Smart casual is not just a dress code – it is modern life in outfit form. Smart casual dressing tells the world that you are someone who gets it. It shows that you know how the world works now, what the spoken and unspoken rules are.
If a pinstripe suit and a pocket square make you look creaky and antiquated and ripped jeans and a scruffy T-shirt make you look a bit of a loose cannon, smart casual – say, for the sake of argument, a stripe shirt with pleat-front trousers, chunky-soled loafers and a couple of necklaces – identifies you as someone who can be relied upon to steer a path through the middle ground.
