THE WORK WEEK 04

Thursday I How To Find Officewear Inspiration

Welcome back to The Work Week, a five-part-series where we try to bring a little light to a topic everyone with an office job needs: Work Wear.

There’ll be a post each day of The Work Week:

Monday: Onboarding Day (Explaining Work Wear and the Issues Around it)
Tuesday: The Work Wear Staples Explained
Wednesday*: Five Style Formulas For Your Summer Work Wardrobe

And today:
Thursday*: Inspiration and Style Notes on Workwear
Friday**: Work Wear Workbook (How To Work With Your Own Wardrobe)

*These posts will be free for 48 hours.
**This will be a paid-subscriber-only workbook.

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GOING DOWN MEMORY LANE: THE BEST TWO WORK WEAR VIDEOS OF ALL TIME

Since workwear is a vulnerable topic (as we’ve discussed on Monday), and your job will change inevitably (probably also massively) during the course of your style journey, you’ll need good sources of inspiration.

I started hunting down workwear inspiration about fifteen years ago when I started law school. Buying too preppy blazers was a good distraction not to study criminal law. A few years into my hunting career, I stumbled across this video and it changed my life. And I think there’s still a few truly helpful styling ideas in this - even though it’s on the fashion mullet side of things now.

They (meaning Net-A-Porter) have published this in 2018, and I still go by the voice-over of this (seriously, try listening to it without image once):

ONLINE MAGAZINES

When the world was still a place where print magazines were a thing, I subscribed to PORTER, Net-A-Porters monthly print magazine. It is my favorite fashion magazine to this day, and I swear it was better than Vogue. They had a feature called ‘The Art of Style - Power dressing’ where they would interview industry people or just random people in very stylish office looks. I was shattered when they discontinued the print edition and I had to switch to online options.

I collect international print fashion magazines and these features in PORTER are the reason I will never, ever throw them away.

Here’s a list of my favorite work wear online sources I turn to nowadays:

• Porter (they also have great office wear ideas in their now digital magazine, I’ll be buying the idea, not for the original price tag, though.)

• Mr. Porter (very good power dressing ideas, we’ll come to this in a second)

• Sheerluxe (everyone in the office looks ultra-chic, Lu Hough is my favorite)

• The Vogue Office Wear Edit (it’s mix of very expensive suggestions and stylish outfit ideas but they have the best editorial pictures).

THE OBVIOUS SOURCE: PINTEREST

The best free thing you can do for your wardrobe is train your Pinterest algorithm to deliver the best work wear inspo. How would you do this?

• create a folder called ‘work wear’

• pin a few pictures you like

• click on ‘more ideas’ or scroll down into the section where they show you other ideas underneath a picture you like very much

• click on style collages - your brain will love these images because they are already dissecting the outfit into pieces. There won’t be too much effort to translate anything to your own wardrobe

• execute - play around in your wardrobe (I hope tomorrow’s work book will help, too).

My Pinterest ‘More’ section looks like this. This is a month full of very good office looks!