The document provides tips and guidelines for dressing professionally in the workplace. It discusses choosing colors, styles, and fits that project competence rather than being cute or trendy. Traditional career colors are recommended like navy, gray, and black. Structured handbags and simple jewelry are suggested over distracting styles. Tips include ensuring proper fit for pants, skirts, jackets, and blouses. The document cautions against career killers like miniskirts, spaghetti straps, or jeans and advises observing what higher-level women in the company wear. Formal business attire generally means suits or pantsuits with closed-toe shoes and conservative makeup. Corporate casual allows for dressier pants and tops while casual Friday policies

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2. What do I wear to Work?Michele McFarlaneMonica CampbellSam Sharpe Teachers’ College3rd Year Professional DevelopmentOctober 2009

4. How do I know what to wear?Your goal to getting dressed for work is to project a professional, competent image, regardless of your employment level or career path.

5. Cute or Professional?The styles, colours, lengths and fit of your fashion choices will speak volumes about your ability to do your job. If you are concerned about your career, you'll be more concerned with looking professional than looking cute or trendy.

6. ColourColour plays a big part in professional image. Traditional career colours include red (aggressive), navy (trustworthy), gray (conservative) and black (chic). Most of these colours work well in pantsuits, skirts and shoes and mix back with softer feminine colours that are appropriate like ice blue, lilac, soft pink and ivory. Loud colours like hot pink and wild prints are much riskier in the office, but some creative types can still pull them off.

7. Handbags and JewellerySlouchy handbags look sloppy. Choose structured styles that project an organized imageJewellry that jangles (chandelier earrings, stacks of bangles) is distracting. Opt for stud earrings or single bracelets.

8. TipsFit is everything when you are talking about tailored work clothes. Pants should be fitted, but free of visible panty lines. Skirts, especially straight styles like pencil skirts, should be loose enough to sit down in comfortably. Jackets should be able to be buttoned. And blouses shouldn't gap between buttonholes.

9. Tips con’tOne of the best clues to company dress codes is what your boss wears. Just think about the styles that the highest-level woman in your organization wears and use them in your wardrobe. Does she wear mostly skirt suits? Or does she rely on pantsuits? Does she wear hose or bare legs? Open-toed shoes or pumps?

10. KillersCareer KillersUnlike a fashion faux pas, a career killer outfit can do your professional image permanent damage. Looks to avoid in the workplace: Too sexy: see-through lace, miniskirts, spaghetti straps, sheer sundresses, strappy stiletto sandals. Too casual: jeans, shorts, T-shirts, hats, sneakers. Too sloppy: wrinkled clothing, too many layers, baggy-fit clothing.

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12. Dress code TipsDress CodesFormal Business Attire- For women this constitutes business suits (a matched skirt and jackets) and, in most workplaces, pantsuits (matched pants and blazer). Closed-toe shoes (no sandals), blouses, hose and conservative hair, jewellry and makeup are expected.

13. TipsCorporate Casual Looks-Working women have interpreted this to mean everything from shorts to sundresses, but in its most literal sense it means "smart business." Dressy pants and a blouse, sleek jersey knits and skirts and tops are all examples of corporate casual. Denim, T-shirts and flip-flops -- all '90s phenoms -- are only acceptable in the most casual of work environments.

14. TipsCasual Friday - Depending on the business, this can mean anything from corporate casual instead of formal looks or "Wear your company logo polo and jeans." If in doubt, ask a superior.