The answer depends on your company's dress code. Some industries and companies don't allow jeans, even for a casual Friday. But if your company does allow jeans, much depends on the cut and wash ...

And while employees had heard about casual wear ... a hotline for HR managers with dress code emergencies. Soon, Dockers’ clothes were everywhere, and Aloha Fridays went fully mainstream.

After offering you the position, the hiring manager goes over all the details of your new gig: start date, salary, manager's name, and dress code - which, she says, is "smart casual." So you put ...