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Kat’s Favorite TPS Reports of 2013

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Kat's Favorite Wear-to-Work Recommendations of 20132016 Update: These pieces are still some of our favorite workwear from 2013, but you may also want to check out our 2016 roundup of favorite workwear suggestions.  Every weekday here at Corporette, I offer one suggestion for an item that I would wear to work. Sometimes readers love the item, and wow do you guys hate it sometimes. Sometimes *I* love it, sometimes it was just the best I could find given the restraints (for those who haven’t noticed, Monday and Tuesday tend to be pricier items, Wednesday is in the $100-$150 price range, Thursday is in the $50-$100 price range, and Friday is in the “under $50″ range.) Still, as the end of the year approaches I thought I’d look back over the past year and choose my personal favorites from the things I recommended… each picture is from one month, and the picture links back to the original post. (Most are sold out, but some of the later months (like the blue pants) are still available.) (Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to do this in 2011 due to some tech difficulties, but here is the roundup from 2010 and 2012 if you’re curious.)
Sonia Rykiel Skirt – Dalmation Print Cotton Jacquard Pencil tahari-asl-eggplant-stretch-ponte-knit-cap-sleeve-dress The Limited Linen Cardigan The Limited White Jacket
BCBG Naomi Mix-Print Wrap Dress Karen Millen Stripey Shirt Dress Halogen Trim Sweater Jacket Rag & Bone Aviator Blazer
Lafayette 148 New York Bruna Tweed Skirt Alexander McQueen Pleated Stretch Wool Sweater Moschino Cheap and Chic Pattern Blocked Dress Gap Modern Boot Twill Pants

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34 Comments

    1. I remember killing many an hour with those. Back in…2004. Has it really been that long already?

    2. Can we start our own holiday hootenanny here? I’m off work but compiling too many horrendous comments from family and need to know I’m not the only one!

      1. My mom’s suggestion that I should hire a matchmaker. Let’s start with that.

        1. Thanks. My father in law said my pants fit like shrink-wrap, just to kick things off…

        2. I hear you.

          I am an MD PhD with advanced degrees and scholarships from the best universities in the world with job offers wherever I want, but my father tells me I am a disappointment, how-can-I-be-his-daughter, a f–k up, weird, abnormal and need to have s-x more often because I am single and have no children.

          Yes, my father has some poorly managed mental illness. But as we all know with family, there is truth at the bottom of everything they say, and it hurts no matter how we try to compartmentalize it.

      2. This is slightly different than hootenanny, but still… My 13 year old stepdaughter announced out of the blue that abortion is murder. Because I wanted to spend any part of Christmas Eve talking about abortion?

      3. Mine was a full day guilt trip about sending my son to daycare. Apparently DH needs to be making more so I can stay home. I love the assumption that it’s a money issue ( which it is not).

      4. My inlaws becoming visibly unnerved when I mentioned that the Air Force General in charge of the AF base my company does business with is female (actually I just said her name, which was enough to set them off). They then asked if (a) she’s qualified, and (b) if she’s been in combat. Same question about qualifications in the past regarding the Black female CEO of my company. Actually many times– they like to revisit that one.

      5. Let’s see… I had to listen to my SIL say over and over that homosexuality is a sin (like adultery, etc.) and how God destroyed the city of Sodom and that should be proof enough.

        1. I spent part of my family’s holiday vacation listening to my grandfather talk about the split within his church about whether homosexuality is ok or not and how he hasn’t been able to come to terms with it being ok yet. We pretty much talk about everything in my family so I kept challenging him on it (so did my dad a couple of times). It was luckily still a respectful conversation, as it luckily normally is in my family, and he kept saying he was too old to change his views and point out how far he had come from his own father’s views. I pointed out how silly his dad’s views looked to him now and that I was thinking the same about his views on the subject. I know I can’t change anyone’s mind, but I do think he at least understood what I was saying.

    3. Haha, I did that once (back in law school, I think). Hope you find the answers to life’s big questions!

        1. Those first two letters were lovely.

          Bad Manners Night sounds hilarious, though I don’t think I would be able to pull it off.

  2. Not sure how many people are on today, but need some gift recommendations. My aunt and uncle are just about to finalize the adoption of my new cousin (they got her Christmas night two years ago, when she was just about 10 days old – it’s a been a long two year process for them, so getting this finalized is a huge relief). I’d like to give her a keepsake “welcome to the family” gift. She’s two now, but I don’t mind if it’s something her parents will have to put away for her to have when she’s older. I’d like to spend just about $50 or so. Any suggestions?

    2. How about Congratulations balloons for the day and a picture frame with the child’s new name engraved, into which they can put a picture from the day (perhaps with the balloons to make the occasion obvious). Or a simple necklace with her new last initial (or all three).

    3. What about a charm bracelet? You could get her a charm each year for her birthday, etc.

    4. My brother gave my sister in law a bracelet for Christmas that is engraved with the coordinates of where they met, where they got married, and where their son was born. I thought it was a sweet idea. Maybe something similar (I like the picture frame suggestion above) with the coordinates of where she was born and the coordinates of her official new home?

    5. TBK – I hope things are boring and calm in your life (in a good way) and that the babies are behaving themselves.

      1. Thanks! Things are very dull. My doctors are always happily bored by my answers every morning to their questions about any changes, contractions, etc. Nope! I’m luckily the dullest patient on the ward.

    1. If you’ve already missed your period, any pregnancy test will work. You can hit up the dollar store or buy the CVS/Walgreens/etc. brand. But if you want a super clear, idiot proof, no messing around with lines/plus signs/etc., I recommend the clearblue easy digital which will read “pregnant” or “not pregnant.” (I used the cheap ones to get what I was pretty sure was a positive and then used the clearblue easy digital for confirmation, because those suckers are EXPENSIVE and I didn’t want to waste them).

    2. What are you looking for in a brand? If you’re TTC (and it sounds like it if you’re planning ahead to buy on Amazon), you probably don’t want to spend too much since you’ll likely be going through a lot of them (even if it takes you only one month, you might be tempted to test as early as possible then keep testing every day — which may be 6 days or so — until you get a final answer, and then if you’re like me, you might test for several days after to make sure the line is getting darker and not lighter). Most are pretty accurate. But some say they can test as early as 6 days before your period is due and some are more like 3 or 4 days before. Honestly, a negative 6 days before isn’t a true negative since they’re only like 60% accurate that early anyway. I’d just go for whatever wasn’t likely to be too expensive.

    3. I used the wondfo cheapies from amazon. I think like $10 for 25 or something. They are not POAS, you have to dip into a cup. I bought a box of dixie cups for my too long TTC journey. Wondfos are pretty sensitive (rated at 25 miu compared to 50 miu for most POAS drugstore brands, though in practice I think they are even ore sensitive than that). I’ve gotten positives the equivalent of 11 days past ovulation, including for a chemical pregnancy for which my blood test was only a smidge positive (like 5.1 or something).

      1. Second the cheapies. Also useful for after having a baby when you can go a year without a period or you don’t yet have a regular cycle again just to make sure that you’re not pregnant again.

    4. If you need a bunch and don’t want to spend a lot, I seriously recommend Dollar Store (or Tree) ones. They are p-on-a-stick kind and worked just as well as any brand-name ones for me. Good luck!

  4. Yay! An INTERNET connection! Yay for wifi!!!! It’s like Duck Dynasty here! FOOEY! No man want’s to get to know me. They JUST want sex! FOOEY on that! At least men in NYC want to talk. Not here. It’s lets go back to my place for rib’s. (mine). They don’t even think I have a tuchus–they call it a SHELF! Yay! But no sex!!!

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