As temperatures rise and summer beckons, many workers may begin to question just what defines casual in business-casual dress codes?
Shoe Carnival (SCVL): Also based in Indiana (Evansville), this footwear retailer offers dress, casual and athletic footwear for men, women and children.
You're not being judged at office parties in most cases but you will be scrutinized if you drink too much alcohol, make off-color remarks, dress inappropriately (casual-Friday attire is safe) or behave in a manner that wouldn't fit in your workplace.
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This year there has been a 10% decline in the number of American companies allowing their employees to wear casual dress.
Professions of atheism, casual dress at work and drinking are verboten.
Unlike rivals that offered their employees cappuccino bars and free gyms, Lehman favoured only those benefits that come free, like the opportunity to wear casual dress.
In these days of open plan offices, casual dress and blurring boundaries between home and work, it can be confusing to figure out whether your boss is behaving inappropriately.
Others said if their employer were to offer more learning opportunities or academic reimbursement, or if they implemented a casual dress code, they might be inclined to stay put.
Hybels then crafted his services to address their concerns, becoming one of the first pastors to use video, drama and contemporary music in church and encouraging a more casual dress code.
Firstly, business casual dress varies between men and women.
You can pick a turtleneck in a snappy color and just pair it with dress trousers for a casual look or go tone-on-tone with a suit and a turtleneck as they did at Calvin Klein and Salvatore Ferragamo for a more sophisticated style.
We're talking about professional basketball and with the playoffs heating up, fans may be focused on the sharp moves on the court, but years after the NBA implemented a business casual dress code, players are looking for chances to show off their style off the court.
"It blows me away regularly, " says the avid outdoorsman, whose offices make casual business dress look formal.
Before that he'd spent three years at Bologna's Ducati Motor Holdings, the renowned motorcycle maker where every day is casual, dress-down Friday.
The Bull and Bear is a steakhouse located just outside the hotel lobby, and it is the kind of restaurant that dictates an "elegant casual" dress code on its website.
But while the conversation regarding dress code, whether on casual Friday or the rest of the workweek can be awkward and uncomfortable for both the giver and receiver, most readers agree it's the right thing to do.
Combining the two enabled owners to survive society's casual and formal dress codes with a single watch.
Next the corporate overlords in Columbus, Ohio imposed a dress code: "business casual" instead of T shirts and shorts.
The point of turning Casual Friday into Dress-Down-Month-of-Sundays is to be more comfortable.
Kwok is not quite ready to trade his handmade dress shirts for Silicon Valley-casual work garb like denims - an Asian tycoon will go only so far.
Instead he got a haircut, bought a new dress shirt that fit well, and wore slacks and a casual sport coat.
Now when I write, I dress as if I'm going to an office or a casual lunch date.
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She looked impeccable in a wine-colored dress and tall metallic shoes, but other stars were decidedly more casual.
You could go on full office mode and wear one with a white shirt and a horizontal striped tie and monk straps or you can keep it casual by wearing a T-shirt instead a dress shirt.
It is easy, of course, for a designer who owns 100 pairs of shoes but Mr. Hardy believes that just 10 styles can cover almost any occasion for which a man needs to dress: "five to six pairs dressy, two to three casual, two sporty not counting sandals, " he says.
But her note on pedicures and Fridays brings up a good point: Dress codes in a corporate environment is usually clear for Monday through Thursday, but what about Casual Fridays?
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