Adding button holes and buttons to RTW

Tricia, Tricia,

The most important thing is your smile.
If I asked 600 people how I could improve myself, I am sure I would get
lots of answers.
(especially if any of them knew me.) :~} When everyone threw in their
2 cents worth it would sound like everyone was picking on me.
Your Pink top is nice. I agree no fixing, I don't even think it needs
a dickey, but then I have not seen you bend over. Put it on, sit down,
lean forward, does it really gape open?
It looks to me like it would lay right where it is.
What gets you the job is your passion, Smile, Self confidence and
Experience.
Maybe you didn't get that job, because there is a better one around the
corner. One never knows.

Vikki in WA State

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 03:16:35 GMT, Doreen
wrote:

the
neckline isn't at all immodest.

The complaint wasn't "immodest" but "less professional". A V neckline
is casual, it's youthful, and it may remind one of an open blue collar
-- all these connotations counter-act the "I came here to give orders"
statement you want office clothes to make. You don't want your
clothes to say "I came here to punch keys and fetch coffee" unless you
would be upset at being promoted.

The neatest officewear convention I ever saw was in Sydney. All the
office workers wore black. Black is such an obviously-stupid color
for the climate that no further statement was needed, and everyone was
dressed *comfortably*; the color alone said "I'm on duty, I'm not the
janitor, and my office is air-conditioned."

Joy Beeson
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On 2 Sep 2006 02:41:53 GMT, Kay Lancaster wrote:

about 30% of the women in my little
rural community wear modern modifications of 16th century Russian
dress... now that's conservative!

Oooh! Have you got patterns, or at least pictures?

Joy Beeson
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On 2 Sep 2006 02:41:53 GMT, Kay Lancaster
wrote:

about 30% of the women in my little
rural community wear modern modifications of 16th century
Russian
dress... now that's conservative!

Oooh! Have you got patterns, or at least pictures?

Joy Beeson
--

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Believers

Scroll down to the bottom of the page for "civilian" clothes.

Beverly

Kay Lancaster wrote:

hang very oddly. (As an aside: about 30% of the women in my little
rural community wear modern modifications of 16th century Russian
dress... now that's conservative!)


What community is that, and what group of people dress like that?

Melinda, who is fascinated by historic costume and by people who wear
anachronistic attire and who dreams sometimes of doing the same herself

Joy Beeson wrote:
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 03:16:35 GMT, Doreen
wrote:


the
neckline isn't at all immodest.


The complaint wasn't "immodest" but "less professional". A V neckline
is casual, it's youthful, and it may remind one of an open blue collar
-- all these connotations counter-act the "I came here to give orders"
statement you want office clothes to make. You don't want your
clothes to say "I came here to punch keys and fetch coffee" unless you
would be upset at being promoted.

The neatest officewear convention I ever saw was in Sydney. All the
office workers wore black. Black is such an obviously-stupid color
for the climate that no further statement was needed, and everyone was
dressed *comfortably*; the color alone said "I'm on duty, I'm not the
janitor, and my office is air-conditioned."

Joy Beeson


A V neckline is also the most flattering choice for many face and body
types. In this decision-making process there are many variables, and
subjective judgments are especially unpredictable.

Doreen in Alabama

"Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply"
wrote in message
...
Kay Lancaster wrote:

hang very oddly. (As an aside: about 30% of the women in my
little
rural community wear modern modifications of 16th century
Russian dress... now that's conservative!)


What community is that, and what group of people dress like
that?

Melinda, who is fascinated by historic costume and by people
who wear anachronistic attire and who dreams sometimes of doing
the same herself

The Russian "Old Believers". There are several communities in OR
with fairly substantial populations of them.

Beverly

"the
neckline isn't at all immodest.


The complaint wasn't "immodest" but "less professional". A V neckline
is casual, it's youthful, and it may remind one of an open blue collar
-- all these connotations counter-act the "I came here to give orders"
statement you want office clothes to make. You don't want your
clothes to say "I came here to punch keys and fetch coffee" unless you
would be upset at being promoted.
A V neckline is also the most flattering choice for many face and body
types. In this decision-making process there are many variables, and
subjective judgments are especially unpredictable.


I once read a book on getting married within a year. All of this woman's
"suggestions" for attire are all meant to get the man to think of the woman
as
"sexually available". Open fronts, button fronts especially all the way
down a skirt or dress were given as "suggesting sexual availability".

Just relating what she said,
AK in PA