To think she should dress down?

[Starry06]

Hi everyone - long time lurker, first time poster!

I recently (3 weeks ago) started a part time business degree at a local university. There is a group of about 15 of us of mixed ages from mid twenties to 50ish and we meet on the evenings.

There is this one girl who must be in her late twenties that always turns up in a full business get-up. And I'm not talking your bog standard skirt/trouser suit and top. She is EXTREMELY smart in obviously very expensive, very conservative 'executive' dress. From what I can gather she is a semi senior position for a Bank or finance company or bank. The rest of us turn up in jeans and jumpers and she looks completely out of place and it makes me feel uncomfortable and that she thinks she is better that the rest of us.

AIBU to have a word with her and tell her to make an effort to dress down a bit? I just think she won't be able to make friends unless she makes a bit more of an effort to fit in.

Stealth! how are ye? I'm up the duff!

Oh dear, I went off to my uni course last night after work in my smart business clothes - and it's not even a business degree. Shock horror! I didn't realise this was such a faux pas, and of course all the other students wore more casual clothes, so they thought I was stuck up and weren't friendly with me at all.

No, wait, it didn't make the slightest bit of difference as we are all adults and no one gave a shiny shit what anyone was wearing. We split into groups of four for something and there was me, a middle aged very posh accent lady wearing jeans etc, a young man hipster type in beard carrying a cycle helmet, and a young black man with dreadlocks that must have been over 3 foot long. I honestly haven't made that up. That was our group. We did rather well at the exercise we were working on.

You may be doing a business degree but that doesn't give you the right to get into everyone else's business.

Nothing to add, but

How would it go though?

OP: excuse me fellow student of business, I and other students feel that you are just too jolly smartly dressed, and it's making us all feel unnecessary.

Banker student: WTAF .

I'm imagining a look of horror on the OP's face as she gets a related job after her degree, and everyone has the cheek to wear a suit to work.

it makes me feel uncomfortable and that she thinks she is better that the rest of us.

Get over yourself.

You sound like a tit

Yabvu none of your business. Like others have said she might be coming straight from work.

Omg as if. Jealousy x

Loving this one.

You're the one with the problem, not her.
Yabu

Mmm - a first time poster eh? You couldn't possibly be on a wind up here?

Very much hoping this is a reverse scenario thread.

You're not working as a team so what anyone else wears is completely irrelevant.

OP - Has someone taken you aside and asked you to adjust how you dress? Are you looking for advice on how to deal with that? I'd suggest telling them that they'd be better concentrating on the course and not the sartorial choices of a fellow course mate.

Is it just me or has MN gone absolutley barking mad today?!

It is particularly bonkers today bitoutof

Has anyone else re read the OP recently just for a laugh?

Aw, I thought it was going to be about the presenters on bbc breakfast

And at the thought of telling her to dress down!