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[Closed] Office Smart Casual - What does it mean?

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I’ve also never known anyone care enough to question someone’s clothing choice

Yet they care what brand someone's jeans are?

Offices are weird unnatural places, I'm eternally glad that I don't have to visit one regularly any more.


 
Posted : 02/12/2021 2:39 pm
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Yet they care what brand someone’s jeans are?

No really it was more just what I notice people choosing to wear, more a distinction from trendy ripped style jeans and what not.


 
Posted : 02/12/2021 3:03 pm
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Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.

I’m currently sat in a meeting room, waiting for HR, in a Batman costume.


 
Posted : 02/12/2021 3:09 pm
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Just wear what you would when out on your bike, and claim that you're just following the latest fashion trend. 🙂

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Posted : 02/12/2021 4:29 pm
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was interviewed by guys in shorts and t-shirts, one actually a (ahem) Star Trek t-shirt.

That was basically my work attire for the last 10 years, now WFH attire. Although almost exclusively Last Exit to Nowhere T-shirts...


 
Posted : 02/12/2021 5:19 pm
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My workplace is trying to get everyone to look a little smarter - they've banned trackies and joggy bottoms. Still at least everyone is matching now, wearing jeans, although one guy appears to be wearing something that looks entirely like (old fashioned) thermal underwear - the stuff my mum used to force me to wear but I hated it.


 
Posted : 02/12/2021 5:23 pm
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Ignore TJ, he’s exceedingly knowledgeable about many things, but office dress is not one of them.

But I do understand style!  Just 'cos most of your office has no style does not mean you have to abandon all dress sense and either look like Clarkson, your mother dressed you or that yo are trying to pretend you are still a student!

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Posted : 02/12/2021 5:50 pm
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Jeans with a denim shirt 😅

And I’ve had several compliments on it.

Your autocorrect changed it from comments, right? Unless it was from Jay Leno and Jeremy Clarkson in which case carry on.
Double denim is a double never. Unless you are being ironic, in which case you are probably gonna need the jean jacket and denim shoes as well, just so people know you aren't just style impaired. Oh and make sure they are dad jeans.


 
Posted : 02/12/2021 6:06 pm
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Style - you either have it or you don't


 
Posted : 02/12/2021 6:08 pm
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This is really simple. Go to the GAP website. As long as you don't go near the jeans or pajamas, that's casual. Now go to the Banana Republic website. That's smart casual.
A jacket or suit sans tie is business casual
With a tie is fully business. If you work in a less conservative industry tweed or prince of wales check is acceptable
Formal is a nicer suit, blue gray or black, pinstripe no other patterns
Black tie is obvious
And for the love of God, get your trousers hemmed to the correct length, as well as your shirt and suit sleeves. Buy you clothes in your size, otherwise you look like you borrowed your dad's suit for the dance. Look at most politicians. Do the opposite.
As you were


 
Posted : 02/12/2021 6:10 pm
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