Personal growth

[sabrinamari]

justusgirlz is taking me to Nordstrom's to buy suits. As it is the consensus of both my online and in-person communities that I need an entirely new approach to professional dressing/clothing, that is going to happen today.

I am resigned. I've put on my Miskatonic University Metaphys Ed shirt and yoga pants to express my feelings about this.



justusgirlz is forcing me to watch instructive clothing videos before we go.

I just want to put my head in someone's lap and get my forehead stroked.

sigh.

Comments

[shades-of-nyx.livejournal.com]

I hate agreeing with the enemy here, but yes, you need a new suit!
You are stunningly beautiful and shouldn't undermine that with bad clothing.
Femme love.

[arielmn.livejournal.com]

I don't like clothes shopping and LOVE the idea of your MU shirt as protest. HUGS

[tigira.livejournal.com]

I think of it as a costume - just like I have to wear the right garb for faire, or con, or whatever, there's garb that you wear to dress like someone who does your job.

At least it helps me.

[glenmarshall.livejournal.com]

I am a casual dresser, and often a sloppy one. However, when I need to "play the part" of an experienced health care IT privacy and security expert in person, not over the phone, I dress-up. There is enough depth in my wardrobe for anything from business casual to a full suit and tie, with the right steps in between. My dear wife has good taste and helped select the mix-and-match necessary to achieve this. As the PR and Marketing VP, she did the same for her former college president who was a little too "casual academic".

So, if you want to have a serious wardrobe make-over for academia and business, give us a call.

[wgseligman.livejournal.com]

I strongly sympathize. One of the reasons I stay in the job I've got, instead of a job in which I could make more money, is that in my current job I don't have to wear a suit.

In your case, however, you've specifically stated that you're more ambitious than that. You want a job that will net you more money, that will improve your research opportunities, and that will give you more satisfaction. That means abiding by the rules that others set. One of those sets of rules has to do how one dresses.

I don't understand those rules. I have no sense of "style." That's why whenever I shop for clothes, someone else has to go with me.

You've made a choice. Be responsible for the consequences of that choice. One of those consequences is to go shopping for clothes. A secondary consequence is to act like you enjoy it, otherwise you're placing an unnecessary burden on justusgirlz and potentially making yourself subject to the whims of the Nodstroms' salespeople.

I know it sucks. One day the whole world will be a pagan festival and we'll work skyclad. Until that day arrives, ya gotta learn your suit size.

[ingridsummers.livejournal.com]

This is something I need to do too. Where do you get said videos?

[(Anonymous)]

We are getting on the phone and I am gonna walk you through all this, possibly with justusgirlz. There was a moment when I stood on the platform in from of the mirrors in the women's dressing room with her, the sales consultant and a professional fitter, dumbfounded and staring into the mirror, thinking, "I look like a hospital administrator. A sexy, wealthy hospital administrator, but a hospital administrator none the less."

We can do this for you.