Suit of the Week: Reiss
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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 2026!
Personally, I am not a fan of polka dots — but I can appreciate them as an abstractly chic concept, and we've definitely featured other polka-dot suits before. (I seem to remember a great one from Eloquii.) But: I can't remember seeing a polka dot suit from a high end brand like this one: Reiss!
I love that they have a lot of polka dot pieces right now, including the inverse of this — I would absolutely wear this white and navy suit with the navy and white blouse!
The suiting pieces include trousers and the double-breasted blazer, both in regular and petite sizes, and (sigh) some matching shorts. Pieces are $235-$498.
Sales of note for 6/2:
- Nordstrom – Designer clearance up to 40% off!
- Ann Taylor – 30% off dresses, jackets, and shoes
- AYR – Ooh, good sale section — but lots on final sale. Readers love these comfy work pants and these jeans.
- Boden – 15% off new women's wear styles with code
- Express – Today only (6/2): all clearance up to 85% off when you take an extra 20-50% off
- J.Crew – 20% off $200, including new styles
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + 40-60% off everything else
- Loft – 60% off sale styles
- M.M.LaFleur– Up to 70% off, plus new styles added! (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clear the Rack! Nice selection of Vince, Veronica Beard, Reiss and Rag & Bone, a ton of affordable work basics from Calvin Klein and dresses from Maggy London, Eliza J, and Donna Morgan
- Talbots – Buy one, get one 50% off everything!
given that you’re not supposed to shower during a thunderstorm, for those of you live in thunderstorm prone areas, how do you manage this in the summer post-swimming? we have frequent afternoon/evening thunder/lightening storms and my kids swim most days
wow i was today years old when I learned this.
I kind of knew, but I do it anyway.
Same. I grew up in and currently live in the Midwest, which has a lot of thunderstorms. I vaguely knew this but have never followed it. I guess if the storm was incredibly close I’d avoid it but otherwise I don’t think too much about it.
This is a thing?
I’d first do some pretty thorough research to find out if this “rule” (which I’ve heard, too) is actually even an issue.
If it is, then you wait.
It is legitimately dangerous.
https://www.weather.gov/media/owlie/LightningSafety-OnePager-11-29-18.pdf
I don’t always shower after I swim. Is that a thing also?
Showering after a swim is definitely a thing but I had never heard the thunderstorm thing.
but
the chlorine in your hair! or the bugs from the lake or the sand from the ocean
literally cannot imagine not showering after any kind of swim
maybe if you’ve got one of the fancy salt pools?
Yes, that’s it! I swim in my own pool. It’s a salt pool, but salt pools do contain chlorine (albeit in lower concentrations than public pools).
I always shower after a pool or ocean to remove chlorine/salt, but depending on the lake you can feel pretty clean after lake swimming.
err I just rinse off the chlorine at the pool shower anyway if it’s ‘pool closed because of storms in the area’ which is a decent radius
if actively storming near the shower in question, what’s the big deal with just changing to dry clothes and showering later?
I don’t swim that much these days, but when I was a kid, it was just a quick rinse at the pool to get the chlorine off, not a real shower, so minimal time. I sort of try to avoid showering when it’s really, really thunderstorming hard and you can tell that lightning is actually very close by, but that doesn’t happen for that long that often and very rarely at a time of day that I’m showering, and it’s even more rarely rarely an issue that can’t be solved by waiting a few minutes. Afternoon storms are more common, but still usually short lived most places I’ve been? And even then the risk is still pretty low that it would actually be a problem.
The issue is water conducting electricity, so if you shouldn’t be in the shower you shouldn’t be swimming either (even indoors). If it starts to storm while they’re swimming, I’d get them out, have them rinse off super quickly and go home. The extra 30 seconds of rinsing are not a significant risk.
Yep, that’s what we do.
when I was a lifeguard we had to clear all the pools if it was thundering even though there’s only one outside pool… i just thought it was a design failure somehow. we never cleared the locker rooms though.
My mom always taught us not to shower during a storm, but at some point it occurred to me that I’ve never heard of this actually harming someone and stopped worrying about it. I looked it up just now and the internet tells me 10-20 people a year are shocked while using some sort of faucet (including washing dishes and the like) during a storm, though it’s not clear if anyone has been killed. Fascinating.
I actually know two people who have survived lightning strikes (direct hit by lightning, not just an indirect shock). It apparently doesn’t have that high of a mortality rate.
I’m not concerned about this for showering because it’s very rare to get thunderstorms where I live, but I go rafting and spend time on lakes and I’ve been concerned about thunderstorms when there’s no real way off the water quickly. With rafting, there is no way to get away from water period.
We either shower between storms or wait until they clear. This is one of those weird things that I actually pay attention to!
So in Florida, we would just wait it out under shelter since thunderstorms usually pass over quickly. Way more typical to outdoor shower rinse there, change clothes, and then do a real shower at home if you’re at the beach.
I’m starting a associate general counsel job in a month. The offices are adjacent to client’s factory. I have to have pants and long-sleeve shirts every day as I will be in the factory daily the first three months. I have shoes I like. I currently wear dresses and skirts every day. I prefer not to wear jeans. I am petite and roughly size 0-00. Where can I find work pants that are comfortable for a desk job but not jeans?
Lululemon daydrift or breezily. You will need to have them hemmed if you’re short.
any tips for getting over stupid things you said at a party while drinking? i keep cringing and it was 2 weeks ago
Sorry, just time. It happens! The embarrassment you’re feeling keeps it from happening more frequently!
Apologize if it’s warranted otherwise let it go. And take a note about what drinking does to you so you don’t do this at work events.
I need to buy a new cat tree. Any recommendations for one that doesn’t have an off-gassing odor? The last one we got had a smell and didn’t last long.