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Although summer is normally the time you think about the importance of having underwear to match your skin color (white pants, anyone?) the winter can also be problematic — light-colored blouses, sweaters, and layering pieces like t-shirts can all leave you a bit “exposed.” While a camisole can sometimes be an answer, a surer bet is having a bra that matches your skin tone. Enter MySkins, which offers lingerie in 20 skin-matching colors, in sizes 32A-38D for bras and sizes S-XL in panties. (You can request a free “Skin Tone Color Card” (pictured at left) to figure out what color to order.) The bra pictured is $60, but for the month of November you can take 25% off all orders with code CORP25. T-Shirt Bra (At the readers' request, I've moved the picture of the T-shirt bra to after the jump…)
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LMo
I like the idea, but Kat, could you maybe make the picture a little more safe for work? I feel like I could get a raised eyebrow if someone saw my computer while I am reading this (on my lunch break, but still…).
anon
Please no more pictures like this or at least some warning and a click through. I won’t be reading anymore at work otherwise.
Anonymous
Thirding this sentiment.
E Anon
Agree, this is borderline unsafe for work.
Kat
Eeek – good to know. Hmmn, I’ll try to think of some stock illustration for a “top of post” thing and then put the rest after a jump. Hmmmn…
AIMS
Great new pic!
LMo
Thank you!
E Anon
Thanks for being so responsive, Kat!
pfft
Wow are you all super uptight.
Anon
I tried myskins underwear. It was awful. It rolled down every time I moved. Hated it.
jr. prof
Seconded. Horrible fit! I have never gotten worse, more uncomfortable camel toe than when wearing these undies. Two wears and into the garbage. What a waste. Caveat emptor!
A
Question: I loved Vanity Fair bras, but about a year ago, they stopped making them in size “A”. That was my go-to bra, and I haven’t found a good replacement yet. Any suggestions?
AIMS
No suggestions, but check past threads — I recall a lengthy discussion of which bras are great in A sizes.
Anonymous
Threadjack: not sure if this is a question, or just a vent.
I work in a very small firm. Our managing partner is usually a pretty cool person and good to work for. However, periodically she goes into this “EVERYTHING IS OUT OF CONTROL!” panic mode and then decides to send everyone else into panic mode. When she is in this mode, she will demand project status updates on EVERYTHING IMMEDIATELY, even if you’ve just given a status update or are scheduled to give one in the next few days; she will demand that reports scheduled for completion weeks out be completed IMMEDIATELY; she’ll start redelegating tasks that are in mid-completion because “not enough progress is being made” (an opinion that is usually unfounded) and in general turns into a micromanaging nightmare. Today, we actually had to sit in a meeting for three hours while we went through everyone’s project plans blow-by-blow while she and her lackey (ahem, executive assistant) gave their criticisms and “suggestions” why things weren’t getting done as she would want them to. No one’s projects were in trouble – everyone was on-target and there were only a few small hiccups here and there. It was a huge waste of everyone’s time, and a few people were actually near tears at being needled to death over the least little thing in this meeting.
If it was like this all the time, we’d obviously all leave. But it seems to happen about every six months or so, and in between episodes, she is a perfectly nice and reasonable person and great to work for. We can’t figure out what the precipitating event is – it doesn’t seem to be after a major screw-up, at the end of a fiscal or calendar year, when she’s been known to be having personal problems, etc.
Is there any way to address this in the office without making the situation worse? I know that compared to a lot of people, who deal with this kind of thing all the time, we’re lucky. But it is really annoying, to say the least, and worse for the people who have to suffer being called out in the meetings (and it happens to everyone sooner or later) and/or are going to have to stay late every day this week to meet these crazy demands.
Does anyone else have a boss that does this? Any advice for how my coworkers and I can handle it in the future?
Celia
Yikes! I really wish I had some useful advice for you.. I had a boss who through similar tantrums, though she did so much more frequently than it seems your boss does. I left for law school after two years (I was a paralegal at the time), and in the two years since every other member of the support staff has been replaced (because they quit) and several attorneys have left too. My boss had been an attorney for a long time, and became gradually more insufferable, demanding and demeaning as time went by – and, I guess, as she learned she could get away with it (despite being a charming person in many other situations). I hope you get some great advice from others on how to handle the situation – but if you discover that there is nothing to do to change the way she runs the firm, keep in mind that things may only get worse as this M.O. develops… and will definitely get worse when she, like everyone else, has personal or professional problems and needs to vent/take control of something/lash out at the world. If she takes out her usual stress on her subordinates on a regular (even if relatively infrequent) basis, then that may just be the way she is as a superior. And it may not be somewhere you want to work. None of my former co-workers regret their decision to walk out the door – sadly, we all took a lot of abuse before enough was enough! If you start to think that this may be an unfixable part of your job that is unbearable, leave quickly. First, you’ll be less miserable. Second, you might be able to do so before things get too tense, and thus still get a good recommendation from and maintain a healthy relationship with this person (and others at the firm).
Again – I wish my advice was more geared towards telling you how to fix it… but my experience has sadly been that some people are “abusive” when they are in positions of power, and that in the long run, it isn’t worth the attendant unhappiness and stress to yourself to continue to work for that person.
Good luck!
Celia
Yikes on typo in first sentence (outlining has frazzled my brain)! Should obviously be “threw” and not “through”!
Verna Deu
I also have a boss who is a bit neouritic. He always wants status updates, I think because he has to report to my second line manager, and he is very afraid of her. So we wind up prepping him all the time even though there are many times no new updates. I think my second line manager thinks he is a bit of a fool, so often times she comes to me to ask the same questions he did, so I don’t know if he even gets the story straight half of the time. My advice is to be respectful of your manager, even if he is a jerk, and not to do anything that exposes his stupidity.
Anon
Calling an executive assistant someone’s “lackey” is really rude.
Anonymous
Not if they act like one!
Anon
So long as that’s the case, sure. I just dislike terms that denote a sense of superiority.
Liz
That’s an awful lot of skin tones to match. Kudos to them for coming up with all those shades!
Anon in NC
Late night threadjack – Re-posting – attempting to do earlier but did not work. Need some insight on the jacket in the link. I am travelling with very limited wardrobe – is it possible to wear the jacket (without the flower) and not look dowdy/matronly? Hoping some corporettes are up late – if you hate it I have not worn and can easily return – thanks!!
Ru
I think for this particular jacket, the dowdiness factor depends on your body shape and styling. If you’re more curvy, I’d suggest staying away from this jacket because you would have to fit it for the widest part of your body, which would hide the rest of your body and make you look like a column. I think the jacket would look great on top of a jewel-toned top, some long wide-legged trousers with heels/boots and one statement piece of jewelry, but again, these are my suggestions only.
Anon in NC
Thank you!! Did the link show up correctly – I tried to post several times and kept getting error messages?
Ru
I wasn’t able to view the link, I just googled the name of the jacket you mentioned below.
Anonymous
Anon in NC – no link came through in your post?
Anon in NC
I tried numerous times to post the link not sure why it won’t go thru?? It is the Tenacious Tweed Cynthea Jacket at Chicos
Threadjack
Oh I was just thinking how bad I need a cami to match my Asian skin tone. I recently acquired a lovely white silk charmeuse shirt/blouse which looks fab under the suit I am planning to wear to an interview soon (I’m the person who wanted to wear the bow blouse from a few threads ago – changed my mind now!!). However, you can sort of tell that I am wearing a nude (ie white person nude) camisole underneath. It won’t be an issue when I’m wearing a jacket but I would rather have a more matching cami for when I wear it by itself.
Lindsay
Thread Jack!!!
Does anyone know where I can get a light blue silk camisole to go with a charcoal wool jacket? I need to buy one TODAY in Manhattan – preferably lower Manhattan, but I can go to Mid-town @ lunch. My BF is taking me to a show tonite and I do not want to wear the green one I have (ugh).
Help!!!!!!!
Lady T
I usually buy camisoles from banana republic. You can probably find at j crew or ann taylor as well.
Cat
Am I alone in wishing the first post of the day would appear earlier? I think Kat has them set to a timer so it wouldn’t affect her schedule, but I would love it if it went up around 8 for me to scope out the first one while finishing my coffee :)
Anonymous
that’s why it is so wonderful to live on the west coast (among other reasons)!