Dress for Success
With new recruits and summer associates poised to transition from backpack to briefcase this week, there are plenty of helpful hints that you can pass directly their way.
Let’s start with business attire. If you work in an office that has adopted a “business casual” dress policy, you may wish to print our most recent electronic newsletter and distribute it to your new recruits and summer associates. Just go to www.marycrane.com. Then click on “Read Mary,” click on “Mary’s News Box,” and finally click on “Summer Survival Tips.” That newsletter clearly defines what is meant by “business casual.”
If your office policies are more lenient than the definition we’ve provided, remind your new recruits and summer associates that they will rarely err by dressing in a slightly more conservative (as contrasted to flamboyant or skin-revealing) manner. Remind them that to the extent they take time to carefully launder and press their clothing, they will appear more polished and professional.
This is also a good time to recommend that all professionals, men and women alike, wear closed toe shoes into the office. We recommend that business women wear hosiery—yes, even when the temperatures soar in July and August—and they should avoid heels that are so high they teeter.
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