Sun Safe Business Casual Outfits for Female Engineers

The majority of engineers work in office buildings, industrial plants or laboratories. In industrial plants, laboratories, construction and surveying safety dictates the work attire like lab coats, safety glasses, reflective pants and jacket, helmets, steal cap toe engineering boots, etc. However, there are many engineering jobs that require to spend time both inside and outside. When your job falls into this category, and you are concerned about your risk of skin cancer, and want to reduce your Sun exposure, read on for sun safe business casual outfits for female engineers.
 

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Engineering Jobs Requiring to Work Outside

Engineers employed in construction engineering and management, surveying or environmental engineering such as geotechnical and water resources or forest engineering spend most of their work hours outside. There are clear expectation on what to wear in civil engineering and these fields when outside. Environmental engineers, for instance, most commonly wear sun protective, moisture wicking, water proof gear while in the field.

Best Business Casual Clothes for Outside

The dress code for female engineers who work in an office building depends on the kind of field and company. The latter dress code also applies to female engineers who spend most of their time inside their offices, but might visit a site once in a while and business casual style attire is expected also when you are outside.

Your best bet is to invest in a sun safe business casual for females wardrobe. Doing so means you wear your sun protection even when staying outside was not on your work agenda that day. Unfortunately, most fabrics fail the meet the UPF criteria of sun safe clothes. Not to mention that you would have to spend a huge amount of time to find them.

However, the good news is that Coolibar recently added sun safe business casual style to their collections.

Sun Safe Business Casual Outfits for Female Engineers

Shirt Dress Looks

A shirt dress is great for business casual style. It is also available in an abstract print and ethnic inspired paisley print. A version with an around the knee hem line comes in black, vertical coral and white stripes as well as vertical light blue and white stripes. The wide slit permits climbing equipment if needed. The slit is also practical when your company’s vehicle for work trips is a Jeep, Land Rover or any other four wheel drive with high ground clearance. You can vary the look with a silk scarf, necklace, by rolling up the sleeves and different belts and shoes. A shirt dress looks great with a blazer or cardigan too.

Looks with a Sun Protective Tunic

The next look features a skirt with asymmetric tunic. The tunic is versatile to wear, for instance with slacks, chinos or jeans either tucked in or with a belt as shown here.

Sun Safe Skort and Top Looks

Skorts with a hem just above the knee are a female engineer Must-have. You can climb equipment or a ladder without having to worry about inappropriate sights. The example outfits present a styling with an American Classic style white button down shirt and a shirt with scarf. The skorts look great with a blazer, pearls and T-shirt as well.

Stylist tip: Go for hard to break pantyhose. Runners are never in style.

Conclusions on Sun Safe Business Casual Outfits for Female Engineers

You can create business casual outfits with sun protective clothing when picking the right pieces like button-down shirts, straight woven fabric pants, shirt dresses and above the knee skorts from the collection. Typically, those items that have that have the word “travel” in their description stay clearly out of vacation style territory and work well for business casual style. Browse the  Coolibar collection now.

More sun safe business casual outfits for female professionals in this post on sun protective work clothing. See the guide at the link for dress code tips for female engineers.

Photos of me: G. Kramm

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