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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm gearing up to start a business/go back to work.  It's in my field, and I have a great mentor, so i feel I am on the right track for the actual work part.

I'm thinking about my look, though, and I'm not sure about my personal brand.

One thing I noticed at conferences, etc, I attended about 8 years ago:  25 year olds were wearing nice black suits, minimal makeup and jewelry, simple low ponytails.  The 55 year old women had a very different look.  It was more like "F---- that, I had to claw my way up and now I've made it" - much bolder.  Lime green heels.  Sometimes very short, obviously dyed red hair.

It's 2015, and I'm only 43, but I want to find the right balance.  I'd be making pitches/presentations to procurement folks at financial services companies.  I want to look confident and established - I don't want to work FOR them, I want to work WITH them, if that makes sense.  I want no vestiges of an ingénue look.

Could anyone suggest a sample outfit or link to a photo of an outfit for ideas?  I can buy new clothes.  I have a few lovely suits - J Crew, etc - that need to be repurchased in the next size up (damn perimenopause!!).

I'm not currently in yoga pants mode, but I don't have a full professional wardrobe by any stretch.  [/quote]

I'd ask Jeff to repost this to the Beauty and Fashion forum.  Those ladies would really go to town on this fashion question.[/quote]

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