Office Wear / Fall Fashion For The Ladies

Office wear is a tricky thing sometimes for the ladies. For dudes it’s pretty straight forward: if you are a dude and you work in an office you’re either wearing a suit or business attire of some sort. Nice shoes are involved, black socks (hopefully, not white and athletic), button up shirts with a tie and maybe a cardigan or a jacket. For the ladies? Well. Office wear is all over the place, totally dependent on where you work, and how many mean girls there are in your office.

I’m only sort of joking.

Suffice it to say, there are a lot of options for office wear, none of them including a see through top and a black polka dotted Madonna bra. Or flip flops and a greasy top knot.

One *appropriate* option this Fall, and a gorgeous one at that, is a dressed up version of harem pants with heels and a classy blouse on top. If you use the right accessories you’ll look dressed up to hit the morning meeting even though you’re essentially wearing fancy pajamas. EVERYONE wins. Even your cranky boss.

‘How does one wear sassy office wear’, you ask? Easy peasy. Throw something like this together and you’re absolutely golden.

Tailored harem pants like these from J.Crew
A short or long sleeved blouse like this from Old Navy
These strappy black heels from Michael Kors
A chunky cocktail ring like this from Forever 21
Stone stud earrings like these from Kate Spade
A nice big statement gold watch like this from Michael Kors
Tote bag like this from T.J. Maxx

What do you think? Do you have it in you to try (classy) harem pants to the office? Would it fly where you work? Whatever you do, make sure your shoes and accessories stay sassy because they’ll make or break the outfit. Then on the weekend you can ditch the heels and jewelry for ballet flats and swap the blouse for a t-shirt to shop the weekend farmer’s market. Love it.

Diane Von Furstenberg blouse, $205 / Cool Change cuffed pants / Valentino black shoes / RED Valentino black purse / Pieces leather bracelet, $17 / Lanvin ring / Michael Kors watch / Kate spade jewelry / DailyLook matte gold ring / Butter London nail polish

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Allison

Hello there! I'm Allison Czarnecki, founder + editor of Petit Elefant, a blog all about style on a budget for every part of your life: style / home / travel / family. I do a lot of how-to beauty + style tutorials, travel posts, easy recipes, home remodel projects, and cool DIY crafts you totally want to try. I'm super happily married (to a hot Polish immigrant) and am the mother of two kids, a daughter and son, all of whom are featured here on the regular. We live in the country but we're a little bit rock + roll. Welcome!

6 Comments

Elizabeth :

September 16th, 2014 at 4:15 pm
I love those outfits and those pants are amazing!!

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- Allison :
  
  September 16th, 2014 at 7:26 pm
  Elizabeth, thank you! I totally want a pair of these pants now too!
Erin O. :

September 16th, 2014 at 9:23 pm
I need those earrings in my life!
XOXOXO
-A Cranky Boss
- Allison :
  
  September 17th, 2014 at 12:49 pm
  ON IT. xo
ella :

September 24th, 2014 at 10:47 am
I love those pants!! Ahhh.
I hope your school year is going well!
- Allison :
  
  October 7th, 2014 at 3:49 pm
  Me too, aren’t they darling?