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Suit of the Week: Dolce & Gabbana

Suit of the Week

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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. Oooh: cute suits are starting to hit the racks again, ladies. (It always feels like there's a lull between seasons!) There were a lot of good candidates for today, but the suit I'm loving most this week is this lovely dot print blazer and pants from Dolce & Gabbana. The dot feels so fresh, especially with the severe black and traditional details like the three pockets — and it's interesting to note that the lapels here are much wider than we've been seeing for a while. The jacket (Dot Print Blazer) is $2595, and the pants (Dot Print Slim Ankle Pants) are $995. Looking for something similar but more affordable? This indigo dot jacquard blazer is $109 and comes in regular, petite, women's, and women's petite sizes. This post contains affiliate links and Corporette® may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. For more details see here. Thank you so much for your support!

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  1. Job Security!

    SO excited- just got the news that my nonprofit received a 45K challenge grant to fund the work I’m doing!

    • Carrots

      Yes! That is an awesome – get yourself some of those little bottles of champagne to celebrate tonight! (or heck, the whole big bottle!)

  2. Tetra

    Any attorneys barred in New York but practice elsewhere? Are you concerned about the recent case finding that New York attorneys must have an office in the state?

    • Solo

      Welp, just spent my biannual $375 to maintain my NYS license on the VERY OFF chance I will ever need it again (never moving back), and I had no idea about that case. And certainly no office there.

      Oh well?

    • Anonymous

      I googled this and it sounds like it’s just if you’re practicing in NY you have to have an office there. If you’re practicing elsewhere and not using your NY license, that’s fine and you can maintain your license without a local office. So you can be living and practicing in CA and still maintain your NY license in case you ever move back. But you can’t be living and having an office in NJ and practicing in NY, which kinda makes sense.

    • Gail the Goldfish

      Yes. We get newsletters from our malpractice carrier that had mentioned it. I seriously considered resigning my NY license since as of right now, I can’t use it, but I’m hanging on to it in the hope that the case either gets overturned (did supreme court grant cert? I can’t seem to find the answer to that) or the legislature does something about it. It’s pretty absurd this day in age, especially where there are so many NJ/NY or CT/NY-barred lawyers.

    • Another Atty

      Rhode Island has a similar rule. You have to be affiliated with a firm with a physical office in the state. Otherwise, you have to pro hac vice like everyone else.

  3. Calbrachoa

    Ladies, wish me luck! I have a job interview in 12 hours, a phone interview with another company the day after, and I’m waiting to hear if I got an interview for a dream job in a different country.

    (I am also freaking out because I am so out of practise with interviews I’ve read the interview suit gguide like, four times and still feel like I have no idea what I am doing XD)

    • NOLA

      Yay! So glad you have lots of possibilities for getting out of that crappy situation. Love and luck to you!

  4. MidLevel

    Hello, Reposting from yesterday since I posted too late in the day . . . I’m a long-time lurker. First time post. Anyone been to St. Louis, MO? Will be there for a couple days in early June for an ABA conference. Looking for shopping/dining tips for the day before and/or after the conference. Solo traveler. Loves thrift and vintage ) clothing and shops (although boutique retailers are fine too). Thanks in advance!

    • St. Louisan

      City neighborhoods I would recommmend are the Central West End, Delmar Loop and Cherokee Street. (Not a ton downtown except for Washington Ave. – you’ll need a cab, Uber or rental car.) Those neighborhoods are all good for exploring, shopping eating. All have shopping and good dining. CWE is the most upscale, Delmar and Cherokee are most hipster-ish.

      • Anon A

        Agree with Cherokee Street for thrift and vintage stuff–CWE has the boutiques (but also great people-watching if you camp out somewhere near the corner of Euclid and Maryland). Eat at La Vallesana, get a drink at the Fortune Teller Bar, and get coffee/breakfast at the Mud House!

  5. Anonymous

    I am in a one-woman war against plastic. I hate using straws anyway, but especially because of the plastic usage, but so many restaurants bring them to you without your asking, already in your drink (so you can’t decline). Is it super weird to say when you’re ordering your drink that you don’t need a straw?

    • Anonymous

      I don’t think it’s that weird to say. I always say I’d like a water without a slice of lemon in it (not because I hate the taste but because I read an article about how most lemons they stick in drinks are filthy).

    • Anon

      I don’t think it is weird. Thank you for posting it here. I will ask the server not to get me the straw next time I eat out.

    • Anonymous

      Not weird, but I think restaurants like straws because then they don’t have to wash the glasses as well (think lipstick, germs on the rim, etc.)

      • Anon

        Not sure that that’s true. Dishes aren’t washed by hand in a commercial operation – they are rinsed down and go through industrial dishwashers that have water temps up to 180 degrees. This is done for sanitary reasons.

        • SC

          This is true. And those industrial washers don’t always get the lipstick, so you can end up with sanitized lipstick smudges.

          • Anonymous

            Yes, this. It’s pretty easy for a dishwasher to kill germs without removing a lipstick smear or a tough food stain. So having everyone use straws avoids people returning glasses because they look gross.

        • Anon

          To get lipstick off they are. Those big sanitizing machines aren’t for getting things clean, just sanitized.

      • Ellen

        I think it is true. When I was dating Gonzalo a few years ago, he was the maiter dee and he specifically told me NOT to order drink’s without first haveing the waiter bring out the glass so that I could see how clean it was BEFORE they put the drink in it. When I asked him why, he told me that the restrunt he worked at did NOT wash glasses that did NOT look to dirty. And that meant if a person drunk with a straw, it was alot cleaner then if a woman put her lipstick all over the glass. FOOEY! From then on I bring my own disposable (plastic) cups whenever I go to a restrunt, and ONLEY order bottels of water, NOT tap water. FOOEY!

    • ex-consultant

      I don’t think it’s super-weird. Some places I order takeout from will throw plastic cutlery in and I’ve often said not to bother, that I already have steel at home (or in my lunch bag, at work). “I don’t use straws so please don’t put one in my drink” would suffice I think. I don’t imagine it’s any weirder than asking for a drink without ice or your curry without cilantro on top.

      • Wehaf

        I would put it even more briefly “I’ll have a lemonade; no straw, please.”

      • Anonymous

        I always get the plastic cutlery even when I say I don’t need it. I just goes into a drawer at home until it’s needed. So I guess I don’t have to buy it for those occasions?

    • AnonZ

      I used to wait tables; a request for no straw would not cause me to think twice. Servers get a lot of weird requests from people. Any request that takes no extra time or energy is A-OK.

    • Torin

      I’ve been considering doing this. I don’t use plastic if I can avoid it and don’t really like drinking out of a straw anyway. Am definitely going to start ordering “no straw please” drinks.

    • Anon

      Oh man, I love my straws. Are those metal straws hard to clean? Do you carry one in your handbag or do you just drink strawless? I like drinking anything iced from a straw because I have a tendency to get the drink all over myself when it’s near the end, and the big clump of ice whooshes out and hits me in the face.

      • Betsy

        Metal straws are so easy to clean! I just let it soak a few minutes if I’m hand washing, or throw it in the dishwasher.

      • Gail the Goldfish

        My favorite fancy bar uses metal straws, and why it never occurred to me until just this moment to find some to buy for myself, I don’t know, but this is a good idea.

  6. SF in House

    Does anyone know of an attorney in Chester County, PA? A family member has had to file a TRO and eviction order against her brother in law, who was living in her home while her husband/his brother is serving overseas. There are two hearings scheduled in early April and she would like to have an attorney with her.

    • CountC

      I don’t know if you are still reading, but email me at lizzyhicken01 at the mail of Google and I will see if I can dig up a recommendation for you.

  7. ...

    Just wanted to take a moment and thank every person here who has ever spent more than a few moments crafting a response to someone’s question. I’ve been that person off and on over the years who has asked, who sometimes posts anonymously, etc. and who has gotten very anxious between posting and receiving a response. Please know that your words matter and, even when you say what I don’t want to here (or maybe especially then), the words sink in and they give me perspective.

    Thank you all for being my surrogate sisters/colleagues/bosses/mothers. As someone who grew up without family and who never had anyone to teach me about professional clothing or how to do grow-up things, I so so much appreciate you.

    • Ellen

      You are VERY welcome. I too am both a reciever and a giver of information to the HIVE, and I VERY much appreciate the oportunity to PAY IT FORWARD, as Dad says. He says you NEVER know when you will need someone to help you and the help comes from the MOST unforseen places. So that is why Kate and Kat are doing such a good job of letting us speak to one another, as women profesionals, on this websight, where we can share our opinion’s on IMPORTANT topics of the day, in addition to FASHION, which to me is just as important, b/c we MUST look presenteble in order to be taken seriously. SO 3 CHEERS for KAT, KATE, and all of us ‘RETTES, as SUZI Stockbroker says. I second the m’otion! YAY!!!!!!

    • Dahlia

      That’s lovely. Thank you for posting that!

      I have also been so grateful for the lovely women here. Not only for the career and fashion advice, but when my husband lost his job and I was very scared about what would happen, the kind, supportive women here posted about their own experiences and pep talks on how we would get through it, and I read them all through teary eyes and then pulled myself together and wrote a budget and moved forward. I thought back to those kind words often through those difficult months!

      You all are wonderful.

  8. Meg March

    I’ve got a half day in Austin where I’m totally free. Any recommendations on what to do? I’ll have a car.

    • ann

      If you’ve got a free evening go see the bats under Ann W. Richards Bridge. I recommend standing at the bottom and watching them fly up over you right before sunset. It’s amazing. It’s bat season now, too. I also second hamilton pool (I spent a lot of time there as a kid) however it’s an hour outside town and you need to take everything with you. Maybe it’s changed but when I was there it’s literally a swimming hole. If you like shopping, I recommend walking around South Congress. The Capitol building is also nice to tour.

    • Not That Anne, The Other Anne

      Definitely the bats. And if you’ll be in downtown, go by the Driskill. It was built in 1886 and and it’s worth seeing.

  9. What's the Nicest/Kindest Thing a Friend Has Ever Done For You?

    Hoping maybe we can inspire each other to do some nice things for friends since there’s so much of a $hitshow going on in so much of this country these days…

    A friend of mine used to have a pizza delivered to me when we’d catch up via phone and I’d mentioned having a rough week or something going on. It happened maybe twice a year for a few years, often when I was venting about work or being too tired to have eaten that day or something like that. It probably cost her $15-20 but it made my entire life better in that moment, every single time.

    Something I do? I keep thank you cards and a pen in my bag and any time I’m sitting in a waiting room, I think of someone who has been kind to me or who I haven’t reached out to in a while and I write them a “thank you for being a friend” note (yes, I’m a lifelong Golden Girls fan). I buy the cards in bulk at the discount store and stamps aren’t so expensive, and it’s a piece of mail that’s not a bill and that’s unexpected. Some friends say they still have cards I sent them 20+ yrs ago!

    • New Tampanian

      I love these.

      I tend to send my friends flowers. Whether it’s their birthday, a tough time, an amazing time when they’ve achieved something great, flowers are always good. When people’s pets pass, if they own their home, I sent them a memorial tree. A good friend said the tree helped her when explaining to the kiddos about their pup passing.

      My BFF sent me flowers years ago when I was in the in-between stage of a break up. We had broken up but were still living together and I was finding a new place to live. The note was so sweet. I still have it. A mentor recently sent me flowers with an amazing note for my bday.

      And cupcake deliveries. This happened on my birthday and OMG it made my day!

    • Anon

      One of my close friends planned my birthday party when it was clear my husband was going to fail at it.

      It was my 40th and my husband’s big idea to have the party, but I was getting grumpy about it because he wasn’t doing anything but giving it lip service. (he does have redeeming qualities. this isn’t one of them.)

      One day I vented to my friend at lunch, “Great, I’m going to have to throw my own party.” My friend took it upon herself to contact my husband and volunteered to do just about everything herself. She gave him specific tasks but she did everything else. I’ll be forever grateful. It was the most fun party I’ve ever been to in my life, and it was my party!

    • AIMS

      I’m really terrible at asking for help or even accepting help when it’s offered, so the nicest thing any friend has done for me is force me to accept help without asking. When we moved recently a good friend of mine came by to visit and when she saw how much unpacking I had yet to do she basically just started unpacking and organizing my stuff, making me throw away things I should have thrown away before moving and so on. It was so amazingly helpful! I’m smiling just thinking about it.

      Something I try to do for my friends is to be mindful of their situations so if a friend is going through a tough time financially, I try to find a way to pick up the check if we go out, or if I know someone is home alone for a holiday or birthday, I’ll see if they’d like to do something or join something I’m doing. I don’t know if that’d particularly notable. I have also used my “legal skills” to help friends with various situations, maybe that’s more appreciated, even if it isn’t generally considered to be a good idea.

    • ;;;

      My mom died after a long illness right after I had visited her. (I got the call within 5 minutes of unlocking my door after a 5 hour drive.) I had promised to let my friend C know when I was back in town and, on autopilot, I called her after I got off the phone with my father. I didn’t realize how upset I was until I actually couldn’t speak to her – she just heard me crying on the other end of the line. She immediately left the party she was at, got food and came over to my apartment to spend the next 3 hours holding my hand while I sobbed. I really appreciated that she didn’t try to calm me down and gave me space to grieve. Many people were very kind to me in the days and weeks after my mother’s death but I’ll never ever forget sitting on the couch with C.

    • Anon

      I am forever thankful to my friends who stuck with me during a very difficult time of my life. I just cannot believe the patience they had and support they provided me. I learnt to knit during this time as a distraction from all the difficulties. Now, I am knitting simple but high quality merino wool or alpaca wraps for all of them. It will take a full year. I am using the skill I learnt when I was leaning of them to show the warmth that they provided me.

    • Walnut

      After breaking up with an ex, a good friend came over and spent hours with me while I cried offering moral support. This was unexpected because this good friend was also a best friend to the ex. One of my fears in exiting the relationship was that I was also going to lose all of our mutual friends as a result.

    • Jules

      Our son was born a couple of weeks early and got sick when he was less than a week old. It was scary and we were stressed and exhausted. That week was Thanksgiving and we were supposed to go to a big vegan Thanksgiving party (I’m vegetarian, ex-H is vegan) a friend was organizing. She called on Tuesday or Wednesday to see if we were still coming and found out the baby had arrived and was sick. Within hours she showed up with an enormous holiday dinner for us, complete with an entire pie. It was enough food for several meals, and still – 22 years later! (that baby is a six-foot, bearded college senior) – ranks as one of the kindest things anyone ever has done for me.

    • friends

      One of the Valentine’s Days that I was single (and grumpy because of my singleness), a girl friend drove over to my condo while I was at work, intending to leave a chocolate rose on my doorstep. She couldn’t get into my building so she tied the rose to the intercom system in the driveway with a hair elastic.

      It was such a small and simple gesture, but the thought and care she showed has stuck with me for years!!!

    • Sloan Sabbith

      My friend drove me to the ER, after working a night shift as a nurse herself, sat with me while I was shedding flu like crazy, held the bag while I vomited, got me home and into bed, went and got Tamiflu and Gatorade, cleaned up more vomit (turns out the hydration they gave me via IV makes me vomit),, set out all the meds I needed to take, and generally just made things a million times easier.

  10. Anon

    I have a couple close friends who’ve sent me a care package at a time when I was struggling, and it was just wonderful to get that box in the mail. I also have a couple friends who have helped me move, or who have insisted on taking me out to celebrate a promotion or a new job, or who have written me random cards letting me know they’re thinking of me.

    Things I do: send random cards and postcards, send care packages to friends who are having a rough time, help people with moving, bring food over when someone is sick or has a new baby, insist on celebrating my friend’s successes, make the effort to plan the occasional weekend trip with friends who’ve moved far away.

  11. Anon

    Wise hive: any recs for a spa in Boston (really Cambridge)? Alternatively, any great gift ideas for someone who just successfully defended her dissertation? Looking for something for my SIL; budget of $150ish. Thanks!

    • Boston

      I go to Exhale but it’s in Back Bay (they also have a location in Battery Wharf), not Cambridge. If she likes yoga they also have classes so if you got a gift card she could use it on fitness + relaxation.

    • Boston

      I go to Exhale spa but it’s not in Cambridge (locations in Back Bay and Battery Wharf). They are also a yoga / barre studio if she is interested in that.

    • CX

      Oh, I just went to a bachelore t t e party that spent the morning at G20 Salon in Boston and we were really impressed with their concept: you pay for various services, but they also have a “penthouse” floor you can just hang out in, a hot tub, and a “brine” room, that you have free range of. We did the Bali Experience (fancy steam room salt scrub thing) and then hung out using the facilities for several hours. You can order food through the spa but it’s BYOB, so we drank champagne their entire time :) ~$75/person for several hours of spa time and the one partier who got a pedicure said it was comprable to other downtown prices.

      Does anyone know of a spa with a similar concept in DC/NoVa?

  12. BeenThatGuy

    The day my ex-husband got remarried, some of my friends took me down to Atlantic City for the night. We had a special dinner planned at Bobby Flay Steak. After we ordered, the waiter came over with a bottle of champagne and said “‘Friend’ says have fun tonight”. We all just looked at him. And I asked him to say that again. So he did. I just burst out crying. A dear friend, who couldn’t join us, arranged for a bottle of champagne to be sent to our table. It was really one of the most special things anyone has ever done for me.

  13. SC

    My boss just gave me Friday off, barring any work emergencies. DH is out of town, Kiddo will be in daycare, I have about $10 left in “fun money” for March. Weather will be warm but sunny. WWYD?

    • Anonymous

      If you are willing to take an advance on April’s fun money, I’d go to yoga, then get a massage or pedicure (or both) in the morning. Then I’d take my kid out of daycare and go to a nice park and have a picnic.

    • Dream Schedule

      I would sleep in. Then I would go to a coffee shop that I hadn’t been to in a while (or maybe a new one) with a stack of magazines and just sit in the warm sun, hopefully on a patio, flipping through them at a leisurely pace. I would meet a friend for lunch, potentially, or maybe go to a local art museum. Then I would go on a long walk with my mother in the afternoon. For dinner, I’d have something a tiny bit fancy/fussy and delicious that would never meet the meal-criteria of my family, like a baguette with brie and blueberries. Then I’d watch the Sound of Music in bed while drinking champagne and sing along to every song.

    • June

      I’d start the morning with an hour of rigorous exercise then a bubble bath and shaving legs and painting toenails. Then I’d get picnic or takeout supplies for lunch and sit in the sun at a park, eat lunch, read a book for fun, and drink one of those little bottles of champagne that someone mentioned earlier that I’ve had on my mind ever since. Bonus points if you live somewhere where there might be live music near a park bench.

    • Maddie Ross

      I would go for a run, take a long shower and put back on “atheleisure” wear, and go to a coffee shop and sit outside having coffee and a muffin or yummy pastry. I would probably also take an advance on April and get a pedicure as I desperately need one for the warm weather and it’s so, so tough to get H to watch the kids for that activity (b/c it sounds like a spa day, but has really become a normal part of maintenance expected of women in the summer… ).

    • Wildkitten

      I’d read a book in the park, uninterrupted. I might do that tomorrow myself anyway…

  14. Maudie Atkinson

    Hard to share this without sounding like a braggart, but I just had a glowing (annual) performance review, capped off with a much bigger annual bonus than I expected. I’m going to treat myself with a few hundred dollars of it, and the rest will go to DH’s student loans as, thankfully, mine are already paid.
    Mostly, though, it was so affirming to get almost universally positive feedback, as my internal assessment of myself isn’t always as kind or gracious as I’d like. It was a nice reminder–in addition to other personal work I’m doing–to be more gentle with myself.

    • Ellen

      Yay for Maudie Atkinson!!!! Kudo’s to you!!!!! It is ALWAYS great news to read that another member of our HIVE is finally getting the recognition we deserve. It is NOT bragging; instead it is just relaying the news to your freinds in the HIVE who know that you deserve all the kudo’s for all of your hard work. Your DH is very lucky to have a spouse like you. I know that if I were married I would do the same as you, but I can tell you that my Alan would surely have been more greedy if he got a bonus, spending it all on himself. Fortunately, I figured this out early enough to dump his sorry tuchus b/f his probelem became my probelem! YAY!!!!!!

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