Piano Forum

Piano Street Magazine:
Watch the Chopin Competition 2025 with us!
Great news for anyone who loves Chopin’s music! Piano Street’s Chopin Competition tool now includes all 1,848 recorded performances from the Preliminary Round to Stage 3. Dive in and listen now! Read more
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Topic: PIANO TEACHER'S uniform  (Read 2601 times)

Offline cinnamon21

  • PS Silver Member
  • Jr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 66
PIANO TEACHER'S uniform
on: May 18, 2016, 03:55:50 AM
Hello everyone,

I have recently started working at a small music school full-time and I'm required to wear a polo shirt with the school's name written in huge fonts on my back every day. I don't know if it's just me...but I feel embarrassed...I don't think it shows any professionalism. What do you think?
Logged
Currently working on:

Bach - P&F in C# Major, BWV 872, Book II
Haydn - Sonata No.60 in C Major, Hob. XVI 50
Mendelssohn - Variations Serieuses
Debussy - Reflets dans l'eau
Ravel - Jeux d'eau

Offline lostinidlewonder

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 8249
Re: PIANO TEACHER'S uniform
Reply #1 on: May 18, 2016, 03:57:46 AM
Yeah I would feel weird too. Maybe its so they can identify you as a teacher and not some stranger who has walked onto school grounds. Do all the teachers have to wear it? Usually a name tag to pin to your shirt is enough.
Logged
"The biggest risk in life is to take no risk at all."
www.pianovision.com

Offline cinnamon21

  • PS Silver Member
  • Jr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 66
Re: PIANO TEACHER'S uniform
Reply #2 on: May 18, 2016, 05:32:08 AM
Yeah. The receptionist at the counter and teachers have to wear this polo shirt...and to think that I have to wear this most of the time in public transport every day...lunch break and all. Not to be offensive, but when I wear it, I feel like a salesperson or those workers at the gas station rather than a teacher :'/
Logged
Currently working on:

Bach - P&F in C# Major, BWV 872, Book II
Haydn - Sonata No.60 in C Major, Hob. XVI 50
Mendelssohn - Variations Serieuses
Debussy - Reflets dans l'eau
Ravel - Jeux d'eau

Offline quantum

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 6289
Re: PIANO TEACHER'S uniform
Reply #3 on: May 19, 2016, 04:13:03 AM
Haven't seen that before at a music school in my city.  It is usually just business dress, if there is a dress code.  Maybe a t-shirt for everyone to wear at public performances so a bunch of singing students look like a school on stage.  
Logged
Made a Liszt. Need new Handel's for Soler panel & Alkan foil. Will Faure Stein on the way to pick up Mendels' sohn. Josquin get Wolfgangs Schu with Clara. Gone Chopin, I'll be Bach

Offline hardy_practice

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1587
Re: PIANO TEACHER'S uniform
Reply #4 on: May 19, 2016, 05:59:11 AM
As long as it's 100% cotton.
Logged
B Mus, PGCE, DipABRSM

Offline indianajo

  • PS Silver Member
  • Sr. Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 1105
Re: PIANO TEACHER'S uniform
Reply #5 on: May 19, 2016, 01:53:13 PM
My piano teacher wore a house dress.  Skirt was below the knee.  Full collar usually.
No brand visible.  Obviously this wasn't recent.  Oh, I miss the fifties. 
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
For more information about this topic, click search below!

Piano Street Magazine:
New Piano Piece by Chopin Discovered – Free Piano Score
A previously unknown manuscript by Frédéric Chopin has been discovered at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum. The handwritten score is titled “Valse” and consists of 24 bars of music in the key of A minor and is considered a major discovery in the wold of classical piano music. Read more
 

Logo light pianostreet.com - the website for classical pianists, piano teachers, students and piano music enthusiasts.

Subscribe for unlimited access

Sign up

Follow us

Piano Street Digicert