Style Guide: How to Dress for Your Day
The days when formal business wear was the standard are behind us. Today, accounting firms have flexible fashion policies that match their flexible, work from anywhere options. Employees are allowed to dress according to the responsibilities of the day ahead of them, with more casual options for work from home days, and more formal requirements for client meetings.
Office / No Client Meetings
Do you want to look stylish while also feeling totally comfortable in the office? Strike the right balance with comfortable, light fabrics and add splashes of color with your accessories.
Wardrobe staples:
Plain tops and sweaters, bold trousers, comfortable blazers, scarves with pops of color.Work Setting:
In the office with no meetings
Important Client Meeting
Having a client meeting means dressing to impress. This occasion will require a more formal business look with dresses and suits—but don't let it stop you from expressing yourself. Play with patterns, lines, accessories, and color; it doesn't always have to be a plain black pantsuit and black ballet flats.
Wardrobe staples:
Blazers, bright colored handbags, suits, ties, bold necklaces, tailored skirts, and dresses.Work Setting:
In the office with meetings
WFH / Virtual Meetings
When you are working from home, you will likely be focused on getting through your to-do list and may have an occasional meeting throughout the day. Do your schedule a favor and get ready in the morning in case a meeting pops up and you need to be camera ready. Keep a professional, yet comfortable look by embracing the 'business on the top and comfort on the bottom' trend. Soft sweaters, button-up cotton tees, or a fashionable long-sleeve loungewear set are perfect picks.
Wardrobe staples:
Jeans, button-up cotton shirt, plain turtleneck, crisp cotton long-sleeve.Work Setting:
Work from home
Networking Event
Think of finding an outfit somewhere between 'Comfort Sleek' and 'Important Client Meeting.' Wear a less formal, but still business appropriate dress, bold trousers with a sleek black turtleneck, suit pants and a button-up with no tie, or a cardigan with a button up underneath.
Wardrobe staples:
Plain essentials that can be paired with more stand-out items, suit pants, trousers, heeled boots, and cardigans.Work Setting:
In-person networking event
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