Suit on Shine

Call Us Old-Fashioned

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We're a little old-fashioned and like to actually read magazines rather than read them online. That said, we're also a little behind in our reading and only just put New York magazine's Fall Fashion issue to sleep. But how excited were we to see the article on Audrey Tautou and…

User post: Do you dress for success - every day?

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There are 100's of websites and books centered around "dressing for success" but nearly all of them focus on doing so for job interviews. But what about after you get the job? Do you continue to dress the part? Or do you stray back toward the most casual look allowed? Bottom line: does your company dress code work for you?

Dating Diaries: Do I Want To Marry My Best Friend?

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I ve always been the typeof person who has trouble planning, organizing, and understanding detailedmathematical things like finance.Through the years my best friend Justin, who is good at all of theaforementioned things, has always helped me with managing money, and otherthings that require...

Yes, you need to own a suit

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I grew up in the Yuppie ’80s, when women’s suits were essentially men’s suits with skirts and floppy bow ties (remember those? I had one that was hot pink with white polka dots–awesome). The idea was that in order to be taken seriously by the men in the office, you had to look like one of them, except of course that your suit had to have a skirt because pants were TOO masculine. It was hard to win, really.

Fortunately, women and their suits have come a long way in the past twenty years, but the suit is still a difficult wardrobe piece. So many offices are business casual these days, and so many of us are working from home or part time or in non-traditional fields, and it’s hard to know how to wear a suit, or even if you really need one in the first place.