Dress has a great impact on appearance; in most cases, the acquaintance between different people begins from clothing. Especially for business people, the dress itself is a weapon; it reflects a person’s temperament, personality, and even the inner world. One who is lack of taste in clothing will inevitably fail in the office war. In modern social communication process, dress tends to determine a person’s impression of you by others. Appearance and dress will influence other’s judge of your professional competence and qualifications. Therefore, we should pay more attention to your dress on different occasions.
Professional dress must be formal
Professional contacts are usually in the office or on the negotiation table, this type of occasion costume needs to be solemn and conservative. There are three clothing requirements, one is uniform; the second is suit, women should wear skirt suits; third ladies may wear long skirt. It is not suitable to wear fashionable or casual clothes or resplendent jewelry such as Swarovski pendants or delicate coral beads accessories. The dress in office has highest demand, for women, the workplace dress should not be too bright, too exposed, too short and too tight. For professional women, there are five-no for them: not allowed to wear black leather skirt; no bare legs with dress; no holes on stockings; not allowed casual shoes and so on.
Dresses should be in line with social situations
Social network is exchange for females with different unfamiliar people, so it is the biggest test for female etiquette. Several occasions mainly includes the following: banquet, ball, concerts and parties. Daily meetings and ordinary visits, you can wear the common clothes which you wear in daily life. But banquets, balls and concerts need special dress. Concerts, especially western concert, ladies should wear a small suit skirt. Concert is a very elegant cultural activity abroad, so the concert attire should be formal.
When participating in dinner, ladies should wear dresses, and long skirts to the knee. Wearing trousers is incompatible with etiquette. In our country, formal social occasion dress is cheongsam, which is very suitable for Chinese people’s body shape and temperament. When wearing cheongsam, shoes, jewelry and accessories should match. The jewelry is better to be gold, silver, and pearl.
Wedding and funeral have special dress taboo. Funeral can only wear black or dark gray suits, in principle to show respect for the deceased and the bereaved. Avoiding wearing bright clothes and trendy clothes, which is the most basic common sense. But for wedding, the clothes should be festive and beautiful; the main point is not to wear white yarn skirt.
The dress on leisure occasions should be comfortable. In addition to the above occasions, there are more specific and special occasions; dress needs to meet the needs of specific situations and purpose of attending.