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<p>We all know about school and work dress codes &mdash; but what about the secret dress codes that people use to send signals about themselves in everyday life?</p><p>A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/klvhme/what_are_some_hidden_dress_codes_people_wear_to/">recent Reddit thread</a> asked, &quot;What are some hidden dress codes people wear to identify themselves that you have to already know about to notice?&quot; The responses come from all over the world and prove that a lot more goes into people&#39;s daily outfits than you might have thought.</p><h2>1. Apparently Dutch fishermen love to accessorize.</h2><blockquote> <p>Its an old sailors tradition to wear a golden earring. (Dont know if its just the netherlands or worldwide) but some of the mainly fishermen towns here have their own specific type of golden earring. So if you see a dutch guy wearing a big golden earring with a detailed design, you know he comes from a fishermen town.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>(Golden earring tradition was historically done incase a fishermen would fall overboard, the golden earring could cover the costs of a proper burial) - justalittleprickly</p> </blockquote><h2>2. How strange and adorable.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to wonder why certain people in my office would wear the same colors as each other sometimes. Turns out they were listening to a radio station here in NYC that would suggest a color for you to wear that day. - Offthepoint</p> </blockquote><h2>3. In some communities, pineapple decor means you&#39;re a swinger.</h2><blockquote> <p>We have a whole Truman show upper middle class community by us that is &quot;well known&quot; to place some sort of pineapple decoration on their front porch to signify [that they are swingers].</p> <p>I say &quot;well known&quot; as closer communities to it are well aware, but further than about 10 miles its not.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Have a friend of a friend that moved in and since it was summer thought this gold pineapple wreath for the doorway would be a great addition to the new place.</p> <p>First week there they were greeted by a couple that came to their door with some bottles of wine ready to party at 11 at night. Quite the awkward first meet with the new neighbors. - TheOnlyPreponome</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4. Interesting!</h2><blockquote> <p>So this is probably a very specific Norwegian thing, but the colour of your hat is signalling your availability when hiking in the mountains. Red hat means taken, green means available (and orange means that you&#39;re open for a chat). This is important knowledge if you&#39;re trying to pull a Norwegian, because hiking is the only (non alcoholic) activity where a Norwegian will ever talk to a stranger. Ever. - DreamersVoid</p> </blockquote><h2>5. Wow!</h2><blockquote> <p>In China, your zodiac year is your unlucky year (so your unlucky year occurs once every 12 years). The way to mitigate the unlucky-ness of the said year, is to wear some form of the color red each day. Doesn&rsquo;t need to be a complete red outfit, just something that has red as a part of the pattern.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>But wearing red everyday is a dead give away for their age (24, 36, 48, 60) in the workplace, thus explaining the phenomenon of the red underwear gift. The red underwear is a way to beat the unluckiness of your zodiac year while blending in.</p> <p>So some water cooler talk could go like, &ldquo;Hey, did you notice that &lt;insert name&gt; has worn red 3/7 days this week? Is she 24 or 36?&rdquo; Fascinating stuff! - dtanmango</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. That makes it easier for Xenu to see them.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was working in Clearwater, Florida all of the scientologists wore white shirts and blue pants. - bemery96</p> </blockquote><h2>7. Ties are more serious than I thought.</h2><blockquote> <p>Ties in specific designs can signify which university you attended or private club you belong to, to such an extent that with certain tiemakers in the UK, you have to prove membership before you can buy the tie. - brkh47</p> </blockquote><h2>8. Welders&#39; caps are apparently very symbolic.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was a teenager a lot of the working-class, multi-generation in the area kids from the very rural West Virginian area I moved to wore these, to my teenage eyes, very funny looking polka dot caps with downward pointing brims.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>At the time I just assumed they got them at this store that still had a lot of 70s deadstock and it was a trend because they were cheap and it was the 90s and we were irony poisoned. It was pretty widespread across a few counties though. They were mostly worn by the kids who already had decided they were not going to college, whether by their own choice, or their own circumstances.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>They were welders&#39; caps. Welder is an aspirational job in the area, if you plan to stay there after graduation. They were signifying they planned to stay and work in the same field their dads did. It didn&#39;t even occur to me what it was all about until some high school reunion. - PrincessDianaFPlus</p> </blockquote><h2>9. Cute!</h2><blockquote> <p>I grew up spending a lot of time in the Great Lakes and overall sailing culture.</p> <p>The height of manliness is a pink &ldquo;Mt. Gay&rdquo; baseball cap. No, I&rsquo;m not joking.</p> <p>The caps are given out at major sailing races, since Mt. Gay rum has a sponsorship. The caps are originally red but if you&rsquo;ve used and had one for a long time, it fades to pink. You want one.- ScharchendeSchwein</p> </blockquote><h2>10. Hmmm...</h2><blockquote> <p>If someone is wearing a belt but have the buckle on either side of their hips instead of the middle it means they spend all day leaning over engine bays of hot rods and don&rsquo;t want their belt buckle scratching the paintwork. - Pcgamerscum</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11. Good to know.</h2><blockquote> <p>Undercover police in Japan. They all wear casual clothes but with the same type of black shoes and navy pants. It&rsquo;s easy enough to spot them as long as you know to check the shoes and the color of their pants. I&rsquo;ve been stopped a few times in Japan by undercover police and asked for ID. I used to smoke outside the local police station and watch them come out and go about their undercover police work! - wdsoi</p> </blockquote><h2>12. Huh.</h2><blockquote> <p>If they have a stainless steel pinky ring on their dominant hand they probably graduated from an engineering school in the States or Canada. - whoohw</p> </blockquote><h2>13. Red trousers are a status symbol. Who knew?</h2><blockquote> <p>Red trousers. Might be a UK thing, but usually associated with old money upper-class type people...or eccentricity. The two seem to overlap a fair bit though. Or at least it seems so to a commoner like me. - mooshkimooshki</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

13 people share the 'hidden dress codes' you have to know about to notice.

We all know about school and work dress codes &mdash; but what about the secret dress codes that people use to send signals about themselves in everyday life?A recent Reddit thread asked, &quot;What are some hidden dress codes people wear to identify themselves that you have to already know about to notice?&quot; The responses come from all over the world and prove that a lot more goes into people&#39;s daily outfits than you might have thought.1. Apparently Dutch fishermen love to accessorize. Its an old sailors tradition to wear a golden earring. (Dont know if its just the netherlands or worldwide) but some of the mainly fishermen towns here have their own specific type of golden earring. So if you see a dutch guy wearing a big golden earring with a detailed design, you know he comes from a fishermen town.   (Golden earring tradition was historically done incase a fishermen would fall overboard, the golden earring could cover the costs of a proper burial) - justalittleprickly 2. How strange and adorable. I used to wonder why certain people in my office would wear the same colors as each other sometimes. Turns out they were listening to a radio station here in NYC that would suggest a color for you to wear that day. - Offthepoint 3. In some communities, pineapple decor means you&#39;re a swinger. We have a whole Truman show upper middle class community by us that is &quot;well known&quot; to place some sort of pineapple decoration on their front porch to signify [that they are swingers]. I say &quot;well known&quot; as closer communities to it are well aware, but further than about 10 miles its not.   Have a friend of a friend that moved in and since it was summer thought this gold pineapple wreath for the doorway would be a great addition to the new place. First week there they were greeted by a couple that came to their door with some bottles of wine ready to party at 11 at night. Quite the awkward first meet with the new neighbors. - TheOnlyPreponome 4. Interesting! So this is probably a very specific Norwegian thing, but the colour of your hat is signalling your availability when hiking in the mountains. Red hat means taken, green means available (and orange means that you&#39;re open for a chat). This is important knowledge if you&#39;re trying to pull a Norwegian, because hiking is the only (non alcoholic) activity where a Norwegian will ever talk to a stranger. Ever. - DreamersVoid 5. Wow! In China, your zodiac year is your unlucky year (so your unlucky year occurs once every 12 years). The way to mitigate the unlucky-ness of the said year, is to wear some form of the color red each day. Doesn&rsquo;t need to be a complete red outfit, just something that has red as a part of the pattern.   But wearing red everyday is a dead give away for their age (24, 36, 48, 60) in the workplace, thus explaining the phenomenon of the red underwear gift. The red underwear is a way to beat the unluckiness of your zodiac year while blending in. So some water cooler talk could go like, &ldquo;Hey, did you notice that &lt;insert name&gt; has worn red 3/7 days this week? Is she 24 or 36?&rdquo; Fascinating stuff! - dtanmango 6. That makes it easier for Xenu to see them. When I was working in Clearwater, Florida all of the scientologists wore white shirts and blue pants. - bemery96 7. Ties are more serious than I thought. Ties in specific designs can signify which university you attended or private club you belong to, to such an extent that with certain tiemakers in the UK, you have to prove membership before you can buy the tie. - brkh47 8. Welders&#39; caps are apparently very symbolic. When I was a teenager a lot of the working-class, multi-generation in the area kids from the very rural West Virginian area I moved to wore these, to my teenage eyes, very funny looking polka dot caps with downward pointing brims.   At the time I just assumed they got them at this store that still had a lot of 70s deadstock and it was a trend because they were cheap and it was the 90s and we were irony poisoned. It was pretty widespread across a few counties though. They were mostly worn by the kids who already had decided they were not going to college, whether by their own choice, or their own circumstances.   They were welders&#39; caps. Welder is an aspirational job in the area, if you plan to stay there after graduation. They were signifying they planned to stay and work in the same field their dads did. It didn&#39;t even occur to me what it was all about until some high school reunion. - PrincessDianaFPlus 9. Cute! I grew up spending a lot of time in the Great Lakes and overall sailing culture. The height of manliness is a pink &ldquo;Mt. Gay&rdquo; baseball cap. No, I&rsquo;m not joking. The caps are given out at major sailing races, since Mt. Gay rum has a sponsorship. The caps are originally red but if you&rsquo;ve used and had one for a long time, it fades to pink. You want one.- ScharchendeSchwein 10. Hmmm... If someone is wearing a belt but have the buckle on either side of their hips instead of the middle it means they spend all day leaning over engine bays of hot rods and don&rsquo;t want their belt buckle scratching the paintwork. - Pcgamerscum 11. Good to know. Undercover police in Japan. They all wear casual clothes but with the same type of black shoes and navy pants. It&rsquo;s easy enough to spot them as long as you know to check the shoes and the color of their pants. I&rsquo;ve been stopped a few times in Japan by undercover police and asked for ID. I used to smoke outside the local police station and watch them come out and go about their undercover police work! - wdsoi 12. Huh. If they have a stainless steel pinky ring on their dominant hand they probably graduated from an engineering school in the States or Canada. - whoohw 13. Red trousers are a status symbol. Who knew? Red trousers. Might be a UK thing, but usually associated with old money upper-class type people...or eccentricity. The two seem to overlap a fair bit though. Or at least it seems so to a commoner like me. - mooshkimooshki 

We all know about school and work dress codes &mdash; but what about the secret dress codes that people use to send signals about themselves in everyday life?  A recent Reddit thread asked, &quot;What are some hidden dress codes people...