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Dear Answer Angel Ellen: I am starting a new job, and I aloof got a agglomeration of paperwork from the HR administration cogent me, amid added things, that the dress cipher in the appointment is "business appropriate." I acquire heard of "business casual," but this is a new one on me. Can you translate? I don't appetite any missteps back I appearance up for work.
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— Eager to fit in
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Dear Eager: Who makes up this stuff, anyhow? How can anyone be accepted to acquire the rules? There charge be a adapted academy that HR bodies appear to apprentice how to appear up with phrases like "business appropriate" that cipher can amount out. Here's how to proceed: On the aboriginal day of work, appearance up in an accouterments that you anticipate your bang-up would wear. That would be a knee-length dress or skirt, blouse with sleeves, sweater, pumps or flats that don't appearance your toes, annihilation flashy. (If you were a man I would say button shirt, jacket, slacks and nonathletic shoes and accompany a tie aloof in case.) Once you're on the scene, you can see what others are wearing, and you'll acquire a bigger abstraction of what the dress cipher absolutely is. For some offices, business adapted is aphotic jeans (no holes) for both men and women, no break or bra straps showing, no able-bodied shoes, no shorts (definitely no abbreviate shorts). Added offices are added (or less) casual. This is a actual doughy area, and your best bet is to err on the ancillary of conservative. Cipher gets accursed for bathrobe like a business executive! For sure, accepted faculty dictates that you dress bigger for a business affair with a applicant than you would for accessory a barbecue or for sitting in your anteroom all day in advanced of a computer. Remember that balmy acclimate is a allurement to appearance added skin, and, as accepted rule, that is not a way to beforehand your career. At atomic in best offices.
And addition catechism about bathrobe appropriately …
Dear Answer Angel Ellen: I am 15, a guy and dating. I charge suggestions on acceptable accoutrements for dates. I appetite to do added than a action T-shirt but not too fussy. Also, cossack suggestions please! I acquire tennis shoes and dress shoes. Can I abrasion my Adidas soccer slides on a date?
["614.98"]— Yours from Boyish Angstland
Dear Angstland: I get it that you appetite to abrasion the appropriate thing. What jailbait doesn't? I would action a able "no" to cutting your Adidas soccer slides unless you're demography your date to the beach, basin or a baptize park. Tennis or able-bodied shoes these canicule are appealing abundant the alone affair that boyish boys abrasion unless they're action to a prom, a religious service, a bells or a funeral. So your tennis shoes are your go-tos. You can alike abrasion them out to banquet unless it is a jackets-required restaurant, and those aren't the places frequented by any 15-year-olds I know. I'm not crazy about T-shirts on dates, but a collar affiliate shirt would assignment accomplished with jeans or, if you appetite to booty it up a notch, khakis or cargos. Best boyish dating occurs in groups (as I'm abiding you know) so it is appealing accessible to analysis out what the added guys are cutting and do likewise.
Dear Answer Angel Ellen: I've been cutting the aforementioned moisturizer with SPF in it for years (Olay), but I'm apprehensive if you acquire approved any that acquire a matte finish. I do use BB/CC creams occasionally but am attractive for article that would assignment able-bodied on an contrarily bald face.
— Amy J.
Dear Amy: I've been blessed with authoritative the about-face from moisturizer additional sunscreen additional foundation to BB or CC creams only. These are brave moisturizer, and some (but not all, analysis the label) acquire sunscreen. My accepted admired is Maybelline's Dream Fresh BB with SPF 30, which you can get for beneath $8 at drugstores. I've had agitation with analogous my bark accent so I mix two shades (medium and medium/deep) in the approach of my duke to get the appropriate color. As I've said before, abounding food will acquire allotment of acclimated cosmetics if they don't assignment for you — if you accumulate the receipt. Ask about the action afore you buy.
["630.5"]Dear Answer Angel Ellen: Why is it so difficult to acquisition able-bodied shoes that are not fabricated with "mesh" uppers? It doesn't amount if they are for running, tennis or any added activity. What happened to covering or alike nylon uppers? These cobweb shoes do not aftermost for any breadth of time. Ugh!
— Jane R.
Dear Jane: You're appropriate that cobweb able-bodied shoes are the big affair these days. And you're additionally appropriate that they abrasion out abundant added bound than nylon and leather. That's allotment of the point, of course. Gym shoes are big business, and if you buy the cobweb ones you'll acquire to alter them added often. Account one for the shoe manufacturers. I'm authoritative a agrarian assumption that the cobweb is cheaper than added abstracts so that's addition account for the shoe companies. But, like you, not anybody wants cobweb uppers. (Ever try to run or airing on the bank in them? Your shoes ample up with sand!) But you can still acquisition nylon and covering shoes in stores, and an internet chase for nylon or covering able-bodied shoes turns up affluence by name manufacturers like Brooks, Reebok, New Balance and more.
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