We’re going back to 5 days in office later this summer. I’d like to incorporate more dresses into my wardrobe and need tips on how to style. I need to wear leggings under the dress because my office ac is unpredictable and I also may need to go into the lab or clean room any given day. Would like to wear sneakers with the dress as well.
Questions:
What fabrics can I get leggings in so that it doesn’t cling badly to the dress?
Any links/pictures you can point me to online that pair dresses with sneakers? I haven’t found exactly what I’m looking for when searching.
Also what kind of sneakers are you thinking about? I feel like canvas (Converse/Keds/etc) are much easier to pair with just about any casual dress than a proper running shoe.
Any fabric, get a skim of lotion on your hands (like leftover from rubbing it onto your hands) and swipe across your thighs. Ta da. It’s a miracle lol.
$200 for 2 people. They clean ~ 1,200 square feet of the house (not basement or attic since that’s mostly storage even though they’re finished. Two bedrooms, two bathrooms. Boston area. They haven’t raise the price in the last 2 years and I really think they should.
They tidy everything (although most of the time we try to tidy ahead of time), change sheets and start laundry (although same, we’ve started stripping the sheets and starting the laundry first thing in the morning), wipe down all the surfaces, clean the bathrooms, vacuum all the floors, wash all the floors (? Sometimes it seems like they might skip this step but sometimes they deep clean something randomly so I don’t complain if they need to hurry for some reason), do any dishes we’ve left out (we try not to). If they notice something is dirty they’ll wipe it down (like a windowsill or something). One time right after we moved in and had been out of town (so the house wasn’t unpacked, but also wasn’t dirty) they reorganized our entire pantry.
I’m in a similar area/COL and we pay $150 every two weeks for a similar level of service. I don’t tip beyond that but also do an extra $150 at the end of the year. I usually ask her to focus on kitchen and bathrooms over mopping but she frequently still fits that it. Its all surface level but it’s frequent enough that the bathrooms stay in really good shape.
another option if you aren’t too warm, is to wear something like Jockey Skims over the leggings. I used to wear them over my tights to help combat static cling issues.
Since other people are talking about depth of scrubbing and mine seem to be higher end of price range: they always get the purple hair dye out of the tub
I dunno - maybe minimalist? my current “uniform” for work is a blouse with boot-cut jeans and asics stability sneakers because of plantar fasciitis. I’m thinking of getting some Vionic sneakers like this one (not necessarily this color) to wear with a dress.
Leggings, I like the Motion365 fabric from Fabletics - good compression but not tight, very smooth but not shiny (unless you buy the shiny version, slippery, no static, can get with pockets. I wore their bike shorts (with pockets) under a polyester skirt and no static or clinging - and no need for a purse since I had undercover pockets.
Can you wear sandals to work - birkenstock style should be okay with the fasciaitis. The tennis shoes you linked should work fine too.
Any summery dress seems to be easily paired with tennis shoes or sandals. You could wear t-shirt dresses (jersey shifts), or go more boho (tiers or ruffles)
Love those sneaks. Also a big fan of a classic white sneaker. I also require support due to PF and find the Nike Air Force 1s to be perfect for office days but they might lean too sporty for ya.
I don’t know if this makes it better or worse, but the young people (teens) have no qualms about wearing any kind of sneaker with any kind of clothing. Dresses (short, long, fancy, casual, all of them!), skirts, shorts, jeans, sweats, rompers, Daisy Dukes; it does not matter. They wear their Sambas and their Converse and their Vans and their Nikes and their Adidas. With socks! Socks you can see. No-show socks are NOT COOL. To them, none of it looks funny. Probably pumps would look funny to them. Even ballet flats. They wear their sneaks! So, you will be very on trend with the young people if you go this route.
I do not own Nike Air Force 1s and barely know what they are. But my much cooler younger sister got a coupon to the Nike store from running a marathon in Eugene and got these for my kids.
If you are a lady with smallish widish feet you can save a few bucks by getting youth AF1s. That’s what I did!
Can confirm, I have received multiple compliments from fashionable zoomers even without the tall socks.
I do think if one wants to wear leggings and sneakers together with a dress, that might be a good place to experiment with the tall socks. I haven’t gone there myself because I wear boots in the winter and bare legs in the summer (and tall socks make my legs look even shorter than they are.)
Absolutely inconsequential question but folks in the states…
You know when there are promotions for alcohol on the radio specifically (they might do this on TV ads too I’m not sure) and at the end of the ad, they have a few disclaimers? One of them is “be 21,” which I have always thought sounds very strange.
My random question is: why do they say it like this?
They could say “ Must be 21 or over to consume” or something that sounds more natural. I know they pay by the second, but it sounds SO WEIRD. How did we, as a society, come to accept this? lol.
my current “uniform” for work is a blouse with boot-cut jeans and asics stability sneakers because of plantar fasciitis. I’m thinking of getting some Vionic sneakers like this one (not necessarily this color) to wear with a dress.
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