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Business Casual: Are Jeans Work Appropriate?

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Sarah Ward

Jeans and Blazer by My Style Pill on Flickr

Over the last several decades, the business casual revolution has been brewing. In today’s relaxed work climate, business casual can be confusing without a properly defined dress code and often leads to questions like this:

Are Jeans Work Appropriate?

Determining whether jeans are work appropriate will depend on your work environment. If you work in a creative or technical field with a business casual atmosphere, you’ll be more likely to be able to wear jeans at the office than if you work in an executive law firm, for example.

That said, not all jeans are created equal. Consider the various styles of jeans on the marketplace that may not bode so well with HR due to their distracting nature…