City People Fashion

January 30th, 2008 by admin

In today’s Reader Mail:

Dear BS:

I noticed you’ve been writing a lot about jobs lately. I have a job interview coming up—I have no money and I need something to wear, immediately! I don’t need specific suggestions—I don’t have time for delivery—but if you had any ideas about how to start thinking about this, I’d love to know. I want the job!

Love,
S.H.

Well! We actually have an interview ourselves tomorrow, since our Fashion Week job only lasts through Fashion Week. (Appropriately enough.) And we are in a similar boat, since so much of our wardrobe continues to consist of things made of denim. Today we went to Forever 21 to find something to wear, because as much as we’d like to get the job, it is a temporary position, and therefore not worth spending a load of money on. And we realized this: When we go into a store, all, We need a new outfit! we get very overwhelmed, and quite a bit cranky, and we try on five million things that just make our hair staticky and we leave and spend our money
on cupcakes. We have devised what we think is a much more sensible strategy:

1: We are going to focus on one thing in our ramshackle wardrobe we are definitely going to wear. It is either going to be our patent black shoes from Topshop or a vintage dress.

2: And then we are going to spend as little as possible, on as few garments as possible, working from there. Because what we really want to spend our money on is sequin hotpants.

Maybe this isn’t going to make a load of difference to anyone else out there—it is, after all, the most basic sort of common sense. Common sense isn’t something we have much of, unfortunately, so it ranks as big news to us.

There was a moment when we realized that in our industry it’s perfectly acceptable to interview in jeans, and this became our favorite outfit ever. Especially: 18th Amendment Colberts, $218, and Dita sunglasses, $225

Source: Reader Mail: The Job Interview

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