2008 Woodie Awards
How You Dress for Class Could Reflect Career Wardrobe
Kim Miller
Issue date: 9/7/06 Section: Opinion
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Fall semester has now began and it is time to once again hit the books. I sit here and scan this list of items of things to buy and to do on my sheet of paper.
I have bought most of my supplies for my kids and I. I then realize I have not thought about my clothes. My family and I are pretty much t-shirt and jeans type of people. I look through my plain wardrobe and wonder what impression I give to others from my clothes. I hope that it is not an impression of being lazy or careless about what I look like, since I perfer simplicity and comfort over fashionable and sexy.
I decide that my clean jeans and t-shirt are in my eyes appropriate for school and add a couple of items to my list. I do not suggest that schools have uniforms or foce students to wear uncomfortable cltohes but, I do have to wonder if other students think about what impression they are conveying when they dress for school and their future careers.
For example, the students who come to class with their pajama pants and house slippers on what impression does that give. How about the girls sitting in class with their thongs sticking out of their jeans. Don't get me wrong the ladies are not the only ones at fault. The guys who come to class still smelling like last night's party are also great examples of impressions.
I am not saying that I am the perfect dresser or that I should in fact be the role model because I do not have money to spend on clothes most of the time and the majority of the time I feel I could look better when I attend class.
I think people should wear what they are comfortable wearing but, be aware of how it may be seen by others. I have overheard some fairly nasty conversations amoung students on campus about the way other students are dressed. What may seem sexy or approriate to you, may not appeal to other students.
I spoke with a coporate recruiter last semester who was thinking of visiting our campus. When discussing what skills a person should have, dress requirements were metioned and it was made very clear, " I would not hire anyone into my company who could not even dress for class." I got the point. Do you?
I have bought most of my supplies for my kids and I. I then realize I have not thought about my clothes. My family and I are pretty much t-shirt and jeans type of people. I look through my plain wardrobe and wonder what impression I give to others from my clothes. I hope that it is not an impression of being lazy or careless about what I look like, since I perfer simplicity and comfort over fashionable and sexy.
I decide that my clean jeans and t-shirt are in my eyes appropriate for school and add a couple of items to my list. I do not suggest that schools have uniforms or foce students to wear uncomfortable cltohes but, I do have to wonder if other students think about what impression they are conveying when they dress for school and their future careers.
For example, the students who come to class with their pajama pants and house slippers on what impression does that give. How about the girls sitting in class with their thongs sticking out of their jeans. Don't get me wrong the ladies are not the only ones at fault. The guys who come to class still smelling like last night's party are also great examples of impressions.
I am not saying that I am the perfect dresser or that I should in fact be the role model because I do not have money to spend on clothes most of the time and the majority of the time I feel I could look better when I attend class.
I think people should wear what they are comfortable wearing but, be aware of how it may be seen by others. I have overheard some fairly nasty conversations amoung students on campus about the way other students are dressed. What may seem sexy or approriate to you, may not appeal to other students.
I spoke with a coporate recruiter last semester who was thinking of visiting our campus. When discussing what skills a person should have, dress requirements were metioned and it was made very clear, " I would not hire anyone into my company who could not even dress for class." I got the point. Do you?
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