What type of attire is usually worn to town hall? It’s my first one. Cocktail dress, formal dress, or casual but nice?

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Ours is usually apres ski wear in colder months.

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Seriously. Town halls are two hours in the middle of the day with crappy pastries and maybe an even crapier 2 inch pour of wine while you watch a bunch of blow hards talk about how “we can all do better”. But maybe that’s my agency....

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This just gave me PTSD

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Is this serious?

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Wait, what?! Is this a thing? Our town halls are dial-in

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🙃 was wondering why everyone was laughing at this. FCB calls their annual holiday party town hall.

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That clears things up, but way to make a party sound like a political suck-fest. Are they going to call next year’s party All Hands?

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Jeans and a sweater. (The assholes here are messing with you)

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Better to not wear pants than not wear jeans.

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Always have a minimum requirement of a parrot , eyepatch and a pegleg.

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No next years party will be called “winter informal"

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Chicken suit to your first one. Have one you can borrow

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For ladies, cocktail attire. I usually go with rent the runway though

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What? No. Flannel and jeans. What kind of town hall is this???

Chicago town halls, dress nice

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False. I have attended an FCB Chicago town hall and people wore regular agency office clothes.

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Tbh something comfortable, preferably like with a more comfortable chair attached.

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Our town Halls are casual af. T shirt and jeans. Where the hell do you work?

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Most people step it up a notch or two for FCB Town Hall. It’s a party so look nice.

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😂😂😂

I really hope we get a follow-up by the poster

Ok. So now we get that "town hall" means "holiday party" in FCB land... But... It is almost February???

My agency’s holiday party is called Round 1 Creative Check-In. It’s in May.

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It’s FCB wear biz casual. Been to ten of them biz casual is appropriate

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