Alyssa+McElroy

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Gill Eastgate, managing director of Edinburgh, Scotland-based NKD Clothing, says that a good staff image exudes confidence, **//professionalism//** and implies a top-quality service. Helen Harker, head of design at Simon Jersey, suggests operators introduce a colour theme through the staff **//uniforms//** and the interior decoration. Do consider that a single specified **//uniform//** might not be the best option, advises Nick Jubert, managing director at Denny's, which opened a fitting centre **//in//** the City of London last year to offer a professional measuring service for employee **//uniforms//**. "Many companies want to allow employees to express their individuality by introducing a corporate wardrobe that gives an individual a number of **//uniform//** options, allowing garments to be selected that complement their individual style," he says. convey a classic yet superior look says Rick Shonfeld, commercial director at Tibard, but purely for reasons of practicality. "There is a very good reason why black is so popular: it covers up unsightly stains and marks better than any other colour, and although we are seeing increased demand for dark grey, charcoal and even brown, black is still very much the favoured option. Choosing garments your staff will want to wear is important, too, says Sue Stedman, founder and director of Sue Stedman Corporate Clothing, as it has been found that if staff feel good **//in//** what they are wearing, it is not only motivational, but makes them feel more confident **//in//** their role. "I understand that many businesses are struggling through this economic downturn but scrimping on the quality of staff **//uniforms//** now will cost a business more **//in//** the future. Garments bought from retail just simply will not last within a corporate environment and a cheap suit is screamingly obvious."

Discourse on **//school//** **//uniforms//** addresses a range of issues surrounding education and the lives of students and families. The most longstanding and widespread theme has been that **//uniforms//** reduce effects of social disparity. For example, **//in//** 1894, at the opening of Winthrop Normal and Industrial College, South Carolina's populist governor announced that "All distinctions of wealth will be done away with. Every pupil **//in//** the **//school//** will be required to wear a **//uniform//**" (Mishoe, 1970, p. 1). "The **//uniform//** dress required of all students... is one of the most important features of the college. It insures economy, democracy, and equality of opportunity" (Mishoe, 1970, p. 2). Thus, Brunsma and Rockquemore (1998) found that uniformed students have significantly higher test scores than do nonuniformed students. NELS:88 classifies data by **//school//** sector: all **//schools//**, public **//schools//**, Catholic **//schools//**, and three types of private-but-not-Catholic **//schools//**, as shown **//in//** Table 1, extracted from Brunsma and Rockquemore's Table 1, and modified by inclusion of weighted distribution for omitted category--public **//schools//**. On the basis of a correlation matrix (Brunsma & Rockquemore, 1998, Appendix C), the authors stated, "Student **//uniforms//** are correlated slightly (.05) with standardized achievement scores, indicating a possible relationship" (p. 56). Next, they presented test score means: 52.89 for uniformed versus 50.58 for nonuniformed students and, using a t test, showed the 2.31-point difference significant at .01. At the 10th-grade level, students wearing **//uniforms//** had significantly higher achievement (p < .01) than did students not wearing **//uniforms//**. That difference mirrored the hypothesized character of the difference as stated **//in//** the public discourse. However, when one breaks down this type of analysis into sectors, the relationships are not supported.
 * //In//** 1998, The Journal of Educational Research (The JER) published an article by D. Brunsma and K. Rockquemore that claims that **//uniforms//** correlate negatively with academic achievement, but data presented **//in//** this article actually show positive correlation between **//uniforms//** and achievement for the total sample, and for all but 1 **//school//** sector.

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