More help!

[SuzySunshine]

Ack! DH's hospital is having the grand opening/ribbon cutting for the new $32M Neuroscience Institute tomorrow. I'm going, I want to go and really need to play the good doctor's wife for all of the big wigs/donors/etc that have made this possible. DH will be busy giving tours, doing a demo in the OR, etc.

I have NO idea what to wear - I obviously can't wear jeans. The problem is I have NO time to go shopping, no money and no slacks that really fit.

I have a black/tan suit from Ann Taylor that I've had for years. Its a black shift dress with a black jacket with tan trim which I usually wear with hose, heels and pearls. Is that to much?

I could wear the silver sweater I've worn to several things this holiday season with black slacks (that don't fit great), or with a plum skirt I have worn with hose/heels.

I have NO idea!

HELP!!

[v-girl]

I would do the suit.

[Mrs. MD, Esq.]

Suit sounds perfect!

[Meenah]

I would also do the suit!!

[Curegirl]

My vote's for suit but maybe leave the pearls at home although I've never had to be the good doctor's wife so...

[Deebs]

Wear the suit.

[MsSassyBaskets]

The suit sounds nice, but replace the pearls with something a bit more modern.

[SuzySunshine]

Thanks guys, I'll have to look in my jewelry and see if I have something else I can wear. The neckline really needs a necklace.

[GrayMatterWife]

Ann Taylor never fails. I wear Ann Taylor to pretty much every NSG function I ever go to. It's conservatively stylish (classic, not trendy), well-fitting, and utterly non-controversial. Perfect for the perfect dawkter's wife.

[diggitydot]

I am going to be a horrible dawkter's wife. So you're saying a mini sweater dress with tights and over-the-knee boots will not be acceptable if we are going out at night?

Could always be worse. If you witnessed what passed as "fashionable" around here, you'd be doing a full-on Exorcist replete with head-spinning and ing pea soup. I could show up to a function in a pair of mom jeans with a polar fleece sweatshirt and be viewed as dressing completely appropriately.

[civilspouse]

Could always be worse. If you witnessed what passed as "fashionable" around here, you'd be doing a full-on Exorcist replete with head-spinning and ing pea soup. I could show up to a function in a pair of mom jeans with a polar fleece sweatshirt and be viewed as dressing completely appropriately.

I need to get back to the PNW . Although I think fashion in the PNW was more advanced than what I've seen here in the midwest. Shortly after we moved here I was supposed to go to a meeting with a client along with some of my superiors. They said they were going to wear ties to the meeting. I assumed they would be wearing slacks, shirt, tie, etc so I dressed appropriately. Nope, they showed up the next day in Carhart pants, a short sleeve button up shirt......and a tie. I was completely overdressed.

[MsSassyBaskets]

Personally, not such a big fan of Ann Taylor... depends a lot on your size and shape. Their stuff is too boxy for me, and their sizing favors shorter women, while I'm 5'8.5". Not the biggest fan of their synthetic fabrics either. I don't think I'm ever going to LOOK like a doctor's wife. Every time I have to put on a suit for work (...like twice a year) I die a little inside.

[SuzySunshine]

So I talked to one of the other wives, she said she's wearing a sweater dress, high boots and a scarf, "like I would wear to church" - UGH! Maybe I'm going to be overdressed...

[GreyhoundsRUs]

Then I would wear the Christmas sweater and skirt.

[Deebs]

IF you were to end up in a photo in the paper or hospital newsletter, which would you rather be wearing? That's what I'd go for (says the woman whose pic from the Foundation's black tie dinner ended up in the paper).