Have you noticed a decline in dress sense since the pandemic? 

Inevitably, fashions change over the decades - you don’t see nearly as many men dressed in suits and ties as you did in the 20th century. 

But has the trend toward scruffiness accelerated in recent years? 

On Newstalk Breakfast, The Home Show presenter Sinead Ryan admitted she is a “bit old-fashioned” on such matters. 

“The COVID years kind of put the final nails in the coffin sartorially,” she said. 

“Once fellas thought, ‘Well, chinos is as good as a pair of suit trousers’, you’re heading down a road [of no return]. 

“But it’s employers I blame because they have the choice to enforce proper dress, respect for your colleagues and [when you] turn up for work, don’t look as if you’ve just tumbled out of bed in a pair of scruffy runners and retro t-shirt. 

“It’s not appropriate, I don’t think it’s appropriate for any office.” 

Ms Ryan said she likes to see people have a “distinction between a work dress and your off duty dress”. 

“Most people dress better nowadays when they’re out socially than they do when they’re at work,” she said.  

When asked if people care about how others dress, Ms Ryan said it is a matter of common courtesy. 

“It’s a bit like people who are constantly late and they always have an excuse for it - it’s about respect,” she said. 

“You can plan these things; you don’t by accident pull out a tracksuit from the wardrobe if you’re going to work. 

“You do it by design.”

Main image: A man working from home in a hoody and pijamas. Picture by: Alamy.com