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.
I love a good product description for suits — here’s this one:
Joseph Altuzarra’s ‘Tamaar’ blazer evokes the same warm feeling as grabbing coffee with an old friend – it’ll start to feel as familiar, too, considering how often you’ll wear it. From the Resort ’21 collection (which really factors in comfort), it’s been tailored in Italy from exceptionally soft wool-crepe and has lightly padded shoulders and a sweeping scoop neckline.
From this description I’m getting the feeling that it’s crazy soft, more like an old comfy sweater than a beautiful structured blazer — and I kind of like the dichotomy if they can pull it off. (My only concern would be tailoring — it looks long on the model, who is 5’10 — but I suspect if you have $2000+ to spend on a suit, custom tailoring is the kind of thing that is you do on the regular.)
The blazer is $1995, and the matching pants are $1195.
Psst: this suit reminds me of the movie Soapdish, where Elizabeth Shue’s character is annoyed that the yellow suit makes her look like Tweety-Bird. (It’s a great movie; check it out if you have time over the holidays!)
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!
Workwear Sales of Note (as of 3-2-21)
- Nordstrom – Winter sale, up to 70% off! Designer clearance continues also, up to 70% off. (Big sales on Natori bras!)
- Anthropologie – Extra 25% off all sale items
- Loft – Extra 70% off all sale styles; extra 25% off your $125+ purchase
- Ann Taylor – Extra 40-60% all sale styles
- Ann Taylor Factory – 72-hour sale: 72% off wear-now favorites (ends 3/4)
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Banana Republic – Extra 60% off sale styles
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 70% off everything
- Talbots – 25% off your purchase; $50 off $175+; free shipping (no min.)
Jane
My question was stuck in moderation most of the AM, so reposting for tips and ideas. We are a DINK stuck home (in a very COLD, not-so-happening city in the North East) on 10 “vacation” days around Christmas and new year’s. Been already doing all the reading, cooking, organizing etc we could over the last zillion weeks of this. If we don’t find some exciting ideas soon, we might end up filing for a divorce, and am only half kidding. WWYD?
Anonymous
Home improvement project? I would totally paint a room(s) or something.
anon
+1. We’ve done several home improvement projects. It’s fun to learn something new, and there’s a YouTube video for everything.
Anon
Yep, this is what we’re doing, a major project to change around our living room. 50% of this is about boredom and 50% of it is that we’re tired of looking at the room, we’ve been stuck hanging out in it since March. We can tear out the built-in shelving, repaint and rearrange without having to buy much (we have a gallon of paint we brought from our old house and that’s going to be the color of the new room, so we don’t even have to buy paint!). Should be a fun and distracting project.
Anonymous
You definitely need to get outside! That’s the best way to spend time off and feel like you did something exciting – plus distancing is usually very easy. I’d go with cross-country or skate skiing, downhill skiing IF the resort is handling it safely, birdwatching walks, snowshoeing, etc.
For indoor tips: crafting, board games, amateur genealogy, play an instrument, create edited videos or slideshows out of old family pictures/videos, spend some time learning a language, do all the planning and prep for a 2021 or 2022 vacation…
Allie
Outdoor ice skating?
Anon
purchase warm weather gear and get outside, even if it is only for 15 min a day; go for a drive to a different town, even just to pick up food or see holiday lights; towards the beginning of the pandemic someone posted about doing an at home ‘trip to Paris,’ with wine and cheese, french pastries and a virtual tour of a museum in France; do a yoga or zumba video together; do a virtual painting class; learn a new to you board game; volunteer
also- it is ok to spend time apart. you dont have to spend every second together.
Anon
Go hiking! I hike in the winter as long a it’s above like 10F. You could also try snowshoeing.
Anonymous
You can even do hiking when it’s colder than that as long as you take appropriate safety precautions. The benefit is that you’ll likely have the trail to yourself and when it’s that cold, everything looks more beautiful.
Abby
Board games: Othello, Mastermind, backgammon
Craft Cocktails
Netflix/Movies: DH and I watched all of the Marvel movies in order in the spring, and recently watched Indiana Jones
Senior Attorney
We’ve had fun with jigsaw puzzles. Maybe you each pick a 1000 piece puzzle and have a race see who can finish first?
Anon
I threw my back out working a jigsaw puzzle on a too-low coffee table. If this isn’t the sports injury of 2020, I don’t know what is.
anon
I know this isn’t funny, and I AM SORRY you hurt your back, but your summation of the event made me laugh.
Anonymous
I pulled a muscle sneezing.
Senior Attorney
OMG that’s amazing.
Somehow I managed to injure my rotator cuff during the two weeks I was exercising outside in a socially distance dgroup.
Anon
Pre-covid, we got a quote for tree trimming and pruning and my husband thought it was too expensive, so he did it himself. Which caused him to tear his rotator cuff, and he had to have surgery. After insurance, our portion was $2500.
Anonymous
I got plantar fasciitis from too much walking outside on hard surfaces (was doing nearly 5 miles per day and not taking enough off days).
LaurenB
OMG at least in 2030 you’ll be able to look back and laugh. There is no injury too crazy for 2020. I know someone who tripped over a laundry basket and broke his sacrum, and someone who tripped over her open dishwasher door and broke her leg in 5 places.
anon
To the extent you can, spend some time apart.
Anonymous
Edibles and gardening?
Anon
Have sex. Lots of sex.
Anon
I don’t think anyone is going to wear a white blazer (or any other piece of white clothing other than a t-shirt) often enough for it to become an old friend, but this suit is gorgeous.
Anon
I wish there were a picture of it styled without that black belt. The belt isn’t doing it any favors.
Anonymous
Counterpoint: I have several white blazers and one is probably my most often worn piece other than jeans. Old friend? Getting there.
Anon
How do you keep it clean?? I know if I did that it would get dingy in no time.
Anonymous
I don’t know. I just do. I certainly have taken it off a few times at a meal to avoid dropping sauce on it, and chosen white over red wine on occasion, but mostly I just check it regularly and spot treat it if necessary. It certainly helps that the sleeves are not several inches past my wrist, though!
Airplane.
I hate blazers with this length sleeve! I have ahem, petite length arms and this would make me look like I’m dressing up. And in white I feelt like it will get and drag on every surface and get grimy.
Senior Attorney
Same.
Anonymous
To me it just looks like the model neglected to visit the tailor. Pass.
BeenThatGuy
Watching the video of the model made me cringe. She’s literally standing on the pants. This suit would be 5-star amazing to me, it if were fitted properly.
Anon
The model is at least 5’10” so this is definitely intentional, not a case of it didn’t fit her. I don’t love it, but it’s not an accident.
techgirl
If I were lean and leggy and having a Covid-19 mini wedding this is what I would wear. Beautiful, classic, interesting.
Anon
Same, this is lovely
Lilau
Oh yes! Or maybe a post-covid courthouse wedding? I keep picturing a modern day Bianca jagger with a wife brimmed hat wearing this.
(I have such a soft spot for courthouse weddings because I spent a lot of afternoons in my early career at 80 centre street on weekday afternoons and seeing people get married totally made my day. You could literally get married, walk over the Brooklyn bridge and pick up pizza at Grimaldi’s and watch the sunset over the east river. It’s still the glamorous thing I can imagine in a way.)
Anon
This is totally Bianca Jagger.
Anon
So, a person I know and was with exposed me to covid at work. The timing makes me furious: work a shift (and we can work remotely; I go in one day every other week just to get a break from working while homeschooling when I really need a quiet place to work), leave a shift, go get tested, test positive. So to me, this person either felt sick while working or knew of an exposure.
Now I am stuck at home for 2 weeks. My state’s guidance is to get tested after 5-7 days, then even if negative stay home until at least day 10 if no symptoms. I don’t live alone, so I can infect more people even doing my best to stay in one room while I wait.
I feel like this person knows that I know. And yet I have heard nothing directly (just from HR). Just crickets.
Anonymous
Why on earth are you going in to the office if it’s optional and you don’t want to get exposed to COVID? I get that it stinks to be stuck at home with kids doing remote schooling (believe me, I get it), but you are fortunate to have the option to protect yourself and your family by working from home. My office is open and I really need a quiet place to work, but I need to not get COVID way more.
Anonymous
I wish I had a separate work wing at home where I could have 8-12 hours of work time a day, but I got caught off-guard in a small house in a pandemic with a reduced salary to boot. But I get it, on deadline, where there is a risk of error, I’d go in to my office for a bit. I can theoretically work at home, but we have had no child care in 9 months and the idea that it is that easy (just work, but at home) makes me stabby sometimes.
Anon
I”ve gone in at night sometimes just to have a quiet space. When I review my work, I see so many errors now that are because of the nonstop interruptions of WFH with kids. I have to say, I’m surprised that their grades are as good as they are b/c the distractions happen to them, too (kids have lunches at different times, zooms get loud, asynchronous learning’s volume varies widely, etc.).
It just s*cks.
I take important calls from my car b/c the house is just so d*mn unpredictably loud.
Anonymous
It’s not that easy, but there are no good choices here. If OP doesn’t want to risk exposure, she stays home. Those are her options. She’s lucky she’s not being compelled to go in to the office.
Anon
I find it really helpful to remember that the virus is the thing we’re combating here, not people.
Anonymous
T. H. I. S.
anon
But when people are acting like idiots, well … the virus wins.
Anon
Yes. You can be mad at careless people and the virus. And the current White House, for that matter. These things are not mutually exclusive.
Anonymous
Yeah, I’m combating the terrible behavior I see too. It’s not okay to be like “welp, that’s just the virus being a virus!” when the person spreading it is going to Crossfit unmasked and no distancing, traveling for bachelorette parties and weekends in the sun, having 2-4 different Thanksgiving get-togethers with in-laws, etc. That isn’t okay and it leads to deaths.
Anonymous
What about this suggests this person was being an idiot though?
anon
Maybe not in this particular case, but I reject the notion that we’re “fighting a virus, not people.” Too many people are acting like selfish a-holes to pretend like our fellow citizens aren’t part of the freaking problem.
Anon
Do you think rushing to judgment on every person who tests positive is helpful, anon?
LaurenB
The virus doesn’t have a conscience. It doesn’t know or care if it’s infecting a little old lady with health conditions or a 25-yo marathon runner, a Democrat or a Republican, a sweetheart or a schmuck. I kind of think unfortunately it is people that we’re combating here. I was in disbelief for a long time that masks were politicized since everyone around me wore them, but then I realized … this was real, people were deniers and selfish.
Anon
It is possible that the person didn’t know of an exposure before they were at work. It could have been: work a shift, leave a shift, get a notice of exposure by email or phone, get tested, test positive.
I got an email stating that my daughter could have been exposed 7 days before the email was sent. I know several people who have gotten tested, but didn’t know they had a reason to do so until long after they were exposed. There’s a long incubation period.
Monday
You’d be surprised, unfortunately, at who is and is not recommended to test. I’m a health care provider, and we have instances where someone is definitely exposed at work but not even told to test (or stay home) unless they have symptoms. That means their family members are also going about their essential jobs un-tested. And this is all aside from how hard tests can be to obtain for people outside of health care, with or without symptoms.
I wouldn’t jump to the assumption that this person did anything wrong unless you have other info to that effect.
Anonymous
Masks are important but they aren’t miracle hazmat suits—community spread is so bad that you could have picked it up running an errand. Usually there is some time lag between exposure and positive test, so unlikely you would leave work with someone positive and instantly test positive as well. And while touch is not the main way it is spread by any means, it’s also not nothing (which is why CDC advice around sanitizer and washing hands is still a thing). I think the only “blame” here is the virus.
Anon
Could the person have been asymptomatic and tested for other reasons (visiting an elderly or ill family member) and learned of the positive that way?
Anon
Since it is so close to xmas, this could be the case. Like more cases may be coming to light b/c people are traveling (even though this is why you shouldn’t).
Monday
+1, also any medical procedure at a hospital could have involved a test without their having any symptoms.
Abby
This. I have a friend who had a high risk exposure to someone who is asymptomatic and was forced to leave work (hospital) to quarantine. Which isn’t the big deal, but she also was supposed to get the vaccine this week and now has to wait til January.
I get that being exposed sucks, but being angry at someone for catching this terrible virus won’t help, especially if they didn’t know at the time of the exposure.
Anon
IDK — I think a lot of people feel like they need to come in at all costs (like we have a big-deal partner, and his acolytes come in when he is in) and we have a lot of guys with SAHW and they come in because it is too noisy with kids at home for them to work. They see having a closing-door office and a car commute as immunity shields. [Don’t even get me started to the younger hires who go out and post it to FB — I think if you are still doing that, you ought never to work in the office; if you do one risky thing, please stop and don’t do 2 or more of them. Looking at you, “#RehearsalDinner” co-worker.]
Anon
My husbands former workplace was like this. They were EXTREMELY reluctant to let anyone work from home and only grudgingly allowed it when forced to, the second time, by state government. The first time they actually decided to call themselves an essential business to get out of it.
The boss still goes into the office, and several of his acolytes “voluntarily” work in the office with him. These are people who are extremely competitive and ambitious and think this will get them ahead. And maybe it will.
My husband was so disgusted by all of this he took an early retirement package.
Anon
Damn!
I think it is only a matter of time before one person (who hopefully is a bit innocent) knocks out a whole division. I work in an industry that still requires wet-signed documents, so a person has to touch a paper, often with a notary/witness, and then move those papers around. A lot can be done remotely. A lot can go wrong remotely (not all employees have dual monitors at home; and if you take out the A team, then the B team will do a sh*tty and late job trying to do a job they aren’t really trained to do). And we’re already short-staffed with the holidays coming up, kids being home from school, other people quarantining, etc. Some people can WFH and some people are in no shape or have no business trying to be contributors right now.
Is it Friday yet?
Also, they could have started the shift feeling normal, but then felt lousy enough to get tested later on in the day. I’m recovering from COVID (obtained either eating dinner with one friend outdoors or at the grocery), and I felt fine at 5pm on the day I developed symptoms but had fever and chills by like 10pm. Maybe they didn’t realize they were until after they’d been at work for a while?
Monday
Anon 2.0, I just saw your post at the end of the morning thread and definitely have thoughts! (About “toning down” at work to present more calmly.) Are you here? Maybe re-post your question so others see too?
Anon
Planning on trying to conceive in 2021. Currently take Effexor 150 mg for Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Started seeing a new psychiatrist as my old one moved, and he is apprehensive about switching me to Zoloft. Has anyone taken Effexor throughout pregnancy? My OB/GYN wants me to continue medication but is most comfortable with Zoloft as am I.
Anon
Rely on the recommendations of your doctor.
Anon for this
My physiatrist took Effexor during her pregnancy–she was very comfortable with my switching to it or Zoloft when the time came.
OP
Thanks for your feedback. I’m more apt to trust the recommendation of my OB/GYN than my psychiatrist, who I only recently started seeing. For what it’s worth, the psychiatrist that I previously saw for several years didn’t see a problem with me switching to Effexor. (Unfortunately, she moved.) I otherwise like this new psychiatrist.
anonono
My psychiatrist recommended mothertobaby.org as a good source for better understanding the risks associated with the medication I am taking during pregnancy. If you search for a RX, it will give you a fact sheet. Not sure if you’ve used this site, but it’s a good starting point and really helped me feel good about my decision. My vague understanding is SSRIs have a longer tail of research behind them re: pregnancy, which I would guess is why your OB is more comfortable with Zoloft. I would personally revisit the conversation with your psych, who is presumably more up to date on the research than your OB, but you know your doctors and their areas of knowledge best.
Anonymous
Zoloft is also compatible with nursing, if that is a consideration for you. Best wishes, OP!
Anonymous
What are everyone’s favorite “just deal with it” kind of inspirational quotes or phrases? Examples I already know:
– only way out is through
– chin up, princess, or the crown slips
– intelligence is the ability to adapt to change
anon
The great ones adjust.
Anon
Accept it for what it is.
Accept people for who they are.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Man plans, god laughs.
Anon
Be brave, little buckeroo (my favorite professor in law school said it often, and she was very memorable, so if anyone reading this knows her – hi!)
Sloan Sabbith
Long days, short months.
Doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you do not stop.
This one is a little bit more inspirational than “just do it”: “Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.” I have it on my desk at work to remind me on bad days that I do what I do when it’s hard because I do love it.
Vicky Austin
Love the swimming/treading metaphor – I might hang that one in my office too.
Anonymous
I also like the only way out is through. Also like “when you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Anonymous
Also, someone (forgot who, sorry) posted here “time to be a warrior, not a victim” which I use to try to keep my COVID precautions and resiliency high.
Anon
My dad used to tell me that Babe Ruth was also the strikeout king of all time. I don’t know whether that’s literally true but it’s probably close to true. I remember it always.
CF
During a tough workout (but also use it in the office): You’re just uncomfortable. Push through. (I do a quick body scan and ask myself, are you in pain or just uncomfortable? The answer is also the latter.)
anonshmanon
We can, if we must.
anon
This. It is amazing what strong people can do….when they have to.
Anon
Fight like you’re the third monkey in line for Noah’s Ark.
Anon
Ha!
Senior Attorney
If it were easy, everyone would do it.
And perhaps conversely, anything worth doing is worth doing badly.
Anonymous
I feel like whoever renovated my house had that motto and I vehemently disagree.
Senior Attorney
Heh I’d say home renovations and auto repair are the exceptions that prove that rule.
Anonymous
I first heard of this one during Jo Jo Rabbit and love it:
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
Abby
omg I just watched JoJo Rabbit recently and it is SO GOOD.
Anon
The original source of those beautiful lines is the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke
Vicky Austin
God I love Rilke.
Anon
+1
Anon
I posted this yesterday without much traction, but to me this gorgeous ballet performance is a visual example of accepting, adapting, and overcoming. I’m so inspired by it.
https://youtu.be/Ru5H3LHiU1M
(If you’re cautious about links, go to YouTube and search for Post:Ballet channel, it’s the Waltz of the Snowflakes)
Nudibranch
Exactly. Thank you for sharing.
Joanie
It had traction with me!!!! I just didn’t respond on here, but I sent that video to my family (my grandfather was stationed at the Alameda naval base in WWII, and often reminisces about it) and I shared the link on my social media profile too. I love all the contrasts in the video, the beautiful ballet on the gritty runway, and the ballerinas are fantastic. Thanks for posting it here yesterday and for giving me an opportunity to thank you today!
Anon
I’m so glad in particular that your grandfather got to see it! What a magical story. Thank you for telling me that. You made my day.
pnw anon
You’ll never be younger than you are today.
Eyes on the prize
No guts, no glory
All is not milk that comes from the cow
pnw anon
You can’t shop for groceries at the hardware store.
Jules
Actually, in the giant Menard’s near where I live, you can buy a suprising variety of groceries. I think it’s weird.
Walnut
I recently wandered out of Menards with pudding. What universe am I even living in?
anon
It’s so weird! But delightful. Get a 5-lb. bag of gummy bears with your table saw, amiright?
pnw anon
I stand corrected! Allow me to amend…
You can’t shop for groceries at the bathroom fixtures store.
Walnut
And to protect us from Covid, my Menards is limiting store occupancy to 7,146 customers!
Anonymous
That reminds me of another I like – If you don’t do it now, you’ll be one year older when you do.
Monday
Play the hand you’re dealt and stop expecting a better hand.
Anon
Tomorrow is another day
anon
You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
Look forward, not back and keep moving.
FP
Hard work never killed anyone, but why take a chance?
(Kidding. Kind of!)
anon
In my native country we like to joke that this is the official motto of Montenegro lol
Abby
Perfect is the enemy of progress – this was my game changer when it came to flossing lol. 4-5 days a week is better than trying for everyday and eventually giving up!
Similar idea of: consistency > perfection
Anonanonanon
Similar for me! Perfect is the enemy of good/done. Truly changed my perspective.
Walnut
Make it work. (Thanks Tim Gunn!)
Go for it
This too shall pass
Nesprin
The fastest way to easy is thru hard.
Cat
I am the one thing in life I can controoooooooooollllllll. (Aaron Burr)
Horse Crazy
This is the only good one.
Anon
One foot in front of the other.
Vicky Austin
When we have to do a thing, we can do it. (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Never panic, only adjust. (My HS journalism teacher, probably got it from somewhere else but I heard it from him)
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. (Alternately, thinking of my dad saying, “Hang in there, kid,” will always light the fire under me.)
Another anon
Everything will be ok in the end. If it’s not ok, it’s not the end.
Anon
It’s close enough for jazz.