Your monochrome week has made me feel I can ask for advice……..I work in a professional occupation, and as such, suits are required everyday for work. Regrettably too, being a young female in this job I feel I have to wear slightly more sombre outfits to be sure I am taken seriously and not dismissed as an airhead due to my age and sex. So whilst I love and admire the outfits on your blog, I often feel I am living vicariously through you all in terms of colour and the lovely whimsical touches, such as the flowers or more adventurous jewelry. However the longer I read your blog the more I am tempted to go for the bright red shirt with a black suit, or subtly introduce colour with red necklace in an all black outfit. Baby steps, I know, but still steps forward…

Anyway, after seeing that this week is monochromes (and thus closely related to what I feel I have to wear each day) and remembering the time A and E had to dress up to meet with someone on campus who may have not been taking them seriously, I was wondering – can you do a week of more professional attire? I know it’s out of the purview of your “Academic fashion” but surely there are times in academic life when it is important to dress in this way – job/grant interviews, presentation of thesis, first day of teaching…… – that can lend themselves to this theme? I would love to see your take on it all, and hopefully take some ideas with me into my dressing each day.

Thanks!
Julia