I have no work skirts.

I only have a couple pairs of work pants (well, that fit and that don't need the hems to be fixed, etc). I have a LOT of work dresses. And two skirts that I don't remember the last time I wore. My issue is less the pants (or even skirts), it's finding tops that are nice enough to wear with them, but not so nice they have to be ironed/drycleaned. And look good on me. I feel like I have t-shirts that look good on me but work-appropriate tops mystify me.

Fancy day for me at the office is long pants. In the summer I will wear skirts, but they are the casual variety.

I'm not sure I could cope with a work environment that asked me to aspire to anything higher than office casual.

I'm certain I couldn't. I have two or three "bigwigs and/or clients" dresses that I can rotate in if I really need to, but the vast majority of my work-appropriate wardrobe is black or grey slacks from Old Navy.

(And shirts. I don't go to work topless.)

meara, maybe something like this? [link] It's essentially a t-shirt and goes in the washer and dryer, but with a little more styling and in a print is more dressy.

I wear both pants and skirts for work, and I like to iron so in summer I wear a lot of blouses. In winter it's t-shirts with sweaters, and I do wear t-shirts with cardigans (like right now! AIFG!) My work dress rules focus on looking professional but not at all sexy - if anything a little frumpy. High necklines, skirts mo more than an inch above the knee. But then, I got propositioned my first week on this job.

That list of pilots made me long for the days when the dead stayed dead.

I basically gave up on buying pants, because I find it such a hassle to find ones that fit all the places pants need to fit. (Relatedly, I decided not-quite-long-enough jeans are fine. I have become my mother!)

And dresses are so easy to wear! The whole outfit, all at once!

That's why I love dresses. But I really only love spring and summer dresses, because tights drive me nuts.

(Relatedly, I decided not-quite-long-enough jeans are fine. I have become my mother!)

Whaaaaat? No. Not unless you are deliberately going for ankle pants length, which is a tricky one anyway. Have you tried any of the fancier high-end jeans? Those usually seem to have super long inseams. Or order "tall" online, even if they don't carry it in stores (like Gap)?

Also: I am SO OVER this woman in charge of my project at work. We keep being asked to do things one way (generally something slightly weird and out of the ordinary, though not necessarily difficult or anything), then as soon as we get used to doing that...

Her: "oh, so we want [other thing] and decided the best way to do that would be [completely contradictory to first request]"
Me: "Um, what about [first request], how do those work together?"
Her: "Oh, uh....we hadn't thought about that, um, just do [random not helpful thing]"
Me: "How about we do [x process incorporating first request and doing something separate for second request] instead?"
Her: "oh, that's a good idea, let me look into everything..."

Six weeks later, mass email "WHY AREN'T YOU ALL COMPLYING WITH [SECOND REQUEST]??"

Me: "Uh, I thought we were doing [first request]?"
Her: "NO, WE DECIDED ON SECOND WHY AREN"T YOU DOING IT ARE YOU NOT PAYING ATTENTION IN CALLS??"
Me: WTF?

(This has happened at least twice where she acted like I was an idiot for still trying to follow the first way, and I can think of a few other instances of changed demands as well, though in some cases it was more clearly said "we're doing the second way not the first way", it's still confusing)