Dressing Professionally

Since being a dog walker for the last year, I have become out of touch with fashion and professional dress.  I still want to dress professional and look appropriate to my legal peers.  Juggling both dog walking and a law practice is not going to be easy for me.  I have been reassessing my closet of clothes since working for a mobile apps company here in the city.  What I found was a bunch of ill-fitting clothes (I seriously need to hit the gym) and not much to make me feel confident as a professional.  My dog walking uniform consists of cropped yoga pants and sports bras.  Not going to transition well into a professional field.

This article about lawyers dressing professionally made me reassess my choices again.  Wait a minute, I have skirts that show my butt off, I don’t have nude colored stockings to wear under the ill-fitting skirts, and wait, I also have button downs where my chest is about to explode out of their buttons.  This is tragic.  What really pushed me over the edge was when I finished volunteering for SF SPCA, I had to run to a networking mixer for new attorneys.  I was wearing rain boots, jeans, and a cardigan.  I was mortified and embarrassed as I walked into the sea of suits. I almost wanted to turn back around and go shopping for a new wardrobe or call TLC’s What Not to Wear on myself!

The next day, I made an emergency visit to the Macy’s Union Square and found some deals on work appropriate dresses.  Thank you Macy’s for having an awesome sale!  I found dresses that did not show off the girls and were closer to my knees than my ass.  I feel a little more confident with some more appropriate outfits to go to work, mixers and meetings, but I still have a long way to go.  I just have to remember it’s okay to wear the yoga pants to walk the dogs, but I’m still a lawyer under these yoga pants and I need to look that part too sometimes.

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