Interview clothes
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- orrinward0
I'd say a good way to judge what to wear is imagine yourself going to a meeting for a bigwig external client. Where the smartest thing that they would have to wear when impressing themselves on someone else.
At my last job there was no dress code. I joined in the digital department in the middle of summer when a few of them came in in shorts. The COO, CEO and the people immediately below them wear suits every day. The sales team also wore suits.
I went to that interview in smart shoes, smart jodhpur trousers with shirt, tie and v-neck and although my interviewer and then future boss was just in jeans, shirt and trainers, I still felt like I should have worn a full suit because the best formal impression the company gave out was suit-wearing.
That said, don't wear a suit to interview if you're not comfortable in a suit. Putting a suit on and going to interview does not constitute pulling a suit off.
I always think wearing a suit shows you want to impress, but if you're not comfortable in one it makes you look like you're bluffing.