Hi all,
I was chatting to Nesrin yesterday about her work and she was telling me about when she works in the bank she is not allowed to wear open toe shoes even when it is very hot she has to wear closed toe shoes. Her friend works at a local telecom company and is allowed to wear open toed shoes is this just the type of work business or does it go further and relate to the conservativeness of being a muslim and baring bare feet in public? I know Nesrin would like to wear her sandals to work but she respects the place she works in, she is just jealous of her friend who can wear her open toed shoes to her work

I think this is more to do with the Banks rules and regulations,and the fact that the public could actually see your fiances feet,but her friend in the Telecom company is probably not seen by the public,thats my slant on it anyway

Here in the USA there are more than a few business that don't allow women to wear open toe shoes. It's not considered professional in some corporate settings.

I agree, it definitely depends on where you work. I don't think you should see every tiny little difference between countries as something to do with religion :-/. I wouldn't like to see someone wearing a pretty suit with open shoes, that just doesn't look right!

Hi,
Here in Manila, banks do not allow also wearing of open shoes even though they are not working in the customer service areas. Also, in our company, neither open toed shoes nor sandals are not also allowed for safety purposes. We can wear only sandals when we are in our own office table but once we walk on, we have to wear the closed ones. This rule is followed strictly as one of the safety precautions and office business codes. So when we are issued our official office uniforms, they also provide us closed shoes to complement the uniform.

The days of professional attire to work is slowly diminishing. The term "Business Casual" is what most businesses are going to, even jeans on Fridays in most companies. Working in a bank does have different standards, since they are dealing directly with the public. However, I have seen a change in their attire as well. You don't see many men & women wearing suits too often. I think their starting to figure out polyester isn't the most comfortable attire and you can still look professional in business casual. I think open toe can also be professional and classy as long as you have had a pedicure that is.

Ladies should never be allowed to wear open toe shoes at work. It does not look good if the feet are not pretty: and is down right sexy, if they are.

WHY IS EVERYONE SKIRTING AROUND THESE FACTS?