Women's Business Fashion Wear

Dressy Business Clothes and Professional Evening Attire for Travel

Sep 11, 2008 Lisa Nichols

Women's business travel tips include ideas for professional evening attire. Dressy business clothes and accessories help daytime suits transition into evening wear.

Once the nebulous business casual dress code has been conquered for business travel, there’s yet another hurdle to pole-vault: women’s business fashion wear for evening.

Business Evening Wear

The need for evening wear during business travel often arises and it’s important to be prepared. Event planners and marketing and sales reps frequently have to entertain clients while they are traveling. Visiting a client’s office might include a dinner on the town that necessitates business evening wear. Even a long day of meetings in the home office with visiting sales personnel might require some kind of professional evening attire.

Business Fashion Wear

Finding business fashion wear that goes from the boardroom to a five-star restaurant after work doesn’t have to be difficult. Dressy business clothes for women that work for daytime wear and for evening make the most of a limited wardrobe and limited time during business travels. Suits and separates that can easily transition to business evening wear will also simplify packing. If upcoming business travel will necessitate professional evening attire, a shopping list should include:

• Sleek and chic dressy business clothes for women in deeper, darker shades of color work well after the workday has ended. Dark gray suit separates, dark hose and black heels or boots are smart business evening wear choices. Ellen Tracy, Anne Klein and DKNYC have a number of dressy options for business fashion wear.
• A pop of color brightens black and gray business dinner clothes. Suits sparkle with a pink satin top, deep green silk blouse or a burnished gold halter. INC International Concepts and Nine West both make affordable business fashion wear in a wide range of sizes.
• Jewelry and accessories take business fashion wear into nighttime hours. Replace a scarf with ropes of costume pearls or a dramatic vintage rhinestone necklace to easily switch from day to evening. Replacing a watch with bangles, flat-soled shoes with heels and opaque hose with sheer stockings make business dinner clothes sizzle. Cole Haan, Stuart Weitzman and Coach have a variety of high-end business dress accessories available.
• A vintage beaded clutch bag fits easily into packed bags and helps daytime business dress transform for an evening with clients.

Professional Evening Attire Adventures

Professional evening attire adventures happen frequently to women who travel for business. These sorts of mishaps can make a splendid evening fall flat. Ideally, business travelers know ahead of time that a dinner party is imminent and have plenty of time to freshen up before leaving the office, but this isn’t always the case. Instead of relaxing and changing into professional evening attire, women are often (disappointingly) stuck in whatever they wore during the day.

Anticipation is half the battle; when finalizing trip details it’s imperative to work evening plans into the conversation. It’s entirely appropriate for business women -- and men -- to state that they need some time to change into professional evening attire for dinner after meetings have ended. And a half hour or so at the hotel gives business travelers a chance to clean up, unwind and rejuvenate.

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