Smart casual works at work.
By Meghan M. Bureau
When I was a recruiter for big tech in their explosion years, I saw a lot of candidates and a lot of styles of dress. The one that worked in that world has extended into many other arenas, and that’s smart casual. Smart casual has actually been around for a century or so: it was first coined in 1924. But it rose to popularity along with the rise of Silicon Valley (hello turtlenecks and black jeans) and then the Zoom era. Since then, it’s become one of the most standard