Are Briefcases Pretentious?
You might be young, fresh out of graduate school, and ready to leap onto the corporate hamster wheel. When preparing for a number of management interviews, you bat around the idea of carrying a briefcase into your potential boss’ office; since briefcases are professional, they boast organization, and they make you look darned responsible. But regardless of appearances, your interviewer may take one look at your black leather Jack Georges garnish, and scoff silently behind his desk. Why? Because he knows your resume isn’t worthy of that spacious four-hundred dollar heap of Tuscan leather. Regarding the workplace, the number one reason to carry a briefcase is that you have something important to put in it. Hence, a restaurant hostess might not start filing away tomorrow’s seating charts in a Louis Vuitton briefcase. Briefcases are a trademark for professionalism, but not everyone profession may require one.
