Style Guide: How to dress for the office

Uniform Fashion In The Office

If the thought of retiring your comfortable sweats and choosing a new outfit to leave the house in each morning is an intimidating prospect, you’re in good company. For the better part of the pandemic, I’ve lived in a pair of stretchy, soft wool trousers in the cooler months, switching allegiance in summer to a white linen dress that my brother-in-law dubbed “the ghost dress” (likening its so flowy, so oversized shape to that of a large bedsheet with a hole cut out for my head).

Now, many of us are readjusting to being back in an office — a prospect that may come with numerous challenges but perhaps none greater than one looming concern: What to wear?

Dressing for the office

This guide — with input from four fashion insiders — should help you get back in the right mindset for dressing up (or simply getting dressed) for work.

One caveat: If your dressing for work energy is akin to Julia Roberts playing Erin Brockovich (“As long as I’ve got one ass instead of two, I’ll wear what I like if that’s all right with you”), you don’t need me or this guide, you need a high five. Keep it up.

Formalities out of the way, read on for everything you need to know about dressing for the office.

You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you have a basic outfit on – a black sweater and skirt or a simple black dress – you can go from the office to a cocktail party at night just by changing your jewellery. It helps if you change your shoes as well. 

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