To bloody love wearing a suit every day? (lighthearted)

[RtHonMistress]

I'm SLT in a secondary school and wear a trouser suit to work everyday. I do change it to a skirt suit or smart dress and blazer occasionally, but trouser suits remain my ultimate favourite - particularly black ones.

I've always wondered why more women - or at least the women I know - don't wear them. They're comfortable, suit every body size and can be worn with heels or flats. Oh, and my personal favourite - they make you look powerful as hell.

Anyone other trouser-suited devotees on MN or just me?

I look ridiculous in trouser suits that's why. Dress and jacket or skirt suit much more flattering imo. And if the trousers are long enough to wear with heels you can't wear them with flats as they drag on the floor and get all soggy in the rain.

I love suits.

Only work in admin but always wear them when I'm working.

SAHM at the moment and miss being suited and booted.

Now I'm torn - I start a new job as primary school deputy head and thought trouser suits were the way forward. I like a dress and jacket but I know when I'm leaving home at 6.15 to catch a train and it's freezing, pouring, blowing a gale and still dark, I will not be struggling down the road in heels, tights and a skirt. Do those in favour of skirts/dresses tend to commute by car?

I commute by train but I change my shoes when I get to work. And at least you don't get soggy trouser bottoms in a skirt or dress.

I love suits. Particularly smart sheath dresses with a suit jacket over the top and high heels. Or high waisted smart trousers with a fancy blouse. Or pencil skirt and suit jacket. But the matchy matchy trouser suit has never suited me. I can do black cigarette trousers and a different colour jacket though.

I love smart dressing though. My weekend wardrobe is desperately dull by comparison.

A bit expensive to buy and then the blazer part usually needs to be dry cleaned, which is again expensive. Main reason I don't wear a suit is that I would look too 'try hard' and not fit in my workplace.

Horrible things! Sorry, OP.

"'m leaving home at 6.15 to catch a train and it's freezing, pouring, blowing a gale and still dark, I will not be struggling down the road in heels, tights and a skirt. Do those in favour of skirts/dresses tend to commute by car?"

It's a problem in the summer, but autumn, winter and spring I wear black tights and boots with skirts/dresses. In the summer I have some flat pumps, but they wouldn't work as formal wear.

No way. I've got freakishly short legs and massive boobs, suits look awful on me. I wear a dark coloured dress every day and when I have a meeting put a light coloured jacket over the top.

I look like I'm wearing school uniform that my mum has bought me to 'grow into' when I wear a suit.

You don't need heels to be formal. I rarely wear heels higher than 2-3 centimetre and often pumps with very low heels. They are all very neat, structured, formal shoes mostly in patent leather.

I actually think very high heels don't look smart or appropriate in a work environment.

I wore good black trousers and smart top/blouse for years. It was my uniform! I kept a couple of nice jackets in the office, and a tailored cardi too for meetings.

I used Public Transport and trousers are the business in the wind and rain. Always kept a spare set of trousers, socks and shoes in the office too, lesson learned having been soaked to the skin on a couple of occasions.

Everyone is different and it's what make you feel good and/or comfortable at work that matters.

I rock smart trousers, pretty smart top and jacket/blazer

Ugh to suits of any kind, massive UGH to tights and court shoes and hideous nylon and sweaty man made fabrics! I am always too hot and I have eczema so I only like cotton and linen which I wear all the year round and i don't give a fuck that I look a creased mess (according to my mother)

And I always wear smart structured flats. I think it looks smarter than heels the way I walk.

I also like to rock dresses with black tights. I've got several smart but stretchy long sleeved dresses from hobbs. Very comfy and cosy and warm for winter.

I disagree, I wear scrubs for work, they're amazing and also easily washable!
Whenever I wear a suit it's for an exam or an interview, so the jacket trends to get a little sweaty, I think I'd need to dry clean after every wear which would get expensive!

I love suits. And mine are all machine washable cheap easy to wear, don't have to think about it.

Weeping a little to every PP who doesn't share my love! Ah well, if we all suited up a la Barney Stinson every day the world would be a very boring place.

I'm short and large chested so I buy from specialist petite websites - there is one amazing one I found after much digging which specialises in 'professional attire for petite women'.

@Namechange250 SLT - Senior Leadership Team (and many other unpleasant acronyms meaning the same thing!)

@Luckyaide the thought that it would negatively impact my work with young people hadn't crossed my mind - in your opinion, do you think it might?

@SilverTrap love it

I don't know! I thought that SLT = speech and language therapist :) I work with people and I'm conscious that dress can make a difference. I'm assuming that at least a sprinkling of gravitas is required in you're role so perhaps a suit helps?

Suits are not designed for 6ft tall women

End of!

I wore them back in the late 90s under sufferance and was told I was intimidating -that's not a look I generally go for

Work in the City. Women don't tend to wear tailored suits, skirt or trouser. It is rather formal (unless for going to court) and yes, old fashioned. The look can be smart but softer.

Au contraire, a six foot tall woman in a suit radiates power

@Luckyaide I see what you're meaning now! I think were I a speech and language therapist I'd go for a somewhat 'softer' look - but I feel a suit reinforces my status when I'm giving kids a bollocking especially as most are taller than me

Love suits: but not trouser ones! I'm an hourglass and I just don't suit most trousers. However, fitted vintage ones from the 40s or 50s work a treat. I wear them most days and they definitely feel powerful as f**k (in my super smart, v.male-dominated environment).

I'm so glad my job doesn't involve a professional dress code and the need to wear suits, formal jackets or smart shoes.

Most days I turn up in skinny jeans or trousers, converse, long sleeved tees and/or hoodies depending on the weather. All work-approved uniform - I work in a high-end clothes shop and as long as wear company clothes (shoes excepting) we can wear whatever we like, except shorts and sleeveless tops.