In fact, the scope of professional dress is not limited to uniforms. The specific dress for diplomatic conference, economic and trading negotiations, office, scientific research labs, schools and workshops of precise instrument, and the special dress for hotels, hostels, shops and traffic profession, or the dress for hard labored workers, such as cleaners, operating
personnel and cargadors, all fail into to the scope of professional dress.
Professional dress that has the effect of identification could help to build the favorable professional image for certain profession or certain enterprises and good professional dress even has the brand effect. Along with the strengthening of the CI design consciousness, designers, the theoretical circle of clothes and even users all have realized the importance and promising future of tile professional dress.
Since 1990s, along with China entering the commodity economy times, professional dress has had more extensive connotations. The importance of individuation and fashion is underlined in design. Besides the fixed professional dress for special professions, shirts, western trousers and ties seem to form a standard officer worker image. When attending formal occasions, men usually wear suits and leather shoes, which have become a social etiquette. Compared with men, professional women have more choices in terms of dressing style and clothing arrangement. While seeking more
career space to develop, Chinese professional women have paid more and more attention to their outlooks. Many topics in media are stressing the meaning of using decent and tashionable dress to earn more favor for one's profession.
