Synopses & Reviews
Whether you're a division head or an entry-level assistant, a sales representative or business consultant, your clothes can affect both your performance and your career. If you're looking to find a job, keep a job, or get a better job, you need
Chic Simple Dress Smart Men.
You are the message, but what message are you sending? Do your clothes broadcast professionalism and performance or mediocrity and lack of focus? In this strategic, comprehensive guide, two accomplished style experts make putting together a successful business look as simple as a three-step process. The creators of twenty-five bestselling guides for living (over one million copies sold), a monthly column (Chic Simple Solutions) for InStyle magazine, and now, the new Chic Simple magazine, Kim Johnson Gross and Jeff Stone show you how to dress effectively for:
- Interviews: Tick...tick...tick...within seven seconds you are registered and judged, and the impression is filed. Dress Smart helps you to come across strong and ensure your clothes reflect your potential.
- Career: Clothes talk, people listen. Do your work clothes say "can do, trust me, consider it done" or do your superiors just look the other way? With Dress Smart, you'll establish a wardrobe stocked with clothing that always commands respect.
- Management: Is your wardrobe too junior now that you're senior? Dress Smart takes the guesswork out of authoritative dressing and makes sure that your clothes help you climb the ladder of success.
In these pages, you'll learn the subtleties of the three major dress codes (Corporate, Business Appropriate, and Business Casual) and find answers to the most frequently asked questions about avoiding dressing disasters. You'll discover how to:
- choose the right clothes for interviews in different occupations
- shop smart in less time and get the most for your money
- dress for presentations, business travel, and black-tie events
- dress appropriately for all major U.S. and world cities.
Remember, your look is your logo. A small investment in your wardrobe can lead to a big payoff in your career. So take control of the image you project in the workplace...and when in doubt, wear navy!
Synopsis
In these times of economic uncertainty, dressing to impress has never been so important. Chic Simple DRESS SMART-MEN guides men on how to dress to find a job, keep your job, and get a better Job. . Drawing on interviews from top professionals and their own vast experience via their book line, AOL column, and InStyle monthly advice section, veteran style mavens Jeff Stone and Kim Johnson Gross put a sexy spin on the age-old question of how to dress for success. Whether you're an architect, accountant, media producer, sales director, consultant, venture capitalist, office temp, engineer, teacher or corporate CEO, it's important to understand how to dress appropriately for your position and your industry, and this book provides the straight talk answer to the most frequently asked questions about style at work. This title is not just a follow-up to the successful Chic Simple Work Clothes. It will answer the very real and continued interest in understanding the dynamics of dressing in today's constantly changing business environment, changing the average Joe from geek to GQ.