Casual Friday (also known as Dress-down Friday Professor Jackson isnt even trying Day or simply Casual day) is an American and Canadian business custom which has spread to other parts of the world, wherein some offices celebrate a semi-reprieve from the constrictions of a formal dress code. Whereas, during the rest of the week, business shirts, suits, ties and dress shoes are the norm, on Casual Friday workers are allowed to wear more casual dress. Some companies allow jeans, T-shirts, and sneakers but others require smart casual dress. Some offices have a themed dress down day, or encourage people to wear very casual clothes. On this day, even managers are allowed to dress down. Caterpillar boots, t-shirts, and jeans are the order of the day. Wall Street, Manhattan is the location of the New York Stock Exchange and is often used as a symbol for the world of business. ... Clothing has various sociological functions, including: conspicuous consumption stating or claiming identity establishing, maintaining and defying sociological group norms Thus wearing specific types of clothing or the manner of wearing clothing can convey messages about class, income, belief and attitude. ... Business shirt A shirt is a piece of clothing for the trunk of the body. ... Suits from the 1937 Chicago Woolen Mills catalog A suit, with varieties such as a business suit, three-piece suit, lounge suit or two-piece suit , comprises a collection of matching clothing consisting of: a coat (commonly known as a jacket) a waistcoat (optional) (USA vest) — without this it is... Blue necktie. ... Womens shoes on display in a shop window, July 2005 A shoe is an item of footwear. ... In the European tradition, casual is the dress code which emphasizes comfort and personal expression over presentation and uniformity. ... Blue Jeans Jeans are trousers traditionally made from denim, but may also be made from a variety of fabrics including cotton and corduroy. ... T-Shirt A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt with short or long sleeves, a round neck, put on over the head, without pockets. ... Sneakers Sneakers are footwear of flexible material, typically featuring a sole made of rubber. ... Business casual, sometimes called smart casual, is a potentially confusing dress code, due to its oxymoronic construction. ...

Some companies and schools operate an occasional "dress down" day, where employees pay a small fee to be allowed to wear casual clothes (or even fancy dress), the money being donated to charity. A company in the broadest sense is an aggregation of people who stay together for a common purpose. ... Students in Rome, Italy. ... A costume party (also referred to as fancy dress party in the United Kingdom) is a type of party where the guests dress up in a costume. ... A charitable organization (also known as a charity) is a trust, company or unincorporated association established for charitable purposes only. ...

Casual Friday began in the late 1950s originally as an attempt to raise worker morale in the new white-collar office environment. At that point only a few companies encouraged it, and it was not widely popular. In the late 1970s, when the production of cheap clothing outside the United States became more widespread, there was a massive campaign by large clothing producers to make Casual Friday a weekly event. It was the hope of these companies that they could undermine the formal clothing industries in Europe and create more of a market for their goods produced in cheap Third World factories. The 1950s was the decade spanning the years 1950 to 1959. ... White-collar workers perform tasks which are less physically laborious yet often more highly paid than blue-collar workers, who do manual work. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...

Casual Friday along with dressing casually during the week became very prevalent during the Dot Com hey-day of the late 1990s/early 2000s. During the hey-day, some companies were so relaxed that shorts and sandals were permitted. After the bursting of the Dot-Com bubble, there was a backlash by many companies with the reinstatement of dress codes. The biggest backlash was by companies that permitted blue jeans before and instead, required at least more formal business casual or even "business formal". After Labor Day weekend 2004, Target required "business formal" dress for all employees at their corporate office in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Many of the expensive clothiers who sold suits decided to do a marketing campaign to get companies and employees to return to the former custom of "business formal" clothing. Dot-com (also dotcom or redundantly dot. ... See also 1990s, the band Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1970s satin track shorts Catherine Bach popularized Daisy Dukes by wearing very short cut-off denim pants in The Dukes of Hazzard Woman wearing hotpants (cut-offs) Railway fan of Japan that wore shorts. ... Sandal (or Sandals) may refer to: Sandal (footwear) are an open type of footwear. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Blue Jeans Jeans are trousers traditionally made from denim, but may also be made from a variety of fabrics including cotton and corduroy. ... Business casual, sometimes called smart casual, is a potentially confusing dress code, due to its oxymoronic construction. ... Labour Day (or Labor Day) is an annual holiday that resulted from efforts of the labour union movement, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1962. ... Nickname: City of Lakes Motto: En Avant Location in Hennepin County and the state of Minnesota. ...

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