Suits you, sir

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Date: 17 January 2006 14:51:50

The Spouse™ has just received a circular email at work saying that "business casual" is now the order of the day, and jackets and ties are not required.

Strangely, I have just these past couple of weeks begun an approach to dressing for work which I term "suits lite". What this consists of is deciding on one common garment or theme (usually a garment plus a colour scheme, and usually a skirt or pair of trousers) that I will wear throughout the week, and then checking before the week starts that I have enough clean and ironed garments to keep me going for the week. It may mean wearing the same pair of trousers all week, but it may also mean less time spent frantically running around in the morning.

So last week's theme was "grey trousers and white shirt" and it gave me two opportunities to wear my new colourful vest thing on top of the white shirt, and this week's theme is "black with a splash of colour": either black skirt and top with bright tights, or black top and trousers with a colourful scarf...

I do seem to remember everyone saying when business suits for women were so big (maybe in the 80s - shoulder pads and all that!) that one of the advantages was not having to decide what to wear in the morning...