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It depends on what you look like. If you're wearing nice jeans that aren't all baggy, dress shoes, a cute business top and a cute light jacket, you're there, IMHO.
If you're wearing old cheap baggy jeans and flats, not so much.
Do you consider jeans business casual if its worn with a nice polo shirt and dress shoes?
Business casual is one of those useless terms that means anything other than a suit and tie. What it means in one work environment is not what it means in another. If you're working at Google, business casual can be cargo shorts, flip-flops, and a graphic t-shirt. It would be on the casual end of business casual where jeans and a polo with sneakers would be on the more formal end.
Jeans and polo with dress shoes? No. That just sounds weird to me. Jeans + polo can be business casual in some work environments, but why on earth would you wear dress shoes with them? It's just dressing ironically. You can wear Jordans with a tuxedo, it doesn't make it black tie. If you're Steph Curry you can get away with it and it's funny. If you're not... well, maybe you can but more likely you just look like a dork. Can you show up to a summer barbecue wearing wool slacks and suspenders? Sure. Pull it off and it's funny. Don't and you're a dork. There's a lot of not dressing like a dork to business casual. It can mean almost anything but it always means conforming to whatever is normal for your particular environment. Skip the dress shoes and wear some sneakers or chukkas or whatever unless that's what you're going for.
Do you consider jeans business casual if its worn with a nice polo shirt and dress shoes?
I'm in a very liberal area on the west coast. NY and the Eastern business districts would probably frown upon it. But for most places I've been in here in NorCal, yes, jeans are acceptable if they're nice jeans. I attribute most of that to Kim K.,
One suggestion is to add a cute silky top with a nice jacket and your best heels. I truly believe the Kardashians have influenced fashion trends significantly when it comes to jeans.
This is probably defined in your employee handbook.
I have never seen a corporate dress code that requires business casual extend that classification to jeans. I've worked in places where you have to dress business casual under certain conditions, but can be casual otherwise.
I've worked in places where jeans were the norm.
My current company is business casual, just losing the tie mandate a couple years ago. We have a different division of the company where they roll in with t-shirts, shorts and sandals.
Both policies are defined though.
Jeans may be acceptable for your environment, bit I'd be hard pressed to call them business anything
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My office of 500 in Seattle has "casual Friday" and we almost all wear jeans and sneakers. If there is a football game that weekend, many wear Seahawks shirts. Regular dress the other 4 days is business casual, but not really enforced. Some do wear jeans, but most will wear khakis or similar with leather shoes and dress shirt, no tie.
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