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Omg - Eileen Fisher PP just perfectly described my relative. Down to the kids school status. Bravo! And yes, she ONLY wears EF..

Lily Pulitzer

Anonymous wrote:Eileen Fisher

Life is more than clothing, and you refuse to follow trends. You are your own person, especially since retiring from your job in finance; you weren’t very advanced - in retrospect, you were mommy tracked. That has to be okay with you, but you still resent it. You did great for them. Anyway, the kids are mostly grown - Michael is engaged to a wonderful girl who you genuinely like (although you hope you don’t have to spend much time with her mother during wedding planning), Kenneth is finishing law school and Martha is in her senior year at a small Midwestern liberal arts college on the prairie. You don’t want to brag, but they really wanted her there despite all the trouble she had with anorexia in high school and how that destroyed her focus, but she’s really bloomed at school.

And now that you’re out of the corporate game, you can dress for you. Chicos feels just a little too common, a little too disposable. Eileen Fisher it is. You LOVE the mix of natural fibers, recycled fibers and that the business is woman owned and very responsible. You look a little funky and a little reserved, and that’s exactly who you are. You weren’t sure about it at first, but Jennifer is your favorite sales woman (or was, until we couldn’t really shop in person - you’ve been checking on her via email every so often since the stores closed) and she gets your style.

Anyway, you like the focus on your face. Your bob is purely grey now and you’ve worked into a little more angular look, plus your funky glasses announce, “I’m not playing your corporate game anymore.” They really announce your artistic new pottery habit to the world. Your husband surprised you with a top of the line kiln last Christmas and your pottery is really starting to look like Frances Palmer.

Anonymous wrote:Brunello cucinelli!

This should be good...

Eileen Fisher

Brunello cucinelli!

Kendra Scott

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Anonymous wrote:Jenni Kayne?

You think you have a house overlooking the Pacific in CA, and maybe like 10 of you do, but the rest are just buying overpriced cashmere sweaters (but I’m one of those people)....

-Corporate lawyer in DC

I love her sweaters - can do without everything else. I do have a house with Pacific Ocean views in CA 😉

Anonymous wrote:Jenni Kayne?

You think you have a house overlooking the Pacific in CA, and maybe like 10 of you do, but the rest are just buying overpriced cashmere sweaters (but I’m one of those people)....

-Corporate lawyer in DC

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Anonymous wrote:Gorsuch

She wanted to marry an NHL player. She met a nice guy in business school (working feels like a distant fever dream now -- the aughts, amirite?) and he plays in a weekly pick-up league. There's more beer-drinking than goal-scoring, but it's good exercise. She sees some of the NHL wives in Arlington now and again, and follows them on Insta - when did all of these pro athletes get so young?!?!

While he's out of the house, she can do some of those embarrassing beauty routines (WHERE did that gray chin hair come from?! She's 37!) that she will take to her grave.

She doesn't have the dream house in Aspen she's pined (and Pinned!) for, but she's grown to love their rustic (her unkind NYC SIL will call it "primitive") Vermont getaway.

LOL as a DC transplant from Colorado whose absolute favorite store in the whole world is Gorsuch, I appreciate this more than you could ever know.

As a DC transplant from across the ocean, this is the only brand name I had to google.
No, I take it back, this and Rachel Comey, whoever she is.

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Anonymous wrote:OK, this thread is great!

Boden

Larla is the consummate Anglophile - she has visited the UK not once but TWICE and loves Downton Abbey and The Crown. She even drinks tea! She is also quirky - lovably quirky, not annoyingly quirky. Larla wants everyone to know she wears imported European clothes and posts photos on Instagram of herself and her "littles", George and Caroline, sporting their Boden. Larla has gotten in several internet rumbles with moms stanning Hanna Andersson.

No way. Larla has never been to the UK. She vacations in Outer Banks or Rehoboth, and dreams of someday owning her own vacation home (or condo?) in one of those places. She's an "active mom" who works part time mainly because she doesn't respect SAHMs (although she secretly envies them) and runs the occasional 5k. If she posts, it's on Facebook and is probably some kind of transparent humble-brag about her kids or her latest athletic endeavor. She's been buying clothes from catalogs way before it was mainstream, and can't understand why anyone would waste time shopping in a store when they could be out on the trails with a jogging stroller.

This.
Boden is as British as Haagen-Daaz is Dutch. Or whatever people think of when they hear the name.

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Anonymous wrote:Gorsuch

She wanted to marry an NHL player. She met a nice guy in business school (working feels like a distant fever dream now -- the aughts, amirite?) and he plays in a weekly pick-up league. There's more beer-drinking than goal-scoring, but it's good exercise. She sees some of the NHL wives in Arlington now and again, and follows them on Insta - when did all of these pro athletes get so young?!?!

While he's out of the house, she can do some of those embarrassing beauty routines (WHERE did that gray chin hair come from?! She's 37!) that she will take to her grave.

She doesn't have the dream house in Aspen she's pined (and Pinned!) for, but she's grown to love their rustic (her unkind NYC SIL will call it "primitive") Vermont getaway.

LOL as a DC transplant from Colorado whose absolute favorite store in the whole world is Gorsuch, I appreciate this more than you could ever know.

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Anonymous wrote:/Requesting PP here - MWAH!! Larlene is Kohl's personified!/

PP author (Walmart and VV, too) and glad you enjoyed this! I’m an infrequent Kohl’s shopper and fan - so I guess I’m describing some aspects of myself!

My turn to request a store: Nordstrom Rack.

You have the money. You have the taste. But GODDAMNIT, YOU LOVE A BARGAIN.. You’re the queen of sales. Anything you want to wear, you can find for AT LEAST 30% off. If it’s not immediately on sale, you’ll find a coupon code. If there’s no code, you use that gov ID from your contracting job to get a discount. If that doesn’t work, have DD buy it with a student discount on your card (“Ugh, mom, that’s fugly, I’d never wear that!” she always tells you, used to your shopping addiction by now, but buying the items anyway).

You live in Dunn Loring and have 3 kids. DD with the student ID is the oldest and goes to VCU; she’s the artiste of the family, hence your drastically different styles. Your middle child goes to Marshall for the IB program and he’s in band. Your youngest son loves science and science experiments. Your DH works at the USPTO and you’re a SAHM.

You’ve been into trashy fiction during quarantine; reading is tour favorite form of entertainment, but you were always too busy before. You do lots of volunteer work and have a big dog at home, who also takes up a lot of your time (luckily, your kids are into taking care of him now that they’re home all the time. He still likes you the best, anyway).

I like this mom. She sounds nice.

I agree. She sounds fun and her kids sound like good kids.