Clothing tells your interlocutors about your taste, your social status, your character, your mood. About your self-confidence , in the end. The task of a business woman is to make the clothes tell the story, and not screaming out loud, sticking out and winking. Do you have a lot of bright, expensive things? And in addition to them - long legs, luxurious hair , magnificent breasts and a thin waist? And this is what you want to defeat business partners on the spot?
First of all, decide on the goal: what do you want to achieve. Get an invitation to dinner by candlelight or make a career? Agree, yet the goal of every business woman is career growth, and her clothes can become both a means of success, and a significant obstacle in achieving this goal. In addition, your image is the way to establish good relations in the office: with colleagues, with superiors.
So, in order for your suit to be your assistant, not an annoying hindrance, you just need to follow several rules.
Subordination. If you are going to work in a team, then you will have a boss. And colleagues. And accounting, and many, many other people, who are usually called the proud word "colleagues." So, in some places it is considered indecent, if you are more expensive than your boss. Or cheaper than his subordinate.
What is permitted to the bull, then not to Jupiter's face. And the opposite case: paraphrasing a famous Latin proverb - the element of emancipation in clothes directly depends on the position you occupy (or want to occupy). And this does not mean that, for example, the marketing director is more free in choosing the length of the skirt - it's just the opposite. Your clothes should reflect the position that you occupy in your company.
A sense of corporate identity. In order to properly look and feel good, it is advisable not to shock the team with a new suit from Alexander McQueen. Do not fall outside the limits of the accepted price range in the organization - a business suit can be expensive, but it does not have to cause a stupor at half of the office.
Fabrics . A straight skirt from an expensive tweed sets up a long and fruitful work, the same skirt, but from satin, suggests to go amuse yourself with the sequel. The more your company and the higher your post, the less synthetics should be in your clothes. But avoid lightweight tissues - by the end of the day you will produce at least an inaccurate impression.
The tailoring is straight, semi-adjoining or trapezoidal, dilated in silhouette. The shape is rectangular, triangular (triangle base at the top), trapezoidal (truncated from below). Business things are more spacious, free than strictly classical.
The color scheme - as a rule, restrained, monophonic. For business clothes, dark blue, brown, dark gray, black, gray-green are best suited. Admissible and light shades of gray, cream, beige color. Although the designers say that bright shades are acceptable in the office, do not take risks.
Accessories - belt, jewelry, watches, bags. They are necessary, as they will revive the appearance of a business woman. But do not overdo it! Everything should only be of top quality and it is advisable not to save on them.
Spirits. One very respected image consultant once broke out the following advice: "If you can, refuse to work on the spirits!" Apparently, the male ignorance won the consultant a professional start. Men, they all naively assume that we, with nature, smell of freshness, lilies and caramel. So, to give up perfume at work is the same sign of bad taste as they are poured from head to foot. Nuance in the other: in the ability to correctly choose the fragrance for a true business lady. Stop your choice on strict, "cologne", smells, or on light, unobtrusive. No heavy, sweet, languid, oriental fragrances. No eroticism. And remember: the fragrance should be felt (lightly, subtly!) From a distance of no more than half a meter, and not flow after the hostess train for another half hour after she proudly walked along the corridor.
Remember some prejudices! For example, your customers may not understand women's pantsuits. Little did, perhaps, they were brought up in the forties of the last century in the conservative family of the North Altai?
Absolute taboos: mini, maxi, golfs, leggings, t-shirts, t-shirts, sarafans, sandals, slippers of all kinds, shorts, long earrings, huge false stones, hairpins, transparent fabrics.
And finally, a universal advice : if you are not sure about the selection of clothes, you can not decide, prefer a strict classical, even a little conservative clothing.