From: NPR
Power Suits: How Dressing For Success At Work Can Pay Off
March 21, 2016
NPR:
What does it mean to “dress for success”? Certainly not what it meant when a book by that name first came out in 1975.
Now, what to wear to work is a murky area that includes a new clothing trend known as “athleisure” — workout wear that might also work for the office.
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Michael Kraus, a professor at the Yale School of Management, has studied the connection between clothing and financial advantage in negotiations. In a 2014 study, he paired men in suits against peers in sweatpants and flip-flops in a mock real-estate sale negotiation. The men in suits negotiated, on average, about 10 percent more profit than their casually dressed counterparts.
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