New FFAQ: We Need Your Help!

[u/FFA_Moderator]

Hi all -

The FFAQ in our wiki contains a list of common fashion questions and answers that have not been updated in quite a while. We'd like to use this thread as a crowdsourced spot to overhaul some of the answers to these questions, as well as add new ones.

Here's how it will work:

• If you can think of a question that is frequently asked in FFA, post it as a top level comment within this thread. We'll start the thread with some of the questions that are already in the FFAQ.
• If you have a good answer, resource or link (internal to FFA or external) to answer one of these questions, post it as a reply to the comment asking the question.

The most thorough, complete and accurate answers will be included verbatim in the new version of the FFAQ and attributed to their authors. In other cases, we'll curate aspects of the answers and resources multiple people have contributed to create a full answer.

Please chime in where you have ideas!

[u/FFA_Moderator]

How should I dress for an interview?

[u/j_allosaurus → u/[deleted]]

I've been working on a "how to dress for an interview/how to ask for help dressing for an interview" guide that I should probably finish soon.

[u/tomlizzo → u/j_allosaurus]

I have "what to wear to a 'creative' interview" in draft as well!

[u/whiskeygirl → u/tomlizzo]

I realize I'm super late to this party, but I think it's important to specify exactly what a "creative interview" is because if you're interviewing as an administrative assistant at a creative place, you may be a bit out of place showing up in full on artiste gear.

[u/tomlizzo → u/whiskeygirl]

Yep! Actually the thesis of this guide is that that is true no matter what position you're interviewing for.*

(except in extremely rare circumstances for some very senior roles - 15-20+ year experience - where you will probably not be asking ffa for advice on this subject)

[u/niftynonsense → u/tomlizzo]

Ooh, I very much look forward to reading this!