So, what is it with secretaries?

Ok, I do understand if you been in an industry, or if you have worked in an office, that there is that one girl, she doesn’t have to be overly attractive, but at the same time, she does appeal and dresses in a way that is smart and professional.

These girls are normally fully aware that they have the eye of the male workforce. How a guy’s eyes will follow them around a room, whenever they enter it. Despite how women may object to this (now days) it is still an ego trip, and many still take the opportunity to dress up to take advantage of this ritual. I can even admit that I have, (or at least used to) fell victim to this practice, as work (for many) is a dull place, and anything breaking the monotony was welcomed. The odd thing is, that outside work, these girls are just another person you past in the street, without giving them a second thought. I guess at work, maybe because you are in a closed environment that has “limited options”.

That only explains the girl at work situation, the dress code of smart and professional that also gives a slight power dynamic. Our question here on college-uniform, is why the fuck, do people call secretary clothing a uniform? You can find this on our partner websites and across the internet, you can even look it up on porn tube sites, and listed under uniform you can find secretary.

In some cases where a workplace has a uniform, such as the military or a large corporate, it is possibly that aids and secretaries may have a uniform. But a uniform outside of that of education institutions, and the military could be just classed as work clothes.

For example, say you work at a large supermarket change such as Walmart in the USA or Asda, in the UK. A secretary has the option of wearing her own work attire, then her work clothes could be “considered” uniform, if she doesn’t have to dress the same as the rest of the work force, so maybe this is why it could be considered uniform.

However, the first meaning of the word uniform is, “remaining the same in all cases and at all times; unchanging in form or character.” Aka consistency. This would say that everyone wears the same, to a strict dress code. Which would suggest that secretaries that do have choice in what to wear, and therefore dress to reflect their personality, mood, youth or sex appeal, do not wear a uniform.

Now here on college-uniform.com, we have some girls that have shot photo sets and videos in secretary clothing, but we have never stated that it was a uniform… because it’s not in our view or ever has been.

Do you agree?

College-uniform’s current project is working internally on its older content. Over the years, we have worked with many great models. But since that time, there have been advances in technology that have left their content looking very dated.

Then there is also the addition of our own skill set, which has hopefully improved.

Between 2004 and 2010, the cameras we used may have been suitable at the time. For a period of 4 years, we had a camera that had a focusing fault. So now using a combination of tools, we are looking back on the older content and hope to give it a make over that it deserves.

The sample below shows you the original shot from 2007, shot on a Nikon D200 which was a 10 Megapixel DSLR. The image next to that has been upscale to double the size using machine learning, and then colour correct in photoshop. The final image uses the same process as in up-scaling, but afterwards the image is then transformed in photoshop, allowing us to re-frame and zoom in. We then isolate the subject from the background and independently colour correct both, before saving as the final image.

The results can sometimes be, hit and miss but for the most part, they look much better than they did.

Last week, we put it out there and offered what questions to the public and members on our Instagram account. Who questions would you like to ask. It came as no surprise, as what people want to know most is, what model are really like in real life, what do they like to wear and even who our favourite model(s) are.

So with some strategic tightrope walking. As not to burn our bridges or upset anyone, we will do our best to answer these questions here, now, without giving too many personal details away.

Well starting with the explanation, we have working with many models over the twenty years college-uniform has been producing and on-line. We do carefully select our models, we have a limited budget, because we have a limited audience, uniform are not for everyone. And we did reach a point with content was almost manufactured and not created… Limited number means more exciting content.

Every model is different, the best ones bring something to the site, and then there are those that just come and go. Also, in life someone just do not get on with other so personalities can clash and yes, very attractive girl will try to emotional manipulate you.

We have found that girl in the EU, are more professional, than those in the UK we would have worked with in the past. They are friendly enough but keep their distance, where UK girls would have befriended you for the opportunity of more work (it was a fake friendship).

Working with girls when we were in and UK was somewhat of a minefield. Yes, there where girls that were became friends with (as above), then there were some we worked with regularly and disliked! Somewhere rude, dismissive or thought a little too highly off themselves to the point where we should just be thankful for them for turning up. We never had a serious problem with any models, but we are glad that those days are behind us. Manipulation and Narcissism, and bad-mouthing other model that we could have worked with, and like wise we where bad mouthed so model didn’t seek us out for work.

Now

I cannot tell you how much freer it is working with European models, firstly no judgement on the uniforms and some of the European girls are excited to wear it. They are opened minded. They are here to do a job and complain a lot less than UK models (full stop). They are also better at posing and know their craft. We are talking about girls that shoot almost every day of the week, it could be soft, adult, for other productions or themselves, none of the big announcements on social media when a UK model decides to get out of bed for that one day of the month. Yes, sure there are character and cultural quirks, but also, they are so much more positive about work.

They are happy to be paid, where UK girls would complain on their low rate (for doing… less, sorry).

We are aware that some of the models are highly intelligent, and that is what personal (myself) find the most attractive (conversation and life experience). So, sure an attractive face will get you notice but keep me mentally engaged. And for us here at college-uniform, we like to be happy to embrace life and work in Europe.