What to Wear?

In my previous life, I worked in an almost exclusively male environment. Now, I'm working in a field that is dominated by women. With that change has come a new challenge: deciding what to wear. Our company has a dress code, so I know I should wear dress pants, a button down shirt, and tie; but the problem is the weight. Should I go with the light cotton blend, or do I need the lined wool trousers and the thermal under-shirt today? There's really no way to know. One day the office is so cold, my fingers can barely type; the next day it's so hot, I might pass out at my desk. Men have spent a lot of time developing automatic temperature control systems so the temperature of a room can easily be regulated to +/- 2 degrees; but we never figured out how to control women. In my old male dominated environment, there was a company policy for room temperature; if you didn't like it, you could always find a new job. Now, there is chaos.

One woman says the room is too hot and she turns the thermostat down to 65 - I've heard about hot flashes before, so I'm not too surprised by this - then another woman will come by an hour later and set it up to 80! I guess that would be a cold flash ... hmmm. Then they all start looking at me like I'm the one who keeps changing the setting - but I'm smart enough to know not to touch the damn thing. What I don't understand is why they can't move the setting 1 or 2 degrees at a time - instead of from one extreme to the other. On second thought maybe I do know why, but it would be better left unsaid.