Okay, who wears sequins to work????

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Cathlete
I just went shopping (my two vices in life: coffee and my credit card), and EVERYTHING was so sparkly and shiny, even the stuff on the "Career Wear" rack! Now, I like trends as much as the next gal, but I work in a stuffy, conservative office where we are not even allowed to go SLEEVELESS, never mind showing up looking like the disco ball is going to drop at any moment. I often wonder if anyone in a designer's studio has ever actually been IN a typical office! They need to come to my office, where summer "business casual" basically means men lose the tie and jacket and women lose the jacket and the pantyhose. Oh, and we can wear open-toed shoes, but they can't resemble anything that one might wear to the beach. Seriously, we get a long memo about what is and is not appropriate, and it includes things like "Lycra bike shorts" and "sports bras," which absolutely cracks me up. Do people show up to work like that, do you think??

Anyway, if you all get to wear sequined stuff to work, I am jealous! I ended up buying a couple of rather nice but boring cap-sleeved sweaters (I will tell my boss that TECHNICALLY there is a sleeve) and an awesome bag (I am the bag queen). However, the whole thing was rather disappointing...

ETA, I should have just bought more Cathe workouts.

:7 :7 :7 :7

Marie
 
C'mon! I sing with a Big Band and own some...but, try to look "current" doing so. I just bought a gorgeous tux suit with a lightly sequined cami underneath. I own a ton of sequined and beaded gowns....don't wear them unless we are doing a "specific" kind of show...really..;) deb
 
Yeah I notice this too, most designers have never stepped foot into a business office. I've worked with a few on computer animinated photo shoots. You could say they are about still the age of 3, and if they don't get what they want right this minute they have a horrible temper tamturm. One even threw a chair across the room because the model wasn't jumping right for his ideal picture. But basically they live in their own little world that doesn't involve the normal people. And tell you the truth, I don't think I want to ever go to their world looked a little to scary from where I was sitting. The money is great if you work for one, but working would be as much as I'd ever do.

Also I don't know how many look at fashion shows etc, but if you look at the stuff they make the models wear, you'd be considered a looney if you wore it down the street. I mean you wouldn't even be able to pay me enough to wear it in my own house with all the curtains pulled and the door locked. Let alone with a bunch of people taking pictures of me.

But seriously some of these designers need a reality break, my neice who is 10, wanted a skirt the other day. It was a stright cut but pretty short to start with, but after really looking at it, and not just glancing, over on the left side it had a string and a couple of holes where it raised the materal of the skirt up so it even showed more leg. Or if you tighten up the little strings a bit more you could show off your undies. I could see a hooker wearing this little skirt and I have my niece going. Can I have this? I couldn't believe that young girls clothes is getting so sexy. There were a few other things I found and just shook my head. And apparently since they don't have a chest yet, then they should show off their crotch instead. I couldn't believe some of the pants, as when looking at them that's the first place you eyes were drawn. No they don't have a butteryfly over at the pocket or something but right up the fly. I'm glad I'm not a mother as I'd be taking my sewing machine and fixing my child's clothes.

But yes right now it's hard to find anything that you don't look like some disco ball ready for the lights to hit you and everyone break out and do the huddle.

Kit
 
I'm feeling really left out of the whole stripper thing...guess I could pull that off while sining. Shoot, my singing is not that good anyway.:) deb
 
Personally, I prefer to wear gold lame when I strip. I find that the sequins tend to pop off, unless of course they're all hand-sewn on. And have you SEEN the price of hand-sewn sequins lately? It's outrageous.

I blame it all on Paris Hilton. This whole "wearing one's lingerie out in public" thing. Of course, Madonna did it before her. But in a more fun way. You know what? Let's just blame everything on Paris. The lingerie thing, the sequins, the middle east conflict, the depletion of the ozone. All her.}(
 
I have a couple of work tops that have some sequins on them. Not a lot but just enough. I wear them to work. I work in a very conservative environment and like to shake things up a little. Yes, we do have a dress code but the sequins issue has never been addressed.
 
Yes I agree. It's all Paris' fault.:p
I'm still a stay at home Mom so no sequins here. Oh I did wear a gold sequin headband for my dance recital 2 yrs. ago. That's about it tho. Kali
 
>I wear sequins to work, but then again, I'm a stripper. :p

That is exactly what I was thinking! }(

I am a lawyer...'nuff said...!

Christine :)
 
That Paris, bah! Can you believer her? I saw on a show on VH1, she intends to "retire" in two years and there was much conjecture aboaut what it was she was retiring from since she's famous for nothing except being rich, blond and sutff like that. Let's hope she's retiring from wearing lingerie in public, the sequins, creating conflict in the middle east and depleting the ozone. The nerve of some people. They take and take and take and all we get is fashions we find unsuitable, war and environmental disaster. She's probably responsible for poverty and social injustice as well.

Deb, when was the last time you added some new elements to your act? Shimmy to your skivvies and no one will even notice your voice.
Bobbi http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/chicken.gif "Chick's rule!"

Tell me, what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver
 
Marie, I think you work for the same company I do! Well, we aren't QUITE as conservative, but they do send almost weekly e-mail reminders about the dress code, because God-forbid someone should come into the office wearing something sleeveless or *gasp* open-toed! Nevermind the fact that it's 95 degrees outside and 99% humidity...

I LOVE the parts of the dress code that talk about sports bras, bike shorts, and see-thru blouses. What if I wear a sports bra UNDER my see-thru blouse - is THAT okay??? We also aren't allowed to wear capri pants or cropped pants of any kind. But we CAN wear "walking shorts", which are like the biggest fashion nightmare since people started wearing socks with sandals. :eek:

Sequins are not forbidden that I'm aware of, but I'm not really a sequin-wearing kind of girl... :p
 
OK I'm gonna talk serious about this for a moment, b/c I'm guessing this is one of the few forums where I can find other women who've have had the same experience.

So I work out & take care of myself. I'm a reasonably attractive woman. To most people in the business world this all equals "stupid."

I HAVE to dress conservatively for work b/c if I didn't I just would not be taken seriously. I have a hard enough time as it is. I'm a woman who has worked my a$$ off on two college degrees & my career, & I constantly feel that I'm being held back b/c of my looks. For the most part people treat me like a secretary. Mostly men, but some women too. It really makes me mad. So no, I would NEVER EVER wear sequins to work.

I hate to sound like I'm whining for being fortunate enough to be attractive, but it can be frustrating.

Rant's over now! :p
 
You're not whining, you're facing what a lot of women face which is appearance discrimination. Pretty = dumb, fat = lazy, great body = easy. We know these things aren't true but the country at large tends to exacerbate these stereotypes. I could wear cutesy frilly things to work and still fall under the dress code for my office, but if I did that, I would get even less respect than I do now (secretaries aren't the most appreciated bunch here). It's sad that what you wear or how you show/don't show your body relects on your competence at work.

Then again, when I see a male attorney wearing suspenders that give him a weird crotch cleavage, I think he's an idiot. I guess it goes both ways.

Lunacat
 
Luna.... hehehehehehehe. I will never look at suspenders the same way!

Ok, here is what I think is really sad. Many young women enter the workplace having shopped in the same stores that I have (taking the words "Career Rack" to heart), and having been bombarded by media images of Really Sexy Women in 4-inch stillettos and tiny skirts Sashaying Across the Office Ever So Importantly. Thus, they enter the workplace thinking this is the NORM and dress accordingly.

If they don't notice and immediately adjust, they have set themselves up for failure, because no one ever takes them seriously.

This is definitely Paris's fault.

Actually, I think it is a male-driven conspiracy to keep the glass ceiling firmly clamped in place.

;-)

Cheers from the working nonsexy,
Marie
 
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