Something slightly different today. I have been working on presentations of working women in a suite of magazine issues from 1984-1985. The magazine is Working Woman, which I just about remember. It gave lots of very sober advice to women about how to succeed in the executive positions they were just beginning to get after the second wave of feminism. There are some timepieces like why we should have Sunday trading which seem like social history now, and some very dull solid advice pieces on pensions and employment rights, as well as really thorough profiles of blue-chip companies (including the late lamented Habitat group), presumably so that you could prepare yourself thoroughly for interview or investment purposes.
My colleagues, Sam Warren and Harriet Shortt and I have been looking at the advice given to women on how to present themselves to be taken seriously at work in terms of clothes and accessories, hair and make-up. I don’t want to rewrite the article here, but I thought I would put the drawings I did in the blog, just for interest. I did them because I have decided that this is a much easier way of handling things than trying to get (expensive) copyright. So these are sketches to illustrate a text and not beautiful drawings, but they were fun to do and I hope you like them.
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