UN to Staff: Dress Down During Summer

Blair Golson August 4, 2008 | 3:38 pm EST

New eco-friendly dress guidelines at the U.N. will probably skew slightly more conservative than the one pictured above.

The United Nations is urging its staffers to wear cooler clothes during the summer to cut air conditioning bills and lessen the building’s carbon footprint:

“I don’t want to get involved in the fashion police of determining exactly what people can wear,” the building’s renovating architect told the Associated Press, “but the encouragement of business casual is where we are going.”