101: Building Your Business Wear Wardrobe! (Photos)

I just graduated from my BCom program in August 2013! (6 months ago now. Doesn't feel like it's been that long... huh, wow!)

Two weeks into the Business program, we were all to attend our first conference - told to stay the whole day, practice our business etiquette, and most important (& most challenging for me at the time):
to dress
PROFESSIONALLY.

Now at that time, being Business students, one might think that we all had our suits bought & ready to go, right? Oh, no no.

After that weekend, I made it a sort-of "mission" of mine to slowly but surely build a more COMPLETE business wear wardrobe than I had started with, so I'd be ready for the rest of that year (& even for work afterwards!)

So, here's a quick run down of the different components you might need to wear for work post-grad,

I hope it helps!!

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If you're just starting out, I'd even pick just ONE from each of the following categories,
and you'll have a solid start! :)

Is a SMALL a LARGE & a LARGE a SMALL...??

Have you ever gone to one store and fit a shirt in a Small,

then walked over to the next store and found you fit a Large?

S - XL

Some styles I know are supposed to "fit" in a different way, maybe slouchier or more form-fitting, and different stores cater to different audiences, and that's cool, but I mean, all these different brands must just have their own personal size charts that they never compare to any other brand ... ever.

There really is, NO universal size guide.

Haha.