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Suit of the Week: Michael Kors

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Black executive wears pale pink rose suit

For busy working women, the suit is often the easiest outfit to throw on in the morning. In general, this feature is not about interview suits for women, which should be as classic and basic as you get — instead, this feature is about the slightly different suit that is fashionable, yet professional. Also: we just updated our big roundup for the best women's suits of 2025!

I like the coral/salmon tones to this pretty pink suit from Michael Kors. The minimal, classic cut goes really well with the monotone outfit in general.

If you like the color (and have, uh, five figures to drop), Michael Kors has a lot of pieces in the same color including a silk blouse, crushed silk maxi skirt, wool overcoat, and a cashmere tunic sweater.

The suit pieces alone are $1290-$1990; the other pieces run from $510-$3490; you can find them at Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus (where they have a knee-length dress and a cropped shrug), and Michael Kors (where they have a matching short-sleeve sweater).

Sales of note for 6/24/25:

  • Nordstrom – Designer clearance up to 60% off
  • Ann Taylor – 30% off tops & sweaters + extra 30% off sale
  • Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
  • Boden – Sale up to 50% off
  • Eloquii – Semi-annual clearance, up to 80% off
  • J.Crew – Big Summer Event: Up to 50% off almost everything (ends 6/26) + extra 50% off sale styles
  • J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off + extra 60% off clearance
  • M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
  • Rothy's – Semi-annual event, up to 50% off seasonal faves
  • Spanx – End-of-season sale
  • Talbots – Extra 30% off markdowns (ends 6/24) + $24.50+ summer favorites

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  1. Looking for a pair of white pumps or sandals to wear with a wedding dress but can’t imagine ever wearing them again so don’t want to break the bank. Please help me shop. Thanks.

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      2. I’m getting married in the fall and wearing glass Nina bridal shoes. I think I bought them at Nordstrom.

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    3. Why only white? You could do metallic to stay neutral, or blue for the rhyme, or a color that complements your flowers?

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        1. Different way of solving the problem. Your wedding day is not the day you want to be on your feet in cheap uncomfortable shoes because you want keep the cost per wear low.

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    4. Consider dance supply. Tango/Latin sandals look the least like dance shoes to me. They’re very comfortable for a long day compared to a lot of similarly priced shoes.

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      1. Good idea. I need a strap to keep my shoes on and that tends to be better for comfort when my feet swell in the summer heat.

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    5. I wore nude leather wedge sandals from Nine West that I bought at TJ Maxx for $23 on my wedding day. They weren’t anything special, but I got compliment and I’ve regularly worn them since!

      If you’re set on white, I might try the no-name brands on Amazon – buy a bunch and try them on and keep the best. I did that a few months ago when I needed cotton candy pink heels – $30, cute, and fairly comfortable.

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      1. This. I can’t imagine wearing cheap shoes with my wedding dress. I got the white manolos that everyone wears but I love them and end up using them a lot.

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    7. i changed into platform sneakers after the cocktail hour, which was the best decision ever. the sneakers actually cost more than my shoes, and i then passed them on to a friend. i had my dress hemmed to the sneakers as theyw ere slightly taller than the shoes i wore for my wedding. i’m not a shoe person so didnt want to spend a lot on shoes. id also heard many people’s feet grow in pregnancy and i knew we wanted kids

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      1. I wore flip flops with my dress. It was a thick, many layered, floor length tulle skirt so no one could see my feet anyhow. It was great to be able to walk the whole time without any foot pain.

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    8. Check out DSW. I’ve gotten cheap comfortable heels there and they don’t need to last for years.

      Avoid bridal brands- they’re always overpriced. Badgley Mischka was shockingly uncomfortable. I had better luck with Sam Edelman on sale.

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  2. This is camo for us rosacea girlies, no?

    This outfit looks fine as pictured. But IRL how tall do you need to pull this off? I am thinking that it really works if you are tall and as a short short-torso’d woman, my hips likely broaden where the jacket buttons.

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  3. For the half the country that’s baking, anyone having an issue where you wear a short sleeved shirt w a jacket – jacket off, too cold. Jacket on – too warm. I don’t recall this ever being an issue and my office is a modern building with decent HVAC yet three straight days of 100 degrees – seems like HVAC or maybe I am not keeping up.

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    1. If 100 degree weather is not the norm for your area (it is for mine), the HVAC probably wasn’t developed to carry that load.

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    1. You could go a lot of directions with this. A darker pink, white or bone, navy, light grey. Could be a cardigan or a blazer.

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  5. Etiquette Question: My work colleague lost his mother. We work closely together and I feel it would be nice, though not obligatory, to send flowers or make a donation or something. I found what I believe is the online obituary (the dates and details that I know of his life/family match up) but I am 95% sure, not 100%. Do I assume this is the obituary and make a donation in his mother’s memory to the charity per this obituary? Or not bother and just send a condolences email? It seems worse to ask him or ask another coworker…

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    2. I would probably do a donation to the charity as well as an email, and mention the donation in the email.

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    3. If you work together in the office in person, leave a paper note on his desk. If you work together remotely, send the email or send a card through the mail. I very much appreciated the notes that people sent – paper and email – after my beloved mother died. Notes were easier than conversations when I was likely to cry, so I encourage notes. Also, if you work together closely and depending on his relationship with his mother, considering putting a note on your calendar for a year from the date of death to send him a text or email to acknowledge the day and say you’re thinking about him.

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      1. The 1 year acknowledgement would be ok from a very close friend, but I would not be comfortable with this level of attention from a colleague. What I wanted from colleagues when my parents passed was for them to act normal so I could focus on work.
        A card is sufficient and thoughtful.

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  6. what online games are people playing for fun? someone mentioned something about a chicken game a few weeks ago

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    1. I do the NYT mini crossword in the NYT Games app (I have a subscription). My parents enjoy the NYT spelling bee game.

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        1. I sent it to my friend who is a physicist and she also beat it quickly!

          I am a mathematician myself and I gave up pretty much right away. I find it so frustrating.

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        1. Did you see that there’s an archive of the deluxe puzzles? It could keep you busy for a little while until you work your way through them.

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  7. Ideally I’d ask at the kids’ school but the counselors get June and July off. A poster this morning was going to Chicago to look at colleges. Ideally, do people do big trips for this for rising seniors, where you have a sense of GPAs and standardized test scores? Or before?

    In my mind, I was thinking we’d try to work in visits to state U places to visit the cousins and not bother with any place far off unless a kid had actually gotten in and had a decision to make.

    I know this leave a lot of places off the list but I feel that schools have such excellent online resources now and a kid should have a good honest sense of broad categories of schools they think they would like or not like. But with a finite resource of parental time, IDK what people do these days (or if it matters). Like a kid may go to Middlebury and not like it but why they don’t like it probably tells them if what do to for a transfer school.

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    1. Know your kid. Will they work hard to get good grades and high test scores regardless? Or do they need the motivation of falling in love with a campus?

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      1. this seems silly to me. unless you’re visiting the college when the kid is a freshman, by the end of junior year their gpa isnt going to change THAT much. I also don’t believe in the concept of ‘falling in love’ with a particular college. there is more than one “right” college for each person, they each just provide a different experience.

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    3. depends if you think you’ll have your kid apply early decision or not. depends on if you are considering private institutions. depends on sizes of schools and types of schools you have near you. depends on finances. this was a while ago at this point, but i grew up in the DMV area. A random day off my junior year my mom took me to visit Bryn Mawr and Haverford for the day to see if I liked small schools (I decided I did not). Made another trip to Penn. Went on a spring break trip to visit further north schools (Cornell, Amherst, Brown, Tufts, Brandeis, and some others i dont recall). We had family to stay with in the area. And then flew to the midwest to visit Northwestern and Wash U. College was not quite as expensive then, my parents had saved enough to pay for me to go without loans, and I was planning on applying early somewhere bc i knew it would increase my chances of getting in and the question became where. i kind of knew my gpa at that point, had a feeling my SATs would be my limiting factor (they were, i actually got my score in between the two trips). At that time, almost everyone who was applying early to a top college in my circles would also apply to Michigan and Wisconsin bc they were rolling admissions, but I never visited. I now work at a college and many students wait until they get in to visit. Those who can afford it/are thinking of farther away schools, might visit once junior year and again senior year.

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    4. Please understand a lot more about how college admissions and financing work before asking questions like these.

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    5. I mean you probably have a general sense of your kid’s academic aptitude. So visit some schools that are generally aligned with their stats in a variety of settings, like urban, manicured suburban, large campus, etc. then as you get more refined with GPA and scores you can be better targeted for the type of campus.

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      1. Ha! We are in a bougie ultra competitive part of our city and a kid with a 4.0 average is probably in the top half of the class. It is nuts. And kids who aren’t at super-huge public schools that are larger than a SLAC are at high-pressure private schools where everyone does a sport and gets all As and they have the same problem (at least somewhat solved by not ranking so no one is in the bottom). There are no good metrics in a test-optional world (or until your kid is a junior and at least has some real scores).

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    6. That seems way too late to me. When I was applying to colleges in the mid 00s, first college visits were usually in the summer between soph and junior year, and then the main college visits were in junior year from Jan-May. Tests were usually done by ~March of junior year. By the summer after junior year, folks had their application list and spent the summer and fall crafting applications. At the time it was ~8-10 apps, maybe 12. I hear now kids are applying to ~double that number or more, so I can’t imagine having time to do tours at the same time. When I applied, having actually visited the college counted as “demonstrated interest”, i.e., it helped your application.

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    7. I think it depends on the kid and your budget. My parents did a big Northeast (half a dozen Ivies + MIT) college trip for me junior year spring break, which helped narrow down where I wanted to apply. But this was back when it was more of a sure thing to get into an elite college if you had certain stats (there was still a lot of luck in getting into any one school, but kids who had 4.0 GPAs, a dozen APs and 1500+ SATs normally got into at least one Ivy unless some other category of the application was a big red flag). I’m not sure what I’ll do for my own kids – currently in elementary school – with admissions being so much more competitive now. I don’t think I’d want to make them fall in love with a particular school, no matter how good their stats, but I think it would be useful for them to visit more SLACs and maybe Ivy(adjacent) schools at some point if they have that kind of academic potential. We live in a State U college town, my husband and I both work at the State U and the kids have attended daycare, camps and sportsball there, so they’re very familiar with that type of school. They also do summer camp every summer at a very small New England SLAC so have some sense of that experience, although the school they go to camp at is very tiny and niche even by SLAC standards.

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  8. For years, the Boden Ravello top was a work staple for me, then the Amour Vert Renata blouse. Since neither of those exist any more, I need a new go-to. Does anyone have suggestions for a short sleeve silk/silk blend washable pullover blouse that is similar? Not Quince as I have found their silk quality to be not great and pulls super easily.

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  9. I have a couple of whiteheads on my face that I can’t seem to get rid of. Does this call for a facial or a trip to a dermatologist?

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    1. Sounds like milia. Your derm can remove them. Some estheticians will but some are more rigid about not puncturing the skin. Personally, if you have the funds, I’d recommend the derm. Tag it onto your annual skin cancer check (which everyone should be doing.)

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      2. Fwiw, it may not even cost anything. I’ve had milia removed at skin checks twice, in two different parts of the country, and both times the doctor did it for free and noted it as a “complimentary extraction.”

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        1. My prior derm, that I saw for skin checks/acne, also removed one near my eye for free during a routine visit.

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    2. Related question-Ideas about removing skin tags? The cream/lotion OTC freak me out a bit for at home given most of these are highly visible-neck, upper chest.

      Is it better for a trip to the derm?

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      1. I think primary care can often remove skin tags, though maybe it’s worth asking.

        They may also run some labs since skin tags can be associated with some underlying stuff primary care cares about.

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      2. My derm will remove a certain amount (maybe 25?) for a fee of like, $125. She’ll send it to insurance and sometimes they will cover a portion of it. These were on my neck.

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  10. What are things I can do to look more put-together/glowy/expensive? I don’t know how to explain it, but when I interact with some women I can tell they really invest in themselves. I’m not talking about clothing. I’m talking about things like facials (what type? are they worth it, or is expensive skincare better?), laser treatments, highlights/balayage, eyebrow waxing, spray tans, mani/pedis. What tips do you have? If I knew these women and they told me their secrets, what would they be?

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    1. I know several of these exact women you are talking about.

      Here’s a collection of things they (and increasingly, I as well) do:
      – drink a horrid but nutritious smoothie in the morning packed with collagen, greens, berries, diet-related things that improve your complexion
      – professional eyebrow threading at least every two weeks
      – lash lift & tint every six weeks or so
      – mani/pedi every month, or grow natural and keep in good shape with nail file, lotion, etc.
      – investment in hair simplicity; lots of keratin-type treatments, de-emphasis on maintaining blonde and more emphasis on flattering cuts and styles; always doing something with hair (e.g., braid/claw clip/bun) unless it’s stick straight
      – laser hair removal
      – laser, retinol, or any number of skin treatments to even out the little discolorations that come with sun exposure and age
      – heavy emphasis on at-home skincare and korean sunscreen use for face
      – wear a clean and mature perfume

      Generally, the vibe is “me, just elevated.”

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