Staff members in the USAP wear different uniforms based on their departments, and each is unique and colorful. The Student Ambassadors, kitchen staff, cleaning staff, guards, office workers, waiters, IVG employees in the retail store and quick-serve restaurant, can each be identified by their color-coded clothes. When I first arrived, Student Ambassadors wore tailored grey slacks or knee-length skirts and long-sleeve button down shirts that read "USA Pavilion, Shanghai Expo 2010 on the breast pocket (males) or sleeve cuffs (females).Later, some staff members decided to change the uniforms to reflect the heat, so we had a contest to design the new uniform and then everyone would vote. The winning uniform was khaki shorts and a white polo shirt with blue trim and a diagonal blue stripe running across it; the USAP logo adorns the left side of it. The kitchen staff are all given black hats and white chef coats with the USA Pavilion logo on the left breast pocket. They sold one to me, and embroidered my name on the pocket for free! It is my favorite souvenir from our pavilion! Office workers, the staff, dress professionally with nice shoes, slacks, dresses, and the ocassional tie.
Sometimes, we have a special uniform item donated by one of our corporate or state sponsors, such as cowboy hats or space suits from Texas, Hawaiin shirts from Hawaii, blue t-shirts that read "Powered by CITI," and rumor has it Oakley wil join the ranks of sponsors with free sunglasses during the second session of Student Ambassador shifts.
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