India, Nov. 5 -- HBO's new workplace comedy, The Chair Company, has been receiving rave reviews from critics and audiences alike. The costume designer of the show, Nicky Smith, has now explained how she designed the costumes for the show.

She told IndieWire she focused on practicality over polish - wrinkled shirts, stretched collars and faint stains all stayed in the mix. "If the clothes were wrinkled or had stains, we said, 'let's wash them', but not completely get the stains out. If the neck was pulled out because it was a really old shirt, we were like, 'Ah, perfect,'" Smith said.

Robinson's character, Ron Trosper, works in an Ohio customer service office that spirals into chaos. But Smith's job was to ground the madness. "Tim and Za...