15 Work Outfits That Say "I May Be a Corporate Drone, but I Still Have a Little Personality"

Listen—nothing makes you feel more ready to get down to business than a knitted vest. With a collared shirt underneath (or another sweater) and smart trousers, you'll feel like a whole new person who knows about dividends. Even if you work in the flower-arranging industry.

This is for more of an entrance-making scenario, but in a red patent slicker (preferably Prada), you don't even have to toss it onto someone's desk for everybody to go "gird your loins." And given that air-conditioning is sexist, it wouldn't be so weird if you kept it on.

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Ideas in blazer alternatives, brought to you by Fendi. Because the rest of the outfit is so straightforward, an undone short-sleeve shirt—in not too casual a fabric—works.

It's got a collar and sleeves and enough room in the skirt for one kid to stand on another's shoulders in a comedic ploy to infiltrate an adult environment.

Axe the feathered bangs, keep the knee-length skirt, blazer, and 50 percent of the jewelry.

In their basic evolutions, a white shirt and black skirt would be fine, if a bit snoozy. But with sleeve ties and a wrap treatment, as seen here at Regina Pyo, it's a real outfit.

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No way! But with a gingham shirt underneath and a little flare to the pant, this ain't your average stockbroker's Wednesday look.

And so you can distance yourself even more from Finance Bro Chad with His Own Analyst, choose roomy co-ords in lilac, layered with something silky and breezy.

Or a different print on another print (in Ralph Lauren's garage).

Kirsten's is Rodarte, but sleepwear-influenced co-ords are all over the high-street shops these days. With a heel and more done hair, no one will know if you actually are wearing PJs.

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Don't just think of pencils—consider the trumpet skirt or flutes or timpanis.

Designed by the lady in the previous slide, here, we've got a pretty standard work outfit—but in unexpected shades of watermelon and Pepto.

Maybe Doug in Accounts won't get it, but what do we care?

Great for in-between weather or when you don't want to do that scrunchy thing with your tights to get your foot in.

The Row! Highly appreciative of this robe suit, even if you'd probably keep rolling over it with your chair.