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Casual Dress Codes for the Summer

The summer months often allow for more relaxed dress codes in offices and for some employers defining a specific dress code may be difficult. Giving employees the option to dress down at work allows for a more comfortable work environment and saves employees time and money. Also, it has been proven by successful companies such as Microsoft, that a casual dress code and work environment can ...

Dressing the Part: Office Attire

Whether you�ve just landed your first accounting position or you�re a seasoned professional, your attire at work matters. Clothing is part of presenting a polished image, and it can significantly affect your career advancement potential. Ninety-three percent of senior executives recently polled in a survey developed by our company said dress influences a professional�s chances of being ...

Living in a Fashion Democracy

Living in a Fashion Democracy By: Hope Robertson As long as fashion has been a hot commodity, women across the globe have gone to great lengths to look fashionable � some even sacrificing whole paychecks for one designer item. Good news for those who want runway style at an affordable price: In recent years mega-corporations such as Target and Walmart have begun to sell designer labels ...

Back-to-school retail forecast uncertain

NEW YORK (AP) - Worried retailers got a reprieve in July, scoring solid sales gains as searing heat in much of the country sent consumers back into the stores in search of summer clothes. But the outlook for the back-to-school season remained uncertain as higher gasoline prices and rising interest rates are still expected to challenge shoppers. As retailers reported their sales results Thursday, ...

'Devil Wears Prada' Puts Heat on Boss-Women

The Devil Wears Prada," the movie based on the dishy bestseller by Lauren Weisberger, former assistant to Vogue editor Anna Wintour, has been pulling crowds into air-conditioned theaters this summer and making us all wonder: What makes women so bad at bossing? The story chronicles the hell experienced by a naive editorial assistant, Andrea Sachs, played by Anne Hathaway, after she accepts a ...

Tube Tops and Tuxedos

It's every HR managers nightmare: "Sam, this is Betty down in reception. What are we going to do about Leo? He's walking around the front office in his running shorts and a Philly T. And the team from Acme, our biggest client, just walked in the door. I'm mortified. You've got to say something to him, or give us a policy to stop him."

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