If you’ve ever worked at a minimum wage job or busted your butt for tips, the word uniformlikely makes you cringe.  (I once donned a navy pencil shirt, Dickie and blazer complete with shoulder pads–before they made a fashionable return.) Aside from making staff look like drones, uniforms are usually ill-fitting and poorly constructed.  Not so for the staff of Thompson Hotel properties.

Nanette Lepore has designed some very sexy uniforms for staff at three of the Thompson lounges and bars.   Outdoor cocktail waitresses will be working it in body-hugging uniforms (see below sketch) at LES in NYC, Donovan House in Washington and the Tropicana Pool at LA’s Hollywood Roosevelt. 

Sure beats the shoulder pads!