Emily Cronin
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Business Casual Is Getting Less Casual. What’s It Cost? · 22 Oct 2024
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She also acknowledged that this is sector specific insofar as you're seeing people who relax and who say, I'm never going back into heels again.
Like a lawyer I spoke with who said, sorry, I haven't worn heels since 2020 and I don't intend to.
There's another element at play here, which is tailoring is fashionable now.
So whereas in the past we might have seen people keep a workwear wardrobe and a weekend wardrobe or a downtime wardrobe, a lot of what we're seeing on the high fashion runways is people
suddenly office appropriate.
We're seeing that interest in demand for smart work where one statistic that I was really interested to learn in my reporting was that at LTK, which is an influencer guided shopping platform,
searches for blazers have jumped 174% over the past 90 days, and searches for office outfits have risen 123% over the same period.
So people are curious about this, and the newly or recently fashionable nature of a look that we might have in the past only considered workwear gets part of the credit.
Being a man dressing for work is not as complex, fraught, or layered as it is being a woman dressing for work.
There's a formula.
It's trusted.
People know that if they wear a good suit, that's all they need to do.
Something that's consistent between women and men dressing for the workplace is
is that there is comfort in returning to these more rigorous codes of dressing, that you don't have to wonder, will I be the only one wearing dark jeans and sneakers today?
You can just say, no, I'm just going to dress to this more heightened level and be prepared for any eventuality.
Buying into any trend incurs a cost.
Should you wish to buy into this decasualization trend, the good news is that you're going to get to wear these pieces not only to the office, but also out to dinner on a Saturday night.
The power blazers that were part of the story are all...
Are there ways that you can make do with what you have without having to spend money on an entirely new wardrobe?
And creatively repurposing pieces that are already in your wardrobe is, of course, the most sustainable way to approach fashion and trends.
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