How the pandemic has changed what we wear to work

Many of us got used to dressing in athleisure and comfort clothing while we were working from home during the pandemic, and it would seem we’re loath to shed that habit as we head back into the office. In this episode, host Isabel Berwick tries to disentangle the new workplace dress codes with the help of two experts: Adam Galinsky, a Columbia University business school professor, and Robert Armstrong, FT style columnist and author of the FT’s popular Unhedged newsletter. Galinsky has researched what sorts of clothes help us work – and feel – at our best, and the results may surprise you. Armstrong wants us to think differently about the idea of comfort, and wonders whether the tie is dead.

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Robert Armstrong on the end of the tie 

https://www.ft.com/content/db8ac87f-0765-456b-994f-f66f8a140585

Why is Jeff Bezos such a terrible dresser?

https://www.ft.com/content/a6ce9a0b-d09a-4881-a712-4151465b3b78

Is the underwired bra over ? 

https://www.ft.com/content/2b0b614a-ef83-4991-aabf-1dee87cb1da7

Professor Adam Galinsky’s workwear research 

https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amd.2021.0081

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Presented by Isabel Berwick. Editorial direction from Renée Kaplan and Manuela Saragosa. Assistant producer is Persis Love. Sound design is by Breen Turner, with original music from Metaphor Music. Produced by Novel.

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