Stylish server uniforms

Publican Quality Meats (825 W Fulton Mkt, 312-445-8977)
“It’s kind of hardcore dealing with a tough business and at times aggressive crowd, so we want the staff to have flair and individuality. Their tattoos coming through their V-cut shirts give them a hard-core edge,” says Matt Gantz, general manager of the butcher shop/deli. The cream-colored henleys for male and female staffers bear a “Q” on the sleeve and the restaurant logo on the back. Everyone wears dark-wash denim, and the butchers, who are very much on display, sport specially handmade aprons by local design duo Winter Session.

RM (116 N Green St, 312-243-1199)
“[RM] is a chance for us to be the most dorky because it’s smaller and more esoteric than other places we have done,” says Chris Dexter of the Element Collective’s new Champagne bar that backs up into the company’s West Loop restaurant, Nellcôte (it also owns Old Town Social). “We don’t carry mass-marketed Champagne, just a highly curated selection.… It was important to find a local designer who embodied the same ideals, the same ethos of what RM stood for.” Their find: Elise Bergman and her simple, elegant scoop-back dresses in a midnight blue cotton (slightly tweaking a pre-existing Bergman design to suit RM’s Elsa Maxwell/Grace Kelly–inspired aesthetic). Bergman also made pouches from Horween leather to class up the server aprons.