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True, an interview is all about you, your personality and your qualification but what better way to present all the above than dressing appropriately?
Interviews are trying times for anyone but it’s even worse when you’re clueless about what to wear to one. We’ve put together a quick list to help you calm your nerves about the dos and don’ts of office wear.
1. Location: Find out where the interview is to be held before deciding on the outfit. If it’s going to take place outside the company, check where exactly the venue is and then dress up.
For example, if the interview is being held in a coffee shop at the local mall, you can wear semi-formal khaki trousers and a white linen shirt, covered shoes and a plain bag or briefcase. You’re free to dress your hair up or down but don’t go overboard with make-up.
If the interview is being held within the company you will be working in it’s better to dress formally. Keep in mind the climate, travel, nature of the job and the company’s dress code when you choose your clothes. Always wear your hair up in a neat bun or ponytail (if you have medium – long hair) or secure your short hair with a simple barrette. Do not overdo hair spray and avoid using too much perfume as you may appear tacky.
2. Subtlety: Go for clothes that are well-tailored but steer clear of tight or ill-fitting apparel. He silhouette must be simple and sophisticated. Never wear bright colours as they are not office appropriate, try opting for pastel or neutral colours such as white, black, grey, beige, nude, blush, taupe, deep blue, bottle green or marsala. These shades will not distract from your face and exude a sense of calm confidence.
Blazers, trousers, shirts, sweaters, skirts, tops, et cetera are the best pieces of clothing for interviews but remember to wear them wisely. Blazers must be wellfitted but not shiny or skimpy, trousers should not be skin tight, shirts have to be opaque, buttoned up and loose fitted, sweaters also must be formal and should never be tight, anything above the knee or too tight is not appropriate when it comes to skirts (panty hose is optional), and plunging necklines and figure-hugging tops must be avoided.
The idea is to show your professional image to the company so dress decently and smartly. Always make sure your clothes are neatly pressed and there are no stains.
3. Lingerie: Formal dressing does have rules for lingerie! Girls, beware of choosing the wrong kind of lingerie for an interview. There is nothing more embarassing than having panty lines showing under your skirt or trousers and a bra that is visibly ill-fitting. Wear lingerie that is neutral coloured, fits well and is inconspicuous.
4. Accessories: Less is more: Try to wear the most inconspicuous jewellery as you don’t want to appear over dressed. Simple studs for the ears, a formal wristwatch and a finger ring or two should look classy enough. If you have numerous piercings, remove them and try to hide tattoos, if any. You need to look as elegant as possible.
For the bags and shoes, leave your big jhola with all your junk at home and carry a neat briefcase or portfolio, in black or brown. Along with that a small handbag containing your cash, make-up and other personal items will suffice.
Footwear can be flats or heels as long as they’re covered and simple. Don’t don a pair that are too noisy on a non-carpeted surface!
5. Celebrity Inspiration: If you’re still clueless about what to wear try looking up some pictures of celebrities who sport classy formals. Some of them are Kangana Ranaut, Sonakshi Sinha, Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone, Madhuri Dixit and so on. These images will help you understand what you should sim for when you begin to dress. Be warned however, celebrities do wear a substantial amout of make-up. Smokey eyes, glossy lips, false eyelashes and glittery make-up are not office appropriate.
These ensembles should help you get the idea. Try a black blazer over a crisp white shirt or wear navy blue trousers with a plain nude coloured top/sweater. A black shift/wrap dress will look great over grey shoes and with a blush bag or pair a white skirt with a midnight blue shirt and nude shoes and a tan leather briefcase. A marsala formal tunic with smokey grey silk tights or a plain Salwar suit with a formal feel can look elegant and pleasant. The key is to look simple, clean and fresh, stylish and presentable.
Let your personality shine through from beginning to end, it will not let you down. Keep you voice even and smooth as you answer and don’t fiddle with your fingers or jewellery. Make eye contact and let people know you mean business. Following these few tips will help you get closer to achieving your dream job and help you learn to dress office appropriately.
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NEW YORK | Who gets to decide what grown people wear for Halloween?
Apparently everybody.
The Halloween wars focused on pop culture costumes have heated up early this year. Petitions and social media outrage are already flying over a blood-spattered dentist’s smock paired with a Cecil-like lion head, along with a replica of Caitlyn Jenner’s cream-colored corset set she wore for her joyful coming out on the cover of Vanity Fair.
But exactly how do the latest examples in the costume clashes for a holiday with a long, bawdy history differ from always off-base behavior like blackface, ala Julianne Hough, or Prince Harry’s turn as a non-Halloween Nazi?
Is the rule of “too soon” at play? Has the digital age spawned an overly politically correct genie with no immediate plans to be stuffed back in the bottle?
Richard Lachmann, a professor at the University at Albany who includes Halloween in his sociology of culture course, said costumes seem to be more provocative every year, with equally amped-up backlash. And there’s always a base of people who feel it’s an “irreligious pagan holiday to begin with and are ready to be upset,” he said.
Throw in a heavy dose of gore, loaded parody and ultra-sexy costumes, Lachmann added, and Halloween is now a free-for-all debate on decency and where the never-OK line belongs. But is there a line at all?
“It seems like there isn’t,” he said. “The point for adults is to be provocative, to do something that breaks the lines of what’s considered acceptable.”
The fashion and lifestyle site Refinery29 is one of many online voices decrying Jenner costumes and accessories, calling out one seller of a “Unisex Miss-ter Olympic Wig” that costs $14.99, in a recent update to a running attempt to take down the gear. Why?
Because as the writer, Liz Black, said in her post: “Every Halloween, there always seems to be a need for articles that explain why you shouldn’t dress up in a costume that mocks another marginalized culture.”
At least four online sellers are hawking Jenner stuff, including one of the largest retailers, Spirit Halloween, but opponents have seen little satisfaction as the companies declare it’s all in fun.
“At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based on celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes,” said a statement from Lisa Barr, Spirit’s senior director of marketing and creative. “Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and our exclusive Caitlyn-inspired costume reflects just that.”
Spirit’s version goes for $49.99. The wig? Sold separately at $16.99 a pop.
Anytimecostumes.com went with a cartoonish, beefy dude in a brown wig to show off its “Call me Caitlyn Unisex Adult Costume” with a sash declaring just that, lest you not realize who it’s supposed to be. It comes with a bustier and white shorty shorts for $74.99. Is it worth blackface-level anger?
Lachmann’s not convinced.
“With blackface there’s a link to the whole history of violence against African-Americans,” he said, echoing Black’s train of thought on what many in the trans community regularly face. “Certainly people can try to convince others that it’s not a good idea to wear a certain costume.”
That’s exactly what animal rights activist Doreen Harley in Indianapolis set out to do in a dustup with Johnathon Weeks, owner in Palm Springs, California, of Costumeish.com. He came up with the “Lion Killer Dentist” costume based on Walter Palmer, the Minnesota dentist who generated a world of wrath when he and his hunting party killed the beloved Cecil in Zimbabwe.
Weeks recently put the costume on sale for $59.99, upping the price to $99.99. Harley took to Facebook and Twitter to protest, and she started an online campaign to have Weeks pull the costume. She now has a promise from Weeks to donate his profits from the dentist’s smock, lion head and bloody surgical gloves to a wildlife organization.
“When I saw the costume, that disturbed me that someone was trying to make a profit off of this incredibly disturbing story,” Harley said.
Does she consider Caitlyn Jenner costumes equally insensitive and disturbing?
“I have friends and family that are gay, transgender, lesbian. It does offend me. It’s almost like mocking someone. It is offensive to that community. I’m more passionate, I guess, toward animal rights. I have to pick and choose my battles and I’m choosing the Cecil the lion battle right now.”
She wouldn’t say whether she believes the Cecil costume reaches that never-OK line, such as blackface: “I think adults get to decide what they want to wear for Halloween. “This is the one that stood out for me.”
The lion-hunting dentist is just one of about 14,000 costumes Weeks sells at Costumeish and a larger site, Brandsonsale.com. So far he has sold 50 bloody dentist costumes. Weeks plans a reverse take on Cecil with a lion suit that comes with a severed human head, and possibly another costume with extra-large trousers and little kids sticking out one side for people looking to dress as Jared Fogle, the fallen Subway pitchman who faces charges of paying for sex with minors and possessing child pornography.
“We bring to market what people want,” Weeks said. “We all need to chill out. We’ve got the PC police everywhere. We have pregnant nun costumes nobody talks about. We have Jesus costumes nobody talks about. We live in a society that’s so sensitive to these things.”
But even Weeks has a line.
“I still won’t make twin tower costumes. … I get requests for that all the time,” he said. “The tragedy that happened with the TV reporters who were killed, that would be way off-limits. Anybody who wanted to dress up as them would be disgusting.”
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