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Dressing up professionally (tips especially for women who work in USA in IT).
People will take you seriously if you are dressed professionally .It is your way of Presenting your self which makes the first impact on any one .Your work and skills make impact after some time .
(Believe me or not I have seen many Indian women wearing these so I thought of writing it here .With no offence to any one Please .I thought may be sometimes we are ignorant of the work culture in other countries )

1. Always wear Clean and well ironed clothes. Try to look clean and professional.
2. Avoid wearing bright colors like magenta, bright green etc
3. Absolutely no kurtis (NO BRIGHT KURTIS WITH EMBROIDERY AND ZARIS), unless it is a casual work environment or dress down Fridays.
4. No “dinchak” jewelry .This includes (Bangles especially of glass, metal), highly beaded jewelry which are meant to be worn for parties,Beaded Earrings which look like bunch of Grapes hanging from your ears, long chandeliers earrings, long diamond earrings, Yellow gold necklaces (haars), chokers etc.
The rule of thumb for jewelry is it should be classy and minimally distracting.
5.Shoes should be clean and polished .no flipflops, no sandals ,and NO SANDALS WITH CONTRAST SOCKS PLEASE .
6.NO HAIR OIL please ,You may not realize but people in USA are very sensitive to odours and even if you put 2 drops of oil it has odour.
7.No slouchy bags or purses
8. For women who wear bindis ,put uni-colour bindis and absouletly NO DECORATIVE bindis with diamond and beads .
9 If you are wearing a skirt Please wear a sheer panty hose .
10 .Dont wear too loose shirt or trousers ,I have seen women with size medium wearing large shirts it really looks bad .
Sanjana replied. This is a good article but I would like to know what exactly is the definition of ' well-fitting' . If a person is top or bottom heavy, should not that individual conceal those areas? Also, comfort is important. As long as you are dressed in neat, clean, clothes, why should it matter? Priya replied.
it is always good and decent to wear well fitting dresses /shirts etc. will we look good in loose fitting punjabi suits? the answer is no. We will ourselves not feel comfortable and neither the person in front of u. and in office there are some ethics of work + dress culture that need to be maintained. so the shirt should be well fitting to the body but that does not mean it should be tight fitting. there is a differnence. the college girls wear tight fitting dresses, which is OK for their college culture but the above post is mentioning fitting dresses i.e. exactly fitting to the body but not tight fitting. and yes i also like the shirts/ top to be covering my hips somewhat. that is OK -i feel as some shirts have that style of length also nowadays. Vidya replied. Thank you very much for your tips. I am not working in US but I feel we can use these anywhere. I have one question though. You said do not wear big shirts. I am not comfortable in fitted shirts as I find them very tight. Plus, I like my shirt to at least cover my hips somewhat. Whay can' t I wear these shirts?