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Suits are out and sweatpants are in: Corona's lasting affect on workwear

Suits and tailored shirts are out, sweatpants and pajamas are in: remote working is changing work clothes habits, and while vaccines may bring back some formality, old-school office attire should emerge from the pandemic far less starched and strict. "For the last year, everybody has just been dressed from the waist up, wearing a nice short for...

Feb 19, 2021

Fashion

M.M.LaFleur pledges to lend clothes for women political candidates for free

For women running for public office, getting dressed is about to get a lot easier. Workwear clothing company M.M.LaFleur announced that it has committed to providing free clothing loans to any woman running for positions ranging from the House of Representatives to town council. In a letter the clothing brand released, chief executive officer...

Feb 20, 2020

Fashion

79 percent of US employers prefer informal dress code

Casual attire is the new norm in most workplaces in the United States, a new survey of 1,204 employed people, conducted by Randstad US, reveals. A combined 79 percent of respondents report their current employers’ dress code policy is either business casual (26 percent), casual (33 percent) or non-existent (20 percent). Casual dress codes are...

Aug 27, 2019

Retail

American workwear brand Carhartt launches European e-commerce

Carhartt, the American workwear brand founded in 1889, is launching an online shop for consumers based in the European Union. The website is available in English, Dutch and German, but more languages will follow in the future. “We’re very proud to bring the brand American workers have relied on for nearly 130 years to Europe’s blue-collar men...

Nov 28, 2018

Fashion

Cordura and Carhartt launch workwear collection

The durable fabric retailer Cordura has joined forces with the workwear brand Carhartt for the Full Swing Steel line. The collection was developed following an extensive consumer insight study and offers durable work items including the Men’s Full Swing Steel Jacket, Steel Cargo Pant, Steel Double Front Pant and Steel Multi-Pocket Pant. The...

Jul 21, 2018

Fashion

Why do fashion designers dress themselves in uniforms?

What does Giorgio Armani have in common with Steve Jobs, Karl Lagerfeld with Mark Zuckerberg, Anna Wintour with Mother Teresa? They are associated with wearing an instantly recognizable daily uniform. Jobs and Zuckerberg might be said to dress for the technology industry, Mother Teresa had little time for trends, but fashion designers and...

Apr 21, 2017

News

Why do fashion designers dress themselves in uniforms?

Apr 21, 2017

Fashion |OVERVIEW

Lidewij Edelkoort’s Labour of Love: Rethinking work and clothing

“After ‘Anti-Fashion’ and the ‘Emancipation of Everything’ it comes down to the clothes. And it is all just about the clothes, then it has to be the starting point of us finding new ideas within clothing,” said trend forecaster and futurist Lidewij Edelkoort in her new trend presentation ‘Labour of Love’, in which the clothing of the working man...

Apr 7, 2016