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6pm.com has some great sales on L.A.M.B. and Elizabeth & James shoes and bags.  There are a lot of steep discounts (and limited inventory) available, but for my weekend pick I like these simple beige sandals from L.A.M.B.  Personally I always find a Mary Jane-style strap much easier for walking, and I like the super-strappy nature of these for a summer night out.  They were $265, but are now marked to from $135-$185 (available in black, ivory, and “nude,” pictured). L.A.M.B. Kandis

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- Simon Doonan, writing for Slate, tackles the “what to wear to work” question (his answer: dress like Faye Dunaway in Network).

- Forbes talks beauty and business with Kathy Ireland — does beauty hurt you professionally?

- Above the Law talks about the benefits of alcohol for networking events. (One of the Corporette Facebook fans noted that my old trick of alternating a glass of wine with a Diet Coke is a faulty system because the “the carbon dioxide in the soda increases the amount of alcohol that goes into your blood, so you get drunk quicker.”

- NPR looks at a new trend: helicopter parents in the workplace.  If your mom or dad is calling your boss (or worse, the person you interviewed with), you seriously need to have a conversation with them.

- US News & World Report looks at rights in the workplace.

- SavvySugar suggests 5 signs you’re burned out.  Meanwhile, Working Mother has some suggestions for how to fight workday fatigue.

- Jezebel sings the praises of the slow cooker, one of my favorite tools for busy women. Meanwhile, WSJ’s The Juggle talks about saving money by bringing your lunch to work, something we’ve talked about before.

- Lifehacker notes that if you boost your “working memory” you can focus better on tasks at hand, making time fly by.

- The New York Times has tips for avoiding baggage fees.

- Re: Corporette Tech Woes: I think we’ve got the “stack overflow” popup problem that IE7 and IE8 users were having fixed — please let me know if you’re still getting it. I’m going to try to looking into the “posting too quickly” error, which I think is a separate issue. The mobile version of the blog should be up and running again also; please let me know if it isn’t.  Thank you all for your patience and help with this.

Did we miss anything? Add ‘em here, or send them to news@corporette.com. Thank you!

Our daily TPS reports suggest one piece of work-appropriate attire in a range of prices.

I’ve noticed this boiled wool blazer before at Macys.com, and I think with the right outfit it could be really cute — I like the bright color, the almost origami-like ruffles, and the shawl collar. I’d wear it with dark gray pants and (for February) perhaps a super pale pink long-sleeved tee or sweater. The jacket was $89, but is now marked to $59, with an additional 15% off with code LOVE. Charter Club Jacket, Long Sleeve Wool Ruffle Blazer

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I’m always a fan of a colorful bag, and this “beet” Cole Haan tote fits the bill perfectly. (I would call this more of a satchel, but that’s me — I always think of totes as being something bigger!) It’s part of the winter clearance sale going on now at eBags, where almost everything is 20% off plus free shipping, bringing the price from $398 to $318.40. Nice! It’s also available in a more sedate black, as well as a brown. Vintage Valise Novelty Kendra E/W Tote

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Update on Tech Troubles, 4:41 PM ET: I’ve removed yet more code… who’s still getting the stack overflow pop-up? Sigh. Thanks, you guys.

So here’s something that I’m curious about and thought we’d discuss… what magazines do you guys read on a regular basis?  Do you feel like the Internet has changed the time you spend with a magazine — or is a hot bath or a long flight still not the same without your favorite pile of mags?  Does anyone use the iPad apps? Which magazines do you enjoy the most?

For my own $.02… you’re talking to someone whose major was magazine journalism, so I always have and always will love the medium.  One of my favorite scenes in Working Girl is when Tess describes how her reading two wildly different publications gave her a great idea related to business, and I’ve always tried to take that approach.  I remember in college, going to Barnes and Noble, getting a huge stack of magazines, and sitting down to pore over them.  In my early 20s, when I worked for Family Circle, the editor in chief had me read about 30 magazines a week and flag things of interest to her, either in terms of story ideas for the magazine or things she ought to know generally as the editor of a major magazine. When I left for law school that dwindled to personally reading about 15 a month… and now I’m down to about 5 a month, maybe. I hate recycling unread magazines, and I’m just not in a place anymore where I want to keep large unread piles of magazines anymore, so I keep unsubscribing. (Pictured: Magazine Logos by Jim Parkinson, originally uploaded from FontShop.)  I still subscribe to the following:

Entrepreneurial reads:  Inc.  Love the magazine — but they have a lot of content available online. I also get Fast Company; lots of great reads. I always recommend these magazines to women who think they might have an entrepreneurial bent — it’s one of the cheapest and easiest ways to encourage yourself. I subscribed to Forbes for a while, but I ultimately felt like I preferred the servicey, how-to vibe from Inc. far better than the “profiles of titans of industry” feel to Forbes. Wired isn’t really an entrepreneurial read, but I loved that one because I always felt very inspired by all that talk of the tech world.  They have a lot of content online as well, though, so I unsubscribed.

Healthy Lifestyle Reads: Self. I prefer this one to Women’s Health, but with any eat-right-work-out-more magazine the stories are going to repeat, often… I signed up for Men’s Health for my husband, and found that is a really excellent magazine — I’m currently trying to figure out whether or not to keep my subscription.  I also get Weight Watchers Magazine (lots of good recipes).  For a while I got Cooking Light, as well as Taste of Home’s lower-calorie magazine (Light & Tasty, maybe?) — both are excellent, but I primarily use the Internet for my source of new recipes, now.  Oh!  And Nutrition Action Newsletter — I love this one, which contains lots of scientific-y looks at what the best cereal is, whether vitamins are really bad for you, etc.

Women’s Magazines:  I love Real Simple and O, The Oprah Magazine — I feel like both have reasonable fashion choices, solid self-help advice, and that both are beautiful to look at.

Shopping/Fashion Magazines:  I still subscribe to Lucky, which I have always liked, even when it swung too far in the boho direction.  I also try to look through Elle, which I get sent every month because I’m part of the Elle/Style Coalition ad network, and I’m always amazed at the good reads in it.  I always think of Vanity Fair as the fashion magazine with the best reads — that’s my splurge at the airport newstand.  I love to look at Vogue but in all my years subscribing to it I found exactly one spread of clothes that I might want to wear, and unsubscribed after I realized that.  I liked Marie Claire for a while — that is supposedly the thinking woman’s fashion magazine — but I never found anything that was a “must read” and so I wound up unsubscribing to that one also.

Career Advice Magazines.  I get Working Mother, and highly recommend it to those of you with kids or thinking of having kids.  I signed up for this before I got pregnant, in part to keep an eye on it for this blog, and it is an excellent magazine.  At least at this point in my parenting journey, the advice is fresh and new, and they address a lot of great things about the juggle between motherhood and working.   I must say, I also like subscribing to the men’s magazines, if only to see the career and money advice that the guys are getting.  I loved, loved, loved Esquire, but I finally unsubscribed since I just never got to all the lengthy, beautifully written articles in it.  I got Pink magazine for a while also, but it just felt like it was geared for much older women.  Men’s Health (mentioned above) had a bunch of great advice columns, a few of which I’ve linked to here.

Local Magazines: We still get New York magazine, but at this point we’re just recycling them almost as soon as they come.  We started because we felt like Time Out New York was too “young” for us; New York feels too old for us.  I suppose it’s probably time that we subscribe to Time Out Kids or something like that.  Sigh.  I got The New Yorker for years and years and years and loved it, but always had huge piles of it whenever I moved… and I always felt like a pseudo-intellectual if I just read just the Shouts & Murmurs section and the comics and then recycled it.  I finally stopped getting it when I decided to get Business Week, which I had always loved — but the weeklies really kill you in terms of paper, so I could only keep one.  (I no longer get either!)

Others Magazines:  I no longer get any design magazines.  In the past I’ve gotten Elle Decor (love), Dwell (a wee bit highbrow for me), another highbrow one I’m totally blanking on, and Domino (may it rest in peace).  I end up watching a lot of property/redesign shows on television as background noise, though, so maybe I’m getting my fill of it there.  We also don’t get any entertainment magazines anymore.  I love Entertainment Weekly, Us Magazine, and Rolling Stone, but I just don’t have the time to read them! So I tend to be pretty woefully informed about what movie is coming out or what hot new show I should watch.  Oh, and I’m also liking my subscription to Parenting Early Years.

So there you have it — I’m kind of a magazine nerd.  How about you guys — what are your must-reads every month? How have your tastes changed over the years?

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Our daily TPS reports suggest one piece of work-appropriate attire in a range of prices.

I spied these fun blue trousers a few days ago and have been personally lusting after them — but when I went to the IFB conference yesterday I noticed two or three women wearing this color of pant and looking fabulous. One paired it with a neon yellow sweater, while the others paired it with classic black or white — but it looked pretty hot on everyone. It was daring but classic at the same time, and would be great for a woman who doesn’t mind standing out. This pair is $79 at Express (which offers a matching jacket that I hate, but that’s just my $.02…) Ultimate Double Weave Columnist Pant

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Update on Tech Troubles, 9:50 AM ET: Drat; apparently I didn’t fix the stack overflow problem. I’ve turned something else off in the backend; please let me know if that has any effect…  Thanks in advance…

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Hi guys — I’ve noticed some of you have mentioned there are tech troubles.  Is it limited to Internet Explorer?  IE 8 only?  Or are people having problems with other browsers as well?

Thank you in advance…

Pictured: Hamster in a wheel, originally uploaded to Flickr by captainmcdan.

Update at 5:37 PM ET: Please let me know if anyone is still getting the stack overflow message now. Thanks!

Update at 6:11 PM ET:  OK, I’ve modified some stuff — is anyone still getting it?  I think I know which plugin is the problem (but there’s still a bit of work to go from there)…

Update 12:36 AM ET (2/9):  I’ve modified some more stuff — please let me know if anyone is actively still getting it.  Thanks!

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.

Yoox has a number of Mila Schön suits right now, and I’m really liking the clean lines, feminine touches, and general look. This skirt suit (which Yoox describes as having a “Chinese collar”) looks ladylike but businesslike all at once. It’s available in limited sizes in black and dark blue at Yoox for $215. Mila Schön Women’s Suit

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Travel back in the Corporette time capsule… Here’s what was on our minds oh so many moons ago.

One year ago…

• Wow – we introduced The Corporette Guide to Suits a year ago!  Any new finds, ladies?
• How to Change Careers
• When to Save, and When to Pay Down Debt
• How to Walk Quietly in Heels
• Is It Appropriate to Eat During Meetings?

Two years ago…

• What Makes Something Frumpy?
• What to Wear for a Month in Court
• Colleagues at Your Wedding – Must You Invite Them?
• Beauty Review: Touche Eclat
• How to Handle a Video Interview
• What to Wear to a Mock Trial Competition

Three years ago…

• Tools of the Trade: Cute Office Supplies
• How to Make Heels Comfy
• Poll: Are Miniskirts Weekend Wear, Even? (No, apparently…)
• Should She “Friend” Her Boss on Facebook?

Our daily TPS reports suggest one piece of work-appropriate attire in a range of prices.

Reader A wrote in to recommend this dress, noting “I bought this dress online, and since I couldn’t try it on, I was skeptical. But I am so pleased! This dress is professional, flattering, and easy to accessorize.” I love a report from the field! It’s available in vermont pine, as well as heather charcoal — and it’s on sale. Was $198, now marked to $148 at JCrew.com. Clea Dress

Seen a great piece you’d like to recommend? Please e-mail tps@corporette.com.
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