Close

Curated

Unraveling the Tangled History of the Hoodie

Unraveling the Tangled History of the Hoodie

February II, 2019 by Devan Shimoyama (Courtesy of Het Nieuwe Instituut) Just before an unarmed black teenager named Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain in 2012, his attacker identified him to police as a “suspicious guy” wearing “a dark hoodie, a gray hoodie.” During the […]

Read More

The new casual look

Q. My office has become even more casual post-Covid than before, such that I am the only one wearing a tie. I’ve avoided the change to casual dressing before, but it is clearly the standard now. What would you say is the basic concept I need to get? A. Well, […]

Read More

Is ‘Relaxed’ the New ‘Business Casual’?

Comfortable clothes that employees got used to wearing while working from home might make their way into the office post-pandemic, a UMD researcher says. (Animation by Valerie Morgan) Gird yourself—or, actually, don’t: The new office dress code is here, and it’s very stretchy. After nearly 18 months of widespread […] […]

Read More

Dissecting ‘business casual’

There are very few oxymorons which are as challenging to demystify as the term ‘business casual.’ Even though we all have vague notions of what this dress code implies, there tends to be a lack of unanimous agreement regarding its exact definition and elements. While most of us would […] […]

Read More