Come Dressed Up to Work Day: Happy Halloween!

A very fun trope in television shows is when characters come to work in clothes that they don't typically wear to work--for one reason or another.

Castle ran with this trope quite often. My favorite is Beckett's marvelous beaded red dress in Season 1. She is wearing it on a "stake-out" at a charity shindig for high-rollers (Castle gets them in). I don't normally like sleeveless dresses (seriously--they always look like they are about to fall off, even on royalty), but boy, Stana Katic wears it well! 

When she shows up later at the station in her normal clothes, the boys are disappointed. She merely rolls her eyes. 

The 1970s episode is another of my favorites: everybody at the station gets to dress up!

And Major Crimes offers a great moment when Tao shows up to a crime scene in a tux. 

Tao is a consultant on a show called Badge of Justice, and it just won Best Teleplay for Non-serialized 60-minute episodic Police Procedural on Basic Cable.  

He arrives in a limousine and he is dressed to the nines. Michael Chan looks sharp!