{"id":402,"date":"2016-05-10T23:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T23:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/?p=402"},"modified":"2016-05-11T03:29:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T03:29:03","slug":"upgrading-business-casual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/2016\/05\/10\/upgrading-business-casual\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading Business Casual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the <a href=\"http:\/\/cultureandmanners.com\/\">Culture and Manners Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advice for professional dress in a Business Casual work environment is always a list of \u201cDon\u2019ts:\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Don\u2019t<\/em> show too much skin.<br \/>\n<em>Don\u2019t<\/em> have your boxer shorts or bra straps sticking out.<br \/>\n<em>Don\u2019t<\/em> wear flip flops.<br \/>\n<em>Don\u2019t<\/em> wear pajama pants.<\/p>\n<p>I know what you are thinking. Make it stop.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to have you see etiquette a little differently. So when it comes to Business Casual, let\u2019s talk about the Dos. Let\u2019s talk about how to take Business Casual and kick it up a notch.<\/p>\n<p>Wear a pressed shirt, instead of a polo shirt.<br \/>\nTry a collared shirt instead of a t-shirt.<br \/>\nWear a blazer or suit jacket with your open-collared shirt.<br \/>\nPut on a tie without a blazer or suit jacket.<br \/>\nAdd a splash of color with a scarf. (Scarves are wardrobe extenders that change an outfit.)<br \/>\nEnhance with a simple necklace \u2013 pearls, gold or silver chain, colorful stones.<br \/>\nImprove a pair of casual pants with dressier shoes.<br \/>\nRock a pair of dress pants instead of dockers.<br \/>\nUpgrade with a professional-looking dress or skirt instead of your usual slacks.<br \/>\nBuy one stylish piece of clothing a year you might not normally purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Back in October 2013, <em>Forbes<\/em> magazine had an article where psychologist\/author Jennifer Baumgartner talked about how casual dress environments have made it more difficult to distinguish between our \u201cwork selves\u201d and \u201coff-work selves.\u201d Even when we go home, we still feel like we are at work, because we are wearing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Her advice? Make your casual work outfit slightly more dressy. Then change when you get home to create that work \/ home boundary.<\/p>\n<p>Try it out. Dress for success. Then go home and change to decompress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the Culture and Manners Institute Advice for professional dress in a Business Casual work environment is always a list of \u201cDon\u2019ts:\u201d Don\u2019t show too much skin. Don\u2019t have your boxer shorts or bra straps sticking out. Don\u2019t wear flip flops. Don\u2019t wear pajama pants. I know what you are thinking. Make it stop. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2177,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29952],"tags":[29969],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summer-success","tag-business-casual"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/files\/2016\/05\/office-flip-flops.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}