I usually wear black pencil skirt and a button up blouse with black pumps and hose. That is kind of my uniform.

I LOVE wearing heels and cannot wear flat shoes.

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Anonymous wrote:I disliked Hillary for so many reasons, but her sticking to the black pantsuit with different blouses gets an A+ from me. Pelosi is older, and they have different expectations of workwear. She probably also buys and affords the every expensive pantyhose that don't run as much. If you don't mind putting on the pantyhose, it's a very simple thing -- two items.

At a certain point in your life you figure out what works for you and you just go buy it in every color.

Pelosi (80) isn’t that much older than Clinton (72).

Generationally and culturally, they’re miles apart. Pelosi had five kids by the time she was thirty and spent twenty years as a housewife. She has said she would have loved to go to law school and have a career as an attorney (and even took the LSAT) but that was not an opportunity afforded to most women like her at the time. Eight years later, Hillary did have that opportunity. The cultural space between silent gen women and boomer women is huge and can be seen in many manifestations (style expectations is one).

Plus one. Pelosi is part of the same generation as Madeleine Albright, another women who got married and raised kids and followed her husband after college and then went back to school and entered politics later.

Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein both also got married during/right after college and had kids. That was the expectation back then.

The exception is Elizabeth Dole in that generation. But she has said many times in interviews how incredibly rare it was for a woman to not get married then out of Duke and pursue law school at Harvard and stay unmarried until she was older and established and never had kids. She was a true exception and from everything I’ve read there was TONS of pressure on her to do otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:I disliked Hillary for so many reasons, but her sticking to the black pantsuit with different blouses gets an A+ from me. Pelosi is older, and they have different expectations of workwear. She probably also buys and affords the every expensive pantyhose that don't run as much. If you don't mind putting on the pantyhose, it's a very simple thing -- two items.

At a certain point in your life you figure out what works for you and you just go buy it in every color.

Pelosi (80) isn’t that much older than Clinton (72).

Generationally and culturally, they’re miles apart. Pelosi had five kids by the time she was thirty and spent twenty years as a housewife. She has said she would have loved to go to law school and have a career as an attorney (and even took the LSAT) but that was not an opportunity afforded to most women like her at the time. Eight years later, Hillary did have that opportunity. The cultural space between silent gen women and boomer women is huge and can be seen in many manifestations (style expectations is one).

Plus one. Pelosi is part of the same generation as Madeleine Albright, another women who got married and raised kids and followed her husband after college and then went back to school and entered politics later.

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Anonymous wrote:I disliked Hillary for so many reasons, but her sticking to the black pantsuit with different blouses gets an A+ from me. Pelosi is older, and they have different expectations of workwear. She probably also buys and affords the every expensive pantyhose that don't run as much. If you don't mind putting on the pantyhose, it's a very simple thing -- two items.

At a certain point in your life you figure out what works for you and you just go buy it in every color.

Pelosi (80) isn’t that much older than Clinton (72).

Generationally and culturally, they’re miles apart. Pelosi had five kids by the time she was thirty and spent twenty years as a housewife. She has said she would have loved to go to law school and have a career as an attorney (and even took the LSAT) but that was not an opportunity afforded to most women like her at the time. Eight years later, Hillary did have that opportunity. The cultural space between silent gen women and boomer women is huge and can be seen in many manifestations (style expectations is one).

This.

I don’t hate Hillary, but Nancy is more savvy. She’s like a ninja.

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Anonymous wrote:I disliked Hillary for so many reasons, but her sticking to the black pantsuit with different blouses gets an A+ from me. Pelosi is older, and they have different expectations of workwear. She probably also buys and affords the every expensive pantyhose that don't run as much. If you don't mind putting on the pantyhose, it's a very simple thing -- two items.

At a certain point in your life you figure out what works for you and you just go buy it in every color.

Pelosi (80) isn’t that much older than Clinton (72).

Generationally and culturally, they’re miles apart. Pelosi had five kids by the time she was thirty and spent twenty years as a housewife. She has said she would have loved to go to law school and have a career as an attorney (and even took the LSAT) but that was not an opportunity afforded to most women like her at the time. Eight years later, Hillary did have that opportunity. The cultural space between silent gen women and boomer women is huge and can be seen in many manifestations (style expectations is one).

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Anonymous wrote:I kind of do this. If I find something that fits well, buy it in multiple colors.

I don’t wear pantyhose and I find dresses more comfortable than pants.

+1. I wear leggings with them in the winter, though.

Same. The only thing I don't like about pantyhose is I always snag them. Other than that, I appreciate they keep things tucked in and smooth.

Anonymous wrote:Pelosi needs a better bra. Yikes.

And I'm a bra evangelist who gets custom fit and sometimes -tailored bras. Small band size and a DD or E.

Uhh, she's 80. She looks fabulous. You can only hope you look half as good as her at that age.

Anonymous wrote:I disliked Hillary for so many reasons, but her sticking to the black pantsuit with different blouses gets an A+ from me. Pelosi is older, and they have different expectations of workwear. She probably also buys and affords the every expensive pantyhose that don't run as much. If you don't mind putting on the pantyhose, it's a very simple thing -- two items.

At a certain point in your life you figure out what works for you and you just go buy it in every color.

Pelosi (80) isn’t that much older than Clinton (72).

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Anonymous wrote:Why on earth would you want to make a dress the uniform. That requires pantyhose. Pantyhose and tights are the work of the devil. Why can't we have pants be the uniform for women, too.

Pantyhose are a gift from God. They are flattering and wonderful.

+1. The pantyhose debate is the way one can tell the difference between people who care about style and people who don’t because they’re just uncomfortable enough to annoy people who are predisposed to resenting them. Everyone looks better with pantyhose.

+2. I always think these people have sensory issues or something. I wear tights or pantyhose almost every day from October to April. I don't think of them as anymore uncomfortable than...? My diamond stud earrings, maybe? My wedding ring? They're a total non issue.

Me! I have sensory issues! I SAH with my kids so i have approximately zero opportunities to wear them, and I have grown out of some of the sensitivity/can solve problems better, but yeah as a kid and young teen tights and hose drove me bananas.

But they do make everyone’s legs look amazing, so I do wear them when I can.

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Anonymous wrote:Why on earth would you want to make a dress the uniform. That requires pantyhose. Pantyhose and tights are the work of the devil. Why can't we have pants be the uniform for women, too.

Pantyhose are a gift from God. They are flattering and wonderful.

+1. The pantyhose debate is the way one can tell the difference between people who care about style and people who don’t because they’re just uncomfortable enough to annoy people who are predisposed to resenting them. Everyone looks better with pantyhose.

+2. I always think these people have sensory issues or something. I wear tights or pantyhose almost every day from October to April. I don't think of them as anymore uncomfortable than...? My diamond stud earrings, maybe? My wedding ring? They're a total non issue.

Anonymous wrote:I kind of do this. If I find something that fits well, buy it in multiple colors.

I don’t wear pantyhose and I find dresses more comfortable than pants.

+1. I wear leggings with them in the winter, though.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth would you want to make a dress the uniform. That requires pantyhose. Pantyhose and tights are the work of the devil. Why can't we have pants be the uniform for women, too.

Pantyhose are a gift from God. They are flattering and wonderful.

+1. The pantyhose debate is the way one can tell the difference between people who care about style and people who don’t because they’re just uncomfortable enough to annoy people who are predisposed to resenting them. Everyone looks better with pantyhose.

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth would you want to make a dress the uniform. That requires pantyhose. Pantyhose and tights are the work of the devil. Why can't we have pants be the uniform for women, too.

Pantyhose are a gift from God. They are flattering and wonderful.

Anonymous wrote:Pelosi needs a better bra. Yikes.

And I'm a bra evangelist who gets custom fit and sometimes -tailored bras. Small band size and a DD or E.

Are you in the DMV? Where do you go?

Anonymous wrote:Warren also has a uniform.

I had one (flared dress with a jacket or sweater) but business casual is dead.

What's replaced it?