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mufti day


Casual Clothes Day: Today is mufti day at work. Compare casual day, free dress day, in uniform day, out of uniform day.

Contributor's comments: [Sydney informant] A special occasion when casual clothing is permitted in an office environment as opposed to usual business attire. Equivalent to "casual day" as was the term used when I lived in Adelaide (until 1999): "On Friday we're having a mufti day." / "Make sure you wear mufti tomorrow!"

Contributor's comments: Free dress days, where people can dress casually: "We have a mufti day today."

Contributor's comments: [ACT informant] To wear plain, or casual clothes. Out of uniform: "The school had a mufty day."

Contributor's comments: Mufti day is the term commonly used for special casual dress day in the office throughout the Sydney and North Sydney CBD.

Contributor's comments: I'm from Perth and I had never, ever heard this until I moved to Sydney. We call it free dress day.

Contributor's comments: Not wearing uniform: "Today the shool is having a mufti day."

Contributor's comments: casual clothes (as opposed to a uniform), as in "We got to wear mufti at school yesterday."

Contributor's comments: Growing up in Sydney, I always understood Mufti Day to be a old war time phrase - where the sailors etc were allowed to dress in 'mufti' or civilian clothes.