I am an American visiting Kuala Lumpur on business. I dress pretty casually - t-shirt tucked in jeans/nice travel pants, Adidas Samba sneakers, and the like. Think casualwear from Old Navy, Uniqlo, H&M, etc. I never needed to dress business formal for my job, so I don't really have business formal clothing.
I could buy a few pieces if needed, but not sure if wearing what I normally wear would be very out of place or offensive! Can someone please shed some light on how most women in their early 30s dress in the office?
5 Comments
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 2y
Depends on the company culture of course, but the places I've been in Malaysia have dressed fairly casually (lots of polos or casual collared shirts but a t-shirt was fine), what you describe wouldn't be a problem. The only thing to pay attention to is that if your office has Muslim people it is generally respectful to wear long pants instead of shorts (I went to a factory in Malaysia once and wore shorts because it is ungodly hot and my next colleague to visit got a friendly reminder to wear long pants).
resurrexia@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
Yeah avoid showing cleavage or legs. Long pants in lightweight fabric should serve fine. Uniqlo Airism will do.
Not to mention when you’re indoors the aircon is actually cold.
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
I’ve always found it helpful to google for “ business etiquette” to understand the cultural pitfalls of any particular place.
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
So apparently it just deleted part of my comment? The thing to google is “[name of country] business etiquette”
nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Could you retype the whole comment again see if you're being filtered?