How to Look Stylish and Professional at a Business Casual Office
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How to Look Stylish and Professional at a Business Casual Office

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When you’re used to dressing conservatively for work and your new office is much less formal, how do you put outfits together to look casual but still professional and stylish? How can you adapt your conservative clothes for a business casual office? Some women would react to a dress-code switch like this with a “Score! Jeans and…

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Tops to Wear with Jeans to the Office
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Tops to Wear with Jeans to the Office

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Here’s a question we haven’t discussed in a while: how to wear jeans to work. Reader E writes in wondering specifically which tops to wear with jeans to the office, particularly because her Midwestern BigLaw office has “jean Fridays” in the summer. Sigh. (FYI, we rounded up all our best tips for summer associates here!)…

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Poll Results: Jeans Are Often Appropriate… But Perhaps Not To Brunch

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We stirred up quite a bit of controversy last week when one of our readers asked us what to wear to Sunday brunch at her partner’s house. We suggested trouser jeans and a blazer, raising eyebrows and bringing forth vehement disagreement from some of our readers, who insisted that trouser jeans were not appropriate for…

Poll — Are jeans ever appropriate if you’re in a semi-work situation?
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Poll — Are jeans ever appropriate if you’re in a semi-work situation?

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We seem to be getting a ton of negative feedback on the reader mail question yesterday, wherein we recommended that our reader wear dark trouser jeans to Sunday brunch at the partner’s house. Although she wrote in to clarify her situation, we were still intrigued by the feedback. As we noted in our original post,…