It may be good to buy the majority of your wardrobe after your firstĭay of work. Look at your colleagues on the first day and decide howĬasual you can be for the next day. It is unacceptable at work to look sloppy.Īlways overdress for the first day of work.

Business casual does not include T-shirts, sweatshirts, jeans ofĪny color, shorts, or sneakers. Sportswear, such as dress pants, skirts, collared sport shirts, loafers, etc. Business casual is sometimes defined as conservative Safer to lean toward dressy instead of casual. While no hard and fast rules exist, the following should be considered:īusiness casual includes the word 'business' and implies that work is not the playground. 'Every organization has a different definition of business casual. If you feel really overdressed you can take the tie off quickly. In the tech world in the Bay Area, it would lean more towards the Miami dress.Īs others have said, it's rarely bad to be overdressed in a suit and tie if this is a question for interview purposes. That same business in the northeast in a major urban area would mean those same guys would be in suits, or the business casual that I mentioned I would wear. They thought we looked like undertakers in our suits. When I first started doing business in Miami a while ago, I was coming from London where everone wore a suit with cufflinks and the whole regalia everyday, but in Miami we started meeting with the C-level guys of an F500 and it was chino style pants and golf shirts, even the CEO. Casual Friday in my business would be more formal than my brother's everyday business casual. If he wore a suit it would probably mean someone in the office died and they're going to their funeral. My brother works in advertising in the northeast and business casual means jeans and a tshirt and basically look as hipster as you can because they're all creative. In my business in the northeast, business casual means a suit or pressed dress slacks (not chinos), shirt and sportscoat simply without a tie.

As others have said, it really depends on the business and where it is.

Presentable casual attire