London PA Magazine

By Julia Campion, Managing Director of First Impressions

A few years ago many corporate organisations, followed by smaller businesses across the country, abandoned the suit and embraced ‘dress down’. Firstly, it was ‘dress down Fridays’ and then gradually dress down became the norm from Monday through Friday. But clothes are always cyclical and the suit never really died. These days, many companies adopt a ‘modern professional’ dress code which expects employees to wear whatever is deemed appropriate for the activities they are involved in each day. But ‘deemed appropriate’ by whom? Whilst certain employees know how to get the ‘suited and booted’ look right for external meetings with clients and the ‘business casual’ look spot on for internal meetings, for many others it’s a mystifying labyrinth of unwritten rules that leaves them confused and bewildered!

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