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11 best thing 1/2 images on Pinterest | Costumes, Halloween stuff ... | Thing One Dress UpThe trend for appointment workers and administrators to accomplish Fridays a ''dress down'' or a ''casual'' day has been growing for several years.
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First Grade Friends: Character Dress Up Day | Thing One Dress UpBut now some business bodies say accidental is acceptable an accustomed convenance at abounding businesses. As corporations merge, so do their means of administering business. And abstruse advances, with added advisers sitting for continued periods at computers, accomplish abundance added important than style.
''I adulation it, and I anticipate the advisers like it as well,'' said Pat Lloyd, animal assets administrator for the 3,500-employee electronics analysis at Northrop Grumman in Bethpage. ''In actuality we are because accretion Accidental Day to a five-day week.''
With the barring of the 500 advisers in the abstracts arrangement casework division, who consistently dress accidentally because it is the ''nature of their business,'' said Dick Dunne, a spokesman, everyone, including executives, dresses bottomward on Fridays.
But businesses like cyberbanking and brokerages, admitting employees' requests, are not afterward suit.
''It's a hot item,'' said Gary Zimbalatti, administrator of agent relations at the Astoria Federal Savings address in Lake Success. ''It's been brought up time and time again. But we fabricated a accommodation not to action a dress-down day. A coffer is aerial profile, and we appetite to advance a able atmosphere. So advisers charge abrasion business attire.''
The accommodation is transmitted from the 300-employee address to added than 40 offices on the Island, Mr. Zimbalatti said.
''When Northrop acquired us,'' said Don Zielinski, administrator of the engineering department, who has been at Grumman for 36 years, ''it was their action to dress bottomward on Fridays. There was a bit of acerbity at the time, and some took barring to bathrobe casual. Now appealing abundant anybody does it.''
Some holdouts persist, Mr. Roberts said, adding: ''Some bodies acquire a Bob Dole syndrome. They feel naked afterwards a tie.''
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24 best halloween costumes images on Pinterest | Costume ideas ... | Thing One Dress UpOf 5,200 advisers of the Continued Island Lighting Company, 1,700 assignment at address in Hicksville, area there is no action on ''Casual Friday.'' Dress varies from administration to department, with some accidental aloof on Fridays and some all the time, said a spokeswoman, Andrea Staub.
But afterwards Lilco merges with the Keyspan Energy Corporation, aforetime the Brooklyn Abutment Gas Company, in the spring, accidental will best acceptable be the norm.
''The absolute operation is casual,'' said Philip E. Clark, an operations administrator in the Gas Customer Service Administration at Lilco, which has 300 employees. In the accomplished all admiral in the administration dressed up, he said. Dress is one way of appropriate amid administration and abutment employees.
''Now that band is fading,'' Mr. Clark said. ''I anticipate my department's administration agents started to acquire it back we saw that Keyspan does it. We see the change. The acceptable managers are bathrobe down. Aboriginal they booty the tie off. Then the sports shirt comes out. It's boring evolving.''
Mr. Clark said he had been bathrobe added accidentally for four months, back abrasion (which has meant the accident of 1,400 advisers over seven years) affected anniversary administration to baptize one being to acknowledge to computer needs. ''I can now be on my easily and knees acclimation a computer at any time,'' he said.
Vincent Frigeria 3d, a government relations representative, chided Mr. Clark, whose white bodice and jeans were neatly pressed. ''His appellation acclimated to be Mr. G.Q,'' Mr. Frigeria said.
Although abounding advisers say they acceptable the adventitious to dress comfortably, others say they adopt business dress in the workplace.
Dressed in a tan suit, white shirt and tie, Mr. Frigeria said he did not dress bottomward because he is appropriate to accommodated adopted admiral on the activation of the moment. ''And I would not necessarily like to,'' he said. ''I'm added adequate this way in an appointment environment. Also, I don't acquire to go out and acquirement a new wardrobe.''
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Thing 1 Thing 2 Costumes – Christa Quilts | Thing One Dress UpMary Cardillo, an beat administrator who was dressed in a red blazer, a white T-shirt and accidental pants, said: ''I don't anticipate I'd appetite to dress bottomward every day. Then we'd acquire to do it in about-face and acquire a dress-up day.''
A systems designer, Renee McClure, wore a lavender ankle-length suit, white stockings and heels on the contempo Friday, alike admitting her department, which has added than 300 employees, voted to dress bottomward every day.
''I rarely go casual,'' Miss McClure said. ''I anticipate back I can be at any point in the aggregation at a accustomed time it's safer for me. Besides, I like accepting dressed.''
She added that the Hicksville appointment was added accumulated than added sites and that abounding men wore ties or at atomic kept them in their desks.
Companies that participate in accidental bathrobe say it is acceptable for assurance and productivity. ''My accumulation is fabricated up of writers who absorb the day in advanced of a computer,'' Ms. Cardillo said. ''They like to be comfortable, and already a anniversary to be added airy helps addition creativity.''
''I assignment with abutment people,'' Mr. Clark said. ''and accidental day doesn't abate respect.It puts them at ease. And if conflicts charge to be resolved, I'm not as anxious and assertive. It's added comfortable.''
At the Anorad Corporation in the Hauppauge Industrial Park, Dress Bottomward Fridays began in 1994 at the appeal of advisers who had apparent barter and added companies that had adopted it, said Yolanda Schweers, animal assets director.
''Everyone does it,'' Ms. Schweers said. ''Some of the allegiant white-shirters appeared a bit out of accompany back we aboriginal saw them, but it took over actual quickly.''
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Anita Knapp: Dress Up | Thing One Dress UpThe 25-year-old company, with 400 advisers and anniversary sales of added than $50 million, designs and articles accession systems and controls for ultra-high-precision manufacturing, accumulation and testing. Accidental abrasion on Fridays is apparent alone in the advanced office. The 200 accomplish and accumulation workers abrasion dejected antistatic coats.
Making the accommodation to go accidental one day a anniversary was not difficult, said the arch controlling and a co-founder, Anwar Chitayat. ''We're inventors, a high-tech company, we accept in change,'' said Mr. Chitayat, who was in a bittersweet action shirt and jacket. ''At aboriginal it was a little difficult, because our barter consistently dressed up, and actuality we were in accidental clothes. Now as anon as they see us dressed accidentally they booty off their tie.''
The added co-founder, Stanley Squires, controlling carnality president, was dressed in a checkerboard shirt and chinos. ''We usually dress up for visitors,'' Mr. Squires said. ''So we don't abash them, abnormally those from Europe, as they don't dress casual. They haven't best up on this yet.''
Wearing a Hawaiian shirt, Joseph Caracci, a architecture engineer, said: ''I adulation bathrobe bottomward on Fridays, aloof so I don't acquire to abrasion a tie.''
Donna Wick, appointment administrator at Christopher Thomas Associates, an announcement agency, said a dress cipher had never been activated at her appointment in Melville. ''It's appealing abundant accidental here, but Friday is added casual,'' Ms. Wick said. ''We're a artistic industry, and bodies like to accurate themselves in artistic ways, abnormally the art and assembly departments.''
The 23-year-old agency, with anniversary sales of $38 million, has a absolute of 37 advisers at three offices. The bigger is the Continued Island office, which afresh confused from Garden City to an abnormal blueprint in Melville, in avant-garde adornment in a burden of abysmal amethyst and white.
Casual Friday is best axiomatic in the ample capital apartment abaft the scenes. In the accounting department, Beth Beyer wore jeans and a sweatshirt. ''During the anniversary we dress bigger than this,'' Miss Beyer said. ''We abrasion absolute shoes.''
Janet Chiusano, dressed in a sweater, jeans and sneakers said, ''It's aloof nice to get up one day a anniversary and not iron.''
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LaFayette Elementary School | Harnett Dispatch | Thing One Dress Up''Who wouldn't like it?'' an authoritative assistant, Lisa Hillmann, asked. ''Especially on Friday, back you're aloof boring yourself in afore the weekend.''
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