No wardrobe advice here, but have a great first day back!

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When the weather gets above 40 degrees, I generally wear a skirt with thick stockings underneath or thigh highs/knee socks when it’s slightly warmer with a tall pair of classy boots. Not to be mistaken with the slutty high heeled, knee-high lace up dom-boots or my knee high lace up Timberlands of ass-kicking.

Apparently, the men of NYC have been so deprived of flesh that the first warm day last month I went out in them I was cat-called left and right due to exposing my KNEES. Sexy, sexy knees apparently.

I say a comfy (but classy, of course) skirt with a nice blouse that makes YOU feel pretty/sexy/attractive/bombshell/whatever you’re going for. I would say that you need to ensure comfort as much as the boost you get from wearing a bitching outfit. I imagine you’ve got something that includes comfort and bitching in your wardrobe, right?

Maybe you can wear one of your new dresses but dress it down abit – ie. wear more casual shoes with it and/or knee high blk leggings underneath…at least it would solve the tummy confinement issue.

I’m not a fashion guru or anything, but seriously? Black socks? (which I saw people mentioning regarding JB’s “problem”)…hasn’t that ALWAYS been a no-no?

I kinda like the white socks, exactly the way he has them, all pushed down…

Now, if he were wearing SANDALS with socks, I could understand the intervention. :)

I agree with Clarabella on the skirt — way more comfortable, potentially, than not-quite-perfect-yet jeans, and also nice. I think I remember seeing some cute skirts in your flickr.

If you have some jeans that would be comfortable, though, I do always like a jeans/nice top/heels combo, myself. Heels always give the right clack of authority and fanciness, but, with jeans, are not too fancy.

Either way, have a great first day back with the grownups!

Loose khaki pants and cotton sweater? Heh, I don’t think that’s quite your style, but that’s what I wear all year ’round!

Have a great first week, good luck with your commute (urg) and I hope Dylan loves daycare! They’re sure to love him.

I would wear a skirt with a t-shirt. But then—what to do about FOOTWEAR?

I second Swistle’s comment, skirt with a t-shirt. I wear that combo all the time in the summer. I wear my Birkenstock’s because I am so fashionable!

I would wear a black skirt with a nice colorful shirt maybe a sweater to go along. Do you have ballerina type shoes ?
Enjoy your first day back !

HAve a good day at work, and also, isn’t this your anniversary? Happy Anniversary. Also, Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Hope the 1st day back to work goes well! I have no fashion assvice because my GAWD if you saw how I dressed you would say yoga pants and nice top it is!!

I’d love to give you some fashion advice but coming from someone who drives their kids to school still wearing the flannel housepants she slept in the night before (and getting BUSTED by two parents and a scout from my own den) I think I’d better hold back. If you wore clean flannel housepants it could work, right?

Good luck today….hope you found an outfit…..do take out for dinner…that way you can snuggle with your boys when you get home.

Have any elastic-waisted skirts?

And, by the way, have you ever shopped at the Black/White, White/Black, or whatever the hell it is shop? Divine.

I LOVE “Intervention.” I love everything about it, including the driving theme song and the “you’re surrounded by a bunch of people who just love you like crazy” interventionists.

I always get sobby when one of the parents/family members, the one that has shown themself to be kind of an a-hole throughout the show, reads their letter at the intervention and gets all teary and apologetic about their a-hole-ness. Gets me EVERY TIME. Also, when the interventionists cry. THEY REALLY CARE! Oh, man. That show RULES.

How about a long button-up, tunicy top with a tank, yoga pants and cute flats. Comfy but still looks kinda sharp.

Also, the thing that’s the most bothersome about JB’s sartorial choices is that he pairs the shoe/sock combo with a white T shirt. Looks like underwear to me – a colored T with the white socks and Keens wouldn’t look as dorky. My 2 cents.

I love Intervention.

I have no fashion advice but I have a going back to work fashion story for you. In 1991, when I returned to work after the birth of my daughter, I tried on a few outfits to see which one I’d wear my first day back to work. I put on a comfy but stylish (for 1991) dress that was quite flattering for my not-quite-back-to-normal body. I looked in the mirror and said to myself, “Well, when I put on a bra, it’ll look much better because my boobs won’t be hanging down by my waist.” I took off the dress, and guess what? I was already wearing a bra. Yeah. I’ve been wearing some kind of support bra ever since.

Weighing in too late to help, so I’ll just say that I hope your first day back is awesome!!

By now you are probably at work wearing a great outfit. I hope you have a great day!
My first day back I wore a skirt with a tanktop – cardigan combo and heels. I missed my heels when I was pregnant so I could not resist. Needless to say, my legs and feet hurt like the dickens that night….LOL.

I’m going to face this exact same dilemma in a few months. If it was me, I WOULD go with one of those new dresses – they looked adorable on Flickr, and I think you’ll enjoy the chance to dress up a little. I’d just throw a sweater or cardigan on top and call it good. Good luck!

your not-quite-the-right-season-yet dresses can usually be made to work with a cute cardigan sweater or jean jacket.

I’m not sure exactly what the Seattle weather is like, but when it’s not quite warm enough for my summer dresses, I like to add a cardigan. Cute, warm, and totally work-appropriate.

Hope you have a great first day back! I’m not much for fashion advice but my standard spring/summer outfit is a skirt with a t-shirt, flip-flops or flats and a jean jacket. I’m all for comfort!

I can’t believe JB did not take our awesome man-fashion advice! WTF is his problem?

I didn’t read in time to add my musical two cents on the last post so I hope you don’t mind this Architecture in Helsinki recommendation. They’re a neat band and definitely upbeat. I’m with Jennifer’s suggestion for what to wear tomorrow. I need to find a jean jacket myself….

Oh, go ahead & get dressed up. You’re entitled. (And they say that they whole “I don’t deserve to dress nicely because my body isn’t where it should be” mentality will tend to defeat weight loss/toning efforts.)

I would vote for a khaki pants/buttondown shirt combo, if you have any such thing.

Also, my dad wears nerdy white socks with his sandals also. He turns 70 this year, so I figure he can wear whatever the hell he wants. Maybe your hubby is just getting an early start on geezerhood.

sorry, no advice. just reading comments to share the advice given to you.

sorry for stealing.

:)

How about dressy jeans and a flattering shirt? Oh, yeah, I don’t OWN a flattering shirt… but maybe you do??? G.A.H. That’s all I have to say about wardrobe issues.

Also????? My husband? And blue jean shopping? I should have had my camera with me to DOCUMENT the hideous garments that he thought were jeans but were actually…. MOM jeans, for men? I didn’t know they made such things, but my husband found them NO PROBLEM, and then wanted to buy them. I had to shove him into the deserted corner of the dressing room and slip him the tongue in order to distract him from purchasing those jeans.

Well, either you figured out a good outfit today or you are at work nekkid. Now THAT would be a memorable first day back at work.
Hope your first day back at work has brought you lots of adult conversation and some good new dirrty jokes. Share them with us, won’t you?

We are obsessed with Intervention over here and are anxiously awaiting some episodes that we haven’t seen.

I liked Swistle’s suggestion: skirt with nice t-shirt and a cute necklace. It seems like you’ve got lots of cute shoes to choose from, so that shouldn’t be an issue.

Also, tell JB enough with the white sock insanity. SERIOUSLY.

Go for comfort. Some of the dresses you posted on Flickr would be smart comfortable choices. Pair any with a cardigan and they’d be just right for May.

I can’t handle intervention, I just get really depressed and can’t hang.
Anything you wear to work will be fine cuz they will be so happy to see you!
And JB is a guy, he’s supposed to look dorky.

So how was your first day back? Hope it was great!

what happened to those super cute dresses you bought from ross dress for less!? they looked both comfy and fab. [sidenote: is that really its name? as an east coaster my knowledge of this chain is limited to your mentions and those of ross the intern on leno.]

i also offer a thanks for those kate nash recommendations. i was unfamiliar, but thanks to my fellow fabulous sundry readers, i now love.

have a FABULOUS first day back and work. [and if you already had it, and i missed it…oops, i hope it was great!]

I am anxiously awaiting further advice in the HIDEOUS SOCK department as I think JB and my husband are brothers from different mothers. I could photoshop a pic of JB (in any given outfit) and insert my husband’s face and his family would not know the difference.

He also mows the (front!) lawn in black dress socks and holey slippers – so I’m obviously no help. Off to throw those away right now while I’m thinking about it! Oooooo….there’s an idea – the garbage!

The socks aren’t so bad. I mean, it’s not like they’re Black Dress Socks with camo shorts. Right?

No good advice on what to wear, but I am here to admit my addiction – yes, so wrong to use in this context – to Intervention. I really do love it. The pictures of happy little kids always make me tear up, usually while I’m nursing my own sweet innocent babe! I’m always rather relieved when they bring in Jeff, because he ALWAYS seems to get the person to treatment, even when there is all this crazy family wailing and gnashing their teeth.

Good luck on your first week back to work! I know it’s hard.

Hang some panty-hose in his closet and tell him they’re for when he needs to steal some diapers.

I believe in approaching man wordrobe manipulation with a little reverse psychology and positive reinforcement. First, act like you don’t care and cease laughing openly at his shameless dorkiness. Then, every time he wears something correcting a Keens/Socks habit, tell him he’s smokin’ hot and jump his bones. Before you know it, he’ll be a changed man.

Hey **no name**, I think Sundry works for the company that owns iTunes, so using Limewire would be a no-no!