How Gen Z Is Shaking Up Office Appropriate Workwear
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Here's your Money Briefing for Friday, January 24th. I'm Arianna Aspuru for The Wall Street Journal. The line between getting dressed for the office and getting dressed up for fun is becoming more hazy as younger workers are obliterating traditional rules about how to dress for work.
I think that a lot of Gen Z and people in general want to invest in pieces they can wear anywhere and really get their money's worth. So if you're buying a blazer, you want it to be like your office blazer, your going out blazer, your running out to brunch blazer.
We'll talk with Wall Street Journal reporter Elaine Florsheim about how you can make your clothes work beyond nine to five and stay on trend. That's after the break.
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Classic office staples like suits and pencil skirts are getting a new twist, as trends like Office Siren and CorpCorp gain popularity with younger workers. Wall Street Journal reporter Lane Florsheim joins me. Lane, why is workwear such a constant conversation, especially online?
Workwear, like all clothing, is emotional. One of the women I interviewed for this story about how Gen Z is dressing said that a lot of Gen Z thinks that going into an office would be more fun if they dressed well, and I think that's something that anyone in any generation can probably relate to.
How are Gen Z trends like “office siren” and “corpcore” changing workplace dress codes?
How has the way we thought about workwear evolved over the last few years? I mean, I feel like it's always changing.
Even before the pandemic, you saw office dressing getting more casual. I was looking at some old journal articles. And in 2016, we wrote about how JP Morgan said that employees don't always have to wear suits. But then, of course, you had the pandemic and everyone's in comfy clothes and sweatpants all the time. So I think you both have people wanting to be more casual and comfortable, but then you also have people who, like the woman I just mentioned, want to be able to express themselves with how they dress for the office and they want to feel fashionable and they don't want to feel like this is my buttoned up office look that I would never wear out to dinner with friends.
So how different is Gen Z's perspective on workwear from their older colleagues? Like, what are we seeing?
One of the most interesting parts of reporting this story was learning that a lot of women, especially young women, are shifting away from having like a work section of their closet and an everything else section of their closet. I think that a lot of Gen Z and people in general want to invest in pieces they can wear anywhere and really get their money's worth. So if you're buying a blazer, you want it to be like your office blazer, your going out blazer, your running out to brunch blazer.
It's kind of having things in your closet that are multipurpose, including a blazer. I'm hearing mini skirts, crop tops. Is that what we're seeing, too?
I think that for all of these things, there are people who are wearing crop tops to the office. The Journal did an entirely separate article about that. I wrote... a story a few months back about women wearing pajama pants as regular pants and sometimes to the office. And I think with all of these things, it's kind of like you make the judgment call, right?
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