Dress Code: Work Wear

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Dress Code is an occasional feature that spotlights workplace looks of all forms and kinds—a visual, quick scroll of an essay on sartorial culture in creative work.

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In an earlier edition of Dress Code, we considered uniform dressing and its role in the lives of creative people. Today, we think about work wear—what folks wear to work, whether of choice or necessity. Hat tip to Charlie Porter's What Artists Wear, as well as Workwear: Work, Fashion, Seduction by Olivier Saillard with photographs by Olivero Toscani (which is out of print and which we paid an obscene amount of money for on Ebay). Finally, we love Barthes' The Language of Fashion, the 2006 Berg/Oxford English edition of which brings together all of his untranslated writings on fashion. Let's scroll, people.