Business Casual Dress Codes – What to Wear and What to Avoid

..Many businesses these days have a casual dress code, especially for those non-client facing personnel, but still many people wear clothes that are inappropriate for a work environment and the bosses complain to me (as well as their own peers) about what their employees are wearing. They will also tell me that they’re not keen on [...]

Sock it To Me

..A sock question from LGJ  I have to wear office-appropriate but warehouse-safe shoes, so I have close-toed brown slip on flats. Even with my longest pants, if I sit down and cross my legs my socks show. I’ve long since moved to black ankle socks (as opposed to the white socks that were long enough that [...]

Why Do You Feel the Need to Live Small?

After the post I did on What To Wear to Look Smart in a Casual Environment the other day I received some interesting comments, one of which, that I loved was from Duchesse:Anonymous: Be your beautiful, well-dressed self! Let them look, they might learn something. As Marianne Williamson says, “Your playing small does not serve [...]

How to Create Personal Power in the Workplace

 Sarah Greenberg: “I have a ‘’blazer on the door’ theory, meaning that you just never know when you’re going to be pulled into a meeting with a CEO or a filmmaker. Even if I’m wearing jeans, I have a blazer on the back door in my office and a pair of heels under my desk, [...]

Which Shoe to Choose?

I had an interesting experience today. I was hired by a Real Estate firm to come and talk to their sales team (about 30 people) about image. It went well (thanks for asking). Afterwards I was speaking to one of the company directors and I asked him why he’d chosen me over the other image [...]