Dress For Success

As part of the Business Academy Program, it is expected that all Academy Students participate in our "Dress For Success" Wednesdays. Every Wednesday students are to dress in business casual attire. On the first Wednesday of the month, students are required to dress in executive business attire. This program is an essential part of the academy experience and prepares our students for the business world.

At the begining of each year, students will bring home the below information to have parents sign about this program:

BUSINESS CASUAL is a description for a type of appropriate business dress in a professional office environment. Many companies in today’s workforce have created more lenient dress policies, allowing business casual dress to be the standard. Other companies only allow business casual dress on Fridays. Still, other companies allow employees to wear whatever is comfortable! It truly depends on what type of company you work for and what kind of task you perform. If you are in a position where you never meet the client face-to-face, it may not matter how you dress. In most cases though, employees who dress more professionally act more professionally. An office in which all employees are dressed professionally does have a more professional atmosphere, which leads to more success. Many types of industries such as law or banking or upper-level management positions (CEO, VP, CFO) require the utmost in professional attire, called EXECUTIVE DRESS, which means suits everyday of the week! Remember, you should dress for the job position you want, not the one you have!

APPROPRIATE BUSINESS CASUAL GUIDELINES
GENTLEMEN:
Dress Slacks
• Docker-style pants in either khaki, navy, green, black, or gray
• Dress slacks in either khaki, navy, green, black, or gray
• No jeans of any color; No cargo pants

Dress Shirt
• Collared polo-type shirt
• Collared dress shirt
• Button-down collared oxford
• BPA or Business/Medical Academy polo-type collared shirt
• Any DPHS club, organization or sports collared polo shirt – not T-shirt
• Shirt must be tucked in
• When sweater is worn over a shirt, sweater can be un-tucked but must look neat
• No t-shirts; No collarless shirts

Dress Shoes & Belt
• Loafers/Docker style shoes
• Tie or slip-in dress shoes
• No tennis shoes or sports shoes, sandals, clogs, flip-flops, etc.
• Match belt color to shoe color
Dress Socks
• Dark socks—black or matching pants color; No white or sport type socks in dress shoes.

LADIES:
Attire
• Business type dress or skirt and blouse/sweater
• Long dress pants and blouse/sweater
• Coordinated pants suit
• Khaki pants or longer-style khaki skirt with a polo shirt
• No cargo pants, cargo skirts, short capri pants or denim skirts or pants
• No skin-tight pants or skirts
• No mini-skirts; No “after 5” attire!
• No ‘sleeveless’ dresses, blouses, or sweaters (school policy)--cover with matching sweater or jacket!
• No skin-tight, low cut or see-through blouses or sweaters
• No shorts, skorts, or high split skirts

Shoes
• Dress shoes--flats or heels
• No clogs or flip-flops
• No tennis shoes or other sport type shoes

EXECUTIVE DRESS is the most dressed up and represents how you should look when going to a job interview. The above guidelines apply in addition to the following specifications:

APPROPRIATE EXECUTIVE BUSINESS DRESS GUIDELINES

• GENTLEMEN- Dress pants/khaki pants, button-down shirt with a tie required worn with dress or professional-looking loafer shoes. Business suit is ideal but not required, jacket optional.

• LADIES- Coordinated dress suit or pants suit (matching jacket with pants/skirt)
or dress required; worn with closed dress or professional-looking shoes,
Panti-hose not required!

• Professional dress days do not excuse a student from participating in any other activity requiring a change of clothes.

• If another club, sport or organization mandates a required dress (ie: sport shirt) for a particular Wednesday, a student can make-up the business dress on the next day in class and is expected to do so.

• If a student is absent on Wednesday, he/she is expected dress the following day in class.

PLEASE! Be sure you read and understand these guidelines. Not participating in "Dress For Success" will lead to discipline in the Business Academy, possibly dismissal.