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"Tis the season&amp;#8212;for gingerbread-flavored lattes (yes!), phone calls from relatives you kinda forgot you had and, one of the most infamous holiday traditions, ye old office party! As your social calendar starts to look like a Byzantine mosaic over the next month or two, you wanna make sure you&amp;#39;ve got some dynamite go-to looks that&amp;#39;re both totally appropriate and tres chic for soirees with your coworkers. (Don&amp;#39;t worry, we&amp;#39;ve got you covered with these holiday dresses.) But the other thing to keep in mind? Exactly what not to wear. Here are 11 things to steer clear of (warning: some willpower may be involved!):\nHoliday Office Party DON&amp;#39;T #1: Serious Cleavage\nPinterestFacebookWhile you may be tempted to show your fun side a little more at a work party that takes place outside the office walls, don&amp;#39;t get too carried away with the low-cut stuff. Just because there&amp;#39;s a dance floor in the room doesn&amp;#39;t mean you should reach for your Saturday club night attire.\nHoliday Office Party DON&amp;#39;T #2: Holiday Colors\nPinterestFacebookFeel free to deck the halls&amp;#8212;not yourself! Reaching for a bright red dress or a shimmery green number won&amp;#39;t get you into trouble, but trust us and stay away from pairing the two, lest someone gets confused and starts to wrap a garland around you.\nHoliday Office Party DON&amp;#39;T #3: The Highest Heels You Own\nPinterestFacebookGo ahead and climb into some fancy heels for your work party, but hold off on the ones that make you taller than your boss (and her boss, and her boss, too!). Plus, you don&amp;#39;t want your coworkers making jokes for the next year about what you do once the office is closed: Teetering in sky-high heels might lead less fashion-obsessed folks to ask how you can walk in those &amp;quot;stripper heels.&amp;quot; (We learned this one the hard way.)\nHoliday Office Party DON&amp;#39;T #4: Crazy Animal Print Clothes\nPinterestFacebookDon&amp;#39;t be afraid to try something bold, but keep away from the seriously loud animal prints. Until we Glamour Girls take over the world and declare leopard print the official international office uniform, you&amp;#39;ll have to keep that sexy animal print dress stowed in your closet for one more night.\nHoliday Office Party DON&amp;#39;T #5: Sheer Fabric\nPinterestFacebookSuper-sheer choices don&amp;#39;t work for in-office, and unforch, you&amp;#39;ll have to skip em for your office party, too. We know they&amp;#39;re a fall trend, and we know Blake Lively rocks a mean version of the look, but we have a feeling HR won&amp;#39;t exactly be down with your explanation.\nHoliday Office Party DON&amp;#39;T #6: Ultra-Casual Attire\nPinterestFacebookJust cause you&amp;#39;re out of the office doesn&amp;#39;t mean it&amp;#39;s time to let all of your well-learned work attire rules slip away. Unless the staff is ringing in the holiday with a trip to a basketball game, your jeans n&amp;#39; tee combo is a no-go for party day.\nHoliday Office Party DON&amp;#39;T #7: Christmas Sweaters\nPinterestFacebookWe won&amp;#39;t tell if you secretly still hold on to that Santa sweater your granny knit you that year, but do yourself a favor and keep the festive knits for Christmas day with your fam.\nHoliday Office Party DON&amp;#39;T #8: Wrinkled Clothes\nPinterestFacebookYou&amp;#39;re making a social splash at the party&amp;#8212;being funny, well-spoken, confident you. But all of your networking will be for naught if you show up in that wrinkly dress you pulled from the corner of your dresser, no matter how cute it might usually look. If you have any question about the condition of your outfit, just say &amp;quot;yes&amp;quot; to a quick pre-party iron.\nHoliday Holiday Office Party DON&amp;#39;T #9: Novelty Socks\nPinterestFacebookThe holidays mean endless smiles, which mean you can break out your super-fun colorful striped toe socks, right? Um, wrong. Keep the stuck-inside-on-a-snow-day-wardrobe behind closed doors.\nHoliday Office Party DON&amp;#39;T #10: Too Tight, Too Short Dresses\nPinterestFacebookWe know we sound like a broken record, but keep yourself on hemline patrol when suiting up for your office party. Remember: Just a couple of inches too short (or a couple of sizes too tight), and you&amp;#39;ll wind up shattering your professional reputation, while being the talk of the evening. And we don&amp;#39;t mean that in a good way.\nHoliday Office Party DON&amp;#39;T #11: Festive Garb\nPinterestFacebookWe&amp;#39;ve already put the x-nay on Christmas sweaters and holiday color schemes, but make sure you know that applies to all of that stuff you stick in a box the other 364 days of the year. That includes antler headbands, mistletoe pins or that battery-powered menorah necklace. After all, people are going to be taking pictures at this thing&amp;#8212;don&amp;#39;t make a choice you can&amp;#39;t undo!\n__Any other major fashion no-gos to add to the list, ladies? And has anyone ever seen (or been!) a DON&amp;#39;T at an office party? Tell us your stories in the comments!\n__\nP.S. Brush up on exactly what not to wear to work, right here.\nNeed some total-DO outfit inspiration? Check these out:__\nHoliday Party Dressing 101: Here&amp;#39;s What to Wear\nMichael Kors&amp;#39; DOs and DON&amp;#39;Ts of Holiday Glam\nHow to Find Your Body&amp;#39;s Sexiest Dress\nLBD: Easy As 1-2-3\nPhotos: Getty Images\n__More Ways to Get Glamour:\nGot a fashion Q? Glamour stylists answer your fashion questions at WhatToWear.com\nShow your love: Get our very own &amp;quot;xox&amp;quot; ring set, $12 at shopglamour.com\nLike freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes!\nCan&amp;#39;t get enough STF? Follow us on Twitter!\nLatest Tweets!\nFollow us on Twitter!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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