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Jean therapy
Posted 11/12/2007 by The Daily Diary
City firms are notorious for clinging to outmoded traditions long-since jettisoned by their rather trendier US counterparts, which prefer, say, to work out profits based on the cash you’ve actually got rather than crinkled IOUs written by some chap you used to play golf with.
One such tradition is the wearing of suits to the office – a practice, it seems, that can lead to culture-clash tensions in US firms’ City outposts.
At the London arm of one such enterprise, UK lateral hires mix with Yankee cousins about as well as spotted dick and sushi, with one American partner recently lamenting to The Diary that he had been getting “evil eyes” from conservative colleagues for wearing denim to the office.
“I wouldn’t mind,” he reflected, “but my jeans are at least twice as expensive as their suits.”
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