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Choosing Smart Dresses for a Work Event

September 10th, 2009

Someone who finds themselves going out a lot and meeting trendy people as a part of their job is likely to be trying to find something that little bit different when they have a work related party to attend. That might include the latest dress through to a lovely little black dress. At the other end of the range our barrister in her 20’s has to get the balance right between being understood as being absolutely radical and just looking as formal as she does at the office. In this case the black party dress may still be grab it just depends how radical the design is. It is really all about expectations your expectations and the degree that you thrive on being different and never forgot the expectations of your colleagues, bosses and folks who will be making decisions about your future career path.

The best going out dress where you’ll be confronting job related associates actually relies on what your relationship with them is like in the office and the sort of out of work contact that you have with them. The other factor to take into account is the type of business you are working for. For example, if you’re a party loving PR woman in the fashion sector then you’ll have a completely different style presence at work to the barrister who is anticipated to be formally dressed when working with wills, trusts and inheritance problems.

An alternate way of taking a look at the going out dresses dilemma is to consider how other people see the world versus how you do. The 60 years old male solicitor who has spent his life in a stuffy legal office in a tiny town is going to have a whole set of rules about the world and expectations about how folks ( in particular his staff ) are going to operate inside those rules. On the other hand the 55 year old male fashion designer with long hair is going to have a wholly different set of rules and values and thus a different set of expectations about what is satisfactory in a certain context.