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It wasnt until Covid lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 that smart casual attire became increasingly prominent in more traditional corporate environments such as accounting firms and banks

Working from home socially conditioned many professionals to dress in a more casual way for the majority of the day (just wearing a t-shirt, polo or button-down collar shirt with some jeans, chinos or shorts on the bottom), and then throwing on a blazer for a Zoom call so they would look more professional on camera