Business casual

The Business Casual (also called business casual ) is a dress code, which has developed a modification of the business attire (Business Formal) for office workers ( white collar jobs).

History

The main dissemination own office attire is returned to the oil crisis of the 1970s, when many offices in the air conditioning and heating systems have been shut down. As a result, the staff relaxing the dress code was allowed, so until then fixed in business attire bid of a jacket and tie was canceled. In addition, the influence of casual Friday in the U.S., a relaxation of the dress code since the 1950s offered to wind down the work week, and this allowed some polo shirts and sneakers. This summary of Business Attire Casual Friday and also the internationally accepted designation as business casual explains, however, the drawing up of clothing elements of international business casual is less uniform pronounced than in the International Standard Business Attire.

Another step forward was the new economy, particularly at the time of the dotcom bubble, the more elements from the casual clothing ( casual wear ) were borrowed. Thus, jeans, baseball caps and t -shirts, sometimes even shorts in the office everyday and are consistently up to high management positions common in regions with a high proportion of the new economy, such as the West Coast of the United States. With the end of the boom, the importance of intentionally casual dress style has lost back in the office and in the commercially important positions, the opinion has re-enforced that to a professional appearance and also the appropriate clothing belongs. In particular shorts are no longer appropriate in business casual.

Regulate

The rules of office attire appear much less uniform, they allow compared to traditional business attire large margin of the dress style of the staff. How far the elements are used, depends strongly on the team (and its direct superior ) dependent. While IT groups widely wearing jeans, a classic business suit is common in sales staff even on days without contact with customers. Many office workers take the opportunity to tie and jacket to be deposited in the office so that they can switch to a more formal dress style for appropriate cases. Generally moves between classical office attire business attire and neat everyday clothing.

Clothing

A mandatory dress code does not exist. In top management business attire is common, but not mandatory. Where no contact with business partners, it is expected to adopt its casual. Possible elements of a Office Fashion for men can be, for example:

• The absence of tie (or similar) and a solid jacket
• Short-sleeved shirts made ​​of light material or polo shirts instead of long-sleeved shirts,
• Dark shirts, trendy cuts
• Lightweight, long cotton pants in muted colors such as chinos instead of suits ( but by no means shorts and usually no jeans )
• Linen jacket
• Informal shoes like sneakers, loafers
• Wearing the shirts with an open button (if no bow tie is worn )

For ladies are possible:

• Shorter forms to Capri pants trousers suit
• Polo shirts and short-sleeved blouses or lightweight sleeveless blouses

On particularly hot days, the dress code can be further relaxed in the office. These relaxations are called partly as a business casual casual, and they are resistant to hot regions often common to be found than the usual upscale office attire. For employees without managerial responsibility and without customer contact normal street clothes is common. Ordinary leisure shirt, trousers or jeans good and fashionable footwear for men. T -shirt or sweater may, depending on the season, also go through. Women's clothing equivalent of fashion.