By J.P. Mitri

Not sure what to wear to a job interview? Don’t have the budget to spend a lot of money on the appropriate attire? Are you unsure of what to wear on the job? The Career and Development Center has worked with the Fashion Administration at Buffalo State College to organize a fashion show called “Get Dressed for Success Codes” to answer all these questions and more.

“The Career and Development Center asks us (Fashion Technology Department) to put on a fashion show, to show graduating seniors how to dress for success,” said Amanda Sokoley, 23, a fashion technology major at BSC.

“The show contains do’s and don’ts (of what to wear at an interview and on the job) and it contains three different price ranges: high, medium and low to show everyone that you can look good at all different price ranges,” said Sokoley.

Karen Mix from the Fashion Association at BSC was the M.C. at the fashion show and explains the do’s and don’t of what to wear at a job interview as the models strutted their stuff down the runway.

The do’s of dressing for success

• gray and silver colors
• bottom of pants must hang just above the top of shoe soles
• 3-piece suits for men
• skirts below knees or lower for women
• pumps for women

The don’ts of dressing for success

• white colors because they attract too much attention and are distracting
• boots
• a night-on-the-town wear
• stripes
• anything sleeveless

“The clothes have been donated from Talbots in the Galleria Mall, GetDressed on Elmwood Avenue, which is a men’s suiting store, and the lower priced clothes are actually from Amvets on Elmwood Avenue,” said Sokoley.

The price range of the suits and dresses ranged from a $500 cotton/linen men’s suit at Getdressed, to a 100 percent wool dress for $9 at Amvets.

“I learned that Amvets I guess got some good clothes, I didn’t know they had Liz Claiborne and stuff at Amvets,” said Faith Warglaw, 21, a communication broadcast major at BSC, when she was asked what she learned from this fashion show.

“And I could defiantly tell it was a don’t to wear a striped outfit, said Warglaw.