Weekly News Update

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• Fashionista toured Eileen Fisher’s “Tiny Factory,” where old clothes are recycled into new outfits.
• Business Insider shared tips on how to dress for your first job, including Kat’s ideas for a capsule wardrobe, and also suggested when you should wear a suit for work, featuring Kat’s thoughts about why suit pieces should be versatile.
• Racked provided details about the new Universal Standard x J.Crew collab, which offers sizes from XXS to 5X.
• The New York Times explained why John Fluevog’s retro-styled footwear is making a comeback.
• SELF suggested how to recycle beauty product packaging.
• SELF also listed 13 drugstore beauty products for when you don’t have La Mer money. (Sound familiar? We shared a similar Glamour piece a few months ago.)
• Harvard Business Review reported on a study involving CEOs that found high-achieving women don’t expect to be supported at home or at work.
• Ask A Manager shared what to do if you think a coworker is rejecting your ideas and claiming them later without giving you any credit.
• The New York Times also shared an opinion from a 40-something woman who doesn’t have children and is happy, even though no one seems to believe her.
• For your Groan of the Week: Innovation Women shared a new version of the Female Conference Speaker Bingo Card, this time featuring reasons why women say “no” to speaking engagements. (Why a “Groan”? Because there is really no good excuse for all-male panels, but they keep happening.)

On CorporetteMoms Recently…                       

• We continued our Week in the Life of a Working Mom series with a profile of Reader S, who lives in Texas with her husband and foster child and works as a project manager/data analyst.
• We offered some clothes for working moms, including some maternity basics and washable workwear.

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