Learn how to maintain your clothes so that they present you in the best way possible. This means that you need to know how to iron your clothes and how to look after specialty fabrics if you have some. You'll also need to know how to reattach a button that falls off or where there is a tailor that can hem your pants.

Wait! Forget it, you're thinking! I just need to speak in a meeting, not learn how to sew!

Really? Step back and think for a moment. You enter a meeting where you need to participate. Around the table are five other people. A couple of them are, as always, nicely dressed. A few others obviously take things out of the dryer and wear them to work. They look "fine" but slightly disheveled. Who has the edge that you want or need in order to make a statement?

No matter what we want to believe, your clothes matter. You will feel much more confident if you dress up than if you dress down. Just try it and see what happens!