Acquiring first office clothes
While in the interview stage you need one good outfit. Take care of them and they will see you through this stage of the process. Shoes, ties, shirt, and a suit can all be purchased on sale. The fact that you have months before graduation give you time to purchase them when there is a sale.  Off-the-rack is good enough for a suit for this stage of your life. There is no need to go custom made when you are just starting out. In fact you may find you never need more than one or two suits, and they never need to be custom made. Like the other answers, I'm not entirely sure the equivalent exists in your country. But in the US there are thrift stores run by charities like GoodWill or the Salvation Army that sell clothes for very little money.  When my wife was in a similar situation very early in her career she learned the trick of driving to thrift stores nearest to the richest neighborhoods in town. She often found high dollar designer clothes that had been worn once (to an event or party) and then donated. Apparently it is quite gauche for the well-to-do to be caught dead in the same outfit twice. It wasn't uncommon for her to find clothes/shoes that retailed for hundreds of dollars for $10 or so. Sounds like you're a man, so you're in luck. Our formalwear all looks similar enough that you can get by on a very short rotation. You can buy 1 pair of decent slacks in a versatile color like navy or grey with a pair of brown shoes with matching belt then have as little as 2 button down shirts (white and light blue). You can help keep the button downs clean by wearing an undershirt. This outfit can even overlap your interview outfit if you want to save more (especially if you want a good jacket/sport coat). The real key is to just not pick anything flashy and nobody will ever notice. You'll be running to the dry cleaners every single weekend, but you won't have much in terms of up-front costs. For women though I have no clue how they manage this stuff.
I was able to request a modest advance on my salary when I started my first job out of college, for essentially the same reason. Alternatively, you might consider requesting a small personal loan from friends or family. If you have a credit card that can cover things like grocery expenses for that period, this may also be the appropriate time to use it. Buy cheap food, like lentils and beans. :P In the future, once you earn some money, you should keep around a few months' worth of essential expenses in a saving account to avoid this situation. :) I'm wearing shorts I bought online. Levi's. Amazon offers free returns so I bought two sizes and picked what fit me best. I don't buy them all online but I do things like jeans from a specific brand where I know the sizing well. A lot of places offer free returns now. Otherwise I might take a gamble on a shirt fitting, or check out what blank it's printed on to see if I know it already. Just bought a shirt yesterday that I knew was printed on an American apparel 50/50 blank so I knew what size I need as I have ten shirts printed on that blank already.   Still need to go into a store for a lot of things though First you need to incorporate.  2) Build your websites &amp; setup social accounts 3) create content: photoshoots, marketing designs, etc  You should be creating your apparel designs at the same time as your site is being built and your product should be printed before the photoshoots.   If you need more in depth help. Message me. Sounds more of a question for the fine people at StyleForum.net but i would suggest to start looking carefully at the quality of the fabrics: once you start studying the subject you will quickly recognize a solid shirt from a cheap one. That'll help you save money in the long term. Also keeping it simple (by choosing classic color tones and patterns) will make your wardrobe more resistant to the fashion du jour. 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Black is for funeral or formal evening (tuxedo) only. Regardless of suit price, budget $75-$100 for tailoring. You need to have the waist of the coat adjusted, sleeves proper length and pants hemmed for it to all fit correctly. If you're in good shape I'd suggest Suit Supply instead of Brooks Bros - with the former catering to a more modern and generally younger clientele, still with excellent quality (comparably). Jos A Bank if you're really on a budget but do a little research on suit fit, button stance, lapel width, and pants break and taper before you go in because they'll sell you garbage if you don't know what you're talking about. /r/malefashionadvice has a good sidebar and wiki if you want more info. to find out how, we encourage you to read this post right away. by doing so, you will surely know how you can finance the purchase of important office or business equipment. you will also learn from it an excellent alternative you can use to get the machines you need to support the profit-generating activities of your enterprise. How are they going to know?  You're going to be wearing dress shirts at that stage of your professional career.  (*Not actual advice.  I work in a different area of finance, however one of my coworkers had full sleeves done at some point prior to joining and just wore long sleeve shirts to work every day) Cleaning the dirty clothes on your own and then ironing them out is quite a tough and time consuming task even if you have the washing machine to ease the process. It is still a whole lot trouble to do on your own since if nothing else then at least you have to give time for machine washing; as a result you can’t plan outings. Ok the black suit being for funerals and weddings only thing freaks me out because I've worn black suits to two interviews already.   I'm gonna check out suit supply, there's a location nearby. What exactly is dark navy and medium gray (as opposed to what, light navy and dark gray?)  What about those suits that are very lightly striped and black "In my office we say ""A plan never survives first contact.""  I think the more important lesson would be the ability to quickly adapt your goals as things come up.  I know plenty of business owners who have created goals and strive like hell to achieve them even after it no longer makes sense." "A little terminology: Grant: you get a ""gift"" with strings attached. ""Grant"" refers to the plan (legal contract) under which you get the stock options. Vesting: these are the strings attached to the grant. As long as you're employed by the company, your options will vest every quarter, proportionally. You'll become an owner of 4687 or 4688 options every quarter. Each such vest event means you'd be getting an opportunity to buy the corresponding amount of stocks at the strike price (and not the current market price which may be higher). Buying is called exercising. Exercising a nonqualified option is a taxable event, and you'll be taxed on the value of the ""gift"" you got. The value is determined by the difference between the strike price (the price at which you have the option to buy the stock) and the actual fair market value of the stock at the time of vest (based on valuations). Options that are vested are yours (depending on the grant contract, read it carefully, leaving the company may lead to forfeiture). Options that are not vested will disappear once you leave the company. Exercised options become stocks, and are yours. Qualified vs Nonqualifed - refers to the tax treatment. Nonqualified options don't have any special treatment, qualified do. 3.02M stocks issued refers to the value of the options. Consider the total valuation of the company being $302M. With $302M value and 3.02M stocks issued, each stock is worth ~$100. Now, in a year, a new investor comes in, and another 3.02M stocks are issued (if, for example, the new investor wants a 50% stake). In this case, there will be 6.04M stocks issued, for 302M value - each stock is worth $50 now. That is called dilution. Your grant is in nominal options, so in case of dilution, the value of your options will go down. Additional points: If the company is not yet public, selling the stocks may be difficult, and you may own pieces of paper that no-one else wants to buy. You will still pay taxes based on the valuations and you may end up paying for these pieces of paper out of your own pocket. In California, it is illegal to not pay salary to regular employees. Unless you're a senior executive of the company (which I doubt), you should be paid at least $9/hour per the CA minimum wages law." I think a shirt with French cuffs that require cufflinks is a good way to show any conservative workplace that you know how they roll.   However if you are just an intern it might make you look very stuffy. I say do it if you are over 20.   And practice tying your tie so the taper to the point starts at the belt buckle. You don't want to see the top shirt button, and you don't want to see any shirt below the tie.  Last thing, leave the bottom button of the suit unbuttoned at all times. So if it is a three button suit, never ever touch button three. Also, you may unbutton your suit when you sit down, rebutton it up when you stand up. If you sit down with buttons done up sometimes it scrunches up a bit around the shoulders. Fair enough. It's an interesting one, seems everyone has taken to wearing them in the US office. We rip the piss out of them pretty badly over here, until one dude rocked up with an Axe Capital one. That was pretty cool