<p>sorry if this info is somewhere else, I just needed a quick response-what should I wear for an alumni interview?</p>
<p>Cords, khakis, clean dark jeans.
Clean shirt or sweater.
No underwear showing. No lettering on the shirt. No rips. Nothing too short, too formal, too revealing.</p>
<p>Basically: You don’t want the interviewer to remember your clothes after the interview, but to remember you.</p>
<p>business attire is safest</p>
<p>Remember to take who you’re interviewing with and where you’re interviewing into account.</p>
<p>I’m young (two years out of Brown), and I interview applicants in public areas of my law school (unfortunate, I know, to bring them to another school, but it’s so much better a space than any cafe or the like that I think it’s justified; if anything, I’m too good at selling Brown, so it’s okay). As a result, I have just about zero expectations in terms of applicants’ attire – I would probably only notice if they were a complete slob, or dressed in ill-fitting business clothes.</p>
<p>If a student arrived for an interview with me in business attire – a suit, for example – I would think he was an overreaching idiot. Seriously. What high school student wears a suit? Many don’t own suits. I said I don’t want to remember what they were wearing, and I’d remember a business suit. Bad move, in my opinion.</p>
<p>What mgcsinc said: zero expectations, except they better be clean and cover up important body parts (no cleavage, anywhere).</p>
<p>Try and find a top for a girl that doesn’t go down to China! </p>
<p>Even the camis they wear to try & fill the gap are cut too low. Bear with them, fire & rain; it is really hard to find something in stores that meets what we old folks consider modest, and these days an awful lot of girls and their mothers don’t know how to alter clothes or do the little tricks (like safety-pinning the cami straps to the back of the top) to get the garment to ride higher.</p>
<p>As the mother of a daughter, I get that – although there is still plenty of modest clothing out there. I was also thinking about guys who wear their pants too low.</p>
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I’m confused about this phrase you’re using. What exactly does that mean?</p>
<p>@OP, just wear what you normally wear in school.</p>
<p>captrick, that expression means a low cut top that shows a lot of cleavage.</p>
<p>You mentioned not wearing a suit, well I happen to like being fashionable, and have a collection of sport coats from UO, BR, etc that I wear casually.</p>
<p>Should I wear something else, or would this be considered OK?</p>
<p>A sports jacket from BR that makes you look like a cool dude is completely acceptable.</p>
<p>When I went to interviews, I just imagined what I would wear if I went to meet my friends’/boyfriend’s parents. You don’t want to come off messy, but you also don’t want to look stupid.</p>
<p>It’s extremely cold around here, so I wore a sweater dress, legging and bundled up with a thick scarf and a jacket. Ended up not taking my jacket or scarf off, anyway. My interviewer was wearing jeans and an argyle sweater. Just sort of play off that, I guess. (:</p>
<p>My S wore khakis, J Crew button down shirt, tie and sports jacket. He was probably over dressed for his college interviews now-a-days, but for whatever reason he felt most comfortable that way and it worked out for him.</p>