These vary from school to school, but where I'm teaching they are fairly strict:
- Dresses and skirts must reach the knee
- No footwear where toes are visible
- No jeans (or denim generally)
- Shoulders may not be exposed
- No cardigans (I'm not yet sure how they feel about other forms of knitwear!)
- No sheer material
Essentially, my intention for this blog is to post stuff that fits into these criteria!
Also: I will not be featuring Burberry trench coats and Chanel flapbags in this blog unfortunately- while I love fashion immensely, this blog is aimed at teachers, not runway models, and there's nothin more frustrating than seeing something you adore and it costing about £5,473,926.
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Is It Impossible?
Having just started my first placement at an English state school- I was instantly bombarded with regulations. Skirts down to your knees, shoulders covered at all times, NO cardigans.
While these might seem fairly straight-forward, I was a girl who had grown up in jeans, hoodies and converse all stars. The transformation into a sophisticated teacher who could wear a suit or midi dress for a whole day and 5 inch heels and still look effortlessly chic was a long way off.
Having struggled to find clothes that fit into the rules of the school I've been teaching at, and looking around online to little avail for a blog or resource that would help me decrypt the rules of fashion in the teaching world, I realised I should just start my own, and that, hopefully there were enough teachers out there that could use my help to make it worthwhile.
Dressing appropriately for teaching is fairly simple- what is difficult is maintaining a sense of yourself while doing it. I can wear a black midi skirt and white collared shirt to school every day, but my god that is depressingly boring. I love fashion, I love teaching, is there someway these worlds can become one?!?
All I can do is try!
While these might seem fairly straight-forward, I was a girl who had grown up in jeans, hoodies and converse all stars. The transformation into a sophisticated teacher who could wear a suit or midi dress for a whole day and 5 inch heels and still look effortlessly chic was a long way off.
Having struggled to find clothes that fit into the rules of the school I've been teaching at, and looking around online to little avail for a blog or resource that would help me decrypt the rules of fashion in the teaching world, I realised I should just start my own, and that, hopefully there were enough teachers out there that could use my help to make it worthwhile.
Dressing appropriately for teaching is fairly simple- what is difficult is maintaining a sense of yourself while doing it. I can wear a black midi skirt and white collared shirt to school every day, but my god that is depressingly boring. I love fashion, I love teaching, is there someway these worlds can become one?!?
All I can do is try!
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