What to Wear: Working Nine To Five

Does that question send you into a panic?

It is on my mind and I work from home so I can imagine it is a dilemma if a professional work place is your destination.

I am lucky; I try and look the part each day and I can wear exactly what I like without restriction. My biggest challenge is to be a little creative and not to choose the same look each day. It can become easy to wake up and wear the quick and easy. I am trying to focus on dresses and let my pants and sweaters take a rest.

My working day is very relaxed.

I am up early to write my features and then the girls come in and help put everything together. I try and have my words together before they arrive; I think so much better if I am focused and not tackling too many tasks at once. They help me with the visuals and the graphics; there is so much that goes on behind the scenes to create this content. I love the way we work together; we brainstorm and come up with so many ideas together.

I enjoy working as a team and I find their creative energy infectious; the words flow and the ideas seem to multiply.

And the question of what to wear?

 

As much as I am committed to the dark “professional” shades I am really in the mood to change it up. The winter has seemed long and my penchant for the noir overly excessive. This doesn’t mean I won’t be continuing my love affair with Victoriana or the LBD but I do want to add a couple of new shades into the work mix.

I am a fan of blush pink; that slightly dirty rose, barely-there-almost-nude colour that works beautifully with white, with cream and even with grey and black. The soft shades of pink are very kind on the skin and are a refreshing change to wear to work.

There are no rules that say professionals can’t wear colour, are there? For practical reasons I suppose the darker shades have always seemed more appropriate. Fortunately this season there are many pieces in pastel shades that are suitably formal for the office or equally informal, if the place of work is more relaxed.

I like my pieces to mix and match and the beauty of adding the soft hues is their versatility in the wardrobe. The idea that the addition of one new piece can lead to three or four new outfits appeals to me.

Work wear, whatever our job, needs to be easily put together.

Fashion is my great passion, I am thinking about it on a daily basis and could think about it forever yet I still want to be prepared when it comes to my “working” wardrobe. I do want to be able to mix and match and make sure the colour palette works and gives me a myriad of options, whether I am at home for the day or running around town to different meetings.

Blush pink, a dash of cream and a large scoop of white here we come, xv.