Weekend Open Thread
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I was helping a friend look for dresses to wear as a wedding guest recently, and I fell in love with this one from Aidan Mattox by Adrianna Papell.
Of course, it's always dicey wearing anything close to white or ivory for a wedding — but I think here it would be impossible to confuse the wearer with the bride.
I loooove that it has pockets, and is bra frindly, and I love the way it looks kind of abstract and intricate all at once.
The dress is $395 at Nordstrom.
(Looking for something similar but affordable, and maybe more acceptable for everyday wear? I really like these J.Crew Factory dresses.)
Sales of note for 4/24:
- Ann Taylor – Friends of Ann Event, 30% off your purchase PLUS $50 off $100! Readers love this popover blouse, and their suiting is also in the sale.
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Brooklinen – 25% off sitewide — we have and love these sateen sheets
- Evereve – Now through Sunday: up to 70% off! Markdowns include Alex Mill, Michael Stars, Sanctuary, Rails, Xirena, and Z-Supply
- Express – $39+ Summer Styles
- J.Crew – Friends & Family Event, 30% off your purchase! Good deals on blazers and boots
- J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything, extra 50% off clearance, and extra 20% off $125+
- Lands' End – 50% off full price styles and 60% off all clearance and sale – lots of ponte dresses come down under $25, and this packable raincoat in gingham is too cute
- Loft – Friends & Family event, 40% off entire purchase + extra 15% off + free shipping
- M.M.LaFleur – This weekend only, save 25% on dresses. Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off.
- Nordstrom – 1500+ new women's markdowns
- Sephora – Up to 50% off hair deals today only – includes Shark Beauty tools! (See our recent discussion on how to upgrade the Revlon brush.)
- Talbots – Friends & Family event, 30% off entire purchase – today only, free shipping, no minimum
- TOCCIN – Use code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off!
- Vivrelle – Looking to own less stuff but still try trends? Use code CORPORETTE for a free month, and borrow high-end designer clothes and bags!
Continued from the end of Friday’s thread …
Not a big update, but I asked what to wear to a company box minor league baseball game earlier this week. I wore a nice tee, casual blazer, ankle slacks, and loafers. It was fine, but I actually felt overdressed -the (few) other women wore jeans, the men either jeans or khakis with polos or button downs. But I looked nice and had a really great time too.
This dress has a very late 1950s/early 1960s c-tail vibe.
It’s pretty, though. We talk a bit about whether things can be “objectively” flattering, and I would say that this shape is one that, whether it’s trendy or throwback or whatever, is just objectively flattering on most women.
It is very pretty and not so retro that it looks like a costume. The neckline and armholes would not be flattering on me, though, even though the fit and flare silhouette would be.
Speaking of dresses, what kind of dresses would you buy for a European city vacation with lots of walking? I realized I missed out last year walking around Paris and realizing all the tourist moms had much cuter clothes on than I did.
i don’t like dresses for travel because (on me) they require no chafe shorts and also I sweat and don’t want to wear them more than once. But, putting that aside, i think any cotton summer dress that you already own probably is fine. i try not to buy things only for travel.
+1 to all of this
Stacie Flinner has a lovely inspirational blog post on this topic today.
her ads are all over my fB feed.
I wore casual cotton midi-length dresses a few days in Paris last summer. I wore nice leather sneakers with them. Old Navy / Gap are full of those type of dresses if you don’t want to drop $$$.
Whatever linen or cotton dress I impulsively buy at a local store when I discovery I packed poorly.
That’s a win in my book — a practical souvenir!
A midi or maxi dress in linen or gauze that can be worn with some wrinkles. Definitely not poplin, which looks terrible wrinkled and is a lint magnet. Black or navy to hide dirt. I have a black linen Z Supply Bayside dress from last season that fits the bill perfectly. It has a smocked bodice, which seems to be trending, but instead of being cut straight across like most are the bodice comes up a little higher in front for a more flattering line.
Our local news announced that they arrested 8 men last week in a sting based on sex crimes involving minors and human trafficking. One of the men lives on my street. He (allegedly, of course), believed he was meeting a 14 year old (!!!) at a seedy hotel for $200.
I don’t know the family, but he has a wife and kids around my kids’ ages (which is well-past old enough for them to understand most of this and hear about it from their friends). He used to work for a youth sports org, too, so the news understandably put some extra focus on him over the others. I just … ugh, I can’t imagine what this must mean for their lives. I’m just so disgusted and horrified.
Two unbelievable stories from my time at the gym this morning: first one woman was doing leg exercises with 400 lbs added. (90% sure those were 50 lb weights.) Then another woman was telling a guy how they don’t have wifi in the house (just an ethernet connection) and she refuses to have a smart phone. It was like that SNL skit with Jack Black and the eagle (except they weren’t one-upping each other).
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Why would a major corporation keep deleting and re-advertising the same job opening for six months? Do I apply for a THIRD time?
Job: community relations for a power company, in a more rural area of the state. (Be on hand to answer town council questions when power goes out with big storms, go to Earth Day parties at local schools, etc.) Me: years of relations experience. I’D BE SO GOOD AT THIS.
Just this hour, I see on LinkedIn that they’ve listed the job for (at least) the third time since last fall when I applied a first time. The application is just uploading your resume to their site, so no effort on my part. (My resume has allll the keywords.) Is applying again lame? Should I not apply again because not getting it the first two times were the universe telling me it’s not the job for me? I’m out of work and desperate.
If it is really the same position, not the same type of job in three different locations or something like that, they are not successfully hiring. I don’t see the harm in reapplying, but I would try to figure out why your resume seems to be getting screened out by ATS and revise accordingly.
Of course apply again!
You need a job, and you want THIS job, so . . . go ask for it!
Can you tell if they actually hired someone the first two times? It could be that there was a hiring freeze, or a new manager came in and wanted to look things over. I think there’s no harm applying again. If they actually are on the third person in role in 6 months, that’s a different sort of red flag, but no way to tell until you interview.
I keep getting texts from someone claiming to be DHL telling me I have to pay import taxes on a package to receive it. I can’t think of anything I ordered internationally. I’d assume it was a scam (and I haven’t clicked the ‘pay here’ link in the texts!) except for the fact that it’s originating from the same number that DHL has used before to text me about legitimate packages coming from abroad, and the link appears to be the exact same type of link to the DHL page. I’m assuming I should just ignore this, but I’m really confused because it seems like it’s actually linking to DHL not a third party. Who would be behind a scam like this and how would they benefit? How does me paying DHL, who in turn pays the government and delivers the package, benefit a scammer?
If the text has a package id number in it, go to DHL’s website yourself and type it in.
I’d assume either error at DHL or scammer spoofing it so def would not click directly.
It’s possible it could be spoofed, but that’s more sophisticated than your average text scam. I’d contact DHL directly and ask if they have a package tracking for delivery to your address. If there’s a tracking number in the text, you could type DHL into your browser on your own and search for it there rather than clicking the link.
99.9% it’s a scam. I would ignore.
Is there a way for you to contact DHL customer support directly? I’m embarrassed to admit that I almost fell for a scam this week. I received a call from a guy claiming to be a customer rep at a bank, alerting me that someone was attempting to use my personal information to transfer funds out of my account to theirs. The number he called me from showed up on a search engine as the landline for a bank branch in my community. As he went on and on, I began to put two and two together and realized it was all a bunch of baloney. But he, and the guy he transferred me to as his “case manager” had the choreography down pat, and the phone number threw me for a loop. All I can say is: exercise diligence. I hung up the call, called my bank, and put an alert on my account. I hate this stuff, and it is pervasive.
google dhl and import taxes scams and compare what you learn to the kind of text you’re getting.
I would call DHL.
Unfortunately even my bank and investment institutions send me texts that look like fishing and I never click the links. I always call, as I have made mistakes before – both by clicking things I shouldn’t and by ignoring things that were real.
It’s a scam. I get these regularly.
PSA. I tried the j crew factory dress linked. Fabric looked good for the price. Don’t bother if you’re busty. I am and couldn’t even zip it up in the size larger than my usual size.
how did you decide (or not) to have kids if it wasn’t something you were always sure about? My husband and I both feel like we could see full, joyous lives either way. It feels like something you shouldn’t do unless you’re 200% sure.
I feel like most people in my life grew up wanting to be parents OR have known since teenage years that they’d be childfree. Personally, I had always loosely seen myself as adopting someday – but that was when it seems like adoption was widely viewed as a positive whereas know there is so much more talk of the negative aspects. (though the people I know who were adopted all have very good relationships with their parents).
We decided to have one child after years of hemming and hawing. I’m so glad we did it and my husband is still adjusting. I would say that if you have a partner who is prone to anxiety or highly neurotic, it’s more of an uphill battle. But I love being a mom.
My husband and I married both assuming we’d want kids someday (we were young – early 20s). But 10 years went by and neither of us got the itch. In our mid-30s we decided to have one, though even then we weren’t “omg baby fever” and see if we wanted to stop there, but encountered unexplained infertility. After IUI was unsuccessful, neither of us want to proceed to IVF, and so we made our peace with our unexpected decision and are settled and happy with it.