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Suit of the Week: McQueen

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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!

I have always felt like the McQueen Leaf jacket was one of the sharpest-looking blazers out there, but other office-friendly pieces have been harder to find from McQueen. But I'm loving this unusual gingham suit.

The NET-A-PORTER product page notes that McQueen's Fall '26 collection “disrupted traditional jacket codes through exaggerated proportions and unexpected cuts.” I love the outward-facing lapels that reveal the collarbone, and even more that i love it that they styled it with a blouse here — it's always so hard to figure out how to style these for an actual office.

The jacket is $3500, available in Italian sizes 36-46, and the straight-leg pants are $1490. The suit also comes in black! (Also, I can't quite figure out how I feel about this but I think I love it… the iconic jacket now comes in two denim washes.)

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  2. do you think you were more emotional in your 20s, 30s, or 40s. I’m 49 and feel like I’m constantly crying these days but still feel like I was more actually emotional in my 20s.

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    1. I’m not sure I experience all the hormonal perimenopause emotions as genuine heartfelt emotions. Sometimes there’s really not much logic underlying them.

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      1. I’ve had whacky hormonal mood swings almost all my life, and they’ve never felt particularly more or less real than other emotions. I’ve always felt like emotions happen to me and then the logic part of my brain looks around for reasons to try and rationalize it. Sometimes the emotions are a reaction to external stimulus and sometimes it’s internal stimulus and figuring out exactly why is a challenging art, but being sad because my dog died doesn’t actually feel any different than feeling sad because I’m hungry and hormonal and the emotion isn’t less real. It just needs a different method of handling and processing.

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        1. That so interesting. My sadness or I guess grief when a family member died young and suddenly was profoundly different from being sad because I’m hungry or hormonal.

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          1. I don’t think that my experience of “emotions just happen” is universal by any means, but I also don’t think it’s too completely out of the ordinary. I just have to work around it – I spent too many of my young adult years wondering why my life sucked when actually everything in my life was fine, I was just PMS-ing. Or feeling like I was crazy because of my mood swings. Tried some medications that definitely did not help anything and have since come to the conclusion that I said – emotions just happen sometimes and there’s nothing much to be done about it, you just work around it. Maybe I’ll get lucky and when I hit menopause and that’ll change.

    2. I almost never cried before 2020. I spontaneously get waves of sadness that cause me to cry on a regular basis since then. And before anyone asks, I was too young for perimenopause then and now.

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    3. OP here – i guess i mean that i seem to get veklempt more quickly/easily but i’m not actually sad it’s just that annoyign thing where you cry whenever you’re having an important discussion except it’s not an important discussion just random thing.

      whereas in my 20s my whole year would be ruined over drama with girlfriends and whiplash over a boy’s interest.

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  3. This is the physical manifestation of that awkward feeling when you can’t get the layers right after putting on a winter coat with too-snug sleeves over your blazer.

    The denim ones are phenomenal.

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  4. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t need to make a big show of “oh shoot I forgot your birthday teehee” every year. You have a magical device in your pocket/hand 16+ hours a day that can add an annual calendar reminder within 5 seconds if you so choose, or you can just not do that and drop the “oh I forgot! it’s so hard to remember!!1” literally 5 years running. I’m not a big birthday person – it’s OK if you don’t observe mine because I hardly do either. But don’t come to me asking for forgiveness for forgetting important dates when you’ve never once attempted to write it down in your phone.

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    1. Strong agreeeee. I put everyone importants birthdays in my calendar like years ago. If anyone forgets a birthday these days that’s child levels of poor life admin and deeply unappealing.

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  5. I don’t know how many men, mostly black and brown, I have represented on charges of m*rder after they repeatedly asked for mental health help. But we need to stop telehealth and the WHOLE patient needs to be treated. If someone doesn’t show up to outpatient community mental health or the VA or whatever, we need someone to GO TO THEIR HOUSE. Can we please stop paying ICE and start helping sick and suffering humans?

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    1. You know the answer is no. Because no one gives a $hit. Signed, someone who has also represented dozens of mentally ill (and lead poisoned!) black and brown men on charges of murder.

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  6. I’m on HRT for menopause. Estrogen and progesterone and that has been fine. But it there anything to the reels I’m seeing on insta about T for women in this age / stage of life? I don’t know anyone adding that to the mix.

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