http://www.theworkingwardrobe.com/from-the-editor/new-employee-ponders-her-office-dress-code-in-regards-to-the-industry-and-her-demographic/ Put Your Wardrobe to Work Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:58:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.theworkingwardrobe.com/from-the-editor/new-employee-ponders-her-office-dress-code-in-regards-to-the-industry-and-her-demographic/#comment-7760 TheWorkingWardrobe Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:24:00 +0000 http://theworkingwardrobe.com/uncategorized/new-employee-ponders-her-office-dress-code-in-regards-to-the-industry-and-her-demographic/#comment-7760 Hi WORRIED APRN, That definitely is a bit of a scary situation! However it's definitely not impossible. My first piece of advice is to find that starched button-down. Find one that is comfortable in the shoulders and the sleeve length hits right below your wrist. Make sure the buttons are in no danger of popping either. Then buy three-five of them in basic solids. I highly recommend Brooks Brothers for their button-down blouses (I haven't been able to find a better brand). Then find your suits. Mix gray and black and perhaps a navy blue suit along with a thicker-heeled round-toed pump. Check out Bivel pumps - they're amazingly comfortable and incredibly stylish. That should be good to get you started and keep you styling! Please comment if you have any more questions - congratulations on your new position! - Rachel Hi WORRIED APRN, That definitely is a bit of a scary situation! However it’s definitely not impossible. My first piece of advice is to find that starched button-down. Find one that is comfortable in the shoulders and the sleeve length hits right below your wrist. Make sure the buttons are in no danger of popping either. Then buy three-five of them in basic solids. I highly recommend Brooks Brothers for their button-down blouses (I haven’t been able to find a better brand). Then find your suits. Mix gray and black and perhaps a navy blue suit along with a thicker-heeled round-toed pump. Check out Bivel pumps – they’re amazingly comfortable and incredibly stylish. That should be good to get you started and keep you styling! Please comment if you have any more questions – congratulations on your new position! – Rachel

]]> http://www.theworkingwardrobe.com/from-the-editor/new-employee-ponders-her-office-dress-code-in-regards-to-the-industry-and-her-demographic/#comment-7759 WORRIED APRN Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:28:00 +0000 http://theworkingwardrobe.com/uncategorized/new-employee-ponders-her-office-dress-code-in-regards-to-the-industry-and-her-demographic/#comment-7759 I would love some adic. After 0 years at an academic medial center where the manner of dress for nurse practitioner ranged from baggy scrub pants and tee with grubby lab coat thrown over to boho chic I have recently accepted a position witgh a private practice group where the dress code (at least for the docs) leans toward highly polished shoes, three pieces suits and shirts that are perfectly starched at the end of a 14 hour day, I am sort of at a loss, I'm not in Kansas any more. How does this 57 year old (trim) Dorothy dress for the Emerald City? Help? I would love some adic. After 0 years at an academic medial center where the manner of dress for nurse practitioner ranged from baggy scrub pants and tee with grubby lab coat thrown over to boho chic I have recently accepted a position witgh a private practice group where the dress code (at least for the docs) leans toward highly polished shoes, three pieces suits and shirts that are perfectly starched at the end of a 14 hour day, I am sort of at a loss, I’m not in Kansas any more. How does this 57 year old (trim) Dorothy dress for the Emerald City? Help?

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