Dressing for Work in Winter | Weekly Workwear Highlight

Hey Sweeties,

Another weekly work outfit highlight/pick of the week… I still feel I’m not quite there with the title of this new feature? What do you all think? I will welcome any suggestions in the comments so please do fire away with any ideas!

So, here is my work outfit pick of the week (again, do forgive the bad selfie/lighting etc.)*

Arriving to the London HQ -fantastic mirror in the lift!

Arriving to the London HQ -fantastic mirror in the lift!

Coat: Redherring/Debenhams (old)
Scarf: River Island

Bag: TK MAXX (old)

Pumps: Primark

Back in the lift!

Back in the lift!

Trousers: River Island

Shirt: Urban Outfitters

Jumper: Etam (yes, very old!)

Shoes: Shoe Zone (old)

My favourite view!

My favourite view!

Until next time x

 

*Be assured that I have recently become the owner of a swish looking Canon 1200D camera so outfit photography particularly will improve as I have some great ideas for this weekly feature going forward!

Hello Friday!

Good Evening Sweeties!

It’s Friday, whoopee! The end of the week is always a happy time but this week Friday really couldn’t have come sooner, I have just been so tired and desperate for my weekend lie-in! On Saturday (tomorrow) I was due to have a day trip to the Isle of Wight for a hockey match but unfortunately it got cancelled… well, I say unfortunately, I am sad not to be playing and I was looking forward to the trip (not the sea sickness…or the sea really… also, have you seen tomorrow’s forecast?!!) but I do so need sleep so not having to get up early and travel is actually a blessing. *Yawns*

Porridge with some honey, mixed seeds and banana chips –scrummy!

Breakfast: Porridge with honey, mixed seeds and banana chips –scrummy!

Oh, I completely forgot! Anyone that happened to watch Great British Train Journeys (BBC2) last Monday evening will have seen my cameo appearance on TV ! We (Ian and I) were stood on the platform at Winchfield station about to head into London (this is back last April ’13) when low and behold, the train doors opened and Portillo including film crew got off (and back on again further down the train and then properly off at Farnborough!). Now, please form an orderly queue for an autograph 😉

That’s Micheal Portillo on the left!

Can’t believe I have been at my new job for 4 weeks now, time really flies and I’m really enjoying it and so far the team seem to be giving me the impression that I’m not doing too badly at all! 🙂

Friday fashion

Friday fashion

That’s all for now!

Bye x

 

My First Week in Outfits -Starting a New Job & What I Wore in my First Week

Hi Sweeties,

How are we all? I am exhausted but pleased to have my first week in my new job under my belt and happy to report that I’ve really enjoyed myself and I’ve finished the week having already successfully mastered a couple of the tasks I will be doing routinely! I know it has only been a mere 5 days but my old job, Christmas and New Year seems such a long time ago now it’s quite mental, but from conversations I have overheard in the office I don’t appear to be alone in thinking this.

So what have I got up to? Being all shiny and new and everything, the core objective really has been to get me introduced and settled into my new environment and the role. I am incredibly fortunate to be working within a lovely team of people who appear to be very approachable and supportive and I get the impression that much of the company is like this. Only yesterday, the CEO came and sat with a colleague and me at lunch in the canteen which is enormously refreshing to see in a large, global organisation as so often those at the top are unapproachable and rarely seen.

What I Got Up to in my First Week

In terms of tasks, aside from getting to grips with a couple of them as mentioned earlier, I have been reading up and watching my manager do various things so that I can later do them myself and continue to develop my understanding of how the comms team work and the individual and collective responsibilities. What I am most excited about though is hearing of possible projects I may be able to get involved with such as the company website and various internal/external publications we produce both in design and content, all stuff I am really interested in developing my skill set in!

It is definitely much more distracting working in a big open plan office, my old job saw me quite cut off within the building but in equal measure effort was made to go round and pop into my colleagues offices and say hello; we were one big family! At the new place, you only say hello really to your immediate team and anyone further you maybe get to know, the office is friendly but it’s not a family, I didn’t expect it would be and I am quite glad it isn’t. But I like that there is always something going on -people walking in, out and past constantly, my pokey-nose trait can’t help but be alert to who is walking past, what they are wearing and other general happenings and observations.

Speaking of what people are wearing, maybe you are interested to know what outfits I wore this week in my efforts to have some fun with fashion!

The Outfits

What I Wore

 

Monday: Black skater dress with studded bow belt from River Island (technically ebay), black New Look cardigan, tights, patent buckle shoes from Office.

Tuesday: Black dress with white collar from New Look, light brown jumper, tights, patent buckle shoes (from Office).

Wednesday: Tartan tunic dress (from River Island), tights, boots from Oasis.

Thursday: Skinny trousers and black t-shirt (with gold zip embellishments on the neck) both from Warehouse, black New Look cardigan, black sparkly flats/pumps from Accessorize.

Friday: Turquoise trouser by Red Herring (Debenhams), beige chiffon shirt from Primark, black cardigan, black sparkly flats/pumps from Accessorize.

Shoes

Those familiar with this blog may recognise some of the outfits and/or items that I bought in my January haul. My favourite outfit this week was Wednesday’s ensemble, I had to be a bit careful as the tunic can ride up a bit but otherwise, paired with my Oasis boots it made for a really fun outfit!

Until next time, Sweeties! x

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