I’ve mentioned this upcoming work function, right? I hope you’re not sick of it yet, because I’ve still got plenty to say on the subject. Today, it’s another iteration of “How to dress yourself,” this time for semi-formal events such as … well, this work function, or a nice party.
I’ve had [...]

I’m working on an article on semi-formal dress for events like my work’s upcoming conference dinner. But when I told some local geeks about it, they pointed out that they never really dressed up for that kind of thing.
Paul Fenwick said to me, on IRC:
In my social circles, “Formal” means tie, and “Very Formal” means [...]

I found an interesting post from Grayden over on LiveJournal, and he’s kindly allowed me to repost it here as a guest post:

Many geeks fall into the camp of “if I worked in a job where The Man made me wear a suit, I’d go postal” or some other such vague anti-authority threat. I guess [...]

I’ve covered dress codes a bit before: business casual, business casual for women, the alleged death of business casual, and what to do if you don’t have a dress code at all.
What I’m wondering is, how many of us have dress codes at work, and just what dresscodes do our workplaces have?

What’s your dresscode?

No dresscode [...]

If my http access logs are anything to go by, I get a lot of people coming here looking for information about business casual clothing for women. Tough topic! It’s hard enough to explain business casual at all, but at least men have the benefit of not having fashion change on them quite [...]

There’s a rumour doing the rounds lately about the death of business casual. If you follow fashion at all — beyond checking ThinkGeek’s latest offerings — you might’ve heard that tailoring and classic styles are the big thing lately. And people are saying that with the bursting of the dot-com bubble, the excesses [...]

If geek workplaces have a dress code at all (and many don’t have an explicit one), it’s usually stated as “business casual”. Business casual is also, supposedly, the appropriate wear for interviews at tech companies, meetings, trade shows, and the other not-bashing-at-a-keyboard parts of many geek jobs. What that actually means, however…
Business casual [...]

Your workplace doesn’t have a dress code. Or so you think.
In reality, there are a bunch of hidden rules for personal grooming and appearance, and people — not everyone, admitedly, but some non-zero proportion of the population — expect you to follow them. Sometimes the rules are sensible, sometimes they’re arbitrary, but they [...]