WAYWRN: MC Casual Style - Page 388

I work in a corporate law firm with 65 attorneys in my office, 65 clerks, and maybe 40 paralegals.  I was told the dress code wasshirt and tie monday-thursday, and "corporate casual" on friday which means no tie.  I walked in my first day with a navy blazer, tie, and chinos and the head of HR looked at me and said, "don't ever come to work in a jacket again."  Then she made me put it in my car.  Having been in the office for two weeks I've seen what everyone else wears.  All the attorneys wear a shirt and tie without a jacket (they dont even bring the jacket with them).  If they are going to court, they obviously wear a full suit.

I don't like it, I'd rather wear a jacket and no tie, then a tie and no jacket, but I can't complain since they are giving me my paycheck.

I can understand them not wanting interns out dressing the attorneys and, instead of going in the everyone wears jackets direction, they went with the everyone dress like a schlub direction.

Take 2:

Shirt by Ralph Lauren

Tie and tie bar by TheTieBar.com

Pants by J. Crew

Shoes by Allen Edmonds

I took some advice from others yesterday and went with a knit tie today.  I think I'm going to by a few better knit ties and start wearing them more often.  Also my shirt is a mint green.

The pants arent as wrinkled as they look in this picture.

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Originally Posted by TauKappaEpsilon 

I work in a corporate law firm with 65 attorneys in my office, 65 clerks, and maybe 40 paralegals.  I was told the dress code wasshirt and tie monday-thursday, and "corporate casual" on friday which means no tie.  I walked in my first day with a navy blazer, tie, and chinos and the head of HR looked at me and said, "don't ever come to work in a jacket again."  Then she made me put it in my car.  Having been in the office for two weeks I've seen what everyone else wears.  All the attorneys wear a shirt and tie without a jacket (they dont even bring the jacket with them).  If they are going to court, they obviously wear a full suit.

 

I don't like it, I'd rather wear a jacket and no tie, then a tie and no jacket, but I can't complain since they are giving me my paycheck.

First warning flag that your law firm has issues.  My suspicion is that your law firm has 1-2 all powerful partners that have dictated how they believe everyone should be dressing based on some outdated ideal.  Truly, truly bizarre in a day and age where more and more clients tell their attorneys to dress down for meetings and leave the tie at home.  I see the suit with no tie look in corporate America much more than the tie, no jacket look.

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Originally Posted by clapeyron 

 

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