What are Sacramento’s young professionals really wearing to work?

The eternally flattering wrap dress is showing no signs of going out of style, as Child Action Project Communications Lead Avory Grays demonstrated with her Emerge Summit outfit. We took a walk through Sacramento during business hours to see what young professionals are wearing.

One of the pleasures of exploring a city is getting a sense of how its residents dress for work. From the crisp black suits of Tokyo to the just-so scarves of Paris and the judiciously edgy getups of Berlin creatives, every place has its own distinct professional uniform, reworked through countless individual interpretations.

So what is Sacramento’s workplace sense of style? How does its rising generation of young professionals dress for the office after coming of age during the work-from-home era? Is the barrier between street style and business style dissolving? These are some of the questions photographer Katy Karns and I sought to answer as we prowled downtown Sacramento in pursuit of the city’s most interesting outfits.

– Jennifer Fergesen, digital editor

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