Suit of the Week: Reiss
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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. Also: we just updated our big roundup for the best women's suits of 2025!
I love it when a darker jewel tone like this dark green Reiss suit almost feels like a neutral.
I could verrrrry easily see someone wearing this like you would a navy suit — it will even match any navy acccessories you have! But you can also have a bit of fun with it, and pair it with a pale pink (or something with pale pink accents, like a white floral blouse with pink or purple in it) for fun with contrasting colors, as well as with complementary colors like other greens and blues.
The jacket is $480 and the pants are $285, both available at Nordstrom as well as Reiss (where they have petites as well as a slim leg pant).
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Anyone have a favorite books podcast that skews academic/critical and not just conversational with the author? I recommend “burned by books” for new books, especially by new authors. The host is a literature professor and the dialogue is always really smart. Others out there that are similar?
The Book Riot Podcast does this sometimes! They have episodes every month or so that are book club eps where they discuss a book more in depth. The other episodes are more like book news and recommendations. I love all of them, but the book club eps specifically might fit what you’re looking for.
I always find academic analysis of books to be kind of funny since they often ‘read between the lines’ things that simply aren’t there and the author never intended. It’s the ultimate naval gazing.
Way to totally misunderstand the purpose of literary analysis.
Noted?
Lots of things always end up in books that the authors never intended.
Yeah, texts take on a life of their own. And people bring their own background when they read. It’s one of the coolest things about books IMO. To each their own.
The podcasts Close Reads, Book Fight, and Overdue all analyze books and don’t focus on author chats. I’ve only listened to each of them here an there (when interested in a particular book), so I can’t opine on how academic they are.
The Stacks has a monthly “book club” episode where Traci talks with a non-author guest about a particular book–those are sometimes but not always on the academic side.
Slightly Foxed?
Witch, Please – media and literary critical analysis by a couple of academics!
I’m going to guess the Fated Mates podcast does not count…
I love If Books Could Kill
I didn’t have time to prep a lunch today so I packed a “snack lunch” – protein shake, carrots and hummus, a peach, pistachios and pretzels. The shake, pretzels, and nuts (and I guess the peach too) come in single servings that were easy for me to throw in my bag, and then I just brought the whole bag of carrots and container of hummus into work with me.
I like this idea and want to do it more, but need more ideas so I have variety.
Ideas for other low-prep/low packing lunch ideas?
Im in the office 5x a week so can also bring several servings and leave in the fridge (within reason).
Common single serving items: yogurts, single serving cottage cheese, string cheese
Single serving packs of hummus, trail mix, and guacamole from Costco.
Full disclosure, I sometimes do this for lunch but I end up vaguely unsatisfied.
I love snack lunches. I have some divided lunch containers that I use to make grown-up lunchables. Today’s was homemade salmon salad with whole-grain crackers and celery and cucumber slices for dipping, plus mixed nuts. I like to have some sort of protein-rich dip or spread like nut butter or hummus or even a homemade healthy spinach dip. Cheese or a hard-boiled egg is good too. I always include some cut-up fresh fruit or veggies. I avoid protein shakes, protein bars, and other highly processed stuff, along with refined carbs like white-flour pretzels, because they make me feel icky later in the day. You can pack a couple of days ahead of time, but a whole week’s worth will get unappealing towards the end of the week.
+1 to the suggestion for cheese. Grapes might work for fruit option.
would put forward jerky as well to keep at work. For a shelf-stable flavor boost, I love Sohla El-Waylly’s Ranch Fun Dip (posted on Food52) that uses nutrional yeast, nuts, and different dried flavorings.
Throw some protein on top of a bagged salad.
I almost always pack my lunch and follow this formula: main course (either a sandwich or dinner leftovers), baby carrots, a fruit, and yogurt cup. The formula makes prepping lunches super easy and brainless. I try to pack fruit that requires little to no prep (like precut melon from the store, or clementines) so I can just throw it all in my bag.
I don’t do single serve, but do something similar by sometimes packing a lunch sack for the week:
• Crudite-type veg (carrots, broccoli, tomatoes, small bell peppers, cucumber)
• A couple apples
• A block of cheddar
• hummus
• deli turkey
• Container with several handfuls of mixed greens.
• Wasa or bread
That can turn into a salad, a snack lunch, or a sandwich lunch.
1) a Tupperware container half filled with rinsed blueberries or sliced strawberries plus a small container of Fage brand Greek yogurt mixed in, or 2) an apple cut into wedges with one of those wedger/corer tools (do this at work, right before eating), and then spread with nut butter or hummus are filling and satisfying lunches, full of fiber and protein. You also can add a hard boiled egg or two., plus a handful of walnuts, almonds, or pecans. Enjoy!
yogurt, apple, Fairlife shakes. Uncrustables if you want to, i haven’t read it yet but there was a big story about how the NFL eats like 80,000 uncrustables a year. You could also keep PB in your office then just bring in fresh bread and jam. string cheese. jerky.
I keep Caesar dressing, parm and croutons at my office; each day, I bring in prepped romaine lettuce and chicken. 30 seconds to toss it all together and so delicious.
Greek yogurt, frozen cherries or berries, nuts. (I put it in a thermos to stay cold. I pack my own so I can control the amount of sugar.)
A whole avocado and sesame rice crackers.
Apple slices and hummus.
Trail mix (Peanut m&ms, pretzels, mixed nuts, dried cherries)
In general, I like to think of combinations of Protien + fiber.
We have had housecleaners for the past 2 1/2 years – a woman and her adult daughter. They come every two weeks. We decided we no longer want them to come starting in September. I plan to tell them this at the first August cleaning and then at the second August cleaning pay them 2x. This way they have a month or more to find a replacement household without losing income. Is this a good plan? I’ve never fired housecleaners before.
Why are you stopping their services? Bad job, too expensive, don’t want to incur the cost, going with someone else? The answer to this will influence what you should do here.
Not worth the money – DH is a SAHD and wants to take care of it himself now that all four kids will be in school in the fall – he has higher standards than the cleaners anyway so often cleans before/after them.
I think that’s a fine plan. I’m always wary of signing on to be a part of someone’s regular income stream when I know I can’t sustain it long term (personal trainer, cleaners, etc.)
I did something like that once, thinking I was being somewhat kind and courteous to give notice, and the housecleaner was angry and refused to come back at all. It wasn’t too much of a loss, but I was surprised. I replaced her because she wasn’t doing a good job.
Does anyone have the “Bamboo Elisabetta Slouch Handbag” from Mark & Graham? I’ve never gotten a bag or anything else from them. Are their bags good? Is this bag good? I am a sucker for bamboo — reminds me of my mom and aunt’s styles from when I was a kid. Anything else to fling into my cart? I promised myself something nice for doing a Hard Thing, and this may be it.
Ahh my mother also had a bag with bamboo handles, nice.
Kind of cool, you can buy bamboo bag handles, and all sorts of bag handles, on Amazon. I’m tempted to start crocheting bags and using those bamboo handles.
https://www.amazon.com/sspa/click?ie=UTF8&spc=MTo0MDY2MTY2MzgxMjU3NTE0OjE3NTMyOTc2NTk6c3BfYXRmOjIwMDEwOTY1MDY0OTk5ODo6MDo6&url=%2F3dancraftit-Bamboo-Handles-Knitting-Natural%2Fdp%2FB0BJDMGSN2%2Fref%3Dsr_1_5_sspa%3Fcrid%3D23YVD71IUM765%26dib%3DeyJ2IjoiMSJ9.mRhci6cz-SDzzSVJ0GwSd9vCvVtteOvi-Yl1GBRI9CpIU88zD3AsvGYAzJpEdNYoC95d9Wr3gN3gB9GbyGSWQpd6N8H2yELPMH30m-hYb0KjpUzamy2LuyjopKZ71TFqVqEgsc9g-1vKDQQzEMYrMLsEt9ASCMPuBlNdl0yT-KzQ5qHzjkxWxJb6yY4xvqLDdB0P9Ofv7Vpqy0XXh-l0k1PNd3quXDAVUOjIWRALGX_TyAPsIu9V32XMGZFNusxEpHnWsv8KhDwndNKqBgSoACXKIgw7qWvbnxR_7d56pko.AE-Bi6Tqkw66YNdIpK3PdvXuxpqxO6pKiH9R-ov8m5o%26dib_tag%3Dse%26keywords%3Dbamboo%2Bhandbag%2Bhandles%26qid%3D1753297659%26sprefix%3Dbamboo%2Bhandbag%2Bhandle%252Caps%252C356%26sr%3D8-5-spons%26sp_csd%3Dd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY%26psc%3D1
I have a few handbags from them and I’m always pleased with the quality for the price (though 90% of the time I buy them on sale). I don’t have that bag but I just grabbed the “Emily Bamboo Leather Convertible Clutch” in camel and it’s been a great summer bag for me and I appreciate being able to remove the strap.
I had it and re-sold it. I have another Elisabetta and love it, but the bamboo is so unforgiving. I hated carrying it. I couldn’t hang from my forearm because it literally left welts. If you’re a bamboo fan, maybe you won’t care, but I didn’t like that part. The Elisabetta in general though is gorg. Mark & Graham is nice, soft leather and they hold up well.
My dad has a new TV and a very old cable box. Is it possible at most cable providers to get a newer box such that one remote will easily work both the TV and the cable? He has arthritis and is used to living in the country with just a TV with rabbit ears. Modern TVs are throwing him for a loop and there is a Ken Burns series coming to TV in a month or so that he wants to watch. Modern tech is too hard for him to relearn (he is turning 85 and jumping from 1970 technology to this is just not easy for him). He uses a computer just fine but trying to talk him into YouTubeTV on an iPad isn’t what he wants — he wants to watch TV on a big TV from his comfy chair (and I don’t blame him).
What is he trying to control on the TV with the remote? Does he want to turn the TV off and on and control the volume? If so, we have remotes with our Spectrum cable boxes that can be programmed to control the TV. You have to hold down a couple of buttons and enter a code to get it to sync up. You could check with the cable company to see if the current remote is compatible.
If he has a smart TV, then I know that Spectrum has a TV app and you wouldn’t need to have a separate cable box. I think it looks similar to a regular cable box menu where you can scroll through channels and record TV, etc.
I don’t know the answer to your question. But I did want to raise an alternative: you could get him a digital TV with an antenna so he can watch broadcast TV the same way he’s used to, without having to learn any new technology.
He is in a highrise assisted living apartment, so I don’t think that is an option.
He’s right: you just used to have to plugin the TV and there was a guide in the newspaper. Y
There are indoor antennas that don’t require outdoor or roof access. It’s even worth a try just turning his current TV on and seeing what the broadcast reception is like, without an antenna.
+1
You also can stick a partially unfolded paper clip into the antenna input to do a quick check of reception
Are there a bunch of McGuyvers here that I didn’t know about before?
Pretty much every modern cable remote can control volume, mute & power on a modern TV. If the installer didn’t set it up, there will be some kind of pairing wizard somewhere in Settings.
If he wants to do something like navigate the Netflix app with the cable remote (ie, he needs the arrow keys, select button, pause/play button, etc to work), the best thing to do is to get a cable box that actually has all those apps on it (instead of running them on the smart TV). All the major cable/sat providers offer this as well nowadays, if he’s willing to get a new box.
If he’s comfortable with YT TV and just wants it controlled with a remote and on the big screen, that’s easy enough to get running on a smart TV (or buy a $50 Android TV dongle). If having channel numbers is critical, agreed on going with Spectrum/Xfinity/Xumo and using their remote.
And a random suggestion, I’ve found some seniors really love voice search and some hate it – but worth a try (and pretty much any new cable box or smart TV will have a voice remote these days).
is anyone else bummed about Ozzy? I couldn’t believe the show was 2002, I would have thought it was same era as the kardashians. The NYT had a video of him with the remote, which I remembered, but then he pulls his son in for a hug and I got all verklempt now that I have a son that age.
I’m a little bummed. He clearly got to go out on his own terms and organized a crazy good bye with the final concert.
I was sad about Ozzy, but it also seems like he’s been in bad shape for awhile so I can’t say it was a surprise.
But Malcolm Jamal Warner got me. As an 80s kid who watched The Cosby Show in real time, I’m so sad that Theo passed away so young.
Theo was one of my first crushes. I was so sad to hear Malcom Jamal Warner drowned. He was a great actor and seemed like one of the few who had his life together off screen, too.
More so than I thought I would be. Watching his old videos made me realize I have the same hair texture and have done at least three of the same hair cuts over the years.
I was never particularly a fan, but respected him for leaning into life as he wanted to live it. Things seem a little less vibrant.
I love this suit. I have a dark green suit from MM LaFleur and it has been a total workhorse for me. It’s perfect when I want to be serious but not quite as stark as black.
Dark & olive greens are definitely workhorses in my wardrobe – I see them as neutrals.
100% – I’m a true winter and olive/army green is my go-to neutral for bags, coats, and clothing for spring/fall.
I posted a while ago, but a few years ago, I went on a road trip with my best friend at the time and her boyfriend. Long story short: she’d given her boyfriend permission to proposition me for a threesome that she clearly didn’t want, she got shrill and possessive, I was extremely uncomfortable and repulsed, and then she got mad at me when I told my boyfriend about the whole thing and said I betrayed her.
Since then, we’ve had fits and starts of trying to be friends again, but we always run into bumps of easily hurt feelings. We had a reconciliation last year where she finally apologized and said it was an unfair situation to put me in, and that she cut me out of her life, because she associated the shame of the whole thing with me. We were texting for about a month, but then she randomly stopped replying. I reached out a year later to no response.
She reached out last night saying “Hi Jessica. Would you be open to a phone call to catch up some time?”
Would you have a phone call with her to catch up? She was my absolute best friend for years, and I remember our time together so fondly. But it’s been 4 years since the initial conflict, and I feel like we always stumble into her ghosting me when we try to reconnect. At this point, we don’t really have a relationship, and the last time she ghosted me after we’d reconnected, I thought, Really?! Again!? and promised myself I wouldn’t keep putting myself in the position to be rejected over and over by her.
I think I might just say this, that I value our connection and the memories we share, but that I’m still feeling hurt and reluctant to put myself in a position to be hurt again.
I kind of wonder if she’s ghosting you when she gets involved with bad guys, after what happened and what she learned about what she’s like when she’s involved with a guy!
I personally wouldn’t do it. I wouldn’t want to invite that drama and stress into my life. Do you have other friends you can focus on instead?
I remember that story. Wild. No, I would not reconnect. You gave it a solid try, and it didn’t work. Sometimes one bad moment really can spoil the whole thing.
If you are open to a phone call to catch up, go ahead and respond in the positive, but go into the conversation with your eyes open and without any intention of actually planning anything with her beyond the call. You might be curious about what she’s been up to and vice versa, and it may just end there with the one phone conversation, sort of like catching up with a high school friend at a reunion, but without any illusions that you maintain or have any interest in reviving a current friendship or should extend the interaction further. You knew her then, you’ve moved on, you catch up, and scene.
I would not, personally. I also would try very hard to prevent it from opening up into a text conversation where she could possibly try to unload or defend past self over messages. Might either ignore the message or say something like “Unfortunately, life is busy right now, wishing you the best!” and just not engage further.
Is she still with that boyfriend?
I think it is time to break this bond.
It is very common to grow out of friendships, and still look back on them fondly.
This one has been smashed and burned.
I have a childhood “best friend” like this. When her mother was dying and in the hospital, of course I took her call and gave her some support. But then we went back to our distant lives, and that is best.
I would have the phone call. Keep it short and sweet if you sense that the same bs is coming up.
Here’s my reasoning: it sounds like her boyfriend was emotionally abusing her. He pressured her to allow him to ask her for a threesome that she didn’t want? That right there is a guy who doesn’t just push boundaries; he bulldozes them and salts the earth.
People in those situations can end up very emotionally frayed.
If she starts off by saying she’s sorry, talk to her. If not, keep to light, keep it short, and don’t talk further.
I think you should let go of this person. Take a deep breath, imagine her floating away on a wave, say a silent goodbye & do not reply to her text. They propositioned you in the worst possible way — while you were trapped with them on a trip, making it more difficult for you to decline and leave. That’s not okay. And then she repeatedly ghosts you? I’m sorry, but this person is not your friend. You have permission (if you need it) to just move on.
P.S. she probably won’t even know of you got the message or have the same phone number anymore.
So I maybe would catch up with her, but in my mind it would be more to see what she’s up to and hold space for her to show up at some future date… I would not expect that time to be now. I think you really need to lower your expectations with her, but understand that she must value your former closeness also or else she wouldn’t keep trying.
I had a bad breakup with my so-called BFF some years ago and none of the attempts at reconciliation ever took. I think at this point you’d be wise to just block her.
Why the need to block someone in this scenario? You can blow her off or not respond but this concept of “blocking” where there has not been harassment feels like a crutch for bad interpersonal skills.
“ a crutch for bad interpersonal skills”
The modern way!
It seems to me that the contact is upsetting to OP. In that case, it might be easier to just block her number so OP won’t have to see any future texts. Is that worse interpersonal skills than just ignoring?
Do people know if you block them? I think they might receive a message that this caller doesn’t accept calls/texts from this number when they try to call. Which could be inflammatory.
No
Omg no. She sounds insane.