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Suit of the Week: Christopher John Rogers

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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.

Hat tip to Elizabeth for turning me on to Christopher John Rogers, a rising designer who's already won a CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award. He's known for his use of color, and I'm loving this vibrant, happy green suit in silk — absolutely gorgeous for the right woman, perhaps if she needed to accept an award on behalf of her company or attend a charity auction or fundraiser.

(OR, hey, just hanging out at home.)

If you've been craving color, do check out his other pieces at Net-a-Porter — I also love all of the bright yellow neon ones, but most of all this gorgeous neon skirt. The blazer is $2,425, and the matching pants are $1,050.

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Comments

  1. Anon

    Sobering article in Time today: “U.S. Response to COVID-19 is Worse than China’s. 100 Times Worse.”

    “The U.S. now has the most COVID-19 cases and the most deaths of any country in the world. The two hardest hit states have been New York (almost 3 in 10 U.S. deaths) and New Jersey (1 in 10 deaths). Even when controlling for population size, the U.S. remains among the countries with the highest number of new cases and new deaths per day – in the company of Brazil, Russia, and Sweden.”

    https://time.com/5850680/u-s-response-covid-19-worse-than-chinas/

    • Sunny

      I am not sure that I accept statistics or numbers from China, which as a country hid and manipulated the information on this. Certainly I wouldn’t accept it at face value.

      • Anon

        I think the actual numbers are manipulated for sure but I also think it’s clear that they now have the outbreak much more under control than we do, and that it was mostly limited to the Wuhan area. It would be obvious if hospitals in say, Beijing, were overwhelmed and they haven’t been.

    • Anonymous

      The US doesn’t have a response. The 50 states have responses, as does DC and US possessions and territories, as well as various mayors and counties. We don’t work like China (and given how much I criticize the government, thank g-d for that). So we don’t do coronavirus responses like them, either.

      PLUS, we majorly, majorly, majorly botched nursing homes early which was like pouring gas on a fire. Back out those #s, and nursing home workers and their families, and anything transit-related, and the #s look different. Also, I doubt China would be having protests now (that + reopening are seeing my state’s #s hit record highs, including for hospitalizations).

      • Anonymous

        But why would we back those numbers out? Those are all real people who were affected. Also, to state the obvious, millions of people rely on transit, so it’s completely unreasonable to back out numbers caused by failure to control public transit-related spread.

        • Anon

          And transit is even more common and crowded in cities like Tokyo, which have had much smaller case numbers, so clearly transit alone is not the explanation.

        • Anon

          You don’t “back those numbers out” unless you think think disabled and elderly people aren’t worth anything. It’s like when rural Republicans say they would’ve won an election “if you take out the inner city vote.” Both sentiments come from the same offensive, classless, and distasteful place.

          • Anon

            Not necessarily. It depends on why you are backing out the numbers. This isn’t an election, no country is “winning” coranavirus, we’re all losing to varying degrees. I think there is value in looking at our numbers with and without the botched nursing home response for purposes of analyzing what strategies are and are not working (i.e., clearly the nursing home response was awful and we should change the strategy there). I think in some respects, separating out the data for nursing homes actually highlights how bad that response was. Lumping in the nursing home numbers with all the numbers almost waters down how horrible the results of those terrible policies were.

      • Anonymous

        thank you. someone sane finally recognizing this and making note of the totalitarian regime that oversaw china’s response.

        • Anonymous

          Except the US response is also way worse than other federated countries like Germany, Australia and Canada

    • Anonymous

      No country has good numbers. There isn’t even a common definition of a COVID-19 death. Some states have chosen to report deaths that are suspected, not confirmed. Other states are not doing this, but IIRC correctly, they’ve been asked to do this. Are all countries reporting suspected deaths? Who knows. NY tests more than some countries, so it is to be expected we have more positive cases. There are so many unknowns, it’s click bait to say “100 Times Worse.”

      • Anonymous

        What’s your evidence that NY is testing way more than most of the countries listed?

        On any metric it’s clear that the US response is significantly behind the rest of the developed world.

      • Luc

        I’d say New Zealand and Australia have good numbers so far, plus widescale testing, so it unlikely cases are not being recorded. Here is Australia, all testing is free and now freely available, so there are few barriers to testing.

      • Anon

        Literally almost every country has better numbers than the US. And sure, you can point to some significant demographic and geographic differences – China is totalitarian, NZ is an island, much of Europe is whiter than the US – but the fact remains that pretty much every country besides us and maybe Brazil and Russia has gotten this thing under control in a way we haven’t. Just look at the fact that people are saying that the EU is going to open on July 1 to all passport holders except the US and Brazil. Everyone who isn’t in deep denial knows the US is one of if, if not the biggest, hotspots.

  2. Independent, woman-owned bookstore

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    I have no affiliation with them, just a satisfied customer. She has a lovely bio on her site.

  3. American Girl

    So beautiful, but I can’t imagine what sort of event one would wear this to in a COVID world.

    • anon

      Interesting, I find this beyond hideous. IDK if the model is too thin or if the weird fit is intentional (why are the sleeves so short and the pants so baggy???) but either way it looks like Barney Stinson’s pajamas from HIMYM.

  4. Anonymous

    Are humidity headaches a thing? First time living in the hot and humid south east and seems like daily for a few hrs at the peak of the heat I get a slight headache if I’ve been out or if windows are even open. Only happens on super hot close to 100 degree days and then at 85 it’s normal. I’m drinking plenty of water. Is this a thing?

    • Cat

      My sinuses are the first thing that tells me when there’s a change in pressure outside, so having the experience only on particularly swampy, sultry days seems like that may be true for you as well?

      (Note to Kat – my name and email are not being saved despite checking the box)

    • Anonymous

      SEUS can be an allergy vortex, so your sinuses may be in open rebellion b/c of that. Mine have been wretched this year.

    • Anon

      Replying late, but I get this in 100+ degree weather. Usually coupled with muscular neck pain (my neck curve is messed up so might be related).

  6. Hollis

    I just want to circle back to the group to provide an update on things that members of this group recommended to me recently that I have absolutely loved:
    – I needed to send a gift to a good friend in Dallas and two members of the hive recommended Tiff’s Treats. Not only did they order an amazing gift package of warm cookies, milk and a pint of ice cream, but they charged a delivery fee of only $5!
    – I needed a face mask that fit well and didn’t hurt the back of my sensitive ears. Someone here recommended the swaddle design ones. I bought several and the 2-ply cotton ones didn’t work well (again, the elastics started to bother me) but the 3-ply chambray ones fit perfectly and had nice, soft elastic. I ended up buying a bunch for my parents and sister also.
    – I needed a new summer blanket because my heavy duvet was just not working for me. Senior Attorney recommended the linen diamond quilted one from pottery barn. It took almost a month for the blanket to arrive, but I slept with it for the first time last night it is the perfect weight and feel.

    I have been reading corporette for maybe 10 years now and I have appreciated all of the great advice and suggestions I’ve received from this group. All of the above deals with purchase recommendation, but I’ve also posted and received wonderful advice on everything from working with my legal assistant, dealing with friend issues, travel suggestions, career roadblocks, and issues with my dog.

    It is wonderful to have so many caring people gathered in one place on the web – I hope that we can continue to support one another as we go through this time of uncertainty. Thanks for being so awesome.

    • Anonymous

      Yay for the diamond blanket!

      And I couldn’t agree more with the sentiment! Half of the clothes in my closet, and gadgets in my kitchen, and recipes in my repertoire, and I don’t know what-all (*cough* Johnny Was masks *cough*), are the result of recommendations from you smart ladies!

    • Senior Attorney

      Oops when that gets out of mod it will be me. Don’t know why my name and email aren’t auto-populating today!

    • anonypotamus

      Thank you for reporting back/updating! I don’t comment often, but read every day and always appreciate recommendations and advice on all topics!

    • Anonymous

      Thanks for this. I wrote a long time ago about healing/moving on from trauma & was heartened by some thoughtful responses.

    • Anon

      I recommended Tiff’s Treats! I’m SO glad they liked them and that you did too!

    • Anonymous

      Just ordered the swaddle design mask based on this. I received the Johnny Was masks in last week and they are sooo big on my face that they don’t form a seal. Luckily DH is unable to feel embarrassment and will happily wear flower print masks.

  7. Anonymous

    I am soooo tired today. How many mid-day naps are people taking these days?

        • pugsnbourbon

          +1. How many naps will I take today? How many jumpsuits will I buy? How many strawberry ice-cream bars will I consume this week? How many times will I scream at the news?

          • Horse Crazy

            How many times will I walk into the kitchen telling myself I’m having a healthy snack, but then fall face-first into a bag of pretzels?

    • Senior Attorney

      Just one.

      Of course that’s in addition to the morning nap, the afternoon nap, the before dinner nap, and the after-dinner nap.

    • Anon

      I take a mid-afternoon nap most days and get seriously grumpy if I have calls all afternoon. Man, going back to the office is going to be IMPOSSIBLE ha.

    • Anon

      I can’t nap. I have tried in the past. All it does is make me groggy the rest of the day and then unable to fall asleep at night. So my answer is zero.

      But more power to you if you can do it!

    • Sloan Sabbith

      I can’t nap because I don’t do well waking up and getting back to work but I’m also exhausted today.

  8. Anon

    I just went to Goodwill to drop stuff off. I thought it would be fine, because they have “unattended donation bins” but there were soo many people dropping stuff off and no one was wearing masks or maintaining social distancing at all, I got jostled by other people multiple times. And one guy actually yelled at me “why are you wearing a mask? Don’t live in fear!”
    We are so screwed…

    • Anonymous

      I mean he’s not wrong in that if you are not wearing a mask or social distancing you are much less likely to be living at all, so you’re not living in fear if you’re dead.

      • Anon

        Not really, because the masks protects others much more than it protects you. A person wearing a mask is not necessarily scared for themselves at all, they may just want to protect the others.

    • Anon

      I really don’t get why other people care when someone wears a mask. I get caring that they DON’T wear a mask but if you are anti-mask, why does it matter if other people wear one?

    • Anon

      He was expressing his political views to you. Your mask threatened his Fragile Conservatism.

      I’ve said it before and I wanna say it again, it saddens me so much that believing scientists is now a political position.

      • Anonymous

        it wasn’t until the economy and our livelihoods were tanked by some dumbass (Neil Ferguson) who didn’t even bother to stop having his affair to give doom and gloom predictions . Hard not to be bitter about it. The race riots and probably the alien (coming soon to a town near!) are just more BS where that came from.

        what was today’s projected death rate? 3,000 a day? Go back to posting black squares on instagram.

        • Anon

          I am not a “lockdown forever” person and firmly believe we have to find a way to reopen some things while doing what we can to minimize virus deaths, but 1,000 Americans are still dying EVERY DAY. A 9/11 happening every three days is just…no big deal to you? I can understand the argument that the economy or schools have to reopen, but why would you not want to do something very simple and practically free that might save lives? The latest studies suggest that if everyone wore masks, transmission of the virus would be reduced by more than 75%. You don’t want to do something completely harmless to you that might save 750+ American lives every day because…. why? Your “freedom”? This is just baffling to me. It’s not like you’re being asked to go to war. It’s an incredibly trivial sacrifice that is literally life-saving.

          • Anonymous

            you act like more people don’t die EVERY day from different things. you are looking at the numbers in a very privileged vacuum.

    • Anonymous

      That is too bad. My local Goodwill center is operating essentially as usual with some extra precautions. It is a drive-up and the donation staff will remove items from your trunk or car without you having to get out or interact. They are wearing masks. I wore one, too, during the limited interaction, and the receipt was placed in my car where the donation had been (so not in my hand, though I would not have cared at all personally about accepting it). As I left I thanked them and they thanked me for “keeping them working.” Only positive reviews here.

  9. Anon

    I posted late in the morning thread about mulch (I know, get a life!) and I’m open to more suggestions about using mulch without weedcloth underneath. I like the newspaper suggestion and will try that this weekend!

    I was swayed to mulch everything based on this blog post:

      • Anonymous

        If you order a lot, get it delivered. It’s $40 per cubic yard delivered by me. A cubic yard Is quite a bit. I order 4 cubic yards for a LOT of beds. It’s about half a dump truck.

    • Anon

      I didn’t see it, but did anyone recommend Preen? It’s a weed preventer – great stuff!

      • Anon

        Thanks. I still want to plant in this area, which is why I don’t want to use weed cloth. I’m worried that using a pre emergent herbicide might spread to my vegetable garden, where I do plant things from seed. Have you had any experience with that?

        • Anon

          Now that I think about it, maybe I will just toss some under the super prickly rose hedge. Tall grassy weeds grow under there and it’s such a bramble I can’t always get in there to pull them. I have many scratches on my arms to show that I really did try my best.

  10. Anonymous

    I have an ongoing battle with my neighbors’ landscaper who spreads Preen well over the property onto my yard. It definitely stops seeds from growing in my yard. Basically it’s killed everything on my side of the property line except the creeping charlie.

  11. Anon

    Someone mentioned this morning that she took two Zyrtec before bed and another in the morning.

    I’m super interested in this because my allergies are very definitely not under control. I mostly have post nasal drip which manifests as coughing, which is really a popular thing to do in public right now, often followed by sneezing fits.

    I’m using 1 Zyrtec per day plus Azelastine twice or more per day, plus Flonase as needed but usually 1-2 times per day. And I’m still coughing. This is a particular problem for me at night (and for some reason on conference calls – thanks body!). So if I could take Zyrtec again at night I’m thinking it might help a lot.

    I realize this is off-label, and my doctor is the type would would never ever recommend anything off label, but do others on here double up on the Zyrtec with successs?

    Ps I have done everything I can do to keep dust to a minimum in my house. Everything the internet says to do, right down to daily vacuuming, I have done.

    • Carmen Sandiego

      I do not double up on Zyrtec, but I do use Zyrtec, Claritin, and Allegra every day (all at nighttime) along with Flonase. I am in New Orleans, and allergies are really bad here and my doctor has advised me to take all three because they each evidently work for different allergies, so you can take them all at once. If I do this regularly, my allergies stay under control.

      • Anon

        Ohh that is interesting. I’ve been alternating between Zyrtec and Allegra, switching up every few months, because a fellow allergy sufferer told me that worked for him. I didn’t think of taking them together.

    • BB

      Maybe see if there’s a “topical” thing you can get for your cough from your doctor? I used to have a similar issue and did Zyrtec + Flonase + Adavair. The last one is an asthma medication, but it helped control my coughing. My allergies are much better now thankfully and I haven’t needed it in years, but it totally helped back in the day!

    • Sloan Sabbith

      May try this because I’m on a HUGE dose of Qvar, Budesonide sinus rinse, Singulair, and Zyrtec and I’m still miserable. Allegra and Claritin make me drowsy to the point I once fell asleep on my keyboard at work and then woke up and moved to the floor but maybe 2 Zyrtec at night will work.

      • Sloan Sabbith

        Also Azelastine.

        If you don’t do sinus rinses you could try that. I do twice a day with budesonide (steroid).

        • Anon

          You know, she recommended sterile saline sinus rinses and I honestly tried them, a lot of times. I really did.

          But she said I was supposed to feel the water running from my nose to my mouth or down the back of my throat and I could never accomplish that. It just came back out my nose after a lot of coughing and feeling like I had inhaled pool water. It was like trying to intentionally drown myself. My body just wouldn’t let me do it.

          • Neti4lyfe

            she is wrong, you pour it into one nostril and it comes out the other one. you should not feel like you are drowning, or really any discomfort. I have crazy bad allergies and do it it year round and twice a day right now. It helps a lot, I used to get about 3-4 sinus infections/ yr, now, none.

          • Walnut

            Consistent nasal rinses have been very effective for my chronic allergies. I also have my friends Zyrtec, Singulair and Nasonex on standby depending on the season.

    • Anon

      I take Claritin and Montelukast at night and Allegra in the morning. My allergies are primarily nocturnal. I have my ENT’s approval. I found the saline rinse so easy (despite being terrible at everything of this sort, to the point that I cannot swim underwater) that I wonder if there’s a reason for it? (Too much inflammation? Something structural?)

    • Anon

      Doubling up on the same medicine won’t do anything for you (I asked my allergist). But taking different types of allergy medicine (ex. Zyrtec at night, Claritin in morning since it’s non-drowsy, and a nasal steroidal spray like Flonase) will help so long as they have different active ingredients.

  12. Anonymous

    Just had yet another solicitor come to my door, not wearing a mask. That’s like the third in as many weeks. I don’t know if I just notice it because I’m working from home now or if it’s more frequent than in the past, but a) who even answers the door now in normal times, much less buys things from random strangers and b) there’s still a pandemic! (I just never answer. From the look of the one today, he was selling Jesus, but I’m not buying that either)

    • Anon

      Back in March I had a dream that solicitors came to my door and my friendly husband started talking with them, and I was wondering what had ever happened to social distancing.

    • PNW

      When I went to WFH I was surprised at the amount of random door knocking we get during the day, but my husband works from home all the time and said it was pretty normal. A couple of solicitors, a neighbor kid asking to mow our lawn, petition people. At least they were all masked. But I would have thought going door to door for pretty much anything was a relic of the past.

  13. Anon

    I’ve found some decent at-home workout substitutes for what I used to do at the gym. But one thing I cannot find a substitute for is my guilty pleasure of zoning out on the elliptical with a trashy magazine for an hour. Sometimes you just want mindless cardio, you know? I want to move without straining any one muscle too much like I have been with HIIT and running. Any thoughts on an at-home quarantine alt?

    • Anon

      A long walk with a trashy podcast? I’m a fan of watch what crappens – they are so funny. But you’d need to watch the real housewives for context.

    • Hildy

      Walk outside while listening to a fun romance or other silly audio book? I’m not a podcast person but I bet there are podcasts that would fit the bill of doing a decent job replacing trashy magazines.

        • Anon

          Yes! In my workout friend circle, if someone decides to not get up and join us, it’s “Belinda bailed!”

          • anonshmanon

            connecting to the thread above, I got into that podcast based on a rec from this site!

    • Anon

      No specific recommendation, but +1 that the reason I love(d) going to the gym was to read trashy magazines & watch HGTV! Podcasts or walking while listening to an audio book sounds like a great substitute. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams is a great book, and Elin Hilderbrand is my go-to for beach reads.

  15. Anonymous

    For those that have had patios installed- we got an initial back-of-the-envelope rate of $X/sq ft for our patio install. We just got the actual bid based on the patio design and the stone we selected.

    The quote is for 800 sq ft @ $X/sq ft. However, the patio itself is only 650sq ft. The design isn’t a rectangle- the envelope it self is 800 sq for but with several planting beds between the patio and the house, as well as 3’ of plants bed along the side.

    Is this typical? We were assuming the rate was per sq ft of patio/material (it’s bluestone), not overall size as much of the size doesn’t require stone. FWIW None of the pieces are round (I would get why you’d have to pay for a stone you then cut to make it round). It’s more like a rectangle with a little tail surrounded by mulch. The mason isn’t doing any of the mulch/landscaping.

    I’ve been a little annoying about the project so I wanted a gut check before bringing it up.

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