Dress code for students at Bay st firms

[Xyz123]

Can any current articling student at a bay st firm share what 2L/articling students typically wear on a day to day basis? Is it more business casual or casual? Are jeans acceptable?

[Pecan Boy]

I assume some offices are more casual than others, but during my summer, I never wore jeans and, on the other end of the spectrum, I only wore a full suit/tie if I was attending something that required it, like a hearing. Wore a dress shirt and dress pants (no blazer, no tie) almost all of the time. The students that dressed more casually often wore something more like a polo and khakis 

[Rashabon]

It varies. Just start with a suit (no tie) or blazer, pants and shirt and see how others do it. I sometimes bring a tie if I'm wearing a suit just in case but any time I have one people comment on it so I just take it off or don't wear it. I was wearing jeans and a sweater for a long time but have moved back to a suit or pants and a dress shirt a couple times a week just because I've been doing more meetings or virtual board meetings and want to dress less casual, but lots of others are still rocking business casual all the time.

[Jaggers]

I'm in house obviously, but our dress code took a serious turn to the casual side when we all came back to the office. I suspect most places are a notch or two down from pre-pandemic dress codes in terms of casual wear.

Jeans are probably mostly a no-go still except on Fridays.

[Vitron]

Suit and dress shirt (no tie) is about as formal as you get unless you’re in a hearing, meeting a client, or 70 years old.

If you want to step it down, you can get away with chinos, a sports coat, and a casual dress shirt just fine with no one batting an eye.

Jeans probably only on Friday but, again, I don’t think anyone will really care if you wear them more often as long as you look professional. 

[Jaggers]

At my office, anyone can wear jeans and nobody would care, but most people still won't. A tie is an extreme rarity.