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- Fashionista named their best dressed celebrities of 2019.
- Elle reviewed Rent the Runway's new closet concierge service.
- Medium examined how Legally Blonde‘s Elle Woods wasn't the only woman to influence a generation of attorneys.
- The Verge considered the real cost of free returns.
- NPR offered 6 tips to improve emotional well-being in the new year.
- The Washington Post suggested how to take control of what you can — and let go of what you cannot.
- Popsugar shared how to handle the post-holiday blues.
- Wait But Why provided some perspective on what it means to be living in 2020.
- Gen, a Medium publication, explored why men are more damaging to women's careers than the act of starting a family.
- Vermont Public Radio provided tips for caring for those plants you might've received as a holiday gift — or might want to buy for yourself.
- Your WTF of the Week: Orlando Weekly reported on a “mansplaining” event.
- Laugh of the Week: The Muse shared the 18 stages of returning to work after the holidays.
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Petite (not) Sophisticate
Great article on the real cost of free returns. One point that should have been made is that we are often trapped into relying on free returns when retailers choose against stocking all sizes (petites!) in their brick & mortar stores.
Anon
This. I get that ordering and returning by mail isn’t the best environmental option, but it’s also heavily encouraged by stores themselves. Stores (if you can find one within 100 miles of you) don’t stock all sizes or lines, fitting rooms are inadequate or have wonky mirrors, and ordering online is SO HARD when no sizes are standardized and even within the same product line, a medium in the red isn’t a medium in the black isn’t a medium in the button-down.
I really reset that so many of the environmental takes focus on consumer behaviors rather than the manufacturers or retailers who actually have the scale and influence to make meaningful changes. Like sure, let’s tell Madison to not order so many bathing suits for her at-home try on session, instead of working with Old Navy to standardize sizing and material descriptions, provide suitable size ranges in store, and provide true mirrors in the fitting rooms so she can try on in the store.
anon
I also hate to go out to a store just to find that they don’t have the thing I’m interested in! I am not sure though what you mean by the issue with mirrors. How give dressing room mirrors a false impression?
Cat
Dressing room mirrors are often “skinny mirrors” — designed to make you buy because of how flattering they are.
Cat
Yeah, agreed. Many stores have nowhere near the selection in-store that they do online. And then supply and sales cycles are unpredictable, and sizing even more so… so rather than take a stab on ordering just one size when an item I’ve been eyeing is on sale, I order two — because the odds that the item will still be in stock to exchange, by the time I receive it and try it on, are random at best.
I do return in-store rather than shipping back when I can (being in a city, many mall stores are within a 10-15 minute walk from work, but shopping in person is tedious because of worse selection, sizes out of stock, and the online discounts are often better), but because going to Nordstrom, say, means a 1/2 hour drive… yeah that return is going in the mail.
Housecounsel
Post-holiday blues are a real, real thing. Mine is compounded by missing my kids going back to college. Something about springlike temperatures on Christmas in the midwest makes me feel like I missed out. I know that exercise doesn’t cure depression, but it really helps me a lot. I should take advantage of this weird weather and get outside.
Carrie
I totally agree.
Yes, let’s get outside occasionally at lunch for a brisk walk. I actually love the cold Chicago winter days when the sky is a crisp blue, the sun is shining, and even if it is below freezing. These few snow free days are precious.
Otherwise my Costco happy light with my morning coffee helps a lot.