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Summer's arrival in the northern hemisphere brings with it a dilemma that plagues every office worker.
北半球夏季的到來帶來了一個困擾每一位上班族的困境。
What does a casual dress code mean in practice?
休閑的著裝實際上意味著什么呢？
The happy medium between looking like Kim Kardashian or Hagrid the giant is hard to pin down.
即像金·卡戴珊這樣前衛，又像巨人海格一樣隨意的折中方案很難確定。
Goldman Sachs has just implemented a "flexible dress code"
高盛集團剛剛實施了一項“靈活的著裝規定”
although the executive memo noted gnomically that "casual dress is not appropriate every day".
雖然執行備忘錄中籠統地提到“休閑著裝并不適合每天穿著”。
Besuited corporate clients might not take kindly to investment-banking advice offered by someone wearing a tank top and ripped jeans.
西裝革履的企業客戶可能不會接受穿著背心和破洞牛仔褲的人提供的投資銀行建議。
It makes sense that banking would be one of the last bastions to fall to the advance of casual workwear.
銀行業將是向休閑著裝前進的最后堡壘之一，這么說是有道理的。
You want the people who look after your money to appear sober and respectable.
你希望那些幫你打理資金的人看起來冷靜且受人尊敬。
For similar reasons, bank headquarters have deliberately been built in a grandiose style to emphasise the institution's financial solidity and historical roots.
出于類似的原因，銀行總部刻意用宏大的建造風格強調該機構的財務穩固性和歷史根源。
Depositors might hesitate about handing over their savings to people working under a railway arch.
存款人或許會猶豫是否將自己的積蓄交給在火車拱門下工作的人。
For men, the move to casual dress seems entirely positive.
對男性而言，轉向休閑裝似乎是非常積極的。
Few people will mourn the demise of the tie, a functionally useless garment that constricted male necks for a century.
幾乎沒有人會為領帶的消亡而哀悼，一個世紀以來，領帶一直束縛著男性的脖子，在功能上毫無用處。
The tie's origins date back to the 17th century, when mercenaries hired by Louis XIII of France wore a form of cravat.
領帶的起源可追溯到17世紀，當時受法國路易十三雇傭的商人打著領結。
The modern version of the tie emerged in the 1920s and was popularised by Britain's Edward VIII
現代版的領帶出現在20世紀20年代，并由英國的愛德華八世普及
who, when not flirting with the Nazis, developed the Windsor knot. It became standard office wear for the next six decades.
他在還沒有與納粹糾纏的時候發明了溫莎結。在未來60年中，領帶變成了標準的辦公室著裝。
In the 1990s ties started to go out of fashion because technology titans and hedge-fund managers refused to wear them—
20世紀90年代，領帶開始不再流行，因為科技巨頭和對沖基金經理拒絕打領帶—
and were rich enough to ignore social convention. Once, when Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook,
并且他們的財富足以讓他們忽視社會公約。有一次，Facebook創始人馬克·扎克伯格
was to meet a venture capitalist, he turned up wearing his pyjamas.
要會見一名風險資本家，他穿著睡衣就來了。
The jacket, by contrast, is a much more useful garment, replete with pockets to house wallets,
相比之下，夾克是一件更有用的服裝，夾克里邊都是裝錢包、
spectacle cases and travel passes (or, these days, mobile phones).
眼鏡盒和旅游通行證（或者像現在的手機）的口袋。
So the default work garb for men, when meeting clients, is jacket, open-necked shirt and dark trousers (denim excluded).
因此，男性在會見客戶時，默認的工作服是夾克、開領襯衫和深色褲子(牛仔服除外)。
On days without meetings, men can slob out in t-shirts (though not too garish) and jeans, and no one will think the worse of them.
不開會的時候，男性可以穿T恤（雖然不能太花哨）和牛仔褲，沒人會認為他們很糟糕。
Arriving in shorts or without socks is another matter entirely.
穿短褲或不穿襪子則完全是另一回事。
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