Some Thoughts on Frump
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Some Thoughts on Frump

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2021 Update: We still stand by this advice below, but you can also check out our more recent discussion on how to avoid professional frump. We got this reader mail a little while ago, and it seems appropriate in light of the response to this morning’s cardi set (wow, you guys did NOT like that)….

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Poll: When Do Miniskirts Become a Don’t, Even Outside the Office?
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Poll: When Do Miniskirts Become a Don’t, Even Outside the Office?

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Hopefully, no one thinks that miniskirts are a DO for the office. (See our prior poll on this here and here.) But a reader posed this question in comments, and we think it’s a good one: does a time come in a woman’s life — a serious, professional woman’s life — at which it is…