'Smart/casual' - this means Jeans are exceptable, with smart top and shoes? for work situation?

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Yes, as long as they're not utterly beaten up.

Don't do jeans until you see what everyone else is wearing.

I work in a very casual profession but always turn up in proper trouser and proper shoes for the first couple of days. It's easier to underdress than overdress in most offices.

(Now I have my feet well under the table, I am quite happy to wear jeans and converse if I've no important meetings).

I probably wouldn't though unless they were very good jeans

I own no such jeans

DP said no, to the jeans, at least not where he works, even if an occassion is smart/casual.

Jeans were not acceptable in my former office, which had a smart casual dress code.

nor in our former office which was smart/casual dress.

Give us a clue as to what line of work.

"Business casual" in a finance firm is a very different beast to "smart casual" in a local council office.

No jeans IMO

Not in offices where I've worked - smart casual means it's ok to not wear a suit but not jeans ime.

"dress down" means jeans are ok
or casual Friday means jeans are ok
smart casual means you don't need a jacket and/or suit ime

My office is full of jeans wearers. Including the editor. Who is tall and slender and effortlessly glamorous, though .

oh, yes..lol. where... In a school

In a school it might be a no jeans policy. Ours certainly is.

hmm lots of jeans in my dses state primary

Definitly no jeans in a school (It's actually stated in one of our policies)

Start with no jeans, and plan for no jeans (i.e. have a few other pieces of clothing available).

Smart/casual is the work of Beelzebub IMO but then i matured (supposedly) in the 80s so anything without matching opaque tights and shoulder pads looks weird to me.

I think don;t wear jeans unless everyone else does - a smartish pair of trousers OK to start off with.

I work in an office and jeans are acceptable and seem to be worn more and more including by me. I also wear smarter trousers when I feel like it, or a denim skirt, or wrap dress.

I on;y work part time so I often wear what I want to wear for the rest of the day, e.g. going to the park, not likely to want to be doing that in a suit and stilettos.

NO jeans . My office is smart/casual and jeans is not acceptable. I tend to wear trousers with cotton tops or roll neck jumpers .

My teacher dh was invited to an informal interview and he though it meant jeans!

I made him go in a suit and just no tie and he's glad he did as everyone else on the panel wore suits.

Smart casual usually means no suits but no jeans/tshirts. Separates is how I'd describe it - picture the Next smart section!

Smart casual excludes blue jeans. Chinos is the safe option.

In a school, I'd say no jeans. Our Health & Safety policy stated that.

Can't imagine a H&S reason against jeans. They are pretty safe!