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<p>A Nordstrom Rack opened up about 7 minutes away from my D’s cheer gym. So on Saturdays, I’m always the one to volunteer to drive D to cheer!</p>
<p>BunsenBurner seems to find some good stuff. I like the coat.</p>
<p>I have more jeans than the Gap does, and I can only wear them to work on Friday. I love jeans. Faded, dark, white, bootcut, straight, tight, boyfriend style, trouser cut…love 'em all. Then there are the cords- straight leg, bootcut, red, orange, grey, brown (some of these I can wear to work).</p>
<p>mousegray - you reminded me of a list of rules my sister and I used to have for clothes shopping. I’m not sure I can remember all of them but here are a few:
- Will you wear it tomorrow? (Don’t buy for some imaginary outing or occasion.)
- Would you still buy it if it wasn’t on sale? (Don’t buy it only because it’s a good deal.)
- Would it hurt your heart to leave the store without it? (Another version is, would you be upset if you put it down for a second and another customer took it.)</p>
<p>I wish I could remember the rest, but these have served me well.</p>
<p>Rule #4 - Never pass up a good white blouse that’s on sale</p>
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<p>Good white blouses - that I never wear! - take up a huge portion of my closet. I can’t pass them up but I’ve realized that I can’t work in them. I can wear a woven jacket at work all day, but my top needs to be knit of some sort. Even if the blouse fits well I feel out of sorts all day. So I have this row of pristine white blouses in my closet…</p>
<p>Send your blouses to worknprogress, missypie.</p>
<p>Please be a size 6!</p>
<p>I don’t wear white shirts either. I do have a few, last year I bought a really nice one that looks like silk but is synthetic and has roll up sleeves etc, but with pale skin and strawberry blonde hair plus my propensity for digging in the dirt anytime I step outside, white is just not a good color for me.</p>
<p>( I also bought a new ski jacket last year that is very cute but white swoops from the cuffs down to the waist and it needs to be washed every single time I wear it)</p>
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<p>I just want to thank all of you who have been making this virtual shopping trip a lot of fun. I have been struggling with helping my mom who had been hospitalized with a severe kidney infection and with much greater confusion, difficulty with cognition, expression, etc. She was released last nite and there is still much to do, but for the week she was in the hospital I brought my computer when I visited and when she was dozing or off having a test, I would come back to my CC friends for some light-hearted chatter. </p>
<p>So, back to dressing young, but I just wanted you to know that you have been a Godsend.</p>
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<p>LOL, all this time I pictured you as Asian!</p>
<p>worknprogress, hope your mom has a full recovery. The blouses are a 4 but I bet they’d work! </p>
<p>I have to stop myself from going into White Houe/Black Market because they always have fabulous white blouses.</p>
<p>Worknprogress - hoping your mom continues to improve.</p>
<p>Not a blouse person here. I think I have one, which I never wear. Sounds weird, but I’m kind of anti collar. Plain white tops of any kind rarely hang in my closet except for a couple of summer eyelet ones.</p>
<p>I am a crisp white shirt and dark jeans person. Add on a scarf or necklace and you have a classic go anywhere look. Change from boots to heels to flats and you can easily change the look/style.</p>
<p>Workinprogress - I also hope your mom makes a quick and full recovery. My dad was hospitalized two weeks ago after a collapse and now, after the doctors implanted a pacemaker, he sounds like the energizer bunny. </p>
<p>I’m having fun with this virtual shopping too. Please take missy up on those blouses - I’m sure it would be a great relief for her to get them out of her closet!</p>
<p>Missypie - I knew you were going to be a 4! From earlier posts, I have a feeling we fit into the same basic things, only one size apart. </p>
<p>When the weather get cold, I switch to a lot of turtlenecks, but my uniform is often a white blouse and a vest, or a cardigan, or a fitted jacket. I absolutely love some of the new Ralph Lauren sweaters. And if anyone thinks they don’t look “young” I’m not sure I want to hear about it!</p>
<p>I like turtlenecks, too. I was blessed with a long neck, so it’s a good look for me. (My husband has NO neck…my Ds are lucky that the genes combined the way they did so that they have necks. It’s a lot easier for a guy to be neckless than a girl.)</p>
<p>workinprogress, I wish your family all the best. Hoping for your mom’s improvement.</p>
<p>I accumulated a row of white blouses in my closet, too, and I rarely wear them. I have an issue with shirts in general - whatever fits in the shoulders doesn’t fit in the chest area, and I’m not a Pamela Anderson! Tailoring to solve this kind of problem is expensive, so whenever I find a shirt or a blouse that fits, I buy it! Unfortunately, I can’t wear them to work - my cube is too cold, and our conference room is nicknamed The Meat Locker! I agree with workinprogress - Ralph Lauren makes great sweaters! I feel stylish, warm and young when I wear one! :)</p>
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<p>You have a point. Mine fit very nicely in the chest because I am more like Pamela Anderson’s 10 year old sister.</p>
<p>I have two pairs of jeans that fit both 505s. Two pairs that are too small at the moment - but I do hope to get back to the weight needed. The two that don’t fit are also 505s or something similar. One pair is black and I miss them. The other I inherited from my nephew - they are way too short, but I wear them with cuffs as capris.</p>
<p>I have endless pairs of black and gray pants that are supposed to look more dressed up - I usually wear them with scoopnecked knit tees and a blazer/jacket.</p>
<p>I love wearing men’s white shirts especially old soft ones.</p>
<p>I love white shirts. I tend to get the cuffs pretty dirty, for some reason. I wear a lot of tailored, collared shirts (Facconnable etc). I just got a new white shirt at Banana that I wore yesterday and I had planned to post about it on this thread because I realized I looked pretty good with the shirt, a funky-cut purple cardigan and some black/white muted plaid trousers.</p>