Mid-price department stores like Macy's, once a mainstay for the classic suits, blouses and dresses cut to flatter mature figures, have skimped on such styles in favor of skin-baring looks better suited to 20-year-olds.
A wardrobe that includes striped polo necks, flares, berets, skirt suits, blouses and fur-collared coats adds up to a look that is very Alessandro Michele for Gucci, and also a bit like Mary Ann from Tales of the City.
I have an overarching theory that Conservatism is the only political ideology that truly corrupts the body, coming out in the arms, face, shoulders, through great swathes of back-rash and in the choice of shirts, suits, blouses and ties.
I grabbed an overnight bag, darted into the restroom, ripped off jeans and sneakers, donned navy suit, silk blouse, heels.
The president wore the school's colors — blue suit, orange blouse — and spoke cautiously when I asked her the question that had everyone speculating all summer: Why was she pushed out? "I don't know," Sullivan said, filling an awkward pause with nervous laughter, casting a glance at the university spokeswoman, Carol Wood.
With her black-framed glasses and penchant for wearing clothes that seem like a softer variant of a man's business suit — white blouse, yellow cardigan over slacks, low-heeled patent-leather pumps — the petite and attractive Meyers might pass for a lawyer or professor; there's nothing about her that shouts V.I.P.
"I am proud to be here and I understand why I am here," said Milena Avetisyan, 16, looking formal in black suit, white blouse and sensible pumps, standing with an honour guard of her classmates outside the memorial's cone of basalt slabs, an eternal flame burning at its centre.
In the shot, she is decked out in a black satin suit, white blouse and patent leather flats, looking nothing short of fabulous.
Clad in a gentle pink suit, cream blouse and pearls, she could have been the wife of a Methodist Minister or Headmistress at a conservative girls' school.
For work I like a more business corporate look -- suits and blouses.
