Office workers, what do you wear to work?

Pee

My favourite outfit is dress with a jacket and boots, or shoes in summer.

I would suggest for a capsule wardrobe that you buy a good quality 3 piece suit, probably black but navy if you like that, jacket, trousers and skirt. I sometimes get two pairs of trousers, one to wear with flat boots and one with heels. One dress, maybe grey, I like red. Maybe a black one, too. A couple of shirts - agree T M Lewin are ace but George at Asda are good for the price - and a couple of tops, maybe t-shirts, or thin jumpers. Then you can get a grey 3 piece soon when you get your first pay packet/ when you add to it.

balletshoes

I've always worked in an office environment.
Us women are not allowed to wear jeans, joggers, shorts or T-shirts with slogans on them.
Apart from that, pretty much anything goes.

pink_princess

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I work in a very corporate environment but what I wear depends on my mood, what I have planned for the day and whats clean and which office I am working from. The London office is more formal that the other offices.

Footware
Black Mary Jane shoes
Bright red, patent very high heels
Flat black knee high boots
Ankle boots with a stiletto heel
Navy court shoes

Bottom half
Thick wool tights in winter/ sheer tights in summer
A range of trousers, browns, greys, black
A range of short to knee length skirts (probably some slightly shorter than is strictly professional)

Dresses
Again a range, from wrap around to the Vicky range from Monsoon (very popular this season in a lot of different prints)
I also have some grey and black shift dresses from H&M - the only shop who does shift dresses which fit my shape (hollow back) which I wear with a collared shirt in the winter and a t-shirt or nothing in the summer. I have a matching jacket for 1 of them.

Tops
I have a number of different collared shirts, mainly from TM Lewin (big fan of their shirts) which I wear when I can be bothered to iron them

Sometimes I just wear polo neck tops (M&S outlet store often have these) in black and chocolate brown.

If I don't have meetings I wear v-neck jumpers (bright red or cerise) and little lacy vests or just long sleeve t-shirts.

I also have a couple of trouser suits...

I,d second this.

Today I wore a shift dress with matching jacket, tights and flat knee high boots.

meritaten

doesn't it depend on how 'formal' the office is? when you went for interview what were people wearing?

claire16c

It depends on the office. What I wore to work in a buying office, was very different to what I wore in my last office. They would have thought I was on a night out

For both though I used to wear coloured/printed skirts in the summer, skinny jeans nearly every day in buying but in the other office black trousers or skirt. With a coloured top & cardi.

But if I'd been working as a lawyer for example Id imagine it would be pretty different!

onlyroz

Boring, reasonably smart and comfy. And I have to be able to cycle in whatever I'm wearing. But I'm not in a customer facing role.

Essex22011

If you have the money to spare Next do lovely workwear! I would go for 'capsule' pieces. I always have a good quality suit in my wardrobe.

Brecon_Beacons

I can't believe some of the scruffy tat that some of my co-workers turn up to work in - particularly on Fridays. It seems that every Friday has turned into a 'dress-down' day as far as some people are concerned. It's depressing... and they don't even collect for a charity, just turn up looking dog-eared.

I can't respect colleagues who turn up in saggy velour and leggings, for all the world as if the most important thing they were going to do that day is couch-surf with a bowl of popcorn. It's WORK, not a holiday camp!

Men who dress down look like they just shouldn't be there, they should be outside mending a pipe or something. But the women are more consistently worse! My least favourite is the 'only wearing a jumper' on top-look. Tacky and unhygienic: put something underneath it, like a shirt for god's sake! Other horrors spotted are: patent wellies, glitter and crystal encrusted tops more suited to a nightclub, fishnet tights, clumpy skyscraper heels...

I know each workplace is different, according to what they do, and dress should be appropriate, but I work in a law firm! :eek:

heretolearn_2

Why is it unhygienic to wear just a jumper?

zaxdog

Teadresses, bright tights and either converse boots or biker boots in the summer.

Skinny jeans, biker boots, shirts & waistcoats etc in the winter.

Most of my clothes are pretty goth/alternative :j

Oh and I work for the government (Department of Agriculture) which is great fun :T:T