[speaker001:] hi um
[speaker002:] hello
[speaker001:] basically I wear pants I'm a real pants person and um like when I'm at home since and and I'll say I'm a homemaker since that's my basic thing um I wear a pantsuit most of the time not a pantsuit I guess pants and a shirt and um 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 uh then I will wear either uh skirts or um a dress and I have a couple of pantsuits because those are real in at this time but that's basically what I do
[speaker002:] well I think our tastes are fairly similar similar although I'm I government worker I do tend to I'm um a scientist
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] um-hum right
[speaker002:] and a pantsuit of sort one sort or another and um I guess dress it up with a with a a very nice black jacket when I have some have visitors or have to give talks
[speaker001:] well that sounds nice
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] um it said the seasons do do you change much through the season or
[speaker002:] no actually I guess this summer I I wore some fairly nice jeans um more than I wore have in previous seasons
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but um 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 but but you know you wear a heavy sweater in your office all summer so
[speaker001:] maybe I don't know
[speaker002:] right um yeah I don't I don't I you know I'm not a clothes horse in the sense that some of my friends
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I guess although in as I recall the stereotype of of secretaries was you know overdress overkill sort of and
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] in a sense uh 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
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] it I find it a little bit strange that their priorities would would be to spend this money here you know 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 perhaps you would have to dress up
[speaker001:] uh-huh then maybe yeah um well I don't have the resources to just go out and buy buy buy anyway and so my note 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
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] and so it's not a whole lot of of change for me either
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and um especially when I go to the meetings and wear the dresses I I I enjoy that but it just wouldn't be um smart for me to do that in my home with my children
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] so I have to um 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
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] um but it doesn't really change in my clothing style
[speaker002:] exactly I mean you can look businesslike in in a pantsuit uh the same pant suit you would you know wear for other things
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] yeah I'm I'm really glad about that pantsuits are popular because I'm allergic to many of the synthetics
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and so I used to have a problem when when I was working in a restaurant while I was in college and had to dress up and nylons and things like that would just give me a terrible rash
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh dear
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] that's not helpful
[speaker002:] right right but otherwise now I'm I I guess we're both pretty practical
[speaker001:] yeah I guess so well it's been great talking to you have a great day bye
[speaker002:] okay well have a good day bye-bye