What normally comes to mind when you think
of work wear?
So I figured instead of showing you guys one outfit at a time, I'd create an entire month
of work wear to help make getting dressed in the mornings that much easier!
A lot of you guys started following me originally because
of my work wear tips.
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Welcome to this month's edition
of Work Wear Wednesday.
I love the whole IDEA
of the work wear challenge as we are all looking for new ideas to wear our old clothes.
Of course, this time I added the blazer which I think takes this outfit up a notch in terms
of work wear.
There are different types
of work wear styles.
In my younger years, my idea
of work wear consisted of a lot of muted colors — think: black, grey, white, and navy.
For example, I just added a pair of tomato red trousers into one
of my work wear capsules.
Nicole Molders from High Latitude Style takes the guess work out
of work wear in her book How to Dress for Success in Midlife.
Bow blouses are such a big trend and it's one of my favorites but rather than running out to buy one, I can simply add this scarf to
some of my work wear.
Shop online at shopbop.com to find a wide range
of work wear and business appropriate attire for women and men.
If your line
of work wears business attire of any form, (except for a uniform) I am here to help!
Not exact matches
Living and
working in New York City — home
of Silicon Alley — I've seen my fair share
of people
wearing Google Glass.
It's a bit
of an odd shoe to place — if you go with a darker color, they
work well as a comfortable shoe you can
wear to the office, but are probably a little too casual for formal events.
Founder Zach Goldstein, an investment banker who formerly
worked at JPMorgan and a private equity firm in Chicago, was frustrated with the quality
of other lounge clothes on the market that he didn't feel comfortable
wearing outside his house.
Don't get me wrong, it's not as if I hate the clothes I
wear to
work every day; I really like a lot
of them.
Robin Rhodes, 57,
of Worcester is accused
of assaulting Rabeeya Khan, who was
wearing a hijab, or head scarf, while
working at Delta Airlines» Sky Lounge on Wednesday evening, prosecutors said on Thursday in a statement.
Wearables are perceived to offer encouragement to
work toward better health, without appearing to be a requirement, and apparently, 44 percent
of U.S. workers are already
wearing them to
work.
If you
work in a profession that requires you to
wear business or dress attire every day, it goes without saying that you need to own a decent amount
of neck ties.
You can simply begin by taking note
of what the most successful leaders in your industry
wear, and find the version that
works best and is most flattering to you.
Ours may need some tweaking, but for now at least, my colleagues and I have found plenty
of positive things to comment on:
work we're proud
of, jokes about office nicknames and even a little cheerfulness about the weather («Not
wearing a sweater for the first time in... I can't even remember,» one colleague posted).
This
works best for things like maternity clothes, old children's clothes, clothes that you haven't
worn in years or are simply out
of style.
Some issues that arise can include different perceptions
of what is appropriate to
wear to
work, the role
of technology in the workplace, and even what an intern's duties should look like.
After
working as a director and senior merchant at Victoria's Secret, Michelle Cordeiro Grant wanted to create a new experience and point
of view in the lingerie category, one that delivers simple, quality products and reflects the healthy, confident, and beautiful women
wearing them.
Not
wearing a full face
of makeup to
work — regardless
of the industry — can also be deemed unprofessional in certain South Korean offices, Quartz reported.
Gayno and his fellow Googler Jeff Baxter had spent a lot
of time
working with the company's secretive project lab Google X, building products like Google Glass and Android
Wear.
If you
work in a profession that requires you to
wear business or dress attire every day, it goes without saying that you need to own a decent amount
of neckties.
When CNBC's Jim Cramer
worked at a hedge fund, his boss would make him
wear a «Post-It note
of shame» when he missed a good buy or gave up on a great stock.
A couple
of months ago, an ad for a Woodside, California, group house called Startup Castle drew ridicule for demanding that applicants for its coveted spaces
work out at least 15 hours a week,
wear makeup no more than twice a week, have no more than one tattoo, and only rarely listen to songs with explicit lyrics.
The
work is notable for its depiction
of the elaborately detailed clothing favoured by 18th - century French aristocrats, but look closely at the young man in the foreground and you'll see he's
wearing a pair
of remarkably simple black dress shoes.
Shortly thereafter, I ditched the herd mentality and returned to
working in a world
of suits
wearing my boots and made my website, marketing materials and message reflect my authentic self.
The brand just released new performance
work chinos and dress shirts, and because
of the personalization it's the best fitting workwear I've
worn.
The trim on this winter coat is designed to flex and provide extra room, but you could
wear it all day at
work because it's durable and made
of highly breathable materials.
Made
of a lightweight, fine - gauge staple cotton, Bombas» dress socks have almost all the features
of the company's popular athletic socks but are nice enough to
wear to
work and other formal events.
It runs Android
Wear 2.0 and
works with thousands
of apps on the Google Play Store.
«I think that a lot
of men graduate business school and have no real idea
of how their
work clothes should fit, or what they should be
wearing,» Madden said.
Designed for
wearing at
work but flexible enough for a quick hike around town as well, the Santiago shoes use materials made mostly
of leather with a rubber sole that can handle slick icy surfaces.
I constantly get made fun
of by my friends and family for
wearing the same thing, but it
works.
«I could
work long hours,» said Burch, speaking at the Vanity Fair Founders Fair in New York City, but «it can really
wear out a team, so I have to be aware
of that.»
On the day Entrepreneur.com visits, he is
wearing stained
work jeans and a gray T - shirt advertising 77 Whiskey, one
of his products.
«We see strong alignment with Android
Wear's mission and look forward to
working with our new colleagues at Google (googl) to continue pushing the frontier
of wearable technology and smartwatches with Android
Wear 2.0 and beyond,» Cronologics wrote in its announcement post.
«I
wear it pretty much any time I'm out
of the house and not
working.»
On Tuesday, a handful
of service companies in Handan, a city in China's Hebei province, encouraged workers to
wear masks to
work so that they could relax their faces instead
of smiling all day.
Men have been reaching for white dress shirts for as long as they've been
wearing suits, although the clean, classic look
of this garment
works with
«I dislike tardiness so much that if I see you are even three minutes late to
work, it will
wear on my opinion
of you.»
At the same time, if a CEO comes to
work wearing a tie while the rest
of the company is more casual, I'd wonder who was driving the culture.»