Casual Friday
Casual Friday (also Dress-Down Friday or just Casual Day - English for casual or informal Friday ) describes the practice practiced in many companies of leaving the strict dress code on Fridays and wearing casual casual clothing instead of the usual business clothes. If suits with a shirt and tie are normally worn, a casual shirt without a tie or, for example, a turtleneck with a casual jacket are allowed on Fridays - as a transition or to get in the mood for the weekend. Today, Casual Friday is often understood to mean that jeans and T-shirts are sometimes also allowed.
Emergence
In the late 1950s , Casual Friday emerged in the US and Canada in many offices of large corporations and banks that had a specific dress code . Casual or sporty clothes were allowed to be worn on Fridays in order to break away from the constraints of everyday office life and to get in the mood for the approaching weekend . This should increase the morale of the office workers in the newly created open-plan offices. At that time, however, the spread of Casual Fridays was not very widespread .
With the introduction of Aloha Friday in Hawaii in 1966, it was permitted to wear Hawaiian shirts on that day .
End of the 1970 's, when the production extended from cheap clothing outside the United States, launched many large US apparel companies massive advertising campaigns to the Casual Friday to establish a fixed weekly institution. This was intended to undermine the threat of competition from Europe .
Nowadays, Casual Friday is widespread across the United States and also in Europe and Asia . In many companies it is also common for employees to leave work early on Fridays or to go to the weekend.
With the end of the Internet stock market boom, the importance of Casual Friday has also waned. The previously decidedly casual style of clothing, typically widespread in companies in the New Economy , seems to be giving way again to a more classic style of clothing.
Some companies, especially from the creative sector, have also introduced a "Formal Friday". Since the employees there are usually dressed casually, formal clothing is consciously worn on Fridays or at least on individual Fridays.
Other meanings
- Some companies or schools (which require school uniforms ) occasionally organize a Dress-Down Day or Home Clothes Day , where employees or students have to pay a small contribution or donate in order to appear disguised in simple clothes or even in costumes . The money is then usually donated to charity.
- Casual Friday was also the name of a weekly column in the Financial Times Deutschland with the subtitle "Columns from real business life".
- The fashion company Escada had in 2000 an eau de toilette for men named Casual Friday brought to market, but set this again in the meantime.
swell
- ↑ according to Mike Gordon: Aloha shirts , The Honolulu Advertiser, July 2, 2006 and "Wear Aloha" Exhibit Opens At Honolulu Hale , June 8, 2006 ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link became automatic used and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on the other hand probably erroneously 1965 after Dale Hope (with the help of Gregory Tozian, from the American by Thomas Bauer): The Aloha shirt: the Hawaiian shirt - an attitude towards life . Frederking and Thaler, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-89405-449-2 , ISBN 3-89405-602-9
- ↑ http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Formal%20Friday
