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- Fashionista talks to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's costume designer.
- Fast Company has news that Stitch Fix is expanding its selections to include maternity and petites (h/t to The Broadsheet), while Racked reports on Target's new plus-size line.
- Lucky tells us that John Frieda's Ocean Waves is available again — with a new name.
- NPR looks at why more of us should be taking lunch breaks.
- An old lawyer friend of Kat's wrote for American Theatre on gender disparity on the New York Theater stage — the response to the article (in the comments) is almost as interesting as the article itself.
- Above the Law looks at U.S. News' rankings for law grads with the most debt.
- Buzzfeed rounded up 30+ tips for relieving anxiety and stress.
- PopSugar Smart Living gives you 20+ tips to make moving easier.
- The Guardian tells us that TripAdvisor doesn't want your “political” reviews.
- The Onion gives you your Laugh of the Week.
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- We talked about feeling like yourself again after having a baby.
- Kat shared some picks for moms and non-moms alike.
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Senior Attorney
Love the show Kimmy Schmidt, and especially Kimmy’s candy-colored costumes, so it was fun to read the first article. Thanks, Kat!
Must be Tuesday
+1
Baconpancakes
I am actually REALLY excited to hear that the John Frieda is bringing back their beach spray. Unnecessarily excited.
la vie en bleu
I like the KMS version better… if you want an alternative.. which you clearly don’t ;o)
coconut
if you haven’t tried the beach blonde shampoo/conditioner–they’re great too!
Engagement Gift
Hi, My husband and I are going to an engagement party this weekend and totally spaced on getting a gift. There’s no registry as far as we know so what do y’all recommend? If gift card, what amount and to where? Ideally this will be something I can get quickly and easily in the next 24 hours. It’s been a while since I’ve gone to one of these. TIA!!!
la vie en bleu
just bring a nice card if you are in a rush. You can send a gift later.
rosie
Card and a bottle of wine/champagne. If you want to bring more registry-style gift, just pick up a picture frame, vase, etc. and give w/a gift receipt. But I really think you are fine with card + wine.
Anon
There were no gifts at any of the engagement parties I’ve been to, but I’ve only been to a few. At most I’d bring a bottle of champagne.
SC
Gifts are not necessary/expected at engagement parties in my area. DH and I received maybe a dozen at our engagement party (with about 75-100 people attending), and those were mostly small, sentimental items that were not on our registry. My SIL recently had an engagement party, and I saw very few gifts at that party.
TO Lawyer
I bring engagement gifts for my close friends (unless I’ve already given them something) but it’s generally along the lines of something that leans towards a couple date, like a gift card for dinner, or tickets to something.
Preg-projects
OK, I’m really torn about StitchFix introducing a maternity line. Pro – I’m @12 weeks, just starting to think about maternity clothing and really overwhelmed. Con – I tried StitchFix three times in a row for regular business casual about a year ago and it was a total failure. What do you all think?
Maddie Ross
I’ve said it before on here, but I have actually been really happy with my StitchFixes and am a huge proponent. I’ve not used them for maternity, but having purchased maternity wear myself, I don’t think there is any way they could do it worse than normal maternity clothes shopping. I personally hated maternity clothes and would have loved someone else picking things out for me. I’m hoping they have arrangements set up with designers or are using their own to come up with some more fun, fashion-forward options. I jsut remember walking into Motherhood Maternity and the first 1/3 of the store was velour tracksuits and I thought – “this is not going to work.”
Anonymous
I don’t think “regular” stitch fix would work for me because I’m fairly picky and have a specific aesthetic and sense of style., but I think it would be awesome for maternity. There’s just not a whole lot of great stuff out there, and even if you know how to dress your non-pregnant self, dressing your pregnant self is a whole ‘nother ballgame!
Preg-projects
This is my issue exactly! I was uncomfortable with regular Stitchfix because everything came back “flowy”, and I don’t do flowy. Now I’m stuck with flowy, and I need help. Badly.
Hmmm… more and more tempted…
SoCalAtty
Those student loan debt numbers are terrifying. Only by crazy hard work and a little luck am I ok despite my giant student loans…things could have gone very differently for me….and did for a lot of my classmates.
Not sure what the solution is, but I hate to see that trend continue…
Wildkitten
Ha! I wish I owed that little.
kids books
Does anyone know where there may be information about appropriateness of kids’ books per age based on content? I seem to recall that netflix (or is it IMDB) provides basic, common-sense information about movies and tv shows, and I wonder if there is a similar resource for books.
anon
Common Sense Media does have some book content. I also rely on online reviews and children’s literary guides to see what issues people have with books. My child is young so I haven’t had to navigate the world of YA lit yet.
kids books
I think that’s exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! We’re not navigating YA yet either, my oldest is 6, but I want to make sure that the books I am reading aloud to him are appropriate, content-wise.
momentarily anonymous
On Amazon’s review of the Babysitter’s Club they rate the book by age and grade level (http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Sitters-Club-Kristys-Great-Idea-ebook/dp/B009KVH44A/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426879794&sr=1-1&keywords=babysitters+club). I vaguely remembered that from my youth. Are you looking for something more detailed? That seems like it would be a decent benchmark for the content.
Sarah
Your public library will have books and maybe online resources for this. It’s usually free, and doesn’t require a library card to email the reference desk or children’s department and ask. They usually will reply within a few days with excellent links and local content too.
anonsg
We used to have reading lists in our school libraries in primary and secondary school that had lists of books suitable for various grades. Books also often have level numbers on the back (see http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/)
As a child, I also used Book Adventure a lot, as you can search for books by grade and you get points for scoring high on the quizzes, which you can then exchange for rewards: http://www.bookadventure.com/Home.aspx
CPA Lady
The Read Aloud Handbook is awesome for book recommendations for younger kids. The last 100 pages of the book are paragraph long reviews of many many children’s books with appropriate age levels included.
I haz a request
I learned a lot about photography from a “what not to do” lecture — signposts and trees coming out from people’s heads, etc.
Could we do a feature here (maybe for APril Fool’s Day) where we take something normal (Theory or JCrew Suit) and make it frumpy, poorly styled, inappropriate for work, etc.? So that our minds get a bit of a different workout?
I know I learn more from mistakes than successes.