Why wearing the same job is not such a bad idea.
Text: Rita Popova
A long-standing rule in the choice of working clothes sounds like a "dress for success": dress according to your career ambitions. This rule is still popular - although, as it became clear by 2016, the role of clothing in a career is greatly exaggerated, and the habit of judging a person by his appearance is in the category of “Lukism”, and not a “valuable skill”. Certain types of clothing are still more associated with professionalism: according to CareerBuilder, only 18% of executives surveyed regularly wear jeans or shorts to work, and in areas where the dress code is not accepted, they are treated as "frivolous."
By saving time and effort on choosing the right clothes, you will more successfully cope with work tasks.
American economist Richard Florida, describing the creative class, called the absence of a hard dress code an important condition for a comfortable workplace. However, this, oddly enough, is not always a plus. On average, men spend thirteen minutes daily on the choice of clothes, and women spend ten minutes. The ability to make informed decisions is a limited resource, psychologist Roy Baumeister warns in his book Willpower: Rediscovering Man’s Most Powerful Ability. By saving time and energy on the selection of suitable clothing, you will successfully cope with work tasks. Therefore, even if your company does not impose any requirements on the wardrobe, it may be worthwhile to develop your own basic principles - not to please someone, but to make your life much easier.
The main thing is how strict the rules of your working wardrobe will be, depends only on you. Saatchi & Saatchi art director Matilda Kohl has been wearing the same thing for three years: black pants, a white shirt, a narrow black bow. Kohl told Harper's Bazaar that attempts to choose clothes in which she would be taken seriously would only increase work stress and lead to moral exhaustion. After that, she chose a style that still holds.
Matilda admits that working uniforms are not exactly an original idea: "There are many people who dress the same for years - and this is called" costume. " In men, this is a very common approach, even mandatory in most industries. ”Yet, her colleagues responded non-ambitiously to her new style. They began to wonder why she began to dress like this:“ Have you lost your mind? ” that she began to be a member of a sect. Her answer was simple: "If you have ever set up an auto payment on bills, then you know how nice it is to get rid of one extra duty."
Material was first published on Look At Me
Photo: Zara