Rio De Janeiro - Post Report Question and Answers
What is the typical dress code at work and in public places? Is formal dress ever required?
Casual. No suits at the office. Around town it's perfectly normal to see people walking around in bathing suits. Lots of bright colors, crop tops, shorts, and flip flops. - Jun 2024
Beach casual: formal dress is never required unless going to a wedding. - Oct 2019
Top hat and tails would be overdoing it, but a LOT of Brazilians wear Havaianas everywhere. - Sep 2019
Very business casual; Brazilians/Cariocas get formal occasionally, but very rarely. - Apr 2019
Dress is less-formal. Only lawyers wear suits. All but the fanciest restaurants have patrons in shorts and flip-flops. - Jun 2017
casual. people walk around in their swim suits. - May 2016
Business causal. Ties and chinoes, no suits unless you're around the front office. In public, you can go outside in your underwear and flip flops and nobody will give you a second look. - Aug 2013
Very casual. - Jun 2011
Business attire at work. Shorts and flip-flops everywhere else. - Jul 2010
For Americans, it's business, but Brazilian co-workers will be loosely business casual. On the street it is very casual and skimpy - similar to Miami. - Jun 2010
Relatively casual - Nov 2009
Casual compared to a lot of other posts. - Jan 2009
