I answered a post this morning about male managers' dressing habits, and left something out.

If you can't shine your shoes, you have on the wrong shoes.

Managers shoes are able to be shined.  If yours are not, you're leaving out an important part of your wardrobe.

If you don't know how to shine them... maybe there's a cast there.  Mike and I are, thanks to school, quite adept at it.  I stumbled over this early in my corporate career, and felt like a fool for not using the skills I had been given.

Ladies, many of your shoes are shinable as well.... and therefore, yes, we recommend it for you too.

I recently "promoted" to the main blog a question about interviewing attire.