Suit of the Week: Ralph Lauren Collection
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As we all know, I’m a fan of the festive blazer — but if you’d prefer a festive suit instead, this red velvet one from Ralph Lauren Collection looks gorgeous.
I love the classic cut to the blazer, and of course I love a bootcut pant. (These are described as “stretchy velvet pants,” which sounds good to me.) I even kind of like the satin halter top it’s styled with, although I do wish it had sleeves — but huzzah, there is a button-front blouse made of the same fabric.
The blazer is $2690, and the pants are $1,490, both at Neiman Marcus.
(Zomg I didn’t see this green corduroy suit from Akris when we rounded up great cords for work yesterday! I’d probably wear them as separates, though, to avoid looking too much like a leprechaun, but that’s me.)
If you like the red, but not the price, this red corduroy suit from Ann Taylor looks great.
Sales of note for 10/23 (ALSO, friendly PSA – check any NAS or Amazon Prime Day purchases for the return policies…)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase + $50 off your $200+ purchase
- Brooklinen – Friends & Family – 20% off sitewide and 50% off select bundles
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select fall styles. Also, donate any gently worn coat in one of their stores and get $25 off your next purchase of $125+.
- J.Crew Factory – 40% off new arrivals + extra 15% off orders of $100+
- M.M.LaFleur – 72 hours only, save 20% on jardigans (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom – 5840+ new markdowns for women, up to 40% off
- Talbots – 50% off one regularly-priced item, 40% off everything else
- Theory – End of season sale is on with extra savings (new prices are marked)
Has anyone had a life experience – medical or otherwise – after which you simply didn’t care or worried less about things that mattered a ton before? For me it was heart surgery. The job that I hated and couldn’t wait to leave, now meh it’s fine. Or maybe I will leave without a job lined up or to start a business. It’s not like a sell all my stuff and move to Tahiti kind of thing but just a – how much does daily life friction matter – type of thing. Anyone gone through this if you care to share? Do you ever go back to being who you were before, or are you glad you didn’t? FWIW the surgery was last spring so this isn’t like an immediate physical healing type issue.
I experienced this after the death of a parent. That was five years ago and I think the change was somewhat permanent. I don’t feel it as acutely as I did in that first year or so, but overall I sweat the small stuff way, way less.
+1. The death of a parent, including their declining months and cleaning out their stuff after they died, changed this for me also. It changed my perspective on so much about life.
I had a false alarm with an incurable degenerative disease. I’m more grateful for life milestones and don’t care about them being perfect. For example I didn’t GAF about the small details of my wedding. We bought a house that other people think is too dated while I’m thrilled we own our forever home. But my day to day attitude hasn’t changed. I still get stressed about work and annoyed at traffic.
I had a biopsy right around 9/11 and the whole world just seemed to come apart. I lived in Arlington close to the Pentagon and worked at Farragut West. Everything was surreal and I feel that I’ve been in a shifted space of bonus time ever since.
Didn’t grow up in a home celebrating Christmas but have always loved Christmas decor – like friends homes etc. Are Christmas village set ups – like even just a few houses considered a “grandma” type thing? Not sure I’ve ever seen it in a peer’s home but they seem cute.
It’s a personality and personal taste thing more than a grandma thing. I have friends my age who love them. And friends who would never have one.
I don’t think so; they’re just one among many traditions! I think often they’re originally Moravian unless they’re extensions of a creche which is a Neopolitan thing (but anyone can have them now).
I am 45 years old and started collecting a few houses for my Christmas village when I was 16. I don’t add houses anymore because I don’t have space for them. But I have about 25 houses plus several dozen little people, trees, and other accessories. Mine is the Dicken’s one made by Department 56. I absolutely love my village and people seem quite taken with it when they come over in December and see it.
I have two younger friends who are right around 30 who had started small Christmas villages before they met me.
If you like it, then do it.
Not what you asked, but I have several friends who did not grow up celebrating Christmas and are not Christian as adults but who have started putting up trees and decorating them. They say they like the happiness of the twinkle lights in their homes for several weeks during cold, dark months. I grew up celebrating Christmas, and I agree about the lights. If they have adopted doing trees, then I think you can adopt doing a winter snow village.
Like, the Dickens Village type sets seem kind of dated and fussy to me because they were SO popular when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. But having a few twinkling houses can be done in different styles – like white ceramic, or tin, or brass – for a totally different vibe with a similar glowy comfort effect.
I’m not sure if they are or are not considered “grandma,” but we have one and we adore it. Same for my sibling.
If you like them, go for it! They are joyful, and even if some styles trend grandma-like, grandmas are warm and loving.
Has anyone had gum graft surgery? After a few years of considering it, it seems to be time. I hate getting older!
I had it afew months ago. Not sure why I needed it, but I trusted the oral surgeon, so I went along with it. It wasn’t painful at all. I took one day off work. As I recall, there’s a guard on the roof of your mouth for a couple of weeks, so there are the usual oral-surgey precautions about soft foods, heat, gum, anytihng that would agitate it. Oh! And apparently there’s a lot of variation in how much people bleed. I bled profusely. But as you see, that’s the last thing I remembered, so it didn’t hurt; it was just a feature.
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I had it as part of having a tooth extracted and replaced with an implant, all due to gum disease. It sounds like it’s going to be unspeakably terrible but in my experience it wasn’t all that bad.
Yes, twice, more than a decade ago. It was unpleasant, but not horrific. Importantly, the grafts have held. My primary memory is of a terrible headache for hours after the first. I reported this to the periodontist before the second procedure. He had me sit and breathe oxygen for a while after the procedure was done, and I had no headache after.
I did, about 10 years ago, using my own tissue (vs a donor). I was on soft food restrictions and had to use a special mouthwash vs. brushing. The pain was pretty bad the night after the surgery, but not bad after that. What I really hated was the feeling of stitches in my mouth (ewwww).
Thank you all – this is exactly what I needed
Thank you for asking this! I have had it recommended to me and keep ignoring the advice because I can’t bring myself to google the process.