February 2011

Coffee Break: Poppin Kitten Heel

by Kat February 22, 2011 Fashion

Kitten heels are either the “hot new trend” or the “classic that’s back in style,” depending on your point of view. Personally, I love kitten heels for the office, particularly with pants — with a low enough heel, you can even wear the same pants you wear with flats. Anne Klein has a number of shoes on sale today, including this fabric-covered kitten heel with a fun button detail on the toe. It’s available in the black fabric as well as a bronze — was $79.99, now $49.99. Poppin Kitten Heel
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Introducing: The Corporette Guide to Women’s Suits

by Kat February 22, 2011 Basics

Our new “Guide to Women’s Suits” is now up! What are the best tips you have for basic women’s suiting? What brands are your favorite? Please come over and weigh in.

(As with our other guides, please note that any off-topic comments will be deleted. Instead, feel free to leave off-topic comments here, on this post.)

(Pictured: Classiques Entier Atelier ‘Diamond Pixel’ Wool Jacket, available at Nordstrom for $298.)

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Splurge Tuesday’s TPS Report: Checked cotton and wool-blend blazer

by Kat February 22, 2011 Fashion

Our daily TPS reports suggest one piece of work-appropriate attire in a range of prices.

Happy Tuesday! Let’s ignore the full mini-skirt (sadly, a trend that may be coming back) and instead focus on the blazer. Love the slight peak to the shoulders, the single button, and the springy vibe. It’s the kind of thing that you can wear simply (white, good quality t-shirt or silk sweater beneath, perhaps with some beige trousers), with a lot of personality on display (such as with a “clashing floral print,” as Net-a-Porter recommends), or perhaps even into fall (perhaps with a burnt orange shell and black pants). Lovely. It’s $395 at Net-a-Porter. Alice + Olivia Checked cotton and wool-blend blazer

Seen a great piece you’d like to recommend? Please e-mail editor@corporette.com with “TPS” in the subject line.
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Weekend Open Thread

by Kat February 18, 2011 Weekend Open Thread

Something on your mind? Chat about it here.

I don’t know about you, but I haaaate paying full price for work-out clothes. Fortunately, 6pm has a ton of it on sale today. Lots of it is lucky sizes only, but it’s still a great sale worth checking out — lots of items are up to 75% off. I like these simple, colorful shorts from ASICS – a bright color (or a funny t-shirt or the like) always makes a workout just that little bit more appealing. These are marked to $15 (were $38) at 6pm. ASICS – Quad Short (Tiger Lily/Tiger Lily) – Apparel
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Fashion Week Fun With My Windows Phone!

by Kat February 18, 2011 Admin

A huge thank you to Windows Phone for giving me a Samsung Focus to play with during Fashion Week! I loved being able to Tweet, take pictures (and send them to Twitter), and check my Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and horoscope while waiting in line after line at the shows. To be honest, those few things kept me busy enough that I didn’t play much in the app store, but I have heard great things about the FitTracker App, as well as Bitbop (for TV), and Flux (for RSS feeds). I’ll miss the huge touch screen and how much fun it was to navigate around the phone. Don’t forget that you can still enter to win a Windows Phone! You have until February 28th to enter.

I’m going to try to put my thoughts about Fashion Week into a more concise form over the weekend — so many thoughts whirling around my head!

Full disclosure: Windows Phone is a sponsor of Corporette.

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Weekly News Update

by Kat February 18, 2011 News

Liking these posts? Follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook — this is the edited version of what we’re reading! (We also Tweet if we hear about a good sale through our CorporetteDeals Twitter feed.)

- Wow: the ABA picks up a tidbit from a WSJ article about a lawyer in her mid-20s who wears “outlandish” high-end designers to court. In related news, I am now obsessed with this $11,675 McQueen jacket (pictured) (but no, not for the office).