There might be something in the way the mesh is made that I can't get at because meshing is deep magic beyond my ken, and there doesn't look to be anything unusual in the property sets-- I can't think what might be doing it, but it's possible it was... I dunno, originally cloned from a career outfit or there's some weird thing in the internal naming, you never know with Sims 2 coding. I'll add a note to the post that Sims should wear something that isn't a double-apron when job hunting.

Thank you for the heads-up, I probably wouldn't have caught on to that myself!