Female interviewing attire...less formal these days?

I've spent a few years working in marketing so I've been away from the legal industry for a while, but since starting my LPC and going for TC interviews/assessment days I've noticed that many of the female interviewees seem to be dressing far less formally than they used to? I've always taken a cautious approach and gone for a black suit, white shirt, dark bag and neat hair but lots of the girls at my last assessment day had a mixture of formal dresses with a blazer or cardigan, coloured tops and black skirts with a blazer or even body con skirts with a blazer or dark cardigan? They all had their hair loose as well (all had long hair). Have law firms become less conservative these days or are they just pushing the boundaries a bit?

I think your approach is the right one. Law firms are getting less conservative, but I've lost count in recent years of interviewers thinking less of their candidates where their dress sense is a little too informal (too tight dresses, scruffy hair, too short dresses, cardigan instead of a blazer, no tie, clearly never ironed, too much make up and the like).

Loose hair is fine, as long as it is tidy. So is colour - nothing wrong with wearing a brightly coloured top with dark skirt/trousers.


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No tie?! What on Earth were they thinking?

My summer internship is jeans and tshirt

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I never understood the clothes women wear. It seems as though they wear anything they want to, imo.

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I've spent a few years working in marketing so I've been away from the legal industry for a while, but since starting my LPC and going for TC interviews/assessment days I've noticed that many of the female interviewees seem to be dressing far less formally than they used to? I've always taken a cautious approach and gone for a black suit, white shirt, dark bag and neat hair but lots of the girls at my last assessment day had a mixture of formal dresses with a blazer or cardigan, coloured tops and black skirts with a blazer or even body con skirts with a blazer or dark cardigan? They all had their hair loose as well (all had long hair). Have law firms become less conservative these days or are they just pushing the boundaries a bit?