Casual Friday (also known as dress-down Friday or casual day) is a

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trend in which businesses relax their

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on Fridays. Businesses that usually require employees to wear suits,

dress shirt A dress shirt, button shirt, button-front, button-front shirt, or button-up shirt, is a garment with a collar and a full-length opening at the front, which is fastened using buttons or shirt studs. A button-down or button-down shirt is a dres ...

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s, and

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s, may allow more casual or

business casual Business casual is an ambiguously defined Western dress code that is generally considered casual wear but with smart (in the sense of "well dressed") components of a proper lounge suit from traditional informal wear, adopted for white-colla ...

wear on such days. The trend originated from

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's midcentury custom of

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which slowly spread to

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, continuing around the globe until the 1990s when it became known as Casual Friday. Today in Hawaii, "Aloha Wear" is suitable business attire any day of the week, and the term "Aloha Friday" is generally used simply to refer to the last day of the

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References

*Moran, Malie; Pohlmann, Attila & Reilly, Andrew (2014) ''Honolulu Street Style''. University of Chicago Press, ISSN 2047-0568, ; p. 59, {{Employment Workwear Friday Casual wear

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