That’s Stella

I start my two weeks full time paid internship at one of the top advertising agencies here on Monday. Everyone keeps asking me if I’m scared, but I couldn’t be more excited! However, I am now in a desperate rush shopping for business wear. I use to love wearing business suits and sky high black stiletto shoes, but ever since working last year in New York my business dress sense has fallen off the face of the earth.

The dress code in New York was “stylish” - they didn’t care what you wore as long as it looked good. The CEO and Vice Prez would come to work in Lacoste or Penquin polo shirts and ripped Diesel jeans. Some of the girls would wear ugg boots (which is far from stylish at a work place) but would make up for their fashion sin by flashing around their Louis Vuitton bag or Balenciaga tote. Designer jeans were a must. Luckily they’re my weakness and I didn’t have to bare horrified looks like some of the other girls did when *gasp* they had the gall to wear a pair of jeans with a $50 price tag. It was completely shallow.

I do admit though, I loved that being in New York you had a good reason to up the ante. Anytime I had this crazy clothing concoction in my head, I would justify it by saying “Well, fuck it! I’m in New York!”. Once I wore white MOON BOOTS, teamed up with black patterned stockings and a Marc Jacobs black and white POLKA DOT skirt during a SNOW STORM and the whole day the CEO was completely in awe, so much so that he asked me to finish work early so I could accompany him to the ABC studios for a TV appearance to represent the company.

So when I came back from New York and had to go back to work doing marketing for the government here, it was painful to have to go back to business suits. I ended up getting away with wearing casual wear and justifying that I had uni classes after. But now… it’s a new beginning and it’s back to business. Starting Monday at 8am.