Tell me about it. I love DC, but I stick out like a sore thumb walking down 17th weekday mornings. I can't bear to wear sneakers and a dress skirt on my commute like I see the DC business women do.
ITA that a matching suit is a bit out of vogue; it's quite acceptable to mix and match a blazer with a different pant, skirt, dress, etc.
I'm walking down New Hampshire towards Dupont in nice shoes or boots with low heels. I can't stand wearing sneakers with work clothes either.This is why they invented flats. Sneakers with professional attire, unless someone stole your shoes at the gym, is a no.
A wrap dress! That is a great idea. Should it be a solid color, or a discrete pattern?
Homework: Yes. I will never forget an interview I had decades ago when I was a young thing in NYC. It was at an experimental arts center. I liked all the arts and thought it would be great. I wore the closest thing I could afford to a low-key tailored look, maybe not a black suit but something resembling that. When I got there I was met and interviewed by a butchy lesbian with a crewcut wearing shorts. I took one look and knew I wasn't going to get that job. I could so easily have worn jeans but I didn't do my homework. Oh well. It wouldn't have been a good fit anyway! I wasn't iconoclastic enough.
I think subtle prints look the best, especially if you have a few lumps and bumps.
Or a phone call from a city councilor or someone in the city manager's office. City departments get their budgets from the council and city manager. A well placed phone call seems to finalize every hire. Depressing as it is, I don't think our city has hired an outsider for any position since we've lived here.
That's what I thought, hence everyone on the website being in suit and tie threw me for a loop!
Materials and shaping?
Love the dress, but it's screaming sales/marketing/PR in the northeast to me, even if you threw a cardi on it.That's what I thought, hence everyone on the website being in suit and tie threw me for a loop!
I have this dress from WHBM that my lawyer friend cajoled me into buying with a semi-blingy belt, but it is TIGHT and I can't help but feel like it might be too showy? (It isn't vulgar since I'm so thin, but STILL.) But it honestly looks the same on the model, so maybe it's just me and my Asian parents always in my head telling me to never show off?
Um....seriously in no teknik, but what's the difference between slacks/blazer and suit pant/jacket?
Nice dress but not for an interview, and IMO, not for work unless you wore a jacket over it. It's too body con (i.e., tight); you'll end up looking like Claire Underwood in House of Cards.I have this dress from WHBM that my lawyer friend cajoled me into buying with a semi-blingy belt, but it is TIGHT and I can't help but feel like it might be too showy? (It isn't vulgar since I'm so thin, but STILL.) But it honestly looks the same on the model, so maybe it's just me and my Asian parents always in my head telling me to never show off?
Then why on earth do you still have them?!
I don't, we said "thanks but no thanks" when my aunt offered piles and piles of dowdy work clothes to us.
THAT'S what I consider to be suits, because it was the only thing I've seen. Whatever my aunt talked my mom into keeping, I managed to give to a grad student at my former lab, who is now a community college instructor. Her wardrobe was even sadder than mine (her jeans/t-shirts had holes in them), she had no money, and she happens to be the same size as us, which is actually pretty rare. And even then, I had to be pretty discerning with the kind of stuff I passed on, because loud prints and ruffles are a no, even for someone who's desperate.
I like subtle ruffles, but this is the aunt who thought it was a fantastic idea to show up to my wedding in a short dress with a giant tulle bow right on her stomach. When I mean "giant" I mean "actually larger than her stomach so it resembled a tutu."
I like subtle ruffles, but this is the aunt who thought it was a fantastic idea to show up to my wedding in a short dress with a giant tulle bow right on her stomach. When I mean "giant" I mean "actually larger than her stomach so it resembled a tutu."
I am in no fashion teknik, but I would think putting a giant tutu bow on your stomach isn't the best course of action when you've gained some weight from age...
When I say "loud prints" in regards to my aunt's style, I mean practically radioactive, and when I say "ruffles" I mean "straight out of the 1800s."
I like subtle ruffles, but this is the aunt who thought it was a fantastic idea to show up to my wedding in a short dress with a giant tulle bow right on her stomach. When I mean "giant" I mean "actually larger than her stomach so it resembled a tutu."
I am in no fashion teknik, but I would think putting a giant tutu bow on your stomach isn't the best course of action when you've gained some weight from age...
When I say "loud prints" in regards to my aunt's style, I mean practically radioactive, and when I say "ruffles" I mean "straight out of the 1800s."
Fine fine fine.Photo, or it didn't happen.
sometimes!
How wonderful!
Fine fine fine.
She's a kind, generous woman (almost to the point of being pushy), but for a shopaholic, her fashion sense can be
I love it; just as its' other admirers do!
I love the review... she's a 38" hip and tried on the 4 and it was tight. Well, duh!
Altogether, I think it was the most I've spent on clothing in years, but considering they were all on sale, individually it wasn't too bad. He's also an older gentleman.
