ok, not exactly style but I do need some help...

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I have started a new job.

I have to wear a fleece for work (in an office )

BUT I am also not allowed to wear pumps, what kind of shoes can I wear???

Got to wear smartish trousers...

It's bloody stupid, I feel sooo scruffy.

What kind of job is it?

Admin / sales / marketing but in an activity centre (like PGL)

By pumps do you mean trainers? If you can't wear those how about something like this

not in red, but balck. With black trews

Are they not a bit frumpy?

(I work with loads of twenty somethings..)

I know these aren't for summer but are they nice??

www.clarks.co.uk/find/OnSale-is-onsale/Department-is-women/product-is-20325127/pgs-is-100

HELP!!

They are nice boots but don't think they would go with smart trousers, maybe more with jeans. Your 'uniform' sounds pretty awful. Why are they making you wear a fleece? A fleece doesn't go with smart trousers or smart shoes (or anything else really). This is a problem indeed....

these

I am in love with them and am trying to think of a reason to buy the black and the silver that will wash with DH!

Congrats on new job though, sounds good apart from the uniform problem.

Yes the ones I linked to are frumpy. I hold my hands up. I can't get past the fleece. sorry. My fingers won't let me link to nice shoes, knowing you will be wearing one...

oooh madamcastafiore I LOVE those satin pumps!

MC - you really shouldn't have shown me that link!!!!! They are gorgeous!!

Those satin pumps are lush, but again, we come back to the problem of the dreaded fleece.... I feel its almost insurmountable.

Thanks Madeamess!!!

re trousers, I could just about get away with cords (if they're smart!)

Aargh!! Maybe I'll just refuse to wear the fleece (horrible things anyway)

Nice pumps, black cords or very smart tailored trousers, dreaded fleece and scarf tied artfully at neck - nose in air and try and imagine you have on a designer blazer and not a man made monstrosity!