Gypsy in the Corner Office

The child of flower children, once a tiny hippie, she packed up her muslin blouses and turquoise beads in the mid 90's, and headed off to college to work her way to an MBA.

The hippie movement had ended in 1975, the year the US pulled out of Vietnam.  Before she was born.  She never was part of the movement, but she was crazy about those clothes, those free-people, gypsy clothes.

That same year, 1975,  the first edition of Dress for Success was released.  Decades of reprints and revisions helped prepare women to take their place in the business world.  And we're not talking secretaries.  She was part of this movement...education, hard work, breaking the corporate ceiling, success and office dress codes.

She still wears bohemian, those loose dresses, tunics, tiered and layered, jewelry... sterling silver and gold with the bone, wood, leather.  Just not to work and never that pretentious, exorbitantly priced designer fakery that calls itself gypsy couture.  She can't bear it, although she can certainly afford it.  ~  Carolyn in Mexico