Suit of the Week: Seragyi

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woman wears merino wool peplum blazer with matching suit pants; the blazer has an asymmetrical neckline and a pleated peplum detail on one side in a darker navy (right near where the model has her hand on her hips)

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 2024!

We haven't had a truly unusual suit for a while now, so I present: the Seragyi “Liz” suiting over at Wolf & Badger. There are a number of details you don't see on many suits, from the asymmetrical neckline, the slightly puffed sleeves, and the pleated/peplum detail at the bottom half of the jacket.

The suiting is also 97% extra fine merino wool, which is also pretty rare these days — the brand describes it thus:

Expertly crafted from wrinkle-resistant, anti-odor Extra Fine Italian Merino wool . . . . Sourced from a century-old, Responsible Wool Standard certified mill, our Merino wool offers bi-stretch comfort, allowing freedom of movement in all directions.

Nice! The site offers matching A-line skirts, “pyramid cut” pants, and for some colors, a more traditional collarless blazer. (I'm not familiar with the term “pyramid cut,” but I will note that the pants have a hem that looks similar to a tulip hem — the jacket also says it has a pyramid cut, perhaps again because of the slit in the cuffs.)

It's clear from the styling on the website that there are, perhaps, fit issues — but for the marked down prices I'd say you can afford to take it to the tailor. (Here's our guide to suiting alterations.) Prices were in the $400s for each piece, but now come down to $166-$198; the suit is available in three colors in sizes 2-14.

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97 Comments

  1. Looks like uniforms for a Star Trek reboot, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

      1. It’s the token female candidate for President of the Universe. She’ll be smarter and more experienced that the President of the Universe candidate, but she’ll get a Cabinet of the Universe position.

  2. A random question for the day – how do you handle people in your with different political opinions? I have people in my extended circle (work, relatives, distant college friends) whose opinions don’t align with mine and they make that clear, either in person or on social media. I’m not talking fully abhorrent rants or conspiracy theories, just… different opinions, which I sometimes struggle with. But I might otherwise like this person – a colleague who has been a mentor to me, a person who taught me a lot in college. I’m center-left, so these might be people further left or further right than me. I don’t entertain extremists with hateful views, but I’m wondering where my comfort zone stops essentially, and sometimes don’t have a choice to interact with people (see: work colleagues). I’m sometimes shaken up by people’s views and recently had to mute someone who was sharing a lot on a sensitive (to me) question, which is prompting this question. Do you unfriend, or is there value in hearing other opinions? I try not to live in an echo chamber, but politics feel so polarized these days. Just wondering how other people handle this stuff.

    1. I’ll listen to other views and have found value in it many times over. I don’t think it benefits anyone to live in a silo or be close-minded. However, I do limit/avoid time with people who repeat a single phrase (think those Instagram posts that repeat “Immigrants’ rights are human rights” 12 times instead of actually having a point) or people who use clap emojis for emphasis between each word in an opinion piece. I find them to be too dogmatic and aggressive to really be worth engaging – what you see in writing is often worse when you talk in person. It’s become especially bad with the Israel-Palestine conflict – so much oversimplification and black-and-white thinking applied to one of the most intractable, complex conflicts of the last millennium.

    2. Muting is the answer for social media and keeping in person interactions light and breezy and away from politics.

    3. I don’t know. I struggle with this myself. I have decided to ‘grandfather in’ friends who vote for Trump, but I won’t make any new friends if they support him. It doesn’t make sense. I don’t pretend that it does.

    4. I’m a progressive lefty, generally. For anyone with rightwing political opinions, I do everything I can to hurt them. Not physically (obviously!), but I try to undermine, embarrass, or de-platform them, or cause them to lose employment, access to services, etc. It’s not necessarily an active thing, but just as the opportunity arises. This might seem extreme, but consider those currently subject to genoc*de (college protesters, tr*ns people, BIPOC, 2SSLG^BTQ+, Palestinians). I see it as essential to combat the white supremist, patriarchal, racist, anti-choice theocracy in the West.

      1. Is this…sarcasm? You actively try to hurt people and get people fired, for having rightwing opinions. Most rightwing opinions are not the genocides you mention.

        1. “College protestors subject to genocide” cannot be anything but satire. None of those groups are subject to genocides. Words have meanings.

      2. You are definitely misidentifying some people as RW and punching down despite your intentions.

      3. Gosh, what do you consider a rightwing opinion? I’m pretty lefty by national standards, but am considered to be basically moderate-to-conservative for my town. I think the people who hold this opinion of me aren’t 100% wrong in that we may disagree on something like whether renovating a park facility is elitist or not (I say not and they say it’s a super-luxury when we’re talking benches not golf). And sometimes they are flat-out wrong – my parents (who live in a different state) are Tr*mp supporters, I loathe the guy.

        1. I would find it so hard to take seriously somebody who thought that parks (and benches in parks!) were elitist!

    5. I am friends with anyone who can articulate their views rationally, and who can, if pressed, explain why people would disagree with them. Personally, I find it exhausting to be around anyone who thinks that their opponents are awful human beings; close to a hundred million people are gonna vote differently than you do, so deal.

      1. +1. as I’ve gotten older, I’ve become more open to the idea that if 100 million people disagree with you, there’s a damn good chance they’re not all wrong.

    6. For work colleagues, you find something neutral that you can talk about. This is why how the local sports team played on the weekend, and the weather are popular conversation topics. If it is people that you have more than a surface level connect with, I will engage with where there is common ground. For example, the number of intelligent conversations about gun control once people learn that I come from a family of hunters (despite being very liberal) has always shocked me. Otherwise, on friends, I generally weigh the bad with the good, see people as imperfect and keep them around as long as the good they do outweighs the bad.

    7. If it’s social media, then I mute. That’s not really a conversation. If it’s in person, then I usually quiet down and listen. If it’s something that is sensitive or moves toward what I consider hateful, inappropriate, etc. then I shift the conversation or leave it.

      Over time, I’ve realized that it’s actually very seldom that I have to or even should engage. Check in with yourself to see if this is a conversation that could usefully happen in that moment, and if not, don’t have the conversation. But if it’s a matter of being slightly uncomfortable (rather than unsafe), then maybe you listen for a bit. At the very least, you get insight into people’s minds.

    8. I just don’t talk to them about politics or whatever topic they’re so opinionated about. If they bring it up I say something like “We know we disagree, let’s talk about something else”. If they can’t deal with that then I might consider ending the relationship. I work in something adjacent to these topics so people looooove bringing it up to me unsolicited. If they do make an off comment and insist on talking about it, I don’t hesitate to tell them why I disagree (mainly relatives).

      On social media I block them.

    9. I generally avoid talking about politics with other people for just this reason. Well, and I often find those conversations boring even though I keep up with current events and I vote. I know I have friends who are both more left and more right than I am. And, for me, it’s just easier not to discuss at all. I also struggle with the idea of “more left” and “more right” as broad categories because I think most people in my circles are mixed bags of being “more left” on Issue A and “more right” on Issue B.
      I’m also not on social media, so I’m not being exposed to that mess.

    10. I like a lot of people whose politics are in my view terrible. Their opinions are coming from somewhere though, and often that’s not somewhere as terrible as where they end up. I’d rather talk about those other things instead!

    11. I openly listen/follow/learn if it’s someone expressing their lived experiences, even if it makes me uncomfortable (for example- my Trumper FIL discussing the issues in rural America, owning a small business, gun ownership). I unfollow/don’t engage if it’s not (said FIL on immigration etc).

    12. I really only have one person in my life like this, my BF, and I have realized it is mostly because he is parroting what he hears from friends and family from growing up white and male in small town South and is being reinforced by social media based on his small town white male Southerner interests. So I try to engage him and expose him to other ideas, force him to articulate how he got to his position and challenge it, educate him about some things he admits he doesn’t know about, and also send him social media posts to alter his algorithm. I also point out when he says things off the cuff that actually suggest he aligns more with the left. I always thought I could never date someone who thinks differently but he is a good person and our values align and we don’t disagree on first principles, so it’s okay.
      I did decide not to take a job where I would be working only with one guy who is a sincere Trumper and another who is a staunch and uncritical supporter of Israel. In a bigger company that would be fine but I couldn’t stomach having those be my only two peers.

      1. I can understand turning down a job for fit reasons, but explicitly bc if someone’s support of Israel (assuming the person in question is Jewish) is kind of antisemitic (and i say this as someone who isn’t Jewish), unless you’d also turn down a job someone supports any other country whose actions you don’t agree with

        1. Yeah that seems kind of icky to me. I also don’t know what you mean by support but if it was just something like a flag or an expression of support for the country, it could be out of concern for loved ones there. A lot of American Jews have friends and family in Israel and even if you’re not 100% in agreement with Israel’s government, it’s reasonably to be concerned about your loved ones.

    13. I honestly do not know with certainty the politics of 95% of the people I interact with, although I could make educated guesses based on other info I know about them. Maybe it’s a Midwestern thing? I feel like people here tend not to talk about politics in casual interactions. I’m not connected on social media to many of the people I spend significant amounts of time with IRL (coworkers, mom friends) and those that I am social media friends with tend to use it sparingly and only post occasional kid or vacation photos, nothing political or controversial.

      I do have a few friends and acquaintances who’ve alluded to dislike of Trump, and I’ve indicated I agree and sometimes that has led to more discussion of politics but mainly in the context of “wow, the GOP is nutty these days.” I don’t have in-depth discussions about current events with people other than my husband, and of my left-leaning friends and acquaintances I couldn’t tell you who (if anyone) is far left and who is center left.

    14. In person, if I have the time and find the person interesting, I tend to ask questions from a genuine place of interest! I have a good friend who is an old school right winger, and while I fundamentally disagree with many of his positions, it’s been really helpful to hear him talk them through. Same thing with my hard left teacher friends. Sometimes, you realize “oh, this person just accepted the party line and there’s no depth to their view,” but most of the time, their view is informed by a life experience or educational experience I haven’t had. I don’t always agree with their conclusions, but man, I’m grateful they take the time to share their reasoning with me.

      I mute anyone who shares anything political on social media. Full stop, no exceptions. It’s all downside. Nothing, other than a lowered opinion of the poster by those who view it, has ever been achieved by sharing political content on the internet. Just mute them and move on.

    15. I mean, there’s a difference of opinion and then there’s people who believe I don’t deserve the right to control my body or whatever. I can’t be friends with those people.

    16. There’s a reason old-fashioned values held that talking about politics or religion was rude. If this is your coworker or mentor or college professor, stick to work or academia as much as possible. If you don’t engage, they’re likely to move on, especially if they’re just trying to get a rise out of you.

      I try not to let it shake me but when someone I thought I liked posts something on social media that shocks me – like my very religious sister in law, whom I previously liked, calling Hillary a c–t on her facebook page – and in those cases, I either unfollow or unfriend. I don’t really need to see my 89 year old uncle’s near-daily memes about how much he loves guns and why Jesus wants us to vote for Trump. I already don’t want to hang out with my uncle IRL (fortunately he and his poorly-aimed guns are several states away) so I don’t need to see his posts about any topic daily. FYI he has recently learned how to do Instagram reels. Not well, though!

    17. Don’t think that you actually know someone’s true thoughts. The only person who actually knows my politics and views for real is my husband. You can try to put me in a box, but you’d be wrong.

      1. This is true for me but probably just because only my husband has taken the time! I do believe we’re in a kind of crisis of political imagination right now and the boxes are part of the problem.

      2. Even my husband doesn’t know my true thoughts on some political issues. And I don’t know his. I heard him at a party recently calmly arguing against a policy that he had expressed support for just days earlier. He likes to argue and challenge and play devil’s advocate, so who knows. I know his sister like to needle him trying to get a rise out him on some issues, and she hates it when he takes a side she wasn’t epecting. I’ve learned a lot of reading multiple news sources and digging deep into issues from him and how to craft carefully layered opinions.

  3. I just happened to look at my backside in the work full length mirror. The horrid fluorescent lighting showed every lump under my dress. I’m so self-conscious now. The lighting at home did not have this issue! Argh.

    1. The lighting in my previous apartment was awful. I went to the bathroom at work and noticed my blush made me look like a clown in front of several partners and managers. I cringe every time I think of it.

  4. I had posted this morning about emailing a company my resume and getting a response that my email was blocked. I ended up sending a message to the recruiter and he sent me his personal work email. I sent my resume and he called fairly quickly for a quick phone screen and I have a video interview tomorrow with one of the project managers. There would still be two rounds of interviews after that.

    The company is legit and job looks like a good fit. It would be a in-person which would be a change from working remotely for the past four years. I’m looking for jobs in tech and I keep hearing that the job market is terrible so I’m glad to have landed an interview at this point.

    1. Good for you! I just accepted a hybrid position after 4 years of full WFH. I feel like I might miss the flexibility a bit, but also, I miss interacting with people. Hope everything goes smoothly for you.

  5. Go watch the video of You Oughta Know. That outfit (white suit and crop top) looks like she could wear it today. Go Alanis! She can see the future.

  6. I have appreciated the recent discussions about neurodiversity, scripts for folks, etc, and have been doing my best to be aware and cognizant of this in my team. I am starting to wonder whether someone I supervise might have some neurodiversity and might benefit from more direct coaching and/or instructions.
    For example, he recently received feedback that his emails can be too direct and overwhelming to our clients, to focus on the top legal priorities, and to look at the “big picture” to assess how much time and energy he needs to spend on a project. However, just this morning I was cc’d on another email string from the client that concerns me that he isn’t hearing or understanding the feedback.
    For add’l context: We’re in-house counsel, and he’s been an attorney for 15+ years, who recently joined our office. He is very kind in person and I don’t think there’s any malicious intent. (In other words, not a jerk or bro.)
    I would appreciate any tips from folks on how I can better support and coach folks who struggle to “read between the lines” etc. Thanks! (Always love everyone’s tips here and generally avoid AAM, blah!)

    1. I have an employee like this and I’ve really been spelling things out. Every thing you might assume someone would be able to tell – don’t assume. Also writing everything down so its clearly laid out, and also can be referred to later.
      His areas of improvement sound the same as this person, but he has a lot less experience. He is at risk of being on a PIP tbh, but there are also some other issues going on.

    2. ND people can’t really learn to read between the lines in the same way as NT folks, so asking him would be like asking a fish to fly. That said you can offer supports and technology, a subscription to chat GPT to write the fluff for the start of an email or to do the reading between the lines. You can also offer specific guidance like ‘start every email with a greeting’ but general guidance will not work.

    3. Can you give more details? People can be bad at their jobs without being ND, and it’s a little weird to assume someone is ND just because they kinda suck at email (especially if he was at a firm before this role).

    4. Do not make this a neurodiversity issue. Suggesting that someone has an intellectual disability and that they should seek out treatment would be all kinds of discriminatory and unlikely to be effective for what you’re after.

      Show example emails and demonstrate how to rephrase to couch correctly, then monitor if he’s getting better. Discuss past projects where timelines shifted and what could have been done to set timing more accurately, then discuss future timelines. Be explicit on what isn’t working and just as importantly, be explicit on what is working.

    5. I would steer him away from email. I have never seen someone successfully counsel anyone in an in-house setting over email. Tell him that any issue where he’s going to say more than a few sentences should be a call not an email.

  7. I just figured out today that I can freeze quesadillas with rotisserie chicken and then heat them up in the air fryer easily! What else do you like to do with rotisserie chicken? Since I’ve been using the Ziploc hack I’ve been buying them more. (The hack is to dump the entire chicken in the Ziploc and then squish until all the meat comes off the bones; takes about 2 minutes.)

    1. I usually eat the breasts on their own with a veggie side and then shred the dark meat (which I won’t eat on its own), freeze it, and then toss it in just about anything – curry, soup, a bowl of beans, enchiladas, etc. But my favorite is to put it in with a can of collard or turnip greens, which I never thought I’d like from a can until I tried them. This is my favorite healthy-ish budget meal ready in 5 minutes that helps me avoid getting takeout, so I try to have the ingredients on hand at all times.

    2. Chicken fried rice is one of my favorites. I just found a recipe that incorporates (instant) ramen noodles and I was in carb heaven!

  8. Hearing news that both Miss USA and Miss Teen USA have resigned before serving their term has made me wonder why we even have pageants anymore. It’s clearly a relic of the past… so why do they even exist? If someone is aspiring to go into modeling or acting, aren’t there better ways to do that in the world of social media, reality TV shows, etc.?

    1. A friend of mine in college (from Texas) had done pageants while in high school. I (from PA) had literally never heard of anyone doing a pageant before. One night we were hanging out and she was watching the Miss America pageant. It was the dumbest and most sexist thing I’d ever watched. I was absolutely dumbfounded that they still exist and that women willingly compete in them!!!

    2. I think that I am:

      125% smart
      50% pretty

      And that my life would me materially different if I had been:
      90-100% smart
      75%-85% pretty
      As much as I wish that that weren’t true

      And while pretty fades, it generally ages well and brain function may not be what it is in your younger life past age 60.

          1. As someone who has run the range from being considered beautiful to losing my looks and not being considered attractive at all, I am in full agreement that pretty privilege is real. I’ve lived both sides of it.

        1. Not the woman above, but I get what she’s saying. Men being intimidated by smart women is real. Likewise, being too attractive comes with its own headaches (being treated like a piece of meat).

          Also real: it’s often better to have smart and pretty in roughly equal balance than to have one waaaaay over the other.

          I’ve watched relatively smart, relatively pretty women do really well. Not so smart as to intimidate men, smart enough to do the work, pretty enough for pretty privilege, not so pretty that their lives are harder for it.

    3. Fun fact: the current Solicitor General of the United States is a former Miss Idaho. In fact, she’s a “triple crown” winner (Miss Idaho America, Miss Idaho USA, and Miss Teen Idaho). She’s only like 45, so someone who came of age when pageants were already the source of a lot of criticism and mockery.

      I have known a fair number of pageant girls, including the above, and people usually do them because they’re prestigious in the local area, or because they think doing the talent stuff and the interviews and all that is fun. TBH, the ones I’ve known have been incredibly accomplished (eg a Miss State X who was a summer at my law firm, a recruited athlete at a D1 undergrad, #1 in her law school class, and a federal appellate clerk; a former Miss America at my college who won basically every academic prize we had and was a Rhodes finalist).

        1. I am so not into beauty pageants but I have some extended family who are. The ones who have participated are among some of the most poised people I know. They really know how to connect with other people. I’m still against pageants though. When as a high school sophomore I gave into peer pressure and told my mother I wanted to be in the local pageant, the reply was “No. We do not judge people by their looks.” And I totally agree with that but I am a little envious of my aunts and cousins who are so poised and can make conversation with anyone anywhere anytime.

          1. Same and I looked into it as a way to help my autistic kid practice social skills. She did speech / debate instead, so sale thing but not available at every school or at every age.

          2. There’s a whole “Elle Woods was autistic” (and awesome) thing on the internet. I can kind of see how they got there!

          3. The poise thing reminds me a bit of women who have been in sororities. I didn’t even want to apply to colleges that had sororities, but I’ve had a lot of post-college friends and co-workers who were in sororities and they are GOOD at social stuff.

          4. With sororities, I feel like it’s more that most of them self-select for people who are socially adept, not that they teach you social skills. I suspect the same is true of pageants, but I have less experience with that world.

      1. I have a similar association — the only pageant person I knew in person was a Miss State who went to my elite college. She was super accomplished even by the standards of a top college. She was also nice.

        Pageants are not my thing, but I don’t really see it as that problematic, especially now that they removed the swimsuit portion. I actually have a bigger problem with cheerleading (competition cheer excluded, since that’s basically gymnastics) because I hate the idea of “boys do the thing, girls stand on the side and cheer on the boys.”

      2. I’m from Idaho and I had no idea we could boast about this woman; how cool!

      3. She is a rockstar. I listed to oral arguments on a tax case and was so impressed, even though she is not a tax person.

    4. My department had a lighthearted Derby Day party last week with silly prizes for best dressed. That 10 seconds I stood in a lineup with the other women from my team as the men all voted for the intern (it was rigged by design, we all know the junior people are supposed to win) was the most awkward I have felt since middle school.

      1. Ew. What modern workplace allowed an event to take place where the men are voting on the looks of the women?

        1. Yeah this is horrifying and feels like something out of the 1950s! I worked at an old boys club law firm that had some really gross events like a luncheon where the (100% female, mostly minority) support staff waited on the (100% white, mostly male) attorneys, but this is even worse.

        2. To be fair, the women also voted on the men’s outfits. But it definitely left a bad flavor.

          1. It’s EXTREMELY weird that it was broken down by gender. Why not have Team A vote on Team B’s outfits or whatever? Not that people voting on other people’s looks is every a great idea, but the gender aspect makes it deeply uncomfortable. I would have straight up refused to participate in this.

    5. Some women enjoy them. It’s okay if they aren’t your scene; they aren’t mine, either. But I also don’t get why people do a lot of things, and that’s okay—not my place to judge.

    6. We still have them because the entire industry around them still exists, they aren’t illegal, and lots of people enjoy them. The same reason we still have all kinds of other niche-interest industries that other people find confounding or even gross.

      I, personally, am stunned that countless young women aspire to be social media influencers and are using their bodies in not-very-much-clothing as a way to get there. It confounds me why anyone would do that to themselves. But it exists.

    7. I grew up in the 1990s and they were still popular-ish. I’m not really surprised they are still around, they are VERY popular in rural areas and in fairly conservative places. Most of the women I knew who did them were performers (singers, dancers, etc.) who wanted another outlet for that interest and had the sort of body type/overall look anyway. One of my law school classmates was Miss Chinatown San Francisco, a girl down the hall at my fancy women’s college had gone pretty far in the Miss America system in MO(?), and I’m sure there are others.

      I got an application in the mail in high school and my parents (who were SUPER against cheerleading for some reason) offered to let me do it, but I was super busy rolling around on the floor with laughter at the very thought. I was a conventionally pretty teenager but a flannel-wearing, “alternative”-type angry feminist.

      1. I think you’re right about the performance aspect and my sense (as someone who lives in a rural, fairly conservative place) is that competition dance and cheer have gotten big in the last couple of decades and siphoned off a lot of the pageant crowd. A lot of the “pageant-y” moms I know are very big into those activities.
        Off topic but I’m with your parents. I’d be more comfortable with my daughter doing pageants than cheering on boys’ sports teams.

        1. My high school cheer team didn’t just cheer for the boys! But it was their priority. They did cheer for the quiz bowl team at the one competition where we were on TV, but it was not during the competition, just at the breaks. That was a funny bus ride – nerds of all genders up front, popular girls in the back.

          My kids’ high school cheer team cheers for all of the varsity sports. They also do a lot of gymnastics-style tumbling and flips, so much so that I think a lot of the girls who do cheer decided to forgo competitive gymnastics in middle school.

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