Dress-down Friday? Dress-down every day. The City of London is becoming more casual, with bowler hats out and designer stubble in

Goodbye bowler hats, brollies and polished black shoes ? hello dress-down Fridays, jazzy colours and designer stubble. Dress codes appear to be falling out of fashion in the City of London.

Around two-thirds of financial services employees will be allowed to travel into work in casualwear for dress-down Friday today, the results of a new survey suggest. And standards appear to be slipping during the rest of the week as well.

Just a quarter of financial services workers are expected to wear suits, ties or heels when away from client meetings, according to a survey by salary benchmarking website Emolument.com for City A.M.

This article was published in City AM, 9th September 2017