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Ellen
Yay! TPS Tuesday! I love TPS Tuesday and these pant’s (if I was abel to wear pant’s) and I LOVE Nordstrom’s! Great pick for Pant’s wearer’s. Mabye Hillary would look better in these pant’s b/c she is lookeing a little dowdie now that she is runneing for office again. I read in the Times that she has HUMA ABADIN workeing for her on the campaign. I guess she has to work now that she is a mom b/c her husband, Mr. WEENIER, is on the out’s after he texted picture’s of his winkie to other women. Huma should be the ONLEY one to have to see that winkie b/c she is married to him and he dipped that winkie (a/k/a “wick”) in her to get the baby. I think it is terribel when a guy dips with one woman and then send’s pictures of his wick on the INTERNET! DOUBEL FOOEY!
Speaking of Wick, I told him that I did NOT want to travel up to Kingston to see him. I do NOT know him and we have NOTHING realy in common. I am a city gal and he is a farmer (or something close). How could it ever work out? So now I am back planning to see how I can get to Noah. He is an MD and was cute and thought I was SMART! Someone in the HIVE wrote last week saying I should pretend my stomack was not feeleing well and to have him papilate me with his hand’s, and then take off my clothe’s for him. I think that was a littel to much, but Grandma Trudy said it was fine and to go for it. I can NOT go thru doeing that with anyone. As an honest person (and attorney admitted in NYS), I do NOT think it would be ethiceal.
I am very busy today, and MUST complete March Billeing’s THIS week b/c the manageing partner is takeing off next week and want’s all bills sent out under his Signature. So I must come up with an extra 150 hours to bill in advance b/c of HIS vacation plans? Whatever. The cleint’s are happy so that is all that matters. YAY!!!!
Senior Attorney
“Great pick for Pant’s wearer’s.”
For some reason this is making me giggle uncontrollably…
Hannah
I like the reference to Huma, who is the wife of Anthony Wiener, who did bare his privates to the world!
Avery
Laughed. Out. Loud.
Anonymous
Does anyone have any experience with Elaine Turner Bags? Specifically her cork line? I adore the look of cork, but I don’t want to spend the money if they don’t hold up well. Alternatively, does anyone know of any other handbag designers that use cork? TIA!
a-non
My firm recently installed an IMing software program. I’m kind of creeped out by it — for ex, it sets your status as “away” based on your keystrokes, so theoretically you could be sitting at your computer reading cases and show up as “away” if a partner wanted to contact you. Am I being paranoid? Is this a common system at firms or corporations and I’m just behind the times?
Cb
I use Lync and the settings allow you to change the away functions to integrate with your outlook calendar. You can also override the inactivity function.
Equestrian2
This. We use Lync and I like it because it allows me to be lazy if I have a one off question for someone. However, it is also annoying at times because people (like me) will send questions regardless of your status. I mainly use it for quick questions where I don’t want to interrupt with a phone call (IM they can answer at their leisure) or walk across the building (or to another building) and for my west coast and European folks. I also use it to talk to co-workers re: water cooler things. On Lync, the auto setting at my company is for all your conversations to automatically be saved in Outlook. So be aware of that if the system they are implementing is Lync. To the best of my knowledge, no one here cares if you are online but away. The default here is that people are doing their work and to let them be unless there is an issue. Having worked at a law firm, I understand it’s can be very different depending on the firm.
At a prior job, we also had IM. Before they copped to monitoring it, people used it purely for socialization. At that job, our general counsel would incessantly monitor people – if they logged on 10 minutes late in the morning, you’d better have a good excuse or you would be told to submit leave time. If you were gone from your desk for more than a bathroom break and you weren’t in a meeting? You better have a good explanation. Working from home during a weather emergency, you’d better be green all day . . . etc. But that GC was a terrible, terrible, bully of a boss. So YMMV.
Zelda
+1. I work in a global company and we use Lync all the time. We’ve even added Lync voice so that you can use it to call other Lync users. The eventual goal is to enable calls to regular phones and get rid of phones in the office. I don’t think they use Lync to monitor us (my office is more focused on output than face time), but I still try and log in by 9 at the latest. We use it all the time for both work and socializing. We’re an extremely virtual office (none of my clients are even the same state and most aren’t in the same country), so we don’t have the option of popping into someone’s office to ask a question. People tend to be respectful of “busy” or “in a meeting” statuses here, so it’s not super intrusive when you actually are busy.
anon
My biglaw firm has Lync. I refuse to use it. I don’t like being spied on.
Meanwhile, I am representing a client in a litigation matter and our document collection for discovery purposes includes both the emails and the Lync chats, which are saved exactly like emails on Microsoft. So be advised that every.single.thing you put in Lync is archived in your company’s servers just like your work email.
Cat
This is common, although keystrokes vs. mouse is weird. If it’s Communicator, you may be able to change the number of minutes before your status changes, by opening up your “buddy list” and clicking on the down arrow next to the big green circle and nosing around “options.” This can have the unintended consequence, though, that you actually *are* away – like in a meeting – and people assume you’re just ignoring them because you’re still showing as active.
Anyway, don’t stress about it too much if you’re at your desk- if someone IMs you while you’ve been busy but not typing for awhile, you’ll still see it. And any partner “savvy” enough to use the IM feature will also realize that he or she has the same problem.
Brant
turn your computer sound on. i never see the IM pop up if i’m focused on something else (calls, writing notes, etc) but the sound helps a ton.
Miss Behaved
Is it Cisco Jabber? You can change it. You can also reset some of its timings.
Diana Barry
FWIW, when my firm implemented this a few years ago, none of the partners used it. They got rid of it shortly thereafter.
Coach Laura
Not in law but most senior (read: older) execs hate the IM feature and never use it. If your bosses are younger and tech savvy that might be different.
(Former) Clueless Summer
Haha, I would not worry about partners at your firm contacting you on it! I believe our firm has the settings so that lowly associates and staff cannot even contact partners unless they “add” us first as friends.
We mostly use it to talk to other juniors or students about non-work stuff. I don’t know any partners who actively use it. The most useful functions are if its integrated with your phone – you can see when others are on a call, and you can type in names into jabber and call them automatically through your phone, rather than searching the directory for an extension or whatever.
Walnut
The first thing I changed on my IM application was to automatically save the conversations in my email for CYA purposes.
Anon
I use this feature all of the time with our IM service. In my experience, senior staff never use it or pay attention, but I use it a lot to talk to co-workers, especially in regional offices. I haven’t seen it used much as a monitoring tool though.
Gail the Goldfish
We have one, but it’s used pretty much just for casual things like “want to get lunch” or “can you come by in 10 minutes to talk about X case.” I don’t think anyone pays attention to the status button unless it’s indicating you’re in a call. “Away” or “Available” is fairly meaningless since it defaults to away pretty quickly.
Anonathon
Advice needed please! I’m almost 10 weeks pregnant and struggling with my darn commute. I take two trains (DC Metro) to work and have a walk on both ends, maybe 0.8 miles total. I feel silly saying this, but it’s been knocking me out. The past couple weeks, I’ve been completely exhausted by the time I get to my office. (Morning sickness is also exacerbated by Metro.) Any tips and tricks for, well, not having that happen? I can’t take a power nap when I get here because my office is open plan. Thanks much!
Wildkitten
Could you take a bus? If you get on in time to get a seat (I assume you’re not visibly pregnant enough that people will just dive out of your way) I find taking one bus to be much more pleasant than taking two trains.
Anonathon
I actually was just thinking about that! Looking into it now.
Diana Barry
Go to bed earlier. I had a walk-subway commute with my first and was seriously going to bed at 8 pm most nights. It should ease up a bit when you get past 14 weeks – I found then I had more energy.
mascot
This. The exhaustion should abate in the next few weeks. Also, SeaBands helped me with the morning sickness.
layered bob
yep, I felt way better after 14 weeks. Before then, I would get home at 6:00 and go directly to bed (yes at 6:00), and sleep until 6:30 the next morning.
Anon 2
And it might be time to think about a car. Not just for you, but b/c working and daycare pickups (or going home to let the nanny get home) are not public transit friendly IMO, even if you are inside the beltway.
I’d look to what happens after maternity leave and see if that doesn’t guide your decision on how to commute. I’ve had friends have luck with the bus (DC and N. Arlington), but even then it’s hard. And first trimester is exhausting anyway.
Good luck!
AR
First thought — try changing your prenatal medicine. Mine made me really nauseous so I had to swap a few times to fix it.
I’m with the car, too. Public transportation is really hard with a long commute and kids in daycare, especially. Most have a one hour pickup window after they call to say a kiddo is sick and that is impossible to meet if you are not driving yourself. So maybe see if you can start driving in now? The going to bed early and exercising advice is great, too.
If no car, I would maybe suggest to see if you could get in a little early and take a nap before others get in? Just give yourself a thirty minute window. Or give yourself time to stop at a cafe on the walk to work to sit down and get breakfast before going to work. Refresh yourself and rest before starting the work day.
SuziStockbroker
I had to go to bed much much earlier in the first 20 weeks of my first pregnancy. I was exhausted.
That said, I kept up with exercise. In my experience I am even MORE tired when I don’t exercise regularly, pregnant or not.
It’s much harder when you are pregnant and exhausted AND have a toddler, so take advantage of (hopefully) being able to go to bed super early now!
LawDawg
No words of advice, but some commiseration. When I was pregnant, I took power naps when I got into the office and at lunchtime. I also went to sleep at 7:00 at night because I was so exhausted. At 12 weeks, the exhaustion magically lifted and I was able to get through the rest of my pregnancy just fine. Keeping my fingers crossed for you that you will come out of the fog soon.
NYC tech
Do whatever you have to do (which might mean spending some money or calling in a favor) to get through the next month or so. You’ll likely have SO much more energy once you hit early/mid second trimester. Can you take a cab to/from one of the stations, or ask your partner or a friend for a ride?
You’ll also want to plan ahead for late in your third trimester, because once you get really big, the 3.2 miles a day of walking might not be sustainable (or at least you won’t want to be forced to do it every day – you’ll want a backup option).
Snickety
Can you afford to take a taxi for the last bit, even a couple of times a week? Sounds like it would be very worth it. As others have said, you’ll probably get some of your energy back in a few weeks.
RDC
I was in the same situation last year. My solutions were — ask DH to drive me (even though it was out of the way for him), take an uber, or muster up the courage to ask people for their seat. It’s awkward but you just have to do it sometimes. Once you get more obviously / visibly pregnant people do become a bit nicer about offering, but often times they don’t even look up from their phones. Don’t feel bad about asking to sit.
Anonathon
Thank you so much for the thoughtful advice, everyone! So much appreciated. (We do have one car between us and maybe should be exploring a monthly parking pass options …)
J
Does anyone have experience or advice on adopting a work uniform or signature work outfit? This has been getting some news coverage (e.g., Matilda Kahl on Harper’s Bazaar, POTUS, Steve Jobs) and sometimes a few women on this board mention having consistent outfits and pared down wardrobes. Now that I’m 40 and well established in career and personal life, I’m tempted by the idea of sticking to a uniform– a fabulously flattering and appropriate one, of course. Has anyone tried it? Will I get bored after a few months? I was sick of my maternity clothes by the end. What happens if I do it for a few months and then drop it? Will people at the office notice and talk… like when someone dramatically changes hair styles and color? Will I appear flake-y and possibly less like a good leader?
Anon
I work with someone who seems to wear a uniform and she looks awesome. Almost every day, she wears a black (usually pants) suit, a black or white top, and a silk scarf open between the jacket and top. My guess is she has 6-10 scarves in rotation, but it might be less. Everything just looks so high quality, sharp, and authoritative. I think she looks so great and I wish I could pull something like that off (without completely copying her from down the hall).
Scout
Does the black top with the black suit look too much or chic? I love that look but not sure how to pull it off. Or does the scarf with a pop of color make it work?
J
Thanks for the insights, ladies! I’m feeling inspired and also checking out the brooks button down.
Wildkitten
I wear a sheath dress and blazer almost every day. I do get sick of my clothes, and have to retire them and rotate them, but not any more tired of them as I am when creating outfits from more variety of pieces. It doesn’t decrease the quantity of clothes I need, just reduces the number of choices I have to make in the morning (choose one dress, select matching blazer, done). I also only wear blacks and grey, not brown or navy. It does reduce the amount of clothes I own and store but don’t actually wear.
Nobody will notice or talk.
nutella
Oh! Me too! I wear a solid color sheath dress nearly everyday. Every so often I might wear some pants or a skirt, but for the most part, I’m 5-7 dresses a season. I mix it up with necklaces, scarves, cardigans, but mostly don’t care too much about trying to hide what I’m wearing.
TO Lawyer
I find this makes it really easy to mix and match though. Dress + necklace + blazer might be my outfit formula but it doesn’t look like I’m wearing a “uniform”.
tesyaa
My former boss (who I still see) wears a uniform of dress pants, collarless jacket and sweater shell…. every single day. If you do this, go for the highest quality, best fitting items you can find.
Emma
I currently have about 9 dresses that I wear every day. It is the best choice I’ve made. I have a few blazers that I wear on top sometimes. I’m sure people notice that I wear dresses every day, and heck, maybe they could guess how many I own. But I could care less. I want to be known for my work, not for my amazing fashion. So, while I like to look polished and appropriate, I am not going to make decisions based on a fear that other people won’t think I’m fashionable enough.
I will be changing jobs and need to have a more conservative wardrobe. I’m going to have a little more mix-and-match (a few skirts, a few pairs of pants, a few dresses), but I will probably end up mentally creating about 10 outfits in my head, and then just wearing one each day.
I absolutely love that I can just pick which set of clothes I’ll wear any given day, and throw it on. The time and mental energy it saves me each morning is amazing.
Emily
I would also love to do this and was sort of on the way there with a rotation of pencil skirts & tops or sheaths and different jackets that better fit my frame than a “blazer”.
I doubt anybody would notice other than in a positive way or comment when you are done, and if they did, all you would have to say is, I tried the uniform thing, but now I’m onto something else.
(Former) Clueless Summer
I don’t have a uniform by any means but I certainly own mostly a few styles of clothes. One way you can dramatically pare down your wardrobe and make dressing easier without going full on uniform is to stop buying/donate existing items that you think you should be wearing, but don’t actually like wearing. We all have those items! I think I should be wearing button downs, so I buy them, but don’t wear them, or don’t feel confident when I do. I also thought I should be wearing pants, but then I realized I hate pants at work. I don’t wear pants, ever, at work and I’m great with that now. I do lots of sheath dresses with sleeves, collarless blazers, pencil skirts and blouses. This, along with picking a colour scheme, has helped make my wardrobe so much more wearable.
Ella
This is basically what I do. I resist the urge to buy things I should wear or think I would like to wear but never actually do. I wear a blazer and either a blouse and pencil skirt or sheath dress with sleeves every day. I also buy things in a very limited color palette. This means that I have a wardrobe where I wear all of my clothes regularly and everything basically goes with everything else. I have a lot of black, grey, navy (i like wearing black and navy together) white/ivory and olive green. Then i have a few mint/pale blue accents for summer and a few eggplant/maroon accents for summer. I then add more fun with belts, scarves, necklaces, and shoes. I realized hate wearing bracelets and earrings so I’ve stopped buying those entirely.
Baconpancakes
I kind of wish I was in a field where a suit every day was acceptable. Suit, shirt, shoes, done. If I ever get a position where jeans are acceptable every day, I’d probably wear jeans, shirt, and blazer every day. My dream closet (for this situation) would have a dozen blazers in various weights, colors, and fabrics. I think whether or not you’ll get sick of it depends on you.
As far as people noticing, they will, but you can just tell them exactly your reasoning, and as long as you look appropriate, they probably won’t care. I noticed my coworker who rotated five sheath dresses all year, but she always looked good in them, so I didn’t think anything of it. If you go uniform, and then stop, I’d try to make it more gradual than abrupt, to avoid the inevitable questions.
L in DC
Yes, I have two work uniforms. Uniform 1 = black or navy sheath dress with sleeves (with a blazer on the back of my chair in case I want to look extra formal). Uniform 2 = black or navy suit slacks, navy/black/plum top, separates blazer that is black/navy/charcoal. It makes getting dressed so easy, and I always feel polished and sharp. No one notices that I effectively wear the same thing all the time. In fact, when I started dressing this way, I had multiple people start commenting on how nice I looked. Definitely give it a try and see how it works for you.
tesyaa
It could be that people notice you wear a uniform and just don’t mention it or care. If you look good, I don’t think there’s any reason to apologize for having a repetitive style.
ss
I think of my professional wardrobe as a uniform because much of it are the same successful designs reproduced in different fabric (or sometimes not even). Not boring for me – my minor variations on the same well-loved themes actually add up to quite a lot of stuff – and of course extremely functional.
I’m senior enough that people rarely comment on my outfits directly but I know there are folks who think my female staff tends to dress like me after awhile – flattering I guess, but I also suspect we are all converging on a similar hard-working business-appropriate travel-friendly template. I suppose if I saw someone else with a dramatic wardrobe shake-up, I might notice for a second and then return to the task at hand.
Jules
Late to the discussion, but here’s something about a woman who wears the same exact outfit every day to work:
http://www.businessinsider.com/woman-wears-same-work-outfit-matilda-kahl-2015-4
MJ
I wear a brooks brothers button-front shirt, cashmere v-neck and suit skirt with either heels or ballet flats nearly every day. (I am really leggy, so I don’t need heels, but I love towering over people at times). Occasionally I wear Talbots Audrey sweaters. That’s it. I have a wide range of colors and solids and striped shirts, but I always look put together, not overdressed and I am comfy in nearly all weather. So easy.
anonymous
I work in an office with people who eat very crunchy/loud food all day long. Isn’t this just so obviously impolite?
Mpls
Some people are more sensitive to food noise (I’m totally one of them), especially when they are outside of a dinner table context. And other people just don’t notice, and if it doesn’t bother them it doesn’t occur to them that it bothers other people.
tesyaa
Apparently it’s a real diagnosis (?) called misophonia. I saw this article recently
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/please-stop-making-that-noise/
CountC
I am also very, very sensitive to food noise – it makes me irrationally angry and upset. I could hear someone clipping their nails the other day which made me want to throw up. I agree that most people don’t notice this type of noise so it doesn’t occur to them that it may bother others. I have earplugs that I wear a lot of the time I am sitting at my desk, which helps immensely.
Blonde Lawyer
We were convinced we had a nail clipper in the office from the noise but couldn’t figure out who it was. We eventually realized it was a clicking noise that sounded just like nail clipping coming from our toaster oven for a minute or two when it was heating up on the rare occasions someone used it. It just somehow resonated through the floor. We were much less grossed out when we figured out what it actually was.
CountC
HA! That’s too funny.
Mpls
I don’t mind fingernail clippers myself, but the lipsmacking that goes with open mouth chewing or throat clearing for those with a post-nasal drip or something – holy goodness, I can’t help by hyperfocus on those sounds. Shudder.
SoCalAtty
I feel so bad. Being pregnant, I’ve started having to clear my throat. I never have before…apparently it is a pregnant thing. I keep water, cough drops, and other things at my desk and get up and go into the hall to cough, but I feel so bad!
Mpls
My brother would do this clearing/coughing/hacking thing that absolutely drove me nuts. I think it’s a result of not drinking enough water and so the drainage down the back of the throat doesn’t happen as nicely as it should (because now it happens to me too).
I now recognize that it’s a me thing, so that helps me from getting too snappish at him, but it also means that I try to have a buffer (earphones/plugs, music playing) when we’re in the car together and I can’t get away from it.
tesyaa
Having read your description of your brother, I’m now thinking of the great Tony Randall as Felix Unger.
la vie en bleu
I am usually able to block out noises around me, but at my last job there was this guy who was a smoker who would SO loudly hack/clear his throat every 60 seconds or so. He was across the hall from me, but so loud that I could hear it clearly when both doors were open. Made me insane every single time. I dramatically increased my use of earbuds/background music, but in the case that I forgot or had just hung up the phone and heard it, gah!
Wanderlust
Mpls, it’s almost as if you can hear my cubiclemate! He does all of those, and I haven’t taken off my noise cancelling head phones in MONTHS.
Lately he has been grazing all day on shelled pistachios, to make it even worse.
Emma
There’s always noise. I get annoyed by co-workers who are loud typers, banging on the keys. It may annoy me, but it’s how they operate. I’m sure that I do stuff that annoys them, too.
Why don’t you try to find some way to make it more workable for you? I like to have a fan running, mostly for the white noise. I don’t even have it blowing on me all the time. Really, it’s just nice to have a little bit of white noise to block out the clacking.
LilyS
I know there’s a FitBit group for here – would anyone be interested in a Strava group?
Anonymous
I interviewed a little over a week ago for a job. At the time I was really excited about it and I do think it would be a great fit for me. However, for family reasons I don’t think I can make the financial sacrifice right now, and I don’t think I would accept if offered. Should I let them know now that they should take me out of the running, or wait and see if they make me an offer? The timing just isn’t right. :(
Anonymous
eta – they brought up the salary and benefits in the interview, so I have a better idea now of what it would entail and have had some time to reflect on these factors.
CountC
With reasonable negotiations (e.g. not a 40% salary increase), could you get to a place where it would work for you and your family? If yes, then I say wait it out and try to negotiate. If there is absolutely no possible way to negotiate salary and benefits to a place where you could accept, then IMO it would be the right thing to do to remove yourself.
Scandia - Petite clothes and Nashville
Hello Everyone,
I need some advice about shopping petite clothes and shopping in Nashville.
I am going to a conference in Nashville! Sigthseeing is covered in the conference, but I will have time of for shopping. I come from Europe, from a country without petite clothing. I am short in a land of gigants.
Last time I went to the US, I marvelled over trousers, I did not have to hem, and blazers without too longs sleeves. My first question is about petite clothes in general. Which brands have a lot of petite clothes? What would you recommend? I am 5 feet 3, and wear a size 2 in BR and am looking for business casual mainly.
There was a discussion here, not so long ago, where GreenHill Mall and the Hil center was mentioned. I will be living in the Vanderbilt area, I will not have a car. I also heard about the outlet, Opry mills, anybody know that?
Thank you very much!
Nashvillian
If you’re staying around Vanderbilt, you’re within walking distance of the boutiques in Hillsboro Village, but if you want to go to the Green Hills Mall or Hill Center, you’ll need to take a cab or Uber. I would personally not recommend going to Opry Mills unless you have a ton of time and patience. It’s the worst of America and a pain to get to from the Vanderbilt area. I’m not petite, but I would guess you could find a lot of petite things at the Mall or in the boutiques. If you’re interested in jeans, go to Imogene & Willie in 12th South. They hem your jeans on site for you and it’s an awesome store!
Thea
I don’t have Nashville-specific advice, but Ann Taylor and Ann Taylor Loft (found in nearly every mall in america) have a lot of petite clothing.
Jules
Also no specific recommendations, but Talbot’s stores usually have a good petite section, as would any decent-sized department store such as Macy’s or Dillard’s.
Have a great trip!
Wild Chicken
Nashvillian here — Green Hills Mall is definitely the place for you. It’s an easy Uber ride from either downtown or Hillsboro Village, which one of the other posters already discussed (and which is also really cool). Green Hills Mall has Ann Taylor, Banana Republic, Nordstrom, Dillards, Macy’s, and a few smaller and nicer boutiques. And the Hill Center is another very short Uber ride from Green Hills Mall (I’d say you could walk, but there really aren’t any sidewalks, unfortunately). Lots of really nice shops there, including Antropolgie. There’s a Talbots that’s very close to the Hill Center – in fact, you could walk it if you go out the back of the Hill Center (by the Whole Foods and the YMCA), make a left, and walk about 100 feet until you see a carwash on your left and then make a left into that shopping center. It has petites. Traffic into Green Hills can turn what should be a 10 minute Uber ride into a 30-40 minute one, so try to time your ride during a non-rush hour if possible. Hope you find what you’re looking for!
Scandia
Thank you to all of you. I am very gratefull
Clementine
So, fun story! My office has high turnover, high burnout and very low morale. In our organization, people also won’t transfer to our office even though there is incredible mobility here because they know that my department specifically likes to forget that employees are people.
A junior employee was having a five minute morning coffee conversation with a new employee. It was literally a ‘did you have a good weekend? Oh that’s nice.’ conversation. Neither had pressing assignments, etc. Junior employee’s boss has now notified junior employee that they are not allowed to socialize outside of lunch break (which 60% of the office doesn’t get on a normal day). Additionally, it has been ‘suggested’ that this is the office wide policy and any office socializing will reflect poorly on our performance reviews.
Note: the non-management staff in our office is constantly meeting unrealistic deadlines, going the extra mile, producing high quality work with 0 turnaround time. WHEEEEEEEE!!!
la vie en bleu
whaa!??! Is this office of yours in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth? I thought I had bad managers :o(
MJ
what-the-what? That place sounds beyond miserable. I’d transfer too!
Thea
I’m sorry Kat, but I’m starting to think your style sense is stuck in the aughts.
Anonymous
+ 1,000,000
cbackson
Yeah, I’m not really a fan of these outfits…the styling seems just a few seasons behind, and the colors are drab.
Carrie on Homeland - clothes?
I was recently watching “Homeland” for the first time. Do you know where Carrie’s suits come from?
I realized that she has my body, and has some decent looking pant suits that she wears – which would be my ideal. Slender pear – flat chested, rear heavy. I was initially directed to Theory, but the pants do not work at all. I’m kicking myself for spending hundreds of dollars on pants that still are uncomfortable before and after tailoring.
I have kind of accepted I will never find a pant suit that fits without substantial tailoring. But I cannot realistically move to skirts. Too much bending/crouching etc… at work.
Any favorites if you are my shape?
E
I am the exact same as you. Will be watching the replies!
E
What about A-line skirts/dresses? Or do you have to do a suit?
Carrie on Homeland - clothes?
I’m ideally looking for pant suits…. or at least blazers and pants I can wear together of similar fabrics.
I have some dresses, but at a length that doesn’t look dowdy….. they are not great for the type of frequent sitting with legs exposed/crouching/bending that I need to do at work. Nevermind the leg maintenance which I can’t keep up with! I shouldn’t admit that…
So I’m looking for more pants options, with a few suit jackets/blazers. I am not in big law, so not biz formal, but need a couple suits for some work occasions.
anonymous
Have you tried the curvy lines at places like AT, BR, etc? I’m an hourglass, but if you’re a pear/ rear heavy you may want to try them.
E
Idk about OP, but “curvy” lines tend to translate to “bizarrely wide thigh area” and doesn’t work if you have a bubble butt.
Mpls
Can we not judge other body types as “bizarre”? I get that curvy fits have wider thigh circumferences than work for you, but I’m betting they serve a lot of people just fine.
E
I meant the cut and stitching juts out bizarrely, not that wide thighs are bizarre on real humans.
ETA: Specifically, I’m complaining about clothing manufacturers cutting corners by increasing ‘curves’ in a two-dimensional way; I assume that it would be more complicated and expensive to expand clothing in a three-dimensional way.
anonymous
Maybe, but getting curvy pants in a straight leg style may help. I’m not sure if there’s actually less volume around the thighs, but it cuts down on the overall pant volume, which I find helpful. I have a lot of junk in the trunk and average sized thighs, and I find most curvy cuts work ok for me. It’s worth a shot anyway.
Carrie on Homeland - clothes?
Interesting…. I would have thought straight leg was too risky for my shape. I was thinking boot cut or wider leg. I like to wear heels and always thought the boot cut and wider leg look more timeless with heels, while the straight leg was more trendy. Am I wrong?
Thanks for your input.
tesyaa
Hmm, I don’t think bootcut are any more timeless than any other silhouette. They come and they go.
Carrie on Homeland - clothes?
Thanks for this. Which specific ones do you recommend for AT or BR with my shape?
Do they have entire suits of those cuts, or can you mix/match blazers (of one size?!?!) with pants (curvy, of another size?!?! … my fantasy) because they are cut from the same fabric?
Probably the best would be a seasonless wool, with or without lining.
anonymous
I’ve been very happy with my BR suits. I’d try the Martin or Jackson fits. I think the Jackson is for curvier/more rear-endowed women, but I’m really petite overall so Martin worked better for me. I also find that any AT curvy pants fit me without a problem, so no specific recommendations. I have been very happy with their tropical wool, though. Both BR and AT sell suits as separates.
Definitely get these on sale, though. I’d never pay full price at either of these places unless absolutely necessary.
la vie en bleu
I don’t have any specific clothing advice, but I just want to gently point out that looking for a specific brand based on a character on a major television show is probably not going to help you, because they are excessively tailoring everything to exactly her body. It s*cks, but you’re better off asking real people or trying things on in person.