Workplace: Dress-Down Is Down if Not Quite Out
As the downturn in the economy continues, more people are leaving their casual wear at home and reverting back to formal wear at work. Some managers now consider the dress-down style, once highly popular during the peak of dot-com success, a sign of laziness and carelessness. Some believe that formal wear helps improve job security by conveying an impressionable appearance to customers and employers.
See "Workplace: Dress-Down Is Down if Not Quite Out", Amie Parnes, The New York Times, June 12, 2001