Why yes, she is my favorite artist! Does it show?
In the Rare Books Department, you have to wear a lab coat…
and after years of showing undergrads how to work the copy machines, and shelving books, and fixing microfilm readers, you’ve been promoted to work there…
Rare Books is a department that’s always warm, always spotlessly clean, and which has a surprisingly casual dress code.
So you’ve decided that you’re going to indulge your love of pastel colors and focus your work wardrobe on your favorite blush and aqua shades…
Because of the fanatically dust-free environment, most of the staff wears light colors under their lab coats. Some people in the main part of the library think that this is an affectation. No matter, it’s now YOUR affectation too!
There’s no jewelry worn in Rare Books – nothing that might fall off and damage a manuscript or a 500 year old piece of vellum! So you’ll keep one pair of earrings tucked into your bag for after work occasions…
And in place of jewelry, you’re going to treat yourself to a beautiful handbag; you just got a raise, and a promotion to the department you’ve ALWAYS wanted to work in, so you’ve earned it!
What a dream of a work wardrobe:
But even though you’re dreaming of authors of centuries gone by, your shopping has remained firmly grounded in intelligent planning.
I could spend all day wearing sterile cotton gloves, working with old books….
love,
Janice
Anonymous says
July 13, 2015 at 12:49 pmO my goodness! These are MY warm-weather colors. Thank you for the beautiful ideas (and for vindicating my wardrobe).
Gwendolynn
Virginia says
July 13, 2015 at 12:53 pmLove the fact that there is gold on the shoes. If you can't wear jewelry, amp up the footwear!!
Shrebee says
July 13, 2015 at 1:19 pmThis blog continues to show your creativity in more than one facet. Time for a novella with a fashionista heroine including templates of what she's wearing in each chapter ? She works with rare volumes, but has also just attended a class reunion and blown away a former love who was never worthy of her ? What is her next travel adventure with her glorious wardrobe ?
Deborah Montgomery says
July 13, 2015 at 2:13 pmOh, I definitely love your heroine! Would love to work with rare books, and this wardrobe is beautiful.
I worked in a library years ago, sorting through old documents one summer, but it was jeans and a tee shirt. Look what I missed!
Anonymous says
July 13, 2015 at 2:14 pmHow deliciously yummy. Not my colours at all but I am in full appreciation and delight. I, too, love the continuing saga. As Shrebee says: "Time for a novella."
Vancouver Barbara
Anonymous says
July 13, 2015 at 2:17 pmThis is so lovely and so wearable too!! I would love to see what our heroine in this story wears in the winter using the same colours. I assuming the temperature in this very special place is kept quite cool so she can wear some sumptuous cashmere.
Deb from Vancouver
Anonymous says
July 13, 2015 at 2:40 pmI'm starting to read these just for the story-line… you have definitely created a new genre!
Alice
Gail says
July 13, 2015 at 2:54 pmSo lovely…I do spend much of my time with rare books and manuscripts but never dressed so beautifully.
Susan Bybee says
July 14, 2015 at 2:34 amThis is my fantasy!
Susan Bybee says
July 14, 2015 at 2:34 amThis is my fantasy!
Khush Interis says
December 2, 2016 at 10:04 amThe material is 55% cotton and 45% polyester. Normally I wear a small. I got the size M to be on the safe side. It's roomy but not too big. The black scrub pants feel nice and are comfortable.