[speaker001:] Hello.
[speaker002:] Hi, uh, [lipsmack] basically, I wear pants. I'm a real pants person and, uh, like when I'm at home since, and I'll say, I'm a homemaker since that's my basic thing, uh, I wear a pantsuit most of the time. Not a pantsuit, I guess pants and a shirt and, uh, in the summertime I wear cotton tops. Cotton top shirts and in the winter I wear, uh, like sweaters. I like sweaters a lot. And so I do that. But when I go out for meetings [lipsmack], uh, then I will wear sh-, either, uh, skirts or, uh, a dress and I have a couple of pantsuits because those are real in at this time, but, that's basically what I do.
[speaker001:] Well, I think our tastes are fairly sim-, similar, although I am I government worker, I do tend to, I'm, uh, a scientist.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] So that technically, I suppose, I could get away with, with extremely casual clothes, but, for the most port, part I don't. I wear fairly respectable looking shoes and
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] and a pantsuit of one sort or another and, uh, I guess dress it up with a, with a, a very nice black jacket when I have, have visitors or have to give talks.
[speaker002:] Well, that sounds nice.
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] Uh, it said the seasons, do, do you change much through the season or,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] No, actually I guess this summer I, I wore some fairly nice jeans
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] uh, more than I have in previous seasons. But, uh, no, I tend to, to use the same things because actually our offices are very cold in summer. I don't know whether they think by, you know, freezing them up overnight, then they can save electricity during the day or something.
[speaker002:] Maybe.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] But
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] No.
[speaker001:] but, you know, you wear a [LAUGHTER] heavy sweater in your office,
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] all summer. So, right, uh, yeah, I don't, I don't, I, you know, I'm not a clothes horse in the sense that some of my friends.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] And I guess although in, as I recall the stereotype of, of secretaries was, you know, overdress, over kill, sort of
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] and
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] in a s-, in a sense, the people I know who spend the most on clothes are secretaries. Although the fact that most of the ones I know are in the government and they're not meeting the public
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] it, I find it a little bit strange that their priorities would, would be to spend this money here [breathing]. You know,
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] I mean, I suppose if you were a, a, more a receptionist and meeting the public and it was the image of your company at stake
[speaker002:] Then may-, [faint].
[speaker001:] perhaps you would have to dress up.
[speaker002:] Uh, well, I don't have the resources to just go out and buy, buy, buy anyway [lipsmack] and so my don't change dramatically over the years. If I need something new, I will go and buy it. But, basically I'm a, a pretty much the same in the summertime I wear the light cotton and in the wintertime I change to the sweaters.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, uh-huh.
[speaker002:] And, so, it's not a whole lot of, of change for me either. And, uh, especially when I go to the meetings and wear the dresses I, I, I enjoy that, but it just wouldn't be, uh, smart for me to do that in my home with my children.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] So, I have to, uh, [lipsmack] think about things like that, too. I have given seminars before in, in creative writing and things like that. Now, I don't know if they consider that a job. I don't really get paid for that, uh, often, but, uh, when I do that then I, I think I become more businesslike. Uh, but it doesn't really change my clothing style.
[speaker001:] Exactly. I mean, you can look businesslike in, in a pant-, the same pant suit you would, you know
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] wear for other things. Yeah, I'm, I'm really glad about that pant suits are popular because I'm allergic to many of the synthetics.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] And so I used to have a problem when, when I was working in a restaurant while I was in college
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and had to dress up, and nylons and things like that would just give me a terrible rash.
[speaker002:] Oh, dear.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] So,
[speaker002:] That's not helpful.
[speaker001:] Right, right. But otherwise, now, I'm, I guess we're both pretty practical [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah, I guess so [LAUGHTER]. Well, it's been great talking to you.
[speaker001:] Okay.
[speaker002:] Have a great day.
[speaker001:] Well, have a good day.
[speaker002:] Bye.
[speaker001:] Bye-bye.