Tucking into Jeans?

[mr.pringles]

What is all your view on this? I'm scheduled for an orientation here pretty quick, and when I asked about the dress-code, the response was "Please feel free to dress in jeans - it is VERY casual!".

Normally when I think casual, I figure a button-down or polo tucked into khakis. But it almost sounds like they're really pushing for jeans in that statement.

I know we live in the south, and many swear by their blue-jeans, but it still seems odd to me. What do you guys think?

 

[RockyBalboa]

Tucking into jeans is fine if you are wearing a belt.

 

[Dionysus]

I would read very casual to mean that jeans are on the upper end of the sartorial standard.

I've never understood this insistence on dressing ‘professionally’ — except maybe in situations where there's actually some formality at hand, e.g., an attorney in court.

We are paid to be effective in our jobs, and I've never known anyone to perform better because they wore a jacket that matches their pants, or had a colorful piece of cloth wrapped around their neck. If you are remembered for what you're wearing then you're probably not very good at what you do.

 

[accuratehorn]

If they say casual, wear what you feel is comfortable. If you don't feel comfortable in jeans, wear your favorite khaki slacks and shirt. People look best when they are comfortable in what they wear, not necessarily by what they are wearing in and of itself.

 

[ProdigalHorn]

I would add that there's not much that looks less comfortable than someone in jeans who you can tell wears them about once a year.

From everything I've seen so far in my business experience, I'd go with something like this:

Casual - jeans, nice shirt (no tshirts or shorts unless they're specified or if you're doing some kind of outdoor team-building thing.)
Business casual - khakis, polo or button-down shirt, maybe a jacket depending on the setting.
Business - suit/jacket and tie. Occasionally now you can get away without the tie, but my philosophy is it's easier to take one off than to put one on after the fact.

 

[dxspaz]

I like to go with a nice pair of chinos. They seem to fall between jeans and slacks.

 

[general35]

I've never understood this insistence on dressing ‘professionally’ — except maybe in situations where there's actually some formality at hand
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it's a cultural norm. also, if you have visitors to your office, you want to display a degree of professionalism. people judge others on the way they dress whether you like it or not. it has also been my experience that the dirty looking, disheveled looking members of the office were usually at the bottom of the food chain. unless you work in an industry or job in which that look is the norm...a movie set, an oil trader floor, an internet company, etc.

 

[NickDanger]

What about tucking jorts into whie shrimper's boots?

 

[DallasCowpoke]

I'd go in a pair of Dickies Insulated Overalls, a wife-beater and a pair of Vibram FiveFingers.

 

[NickDanger]

I have worn the fivefingers and been approved by women who live in, but reject, our stuffy hood. They don't approve me. Just the fivefingers.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

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