By Nicole Crimaldi
Business Casual. What the heck does that mean?
Apparently it means something different to everyone.
Do you know any of the people below? If so, make sure not to emulate their wardrobe choices in a business casual environment!
Rory, The Recent Graduate. Rory forgot that she’s at the office, not at a college class. [...]
GM is updating its look – literally. Some of the changes include terming a conference room a “Zen Room”, holding ride-and-drive events for GM employees, and working in a new office dress code. Or rather, almost eliminating it.
As stated from a memo from GM’s Vice President of Global Human Resources, Mary Barra: “As we work [...]
Students at the University of Texas at Arlington who can’t afford business attire for interviews will soon have a campus-grown resource: Project Success, a student organization.
Project Success is seeking donated clothing and money for dry cleaning. Mission Arlington has agreed to keep the clothing in a dedicated area of its downtown offices, within walking distance [...]
Business travelers cringe at this scenario: You’re called to a last-minute meeting in another city, and you’re on the next shuttle flight out of Logan International Airport. You’ve got about 30 minutes to pack, grab your presentation, and make it to the airport in time to board your flight, when you realize your best suit [...]
Business travel sounds glamorous. You get to visit a faraway place on the company’s dollar. But then reality sets in and before you know it your once-glamorous trip is reduced to exhausting transit (Think: 15-hour flights), complex navigation (Underground in Tokyo, anyone?) and sightseeing that focuses on the inside of an office building.
But travel experts [...]
Planning my travels for the holiday season has brought me back to the pre-economic turmoil of unlimited business travel. My company has promised that travel restrictions will be lifted come New Year’s, so I’m trying to gear up for frequent business flyer travel once again. I became an expert business traveler about two years ago [...]
Straight Up Corporate by WorkWardrobe featuring Balenciaga
My recent incursion into the workforce has rendered me confused as to what exactly constitutes business attire in architecture. With no enforced dress code, the firm I have been working for in the past months continues to surprise me each week, with its similarity to the casualness of a Silicon Valley start-up (though, with the [...]
The hoodie has always been an item of clothing that looks so comfortable, that I see scattered throughout the sidewalks as a standard outerwear garment, and that also always looks just a bit sloppy. Perfect for the weekends, yes. But when I’m catching my winter chill in the office, I would never dare slip a [...]
Business attire is usually considered complete with phone, briefcase, and business cards. The latter however I feel has been sadly neglected at many business functions throughout the years. Business cards are important, but so is what you carry them in. I have seen the form of a business card holder in every form from the [...]