I firmly believe in an appropriate standard of dress. Operating as a sub most of the time, it helps identify people on your side better. I fell ashamed seeing a persons "crack"! It generates derogatory remarks, can disrupt harmony and can be taken very wrong by female employees, who by the way, never seem to have that problem.
We require bright orange or yellow shirts so that operators can see you. It's a good alternate to wearing a vest.
Have you ever seen an ironworker "busting a sag"?

its insane that someone would have to put that in a manual. our manual calls for no short pants. what idiot would wear shorts to a demo job? but obviuosly someone did. myself, i wear bib overalls, and im a driver.