When I was studying to be a youth and community worker, I was taught all sorts of useful stuff: management studies, training the trainer, interpersonal group-work skills. You know the kind of things I'm talking about.
But looking back there was something I missed out on. One small gap in my learning. Just what should a youth worker wear to work? This isn't a problem if you're employed by a bank or an insurance company. If you fit windows or rewire houses you have your own kind of dress code you can follow.
But what to wear is a real dilemma for youth workers. We certainly don't have a dress code. We haven't even got any helpful pointers. And even a quick consultation with TV's finest style experts Trinny and Susannah isn't going to be of much use to us.
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