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WSJ Your Money Briefing

How Gen Z Is Shaking Up Office Appropriate Workwear

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

As Gen Z enters the office, work wardrobes are out but crop tops, pajama pants and miniskirts are fair game. Wall Street Journal reporter Lane Florsheim joins host Ariana Aspuru to discuss how online trends like “office siren” and “corpcore” are establishing new, edgier rules for work appropriate attire.  Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The line between getting dressed for the office and getting dressed up for fun is becoming

0:46.6

more hazy as younger workers are obliterating traditional rules about how to dress for work.

0:51.9

I think that a lot of Gen Z and people in general want to

0:57.7

invest in pieces they can wear anywhere and really get their money's worth. So if you're

1:02.4

buying a blazer, you want it to be like your office blazer, you're going out blazer, you're running

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out to brunch blazer. We'll talk with Wall Street Journal reporter

1:12.6

Lane Flauchime about how you can make your clothes work beyond 9 to 5 and stay on trend. That's after the

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Classic office staples like suits and pencil skirts are getting a new twist, as trends like

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