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| Why, this is my Casual Friday Marloes Horst for Jalouse 2011 |
"When women are in flats, and they say, ‘I’m comfortable,’
I say they need to man up and put on a pair of 4-inch heels,
nothing gives you more respect."
"Fashion is really all about showing your personality and having fun with it.
People that wear practical shoes, an ill-fitting blazer,
who told you that you have to wear that?"
-Amy Smilovic of Tibi
My internship has recently ended, but did I ever mention that every day I went to work I always had on a cute outfit and 4 inch (if not 5 inch) heels? Women in the office took business casual to a whole different level of boring. Most of them were dressed in sloppy slacks, plain Jane tops and not-so-chic flats. For that reason, I always felt like I stood out - in a good or bad way through the eyes of these women, I don't know. (Although I did get an anonymous complaint to my supervisor that my casual Friday skirts might be too short. . . hmph) What I do know, is that I felt good about myself - my ability to work with these people on an intellectual level but also my ability to embrace my youth and uniqueness on a fashionable level. I'm eventually going to get trapped in the boring, old world of tax law, but what I do in my career should not define or dress me. Like I had said at the debut of my blog- my goal is to merge both worlds of fashion and intelligence together. I understand now how that's supposed to happen: Dress like I'm the CEO of Net-a-Porter, but work like I'm the Partner of a Big 4.
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