Today I saw not one, but two women wearing very conservative business suits with skirts and very open sandals with no stockings. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t really think that’s a very professional, pulled together look. Is this what they’re wearing these days?
BTW, it wasn’t even very warm today.
Flat shoes or heels? Are you sure they weren’t wearing sandal toed hosiery?
Ordinary tights (stockings, hold-ups, panty hose, whatever) with open toed shoes is UGLY!
And if it’s too warm for closed shoes, IMHO it’s too warm for hosiery.
I’m very sure there were no stockings. I saw them up close. They were heels, but, IMO, they were for pants or evening wear. One of the women was standing on the steps of City Hall and the other was in my office. She’s from the Development Office and, therefore, needs to be very business-like.
Open-toe shoes and hosiery do not mix. Either save your open toe shoes for occasions when it’s fine to go sans hosiery, wear hosiery without toes or wear your open toe shoes with slacks.
I usually opt for number three. Very high open toe shoes paired with ankle length pants or with long, boot-cut leg slacks is a very chic look.
Actually yes that is au curant these days. I have not tried the conservative suit with out hosiery, although I would love too but I am still flinching from the first time I went without. I had pondered and polled several woman in my building what they thought then I went ahead without. Unfortunately in that days business meeting the VP of my dept. inquired if the dress code had changed.
I live in Vegas, and there is no way in hell Im going to wear pantyhose. The high was 97 today.
I’ll call you old fashioned. Maybe I’m unprofessional (or perhaps just Californian), but I can’t even grock the idea of sandles without nylons being unprofessional. I’m not an executive, but I don’t even own any flesh colored nylons.
Nvme77, do you mean that your VP thought you were inapropriatly clothed due to not having tights on? You have got to be kidding me yeah? It’s not like you came in wearing chaps and a g-string boggle
Where I work, they’ve recently allowed open toed shoes, but they must be worn with hosiery. It isn’t just with skirts either, even with pants, nylons or socks must be worn.
well, at the college, things are pretty lax. however, it does boggle my mind that some people have no idea what professional dress is supposed to be.
i teach etiquette seminars to a lot of college-aged people, and even though the seminars are set in a business luncheon/dinner setting, i am always surprised at how many young ladies show up dressed for a night out clubbing. explaining to them that sequins, sheerness, minis, and 6" strappy heels are not exactly the best ways to inspire clients to have confidence in your professional abilities is always less than pleasant (there are always a few diehard dissenters).
and yes, i admit that i am terribly old-fashioned.
I think the issue here is not with no pantyhose, but opentoed sandals in a business suit.
If you’re old fashioned, so am I. Close toed shoes with a business suit, definitely.
Of course, today I’m wearing a short-sleeved dress with a straight skirt and open toed backless heels, so what the hell do I know? 