Dress For Success in Jeans!

I’m super excited. Even though I have to spend a lot of money on gas for my new engagement, I am excited because this office is insanely casual. There’s some manual work going on there and some of the staff wears jeans and *ugh* flip-flops. I hate flip-flops with a passion, but that is neither here nor there. The point is that the other consultants on my team tolerate jeans, sneakers and polo shirts.

I have noticed that most of my management chain are South Asian and tend to wear more formal attire, without going to a full-on suit. That sends me a signal, while it’s nice to be casual, don’t go TOO far.

While I don’t plan on wearing sneakers and jeans daily through the summer. It’s nice to know that I can and no one will get mad. I still plan on wearing a dress shirt and khakis Monday through Thursday, and jeans on Friday with dressy shoes. I have never felt that it was ok to wear sneakers on-site.

I’m so happy about all this. I was so fretful earlier when I first got this consulting job. The first client site was so formal and I felt a lot of pressure to upgrade my wardrobe and buy some suits. But now I don’t need them until I return to a formal client site. I can dry clean my suits and put them into storage till October. If I’m lucky, this gig will last a while and I won’t have to spend too much money. (Though I’m getting fat enough to warrant some new khakis again. Sigh. Must diet to avoid spending money.)

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Comments (4) left to “Dress For Success in Jeans!”

  1. Matt wrote:

    Its nice not to have to upgrade your wardrobe just to meet what’s expected at a job. I try to aim for the upper end of the status quo myself and that does mean I can occasionally get away with jeans and a nice shirt with dress shoes.

    Flip-flops in almost every work environment puts me off (the exception being beach related jobs).

    Posted on 06-May-08 at 10:06 am | Permalink

  2. Mrs. Micah wrote:

    Nice! I try to strike that balance at the library job. On the one hand, I have a coworker who always wears the same polo shirt, baseball cap, and jeans every day (I’m not sure why, but I know he wears the cap to hide a growth on his forehead so that’s allowed). And on the other, some of the librarians dress up in….librarian professional. Not suits, but pretty.

    So some days I wear jeans and a dress shirt, other days I come in full dress clothes, occasionally I’ll wear dress pants with a plain/stylish tee.

    Any way I dress, I still seem to draw the library weirdos. I’m the only woman under 30 in the library, so I guess it makes sense.

    Posted on 06-May-08 at 8:04 pm | Permalink

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  4. chosha wrote:

    Casual Friday is one of my favourite things about working for a government department. Makes Friday, which is inherently good already, an even better day. :)

    Posted on 10-May-08 at 11:13 am | Permalink

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