okay Carolyn what kind of dress do you have to wear when you go to work
uh i can actually wear anything i want to however i generally wear uh suits or dresses
yeah
how about you
uh well in my company we do have to dress up and they don't say that you have to um dress in a dress for women but they strongly urge it
so it's it's kind of an unwritten law
well the company that i work for uh we it's very casual we don't see any people there's a plant out in the back and then i'm in the office section
and we always had casual day on Friday which meant you could wear jeans or whatever you wanted to which to me dressing down is you know like wearing pants and a jacket or something
right
but uh
even though i don't have to dress during the day you know in anything that dressy i still feel better i feel more professional when i'm dressed up
exactly it's puts puts forth a better image it's uh my company doesn't usually have casual days we had our first one in four at least since i've been there which is four years not too long ago and
i didn't feel comfortable dressing like many people came in like warm ups and no and i
you're kidding that's casual
yeah and i don't feel i i wore you know a nice pair of pants and and blouse but i i i just couldn't feel comfortable in my warm ups around everybody at work
uh-huh
would i assume that perhaps they did that one time and that was it
oh well it was just recently so i don't know if they'll do it again the way some people looked i would doubt it
well that's what i always thought actually uh the gals in our customer service department quite honestly came in every day in what i considered casual but
um-hum
i don't know i it just seems if you want to get ahead or even if you just want everybody to think of you you know as a a professionally you you don't just want to have the real casual look all the time
um-hum do you work for a large company
well we've got two hundred people in our office but we're the corporate office so um it's it's relatively large but i mean i have a job very much longer so i i don't want to say too much
well and it and it affects uh you know being in the corporate office how you have to dress too do you
exactly we have to hold the image for everybody
do you tend to dress up toward your superiors as the books kind of
i would like to you know i dress as nicely as my budget allows
i understand
and and you know i mean it's it's a lot better than some people there and it's not as nice because i don't have the money of others you know what about you
um-hum
uh i have never i really have not worked for very many companies that i had a female role model
uh-huh
um the we have some i'm sure in our corporate office but i've not met them yet but uh the last few jobs i've had well there was two jobs ago there was a girl in the office uh that i tended to try to emulate somewhat but uh
um-hum
so you don't work with many women
no not too many
and i work with all women
i've
do you really
and my husband does well not all but the majority and my husband he works in a bank and he works with all women
majority
i'm sure that's true i used to be in banking and you're right the majority of the people there
yeah
at least at the lower levels you know
uh
exactly
what oh someone never mind that's a call coming in but
okay
we'll pass that
what about season to season do you change
um i probably get a little bit more casual in summer
in then in that i would wear a more casual top under some of my suits
um-hum
than i would wear in the winter
um-hum
but our offices are rather cold so i i'll tend to try to dress warmly too
exactly i i do the same and that's what basically keeps my wardrobe i may wear a few really warm dresses in the winter but i don't i don't change a whole lot because it's it's we're environmentally controlled you know
you end up wearing the same thing
well tell me another thing
uh how do you wear your skirt lengths
below the knee
i i i don't have nice knees they're kind of knobby so
on the knobby side i what about you
well i they go from everywhere to just like halfway up the knee to uh mid calf
uh-huh
halfway up the knee
you must have better
not halfway not halfway up my leg halfway up my knee
oh okay
okay my half of my knee might
oh okay
i i i'm thinking halfway between the knee and your say your hip
uh and my
i'm a little too old for that for one thing and it's terribly unprofessional
well it that it is but i know a lot of women who who do wear those skirts and they have been reprimanded in our company before
really
yeah
also i was going to just mention that i wear what you know my my wardrobe my wardrobe how should i say it i wear what i can fit into
you mean you have fat days and thin days
oh yeah fat months thin months you know
well right now i'm having a fat month i know half of my clothes don't fit me since the holiday season
exactly the same for me but i'm working on it but i'm not doing a very good job at this point
i haven't gotten serious yet
well we have to get all of this junk food out of the house from Christmas
that's right that's right but i'm so used to eating now it's hard to get out of the habit
well
