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I used to be pondering, how I am all the time amused to locate older items that we have featured right here on Corporette® … generally they nonetheless look good, or I keep in mind liking them. Different occasions, the styling or the featured piece of clothes is simply… fug.
Anyway, I began pondering… it is likely to be enjoyable to share some beforehand featured photos with you guys, and focus on — would you put on this stuff at the moment? In that case, how would you model them in 2025? In case you’ve changed gadgets like this in your closet, what are you sporting as an alternative of them?
First up, a few of the issues we featured on July 29 over time…
What to Put on to Work on July 29
2009: Boden’s Brondesbury Blazer
Okay: I really love this one, though I would find it irresistible extra if this had been a mushy knit like a sweater jacket, and fewer as a result of it was really fabricated from boiled wool. I really feel like you do not see as many boiled wool blazers as there have been again in 2009, and that’s for one of the best — they had been fairly itchy and infrequently unlined.
Lately, I would change it with a sweater jacket…
(Searching for the same yellow jacket? Sezane has a pleasant one now.)
2010: Talbots Blazer
Huh… there appears to be a yellow jacket pattern. Tis the season, I suppose? I all the time really feel like extra saturated yellows like this Talbots blazer (and the Boden blazer from 2009) are nice for mid- to late-summer, whereas paler, extra pastel variations of yellow are greatest left in spring. Ideas?
This blazer was marked right down to $74 after we wrote about it, which strikes me as a worth you are unlikely to see at the moment at Talbots, however I simply is probably not trolling their gross sales sufficient.
2013: Elizabeth & James Embellished Blazer
This Elizabeth & James blazer was, on the time, noteworthy as a result of it was part of Neiman Marcus’s then-sister website CUSP’s huge sale, with the blazer coming from $565 right down to $254. Good!
I remembered that the Elizabeth & James model had preceded The Row, however it took a little bit of Googling to seek out out that apparently the Olsen twins saved the model as a excessive finish one till round 2019, once they signed a licensing take care of Kohls to promote the garments at a a lot (a lot) lower cost level. That deal appears to have ended a couple of years in the past, since I am unable to discover any document of Kohls having the model in inventory since 2021. Nonetheless: maintain the modified focus in thoughts if you happen to occur to seek out Elizabeth & James stuff on resale websites like Poshmark.
(No, it is not clear from my tiny image or my copy what the embellishment was — it seems like a laser-cut sample or eyelet? I really feel like I would have talked about if there have been beads or different bedazzled elaborations.)
2014: Vince’s Chevron-Print Shell
Oof, I like this shirt. I’m stunned that it is Vince, although — as of late I consider Vince as being extraordinarily nicely made however boring fundamentals in impartial, stable colours. The print right here jogs my memory extra of current collections from Akris.
Searching basically for blouses in fairly prints? As of 2025, a few of the reader-favorite manufacturers embrace L’Agence, Gear, Smythe, and Tucker NYC. On the extra reasonably priced aspect, try NYDJ,* Halogen*, Loft,* and Kut from the Kloth. For plus sizes, try Catherine Gee (and the asterisks)!
2015: Pink Fleece’s Windowpane Skirt
I knew with out trying that this skirt would have been from Brooks Brothers’ Pink Fleece period, which was really a reasonably good period. That they had enjoyable with their preppy aspect however priced issues extra affordably than common Brooks Brothers, and the items had been all positively, distinctively, preppy.
On the time, I acknowledged the holiday-party vibe to the skirt, however nonetheless thought you could possibly get away with sporting it to work with a reasonably sedate outfit, like a navy turtleneck and tights.
2016: Ann Taylor Pencil Skirt
Pencil skirts nonetheless reigned supreme in 2016 — I really feel prefer it took a complete dang pandemic to swing the pattern away from pencil skirts and different structured classics. (I additionally really feel like they’re going to be again any day now, however what do I do know.)
This pencil skirt from Ann Taylor is fairly, even when they don’t seem to be essentially my colours.
2019: Rag & Bone’s Blazer
I keep in mind loving this Rag & Bone blazer after we first posted it again in 2019 — however one thing in regards to the match feels off to me, prefer it must be a $50 blazer as an alternative of a $500 blazer. (Or perhaps like it might probably’t resolve whether or not to be an outsized, boyfriend-like blazer or a extra structured, basic blazer.)
Rag & Bone’s Slade blazer has been a bestseller for years and years if you happen to’re on the hunt for one thing like a extra structured sweater blazer (relying on the material).
2020: Randa’s Tropical Shirt
In July 2020, there have been nonetheless fairly a couple of restrictions round journey because of the pandemic — so Elizabeth selected this tropical prime from Randa to assist her
convey a beachy vibe to my on a regular basis life. Tiny umbrellas for drinks on the patio? Yup. Coconut-scented the whole lot? Let’s do it. A palm-tree-printed shirt to put on to work? Why not?
In case you actually give it some thought, why NOT, certainly, even in 2025. I am certain we mentioned this usually sufficient again then, however the prime additionally would have made an ideal Zoom prime.
