Dress-up Monday (Also known as Shicki Micki Mondays, or Formal Mondays) is a new trend spreading in American companies where casual attire is the company dress code. Employees are encouraged to dress fancy or dress formally (e.g., Business shirts, ties, suits and dress pants) in order to encourage a sense of organization and professionalism. This can occur when a valued customer comes to a company which is looking to engage in new business. This can also occur due to an abuse of the casual or business casual dress code.
Some companies that offer a casual Friday now feel inclined to also incorporate a dress up Monday in order to give a sense of balance and give employees a chance to show that they are prepared and eager to start a new work week.
It can also be used as an alternative to charity 'Dress down' days. Employees of organisations with a casual dress code are asked to dress smart or pay a fine which goes to charity. The MSF UK Dress Up Monday is a fine example of this.
Famous quotes containing the words dress and/or monday:
“At the milliners, the ladies we met were so much dressed, that I should rather have imagined they were making visits than purchases. But what diverted me most was, that we were more frequently served by men than by women; and such men! so finical, so affected! they seemed to understand every part of a woman’s dress better than we do ourselves; and they recommended caps and ribbons with an air of so much importance, that I wished to ask them how long they had left off wearing them.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“You’ve gotten in through the transom
and you can’t get out
till Monday morning or, worse,
till the cops come.”
—Philip Levine (b. 1928)