Business Casual is an album by Canadian electro-funk duo Chromeo. Confusingly, men’s business casual is also a dress code – one that is as baffling as its inherently contradictory moniker. Business isn’t something that you want to be casual about. Which oxymoron came up with that not-too-smart idea?
“Business casual for men is one of those nonsensical dress codes, like smart-casual, that created bewilderment before it did anything to make people feel more at ease,” says Josh Sims, author of Men of Style. “On the plus side, it helped change attitudes to how men could or should dress at (white collar) work, prefiguring the breakdown of office dress codes over the past couple of decades, especially since the tech boom.”
In a world where Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg can rock up to the office in jeans, a T-shirt and sliders, the very concept of business-casual can seem as…
