Anna Delvey Ethos of Not Looking Poor - What Boomers Used to Call "Dress for Success"

"I’m seeing brand names like Celine and LV bags that are at least a few thousand, Balenciaga, Gucci, Dior, Bergdorf shoes, Cartier watches and bracelets…and they’re not wearing the same thing every day… feeling like Anna Delvey is showing up to tell me I look poor."  

Above is a Comment on a Fisbowl Big Law post about associates sporting designer clothes and accessories. Over 100 other responses have come in. Here is the thread.

Essentially, they are mixed in what they are observing. Overall, though, it seems that more and more junior lawyers are dressing like partners. Perhaps they have heeded con Anna Delvey about the extreme career risk of not transmitting a message of wealth through attire. However, some project that when loan repayments kick back in there will be less to plow into what we boomers used to call Dress for Success. 

In general, though, what I have observed is that Pandemic Whatever is over. That, I posit, is because in-person is back for new business development (email, snail mail, social media, and even phone calls are documented to be duds post-Covid). So, all of us in professional services are having to suit up again. In November I am relocating my business to another part of the country. There I will analyze what the residents put together to create presence, then purchase the clothes, the jewels, the attache case, and more. Fold in also a top hair stylist. 

A recession is no excuse for down-branding. Actually during a slowing economy there is a mandate to come across as quite successful. 

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