwear.For example, when wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt, it is not advisable to wear a shirt inside at the same time.Otherwise, the collars of the two are stacked on top of each other, which is very ugly.

The third category is the matching of clothes and footwear.For example, leather shoes or sneakers should be worn with jeans rather than cloth shoes or sandals.When wearing shorts and sandals, it is generally unnecessary to wear socks, and it is especially not suitable for women to wear stockings or pantyhose, otherwise it will be superfluous.Only people with serious "conditions" on their legs usually wear them that way.

wearing accessories

([-]) Less is better

When service personnel wear jewelry on their jobs, they must keep in mind that less is better.

When wearing jewelry, because there are more than one variety, it is better to wear several kinds of jewelry.Even if you wear the same type of jewelry, there is often a problem that it is advisable to wear several pieces.For these two practical issues, there are certain norms to follow in service etiquette.

Service etiquette stipulates that when service personnel wear jewelry on their posts, they don't have to rely on their numerical advantages to win.Under normal circumstances, the service staff should pay attention to fewer but better staff.

There are two main reasons for such regulations: on the one hand, it is better to wear less jewelry, which is due to the identity of the service personnel.In fact, not everyone should pay attention to wearing jewelry, less is better.No matter how many accessories a bride wears when dressing herself up, it can be accepted by everyone.But what would others think of a serving woman who wore more jewelry than a bride?

On the other hand, it is better to wear less jewelry, which is also a requirement put forward by the own rules of wearing jewelry.Jewelry wearing, in fact, has its certain restrictions on the specific quantity.If you ignore this when wearing jewelry and blindly greedy for more, so that the variety and number of pieces are both excessive, it is likely to directly damage the decorative effect of the jewelry. Not only does it not add any beauty, but it appears "extravagant and wasteful". , messy and disorganized, and will give people the suspicion of "show".

Service etiquette stipulates that there are usually basic upper and lower limits for service personnel to wear jewelry on their jobs.The so-called upper limit refers to the maximum number of types of accessories that can be worn, and how many pieces of each type can be worn.

etiquette experts remind you

Service personnel who are serving people at work should generally not exceed two varieties when choosing and wearing jewelry.Wearing a specific variety of jewelry should not exceed two pieces.

For example, if there is no special requirement, the jewelry worn by a female service worker on her job can generally be a single type of ring, or a combination of rings and necklaces, rings and brooches, rings and earrings. use.If she wears rings, necklaces, brooches, earrings, and even a pair of bracelets and anklets, they will be difficult to coordinate with each other, and they will even interfere with each other, making it look messy.

Would it still be attractive if she had four rings on one hand, two or three bracelets, or two necklaces around her neck, three brooches on her bosom, and four earrings in each ear?

The so-called lower limit is relative to the upper limit.It refers to the minimum limit on the variety and number of pieces when wearing jewelry.Generally, "zero" can be used as the lower limit for service personnel to wear jewelry on their jobs.That is, you don't need to wear any kind of jewelry.This is especially true for male service personnel.Because in general, it is often more difficult for people to accept men wearing jewelry.

In some special jobs, service personnel should not wear any jewelry due to work needs.Naturally, they also meet this lower limit.

([-]) just right

When service personnel wear jewelry in their own jobs, they must strive to wear it well and just right.In particular, keep in mind and abide by the following four principles:

Four principles of wearing jewelry

meet the uniform requirement
Meet the dress code requirements
meet the requirements of the job
meet the requirements of coordination

◇Meet the requirement of wearing uniform

When wearing a uniform, it is not advisable to wear any jewelry.In formal attire, uniforms not only indicate that they are working, but also represent orthodox and conservative.Therefore, when wearing uniforms, especially when wearing working uniforms, it is better for service personnel not to wear any jewelry.

◇Meet the requirements for wearing formal clothes

When wearing formal attire, craft jewelry should not be worn.Generally speaking, craft jewelry is more suitable for people to wear in social entertainment, so as to highlight the distinctive personality of the wearer himself.However, the basic style of formal wear pursues commonality and does not emphasize individuality. Therefore, it is not suitable for service personnel to wear craft ornaments when wearing formal dress, especially those that are regarded as alternative craft ornaments, such as skulls, Swords, aliens, female body accessories, etc.
. ◇Meet the requirements at work
Jewelry should not be worn at work.Generally speaking, jewelry is expensive and it is more suitable for social occasions.Combining and matching jewelry with dresses and fashions can truly be said to be a perfect match.At work, even if jewelry is allowed, usually service personnel should only choose to wear simple gold and silver jewelry, and absolutely should not wear jewelry, or imitation jewelry, so that they can be full of jewels and shine.In that way, not only will it contradict your own work and dress, but it will also cause the client to criticize accordingly.

◇Meet the requirements of coordination
Wearing accessories should not be out of tune with each other.If service personnel are allowed to wear jewelry during work, they should also strive to be less and better.Even if you plan to wear two kinds of accessories or two accessories at the same time, don't "wear" them on your body at will.If you wear two kinds of ornaments or two ornaments, you must try your best to make them harmonious and unified with each other.In this regard, it is important to focus on three points:

One is to make the two roughly the same in texture.

Second, make the two consistent in color.

The third is to make the two coordinate with each other in style.

In short, it is to unify various and multiple accessories in texture, color and style.Only when these three points are achieved can the wearing of jewelry be just right.

Use of routine supplies

([-]) Work supplies

When service personnel are engaged in service work, they are often indispensable for some daily necessities.Their biggest feature is that they can play various practical roles for service personnel in their service process.Therefore, service personnel must take it seriously at ordinary times and be unremitting.

In service work, the most widely used work supplies for service personnel mainly include ID cards, writing pens, calculators, notepads, and so on.When using these supplies, you should pay attention to their different specific requirements.

Work supplies for service personnel

ID card

Writing pen

Calculator

notebook

◇ID card
Identity card, also known as identification card, name card, name tag for short.It refers to the special signboards worn by service personnel on the job to explain their specific identities, uniformly produced by the unit, and with certain specifications.Wearing an ID card on the job post is beneficial for service personnel to identify themselves and conduct self-monitoring, and it is also convenient for service objects to better seek help or supervise them.

◇Writing pen
At work, service personnel often need to write with the aid of pens, so they must be carried with them.If you can't find pens when you have to write, or you rush to borrow them from others, it is the performance of service personnel's dereliction of duty.

In the workplace, it is best for service personnel to carry two pens at the same time, and one should be a fountain pen and the other should be a ballpoint pen.This requirement is put forward mainly to make it meet the actual needs of service work.

Service personnel should carry a pen with them at ordinary times, mainly for the convenience of writing formal documents with it.Under normal circumstances, the pens carried by service personnel must also be filled with blue-black or black ink.Because the texts and documents written in these two inks are the most formal.

The service staff should also carry a ballpoint pen with them at ordinary times, mainly for the convenience of filling in various formal bills during work.Using a ballpoint pen to copy bills is not only easy, but also ensures clear writing.Generally, a blue ballpoint pen should be used at this time.

Under normal circumstances, whether it is writing texts, receipts, or filling in various types of bills, it is mostly inappropriate to use pencils and signature pens.Therefore, service personnel do not need to carry these two kinds of pens during work.

etiquette experts remind you

The pens that the service personnel carry with them during work are best pinned on the left pocket of the jacket, or on the inner pocket of the jacket.It is generally not appropriate to put it in a trouser pocket.Sometimes, for the convenience of use, the ballpoint pen can be tied with a rope or a belt, and hung behind the neck so that it hangs on the chest.However, you should never carry a pen like this.

◇Calculator
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