Editing Uniform (section)

=== Corporate and work uniforms ===
[[File:Newspaper Vendors in Mexico City March 2010.jpg|thumb|Uniformed newspaper vendors in [[Mexico City]]. Employers in some [[workplace]]s require their employees to wear a uniform.]]
Workers sometimes wear uniforms or [[corporate]] clothing of one nature or another. Workers [[dress code|required to wear a uniform]] may include [[retail]] workers, [[bank]] and [[post-office]] workers, [[public security|public-security]] and [[health-care]] workers, [[blue-collar]] employees, [[personal trainer]]s in health clubs, [[Teacher|instructors]] in [[summer camp]]s, [[lifeguard]]s, [[janitor]]s, [[public transit|public-transit]] employees, [[towing]]- and [[truck]]-drivers, [[airline]] employees and holiday operators, and [[bar (establishment)|bar]], [[restaurant]] and [[hotel]] employees. The use of uniforms in commercial or public-service organizations often reflects an effort in [[brand]]ing and in developing a standard [[corporate image]]; it also has important effects{{which|date=November 2021}} on the employees required to wear uniforms.
 
[[File:Airline Pilot.jpg|thumb|An airline pilot in uniform.]]
The term ''uniform'' may be misleading because employees are not always fully uniform in appearance and may not always wear attire provided by the organization, while still representing the organization in their attire. Academic work on organizational dress by Rafaeli & Pratt (1993) referred to uniformity (homogeneity) of dress as one dimension, and conspicuousness as a second.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rafaeli |first1=A. |last2=Pratt |first2=M. G. |title=Tailored Meanings: On the Meaning and Impact of Organizational Dress |journal=The Academy of Management Review |date=1993 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=32–55 |doi=10.5465/amr.1993.3997506}}</ref> Employees all wearing black, for example, may appear conspicuous and thus represent the organization even though their attire is uniform only in the color of their clothing, not in its features. Pratt & Rafaeli, (1997) described struggles between employees and management about organizational dress as struggles about deeper meanings and identities that dress represents.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pratt |first1=M. G. |last2=Rafaeli |first2=A. |title=Organizational dress as a symbol of multilayered social identities |journal=Academy of Management Journal |date=1997 |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=862–898 |doi=10.5465/256951|doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 }}</ref> And Pratt & Rafaeli (2001) described dress as one of the larger set of symbols and artifacts in organizations, which coalesce into a communication [[Grammar (disambiguation)|grammar]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pratt |first1=M. G. |last2=Rafaeli |first2=A. |title=Symbols as a language of organizational relationships |journal=Research in Organizational Behavior |date=2001 |volume=23 |pages=93–132 |doi=10.1016/S0191-3085(01)23004-4}}</ref>