Since moving office my firm doesn’t have the space for a meeting room anymore, which means no more clients popping into the office, so I decided that Fridays should be casual day or dress down Friday. In all my years working I never worn jeans to work except for staff days out or when moving office. I remember years ago dress down Friday taking over the City of London. A big influence came from all the US companies within the square mile – I had friends wearing nice casual clothes for work but still no jeans. Nowadays, that has all changed and I see many people wearing jeans to work (maybe not so for the big financial institutes). I think smart jeans with smart shoes is acceptable, hence my thinking for casual Friday and considering there is normally only two of us in on a Friday, I don’t think it is going to hurt anyone. Also now that we owned by a Californian company, who have a very relaxed outlook on working dress maybe I’ll get away with it!
I do wonder what people wore before jeans were classed as acceptable for everyday wear. Blimey I remember the days when you couldn’t wear jeans in nightclubs! My mum has only just started to wear jeans recently and I don’t think my grandparents ever wore them.
For all my ramblings about buying clothes, at heart I’m really a jeans, t-shirt and trainers girl. My shiny white trainers that I got in San Francisco at the beginning of the year are still shiny white – they have taken second place to my Converse shoes this year. Jackets and coats are something else I love wearing which luckily goes really well with jeans. I would love to wear jeans and trainers all the time but then I would most probably turn the other way and start dressing up more at the weekends. Below is a picture of my white trainers – you might need your sunglasses as they are so white!
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