Male Chest Hair and Scrub Tops

I always wear an undershirt/tshirt. It's just...professional. For matters of practicality we don't wear what would be considered "business attire" but that doesn't mean we can't make scrubs look just as professional.

Not sure if it's been posted, but in my area(OR), you cannot wear t-shirts under scrub tops. Chest hair doesn't bother me and if you are scrubbed, your gown covers it anyway. Why is this a big deal, BTW?

you could always get a smaller T-shirt

I completely agree. This is being made much to much of an issue!

This is how I see it: I'm a female with large breasts and I don't wear a t-shirt under my scrub top because it's too hot. I overheat very easily. When I bed over, sometimes people can see the boobies. Big deal. All women have them unless they've had a masectomy. Same with male chest hair. People need to get over their fear of seeing the human body.

I also believe that the tank top or tshirt should be mandatory for women- I am tired of seeing things when people bend over- by the way pull up your pants or buy a larger size you are not a plumber.

I would definitely wear a shirt underneath.

for what it's worth I shave/wax my chest AND wear a shirt underneath lol

I'm a nursing student with an extremely hairy chest and I wear a t-shirt under my scrubs out of habit/self-consciousness. I do think that it's accepted, common professional behavior to be well-groomed at work and since I don't really have the time between my full-time job and school in the evenings to "manscape", as I hear they call it now, it's easier for me to wear a t-shirt.

Now when I say my chest is extremely hairy, I really mean it. Obviously everyone's body is different, and for most men I don't think their chest hair is anywhere near as unruly as mine, so they may not have to trim it in order to meet a basic appearance of being "well-groomed." I think there's a happy medium, as it were - to have one's chest hair curling an inch or two beyond the confines of one's scrub top (as mine would) probably is not professional. But I don't think that there should be a standard set in the workplace declaring any display of chest hair at all to be outside of appropriate professional appearance. It's something that is simply a part of being a man and having a man's body - and wearing an undershirt with a scrub top may not be comfortable for a lot of men. It's not entirely unlike women having breasts - obviously you couldn't ever ban women from wearing clothing that showed that they have breasts (or mandate that they wear extremely tight bras), but women should (and do, for the most part) adhere to unspoken professional standards as to how much of said breasts should be visible at any given time.

Am I thinking way too hard about this?

If your hair is coming out of your shirt and creeping towards your neck and long enough to make a ponytail, then YES please cover it up or shave it off. If it's just a few stragles, then I guess it's ok, still wouldn't want to see it though. If you don't wear a v neck shirt on the reg w/ your chest hairs coming out...why would you at your place of work.