It’s Time To Look The Business Again …

What’s on the agenda this October? Is your diary filling up? Feeling full of energy or a little overwhelmed? Over 100 years ago, Tolstoy said: “One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love,” and Freud described love and work as the cornerstones of our “humanness”. A century ago, precious little thought was given to how women experienced either love or work but now women plot work days (and entire careers) with precision and purpose and (varying degrees of) ambition, resilience, resignedness – even occasionally, resignation. We have support from the business community, a network of family, friends, colleagues, even clients. We have business books and business podcasts, we have choices. And we have a tribe: some of that tribe, almost 1,600 women, will gather on November 8 at the RDS for THE GLOSS GALA, in association with Goodbody, Ireland’s most inspiring event for professional women.

In this work-focused issue of THE GLOSS, we discuss dressing for work, switching off, powering through. Post-pandemic, our changed work lives have settled into two speeds, with clothes to match: busy “outward-facing” days of meetings and events when a more polished style is called for, and deskbound days when we dress for comfort, trainers or Birkis out of sight on Zoom calls. Enjoying taking care of our appearance, whether we work in the home, from home, or in the office, is not frivolous – it’s vital, self-affirming and motivating. Granted, we are privileged to have the opportunity to work, but it doesn’t mean we can’t spark that daily joy with a new lipstick or a nice coat. You might find one at our Ted Baker shopping event tomorrow evening, at the Grafton Street store. There’s still time to register for your free ticket at www.thegloss.ie.

THE GLOSS & THE MIX

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