Find out what suits YOU – part 2
Part 2/3
After reading my article ‘Find out what suits YOU – and what doesn’t‘, a rather enlightened image consultant wrote to me:
Dear Kim,
I forgot to tell you about the xxx networking event I went to last evening – if you’d been there you would have slid under the table with laughter!!
It was themed ‘Business is Image and Image is Business’ and had three ladies talking about what to wear, etc. There were some good points but then this particular lady got up and started saying that:
- black suits everyone, or at least grey
- we should all have a cowl-neck woollen black dress in our wardrobes
- we should all buy black high-waisted trousers from Oasis because they fit and flatter every shape
Well, I had to look away in order not to let her see my amazement at her pronunciations especially as she herself was wearing a very tight woollen dress in totally the wrong colour for her – brown hair (couldn’t see her eyes) wearing a sort of dirty mink colour (do you get the impression I wasn’t exactly impressed?) and the audience was taking it all in and agreeing with her.
As it was my first attendance at xxx I erred on the side of caution and kept my thoughts to myself – there will be a time for me to say my piece, but oh, how I wished for reinforcements! One day!
MB, Image consultant, UK
My answer (with steam coming out of my ears!)
Dear MB, This is so ruddy typical of the idiotic nonsense that was churned out in the 80s still being regurgitated by people with their heads up their bottoms nearly 30 years later.
Your note about the audience ‘taking it all in and agreeing with her’ is also so maddeningly, yet sadly, true.
Good job you didn’t take me with you – I wouldn’t have waited for reinforcements, I’m afraid. I am so fed up of this twaddle going on that I would probably have stood up and challenged her right there and then. And then, I would probably have turned on the audience and asked them what the heck they thought they were doing, listening blindly (can you do that?) to such rubbish?
I’m now going for a lie down in a darkened room and an extremely LARGE gin and tonic!
Regards,
Mrs. Angry (aka Kim)
Part 1 Find out what suits YOU – and what doesn’t
Part 3 Find out what suit YOU – not some generalised rubbish intended for the world and his mother!
