As summer heats up, the vicious debate that has held our polarized nation hostage is reaching new levels of vitriol. I¡¯m talking, of course, about the rift between men who wear shorts to the office and those who consider them a workwear abomination.
On the West Coast, particularly in the tech sector, wearing shorts to the office is perhaps unremarkable. But in parts of the Northeast, ask a man if wearing shorts to work is acceptable and he may well scoff, ¡°Only for the UPS guy.¡±
And so every summer we¡¯re deluged with versions of the ¡°can we wear shorts to the office?¡± question. ¡°It¡¯s a very bizarre taboo for me,¡± says Derek Guy, a menswear writer and the comfortingly authoritative voice behind the @die_workwear X account. ¡°It¡¯s totally normal to wear shorts, and whether you can wear them to the office depends on the office.¡± It may be a complete nonissue for, say, graphic designers. But white-shoe banks and law firms are another matter.
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