While chatting with my contractor he reminded me of a really fancy and functional fashion statement: coveralls. “My grandpa used to wear them all of the time. He’d be working in the garage with it zipped all the way to the top and then, zipppppp, shirt and tie underneath. Instant presentation.”
Instant presentation is important. Haz Mat crews do it. Mechanics do it. Strippers do it. Even grandpas do it. Makes me wonder, “Why am I not doing it?” I’ve got a perfectly lovely pair of coveralls sitting folded in my closet, just waiting to expose my real outfit. Yet, it just sits on the shelf.
Unfortunately, I often miss important fashion statements, such as tear away snap pants, because I’m too busy trying to look ‘professional.’ In the meantime, I still end up exposed.
A few years ago, I was wearing a skirt with tights and boots (and a shirt, of course), grabbed my laptop bag from my car, walked across the street and up four floors of my office building before someone advised me that my laptop bag had pulled my skirt up in the back.
There was another time (could have been today), when I wore a button-up shirt and the middle button popped open as I was disseminating paperwork to coworkers. I, wisely, used the paperwork to conceal my Janet Jackson halftime moment.
Thus, with or without coveralls and tear away snap pants, I’m all about instant presentation.