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 up, dress and/or monday:
“If we confine ourselves to one life role, no matter how pleasant it seems at first, we starve emotionally and psychologically. We need a change and balance in our daily lives. We need sometimes to dress up and sometimes to lie around in torn jeans. . . . Even a grimy factory can afford some relief from a grimy kitchen and vice versa.”
—Faye J. Crosby (20th century)
“I feel no more like a man now than I did in long skirts, unless it be that enjoying more freedom and cutting off the fetters is to be like a man. I suppose in that respect we are more mannish, for we know that in dress, as in all things else, we have been and are slaves, while man in dress and all things else is free.”
—Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894)
“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)