"Subversive Conservative" Work Dressing

Dear lawyers, accountants, people who get sh*t from finance bros ... I see you. I was you.

So the other day I was lurking around in my friend

Irene Kim (김애린)

‘s comments like an a*hole … procrastinating. And I saw someone (someone very nice!) who mentioned me. In a way that was like, tonally, “I have to go to work in a conservative workplace. I like Hey Mrs. Solomon, but ... “ (I’m paraphrasing — I wasn’t so creepy that I memorized it.) But I thought it was an interesting point.

I am not a full time content creator. I have a job as the founder/CD of Honor Code, where we do all things marketing/creative/storytelling. But that said, I do get to dress pretty damn non-conservatively. I wouldn’t meet with a client without some sort of UBLO (unidentified blazerlike object) - but other than that, anything goes. And even this is considered pretty buttoned up in my role. Creative Director, after all, has “creative” right in the title. And 99.5% of my meetings are zoom - so even blazer on top, denim shorts on bottom is totally fine in theory.

BUT, I see you, conservative-work peapods. And I can help.