In the 1970s, the formal dress code started to shift within office wear and created a big change to how we dress for work. Men started to wear fewer suits for a more casual look deemed “business casual”. Women, however, created a bigger change for their dress code as they were trading in their dresses/skirts for pants. Dress codes were still implemented within the office but were starting to reflect the everyday fashion trends that people were gravitating towards.
These vintage photos from Thomas Hawk were taken by a San Francisco Bay based commercial photographer that show portraits of American office workers in the early 1970s.
