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Working in a law firm and being a woman, I pay really close attention to fashion in the firm and in the court house when we make our occasional visits and the fashion between the firm and the court house is very different. When I joined the firm, there was no specific dress code given to me, just a dress code about casual Fridays and how we cannot wear holy jeans and leggings and things like that, but nothing about everyday business wear. I knew though from observation what I could wear and could not wear and what was appropriate and what was not appropriate. In our firm, we can wear a lot of different things, just as long as there is not too much exposure, but when going to the court house it is very conservative and that is very understandable. All the men in the courthouse wear pantsuits and women wear some kind of suits. Almost everybody in our firm dresses appropriately, but there has been multiple occasions where some of the female lawyers are wearing really short dresses or they are just dressed really sloppy, especially one lawyer in general. I think it is good for there to be a variety of options of clothes for women to wear, but I think bottoms should almost go to the knees, cleavage should be minimized and no spaghetti straps or tube tops.


I think that lawyers should be known for their cutting-edge fashion sense. Women lawyers our very important people in our society and I think they deserve to have a fashion sense as well. I know I take bold moves and wear fashionable things to work and I get complimented on them. They aren’t scandalous or anything, they just aren’t your typical boring outfits you normally see people in a law firm wearing. In the article, “The Fashion Law of Politics: Obama-Style”, I loved how they brought Michelle Obama’s daring fashion sense. I love how she has taken a stance and stepped out of the traditional fashion sense of the first ladies.