I am invoking
I don't get sent (luckily. I think the company is too scared to send me out after the last time I got sent to meet a client). I have been invited to a few though (sadly lacking in ice sculptures), and since I prefer a) strapless and b) I'm a metalhead, take three guesses what mine tend to look like...

I am invoking though. I want the whole office if you do go formal friday. I think this should be done more often. Or, I could cause a failure somewhere to make you go formal and customer facing...
(stimpy, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:28, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

A challenge appears!
I decided against a corset dress (out of my budget at the moment) for the event I was sent to last weekend and opted for a halterneck thing that went down quite well if I do say so myself. There were no ice sculptures this time and it did transition quite nicely to the 80s bar in Birmingham afterwards (Rick Astley-a-gogo). I imagine your taste is like my "if I had all the money in the world" wardrobe...

We shall see what happens :) I will suggest it to my manager again (and she makes her own corsets so she'll be well in)! I don't advise causing a failure since I'll be the one opening the letters from the pissed off customers (if I never see another cab receipt again it will be too soon)...
( Maladicta, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:38, Reply)

Halterneck aren't bad
Don't work on me though. What was the name of this bar? I must find it when I next have to take a trip to the forsaken city.
(stimpy, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:46, Reply)

This one required structural engineering to contain the norks
since I didn't want to do a Janet Jackson at a work thing!

The bar was Reflex - they're a chain (or must be, there was one in the town I grew up in). I used to go to Birmingham all the time for the shopping when I was a teenager (Bullring = heaven on earth) but had never experienced the nightlife until now, and compared to where I went to uni it was insanely crowded!
( Maladicta, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 19:48, Reply)

I feel lucky sometimes I don't require said engineering
It would be nice to need it occasionally. Not doing the Janet Jackson is much better though!

I shall look up said bar. Although I'm not that big a fan of going out in the night, so may well end up skipping it. Sounds like you had a great time!
(stimpy, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 20:01, Reply)

I do, to a rather inconvenient level at times!
If only I could wear corsets all the time...

I did :) am not usually much of a clubby type myself but there's something rather charming about spazzing out to 80s cheese with your boss when he's had a few and is singing 9 to 5 at the top of his voice! I'm even more impressed no unflattering photos have appeared on Facebook yet...
( Maladicta, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 20:03, Reply)