text: Starbucks' employees can now wear grey and muted blue shirts. Starbucks Starbucks baristas can now wear dark jeans and dye their hair any color. 
   
   On Monday, the coffee giant announced it was changing its dress code. Under the new policy, employees are allowed to wear shirt colors outside of solid black or white, as well as dark wash jeans. Beanies, fedoras, and "other suitable hats" — not bucket hats, sports caps, berets, or cowboy hats — are also permitted. 
   
   Perhaps most notable, however, is that Starbucks workers are now allowed to "make a statement with hair color," according to the company's press release, as long as dyed hair is permanent or semi-permanent (some temporary dyes, hair chalk, or glitter could be a food safety issue). 
   
   Starbucks employees quickly took to social media to celebrate the change. 
   
   Employees have been complaining about the coffee giant's hair policy for quite some time. 
   
   "Starbucks is place where partners are unique and should be able to show their true selves," reads a petition to change Starbucks' hair color policy on Coworker.org. "How are they going to do it if they can't color their hair how they want? Sometimes color shows the person's true self." 
   
   The petition, which was posted last year, received nearly 15,000 signatures. 
   
   An example of appropriate dyed hair, according to Starbucks' look book. Starbucks 
   
   The new dress code certainly isn't a free-for-all. Permitted clothing colors are still subdued, and the chain's "no list" remains extensive. Banned items include brightly colored shirts (including certain plaids and floral prints), hoodies, socks with "distracting" graphics, and UGG boots. 
   
   However, as with Starbucks lifting its ban on visible tattoos in 2014, the shift allows for a wider range of options and hair colors, a convenient way keep up with the times and boost employee morale. Now, most of Starbucks' most hated dress code requirements, such as no nail polish and minimal jewelry, can be tied to food safety issues — not a supposedly creative chain trying to blunt employees' freedom of expression. ||||| The new Starbucks Dress Code announced today invites baristas to shine as individuals while continuing to present a clean, neat and professional appearance. 
   
   Effective immediately, a range of shirt colors beyond solid black and white are welcome, including gray, navy, dark denim and brown, including patterns. Shorts, skirts, dresses and pants, including dark-wash jeans, are all part of the Starbucks wardrobe, and partners are invited to make a statement with hair color, so long as coloring is permanent or semi-permanent, in keeping with food-safety standards. To cap the look off, beanies, fedoras and other suitable hats are welcome. 
   
   Related: Starbucks Dress Code Lookbook 
   
   Some partners (employees) have already been wearing clothing that fits the new dress code guidelines. Customers coming into the Starbucks at the 47th & Broadway store in Manhattan last September immediately detected something different. Rather than the familiar solid black, white and khaki clothing underneath green aprons, baristas were decked out in a range of colors and outfits that reflected their own personal tastes. 
   
   Visitors to the store were caught slightly off guard by the change, but they welcomed the new style, according to Starbucks store manager Mario Leon. 
   
   “Customers noticed right away,” Leon said. “They actually thought that something was wrong. They would ask me, ‘Why are you guys all out of uniform?’ And we just told them, ‘No, this is the new uniform for this store.’ They said, ‘We like it. We’re happy to see that you can wear expressive clothing to show who you are.’” 
   
   The Broadway coffeehouse and select Reserve stores that spotlight small-batch coffees, as well as the Reserve® Roastery and Tasting Room in Seattle, are forerunners for all company stores in the U.S. and Canada as Starbucks updates its North America dress code beginning now. 
   
   “This new dress code is what partners have in their closets,” Leon added. “It just makes it so much easier. It just makes so much sense.” 
   
   “I believe these changes work well with our iconic green apron and also complement the passion partners bring to our coffee and their craft,” said Cosimo LaPorta, executive vice president, U.S. Retail Store Operations. “We want partners to be as proud of their look as they are when they tie on their green apron.” 
   
   “Our success is rooted in our continual innovation and customization in every aspect of our business and this also applies to offering the best partner experience we can,” said Rossann Williams, president, Starbucks Canada. “We are responding to what our partners have told us and are confident this will uplift the Starbucks brand, partner and customer experience.” 
   
   For more information on this story, contact the Starbucks Newsroom ||||| The Policy states: "HAIR: Keep it looking natural- no bright or unnatural colors (purple,pink, blue,green). Pull long hair back with clips, hair ties or bands." 
   
   I would like Starbucks to allow Partners to have unnatural hair color. I feel that compared to tattoos and piercings, it should be nothing. 
   
   The Starbucks mission statement is: "Our mission: to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time." 
   
   Starbucks is place where partners are unique and should be able to show their true selves. How are they going to do it if they can't color their hair how they want? Sometimes color shows the person's true self. Allowing tattoos and nose piercings was a good first step but now let's allow unnatural hair color. 
   
   Variety in a workplace is always great! Wouldn't you want to have some red, purple, green, or maybe pink in your hair? ||||| Your favorite Starbucks Corp. (ticker: SBUX) barista might be showing off a new look next time you order that latte — sporting dark-wash jeans, a tone-on-tone plaid shirt and fedora. 
   
   The coffee chain announced a new North American dress code Monday that invites more than just black, white and khaki options. It's extending shirt colors to gray, navy, dark denim and brown, plus patterns. Its partners can also wear shorts, skirts, dresses and pants, and go for any hair color they desire, so long as it meets food safety standards. The company had previously barred its employees from dyeing their hair unnatural colors, i.e. pink and purple, reports Fortune . 
   
   The dress code is intended to be more reflective of what its baristas wear outside of work. "This new dress code is what partners have in their closets," Starbucks store manager Mario Leon said in a press release. "It just makes it so much easier. It just makes so much sense." Leon's 47th and Broadway Manhattan, New York location had already implemented the change in September. 
   
   A full look at the new wardrobe is available here. It clearly invokes more of a hipster, average Joe coffee shop feel, one the chain could emulate to broaden its fast casual, basic appeal. It also builds on a growing trend of individual expression in the workplace. 
   
   The company has been making a series of changes meant to benefit employees, notably through its college achievement plan and more recently its wage increase announcement set to go into effect in October. The caveat of the upcoming pay increase is that there won't be another in January, reports BuzzFeed . ||||| Crawl of outlinks from wikipedia.org started March, 2016. These files are currently not publicly accessible. Properties of this collection. It has been several years since the last time we did this. For this collection, several things were done: 1. Turned off duplicate detection. This collection will be complete, as there is a good chance we will share the data, and sharing data with pointers to random other collections, is a complex problem. 2. For the first time, did all the different wikis. The original runs were just against the enwiki. This one, the seed list was built from all 865 collections.
target: – Just like a Starbucks customer can match her perc to her personality via a customized coffee, company baristas can now also "shine as individuals" thanks to the java giant's updated dress code. Per a company release posted Monday, baristas are now allowed to diverge somewhat from the black, white, and khaki attire that's been the Starbucks standard. Although the green aprons aren't going anywhere, baristas can now wear navy, brown, and gray clothing underneath, as long as it presents a "clean, neat, and professional appearance." Wild hair hues, previously forbidden, are also now welcome—though it has to be permanent or semi-permanent color and can't have glitter or spray in it for health reasons, Fortune notes—and employees can top off their tresses with beanies, fedoras, or other "suitable" headwear within the same color approved color scheme. The new dress designation, which will take effect in all stores in the US and Canada, offers "more of a hipster, average Joe coffee shop feel," US News reports—and it notes the chain could harness that feel to "broaden its fast casual, basic appeal." Business Insider notes that employees had long asked for similar concessions, especially regarding hair color, including via a petition with nearly 15,000 signatures that says, "Starbucks is [a] place where partners are unique and should be able to show their true selves." The code is expected to affect some 150,000 workers in the US. "This new dress code is what partners have in their closets," a Starbucks store manager in Manhattan says in the release. "It just makes it so much easier." Check out the company's new acceptable color palette here. (Starbucks also recently announced it will raise workers' wages.)