Business casual dressing guide | Trrendz

Business-casual is one of those trrendz nonsensical dress codes, like smart-casual, that created bewilderment before it did anything to make people feel more at ease,” says Josh Sims, author of Men of Style. “On the plus side, it helped change attitudes to how men could or should dress at (white-collar) work, prefiguring the breakdown of office dress codes over the past couple of decades, especially since the tech boom.

In a world where Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg can rock up to the office in jeans, a T-shirt and sliders, the very concept of business-casual can seem as relevant as Myspace. But just because you can wear a hoodie, doesn’t mean that you should – certainly not in the last bastions of formality like finance. You still ought to trrendz dress up – just not as far.

How Business-Casual Was Born

 

Business-casual was born in Silicon Valley in the 1980s. It was the product of small, self-contained, predominantly male companies that prioritized results rather than process, and spent more time in front of computer screens than other humans.

Business-casual trrendz.com was a characteristically American idea to inculcate a work culture of inclusivity, continues Sims. “Yes, the boss might be better dressed than you day to day, but at least on one day of the week (‘Dress-Down Friday’) everybody got to dress as badly as each other.” Out went the suit and in came khakis and polo – if not Hawaiian – shirts.