IN A FREQUENTLY referenced scene from 1988’s “Working Girl,” Melanie Griffith’s character Tess McGill rushes into her office scrambling to grab a ringing phone while yanking off her Reeboks and tube socks to slide on a pair of heels. Although workwear has evolved dramatically since the commuter-sneaker era—with athletic shoes even infiltrating boardrooms—many of us still observed a distinction between work clothes and home clothes until the pandemic hit. Then came the advent of WFH outfits that, while hardly “professional,” took us from household chores to Zoom meetings to workouts to child-wrangling.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 04, 2020 18:53 UTC