Most bosses who spot a member of staff dressed inappropriately simply take them aside for a quiet word.
NHS bureaucrats, however, are taking a different approach.
They have produced an 8,000-word document telling experienced medical staff how to dress at work.
Within the 18-page dress code are instructions on wearing shoes with "low noise" heels and ensuring shoelaces match.
And just in case staff - everyone from doctors and nurses to porters - should totally lose their fashion sense, the report reminds them to make sure they are wearing socks at all times.
The document also contains lengthy instructions on appropriate hairstyles, including a ruling that hair can only be dyed in its natural colour.
Headscarves are acceptable but once again there are strict guidelines on how they should be worn - "at shoulder length, well secured and unadorned."
The dress code for The Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust in London is currently only in draft form.
But after it was distributedto staff within the trust, it was quickly branded as "soul-crushing, petty bureaucracy" by some employees.
They are angry that taxpayers' money is being spent on the report when a dress code already exists.
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