Corporate Comfort, Sweater Dress Office Chic
For those of you not familiar with 4th quarter hell, consider yourself lucky. Basically it’s in the later 3 months of the year that all the monsters come out of the closet and wreak havoc on your work, your sanity and your free time. This year I am fighting back armed with calendar “meetings” for yoga and copious amounts of the numbing agent- liquor.
Battle Stress with Comfort
While work is in full attack mode I kind of just want to feel like I am swaddled in a blanket, clutching onto the last bits of my sanity with comfort and warmth. Comfort is how I survive. So naturally I had a moment of sincere zen when I found this cable cutie. It is now my uniform of conference call endurance. My apron of meeting mayhem. My sheath of spreadsheet sorcery. It’s my comfort from the Q4 storm.
The jacket, a generous gift from the team at Eloquii, is equally magical. It just matches everything. I don’t have to think about it. It’s like a chameleon coat, bending it’s aesthetic to the pieces it is paired with. Plus it’s just comfortable. Comfort is key.
So what is it you actually do?
Lots of people ask – what the hell is it you actually do? Well, in short speak, I create the future. In less grand perspective speak- I am a product manager for a software company and I am in charge of re-imagining how brands engage with consumers with content at scale. In short, I spend my days thinking how brands can create better content, deliver it to you when it ismost meaningful, and how that can be meaningful for both you and the brand.
As part of job I work with a lot of amazing companies. It’s actually very likely that you are wearing something from, ate something today made by, or visited in the last month a brand that uses the technology I spend my days dreaming about. As amazing as that sounds it’s also a lot of pressure to make sure everything executes flawlessly- especially during the crazy holiday season. That means late nights at the office and even sometimes falling asleep at my computer. Lets just say this isn’t just a sweater dress, it’s often sweater pajamas.
Some days when the stress is at an all time high, the best thing I have to look forward to is playing dressing up in my closet. And this look always manages to make me happy. It’s my favorite color, its comfortable, and as schlepy as I may feel someone always stops to tell me how good it looks.
Shop this look
If you want to rock cable and feel just plain fabulous in the most comfortable of all work survival uniforms, the links below will take you to each of the items.
- Rust Sweater Dress : JustFab
- Houndstooth Coat: Eloquii
- Sam & Libby Flats: Target
- Black Skinny Pant: Torrid
Wide striped sweater dresses have the tendency to read “I’m in high school and I want to wear a dress, but not really dress, so this striped sweater frock is my happy medium- worn with my rebellious and beat up jean jacket and my black chucks.” While that look is great for weekend exploration, it’s awkward and bizarre for an adult in her early 30s who needs to look super important and inspiring during her next business meeting.
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I am really excited about the back of this dress and it’s lacy lacy surprise. My only caveat is that it’s a literal struggle to figure out how to put the dress on as the straps are attached in this weird way that left me a bit confused on how to actually wear it. It looks super fantastic on, but super intimidating on the hanger. It’s like a fashion puzzle.
As for these rock and roll ready boots, I found 
So this weeks plus size outfit theme is velvet! Velvet has long been viewed as the royalist of fabrics. This is because it had 3 of the favorite attributes of the royal family- expensive, hard to make, and imported from a far far land (Cairo to be exact). Originally velvet was made of silk, but modern technology allows us more affordable options made from cotton and synthetic fabrics. So us plebs can now rock the royally renowned shroud like the everyday queens we are.
Today’s dress is a special type of velvet- called crushed velvet. Basically they take an iron and press the hell out of the dress in a variety of different ways leaving the velvet ” crushed” and super shiny. Obviously it’s ultra reflective so I love it. This dress is available 
A dress like this is kind of a show stopper itself, but I live by the rhinestone creed which basically means when something shines- make it shine even more. More sparkles. More glitz. More light. So I added a lovely necklace gifted to me by an old boss that is basically the jewelry equivalent of a disco ball. Shine bright like a diamond I shall.
I believe in flats. I don’t think you need to have the perfect heels with a dress this bold. So I paired this look with 
The coat is a staple from last years closet and just ties the black color in through the outfit. The mini buns, they felt like a nice reference back to the 90s when velvet was on top of the fashion hit list. Lastly I am rocking my favorite bangles to add just a little nod back to that so much of a statement necklace.
Some days you just want to look like a 1960s bombshell. And for those days, this is the the outfit. Or as the cool kids say THE outfit. They go on and accentuate things and then something that’s called “a dab” where they stick there elbow to their forehead. I don’t get it. Enough about cool kids, lets focus on the clothes.
This raspberry cardigan makes what could be a pretty run of the mill outfit a show stopper. The bright color brings out the warmth in my face and adds a playful flirtation to the look. With a few buttons undone at the top and the added belt I created the illusion that I have the perfect hourglass shape.
I could pretty much talk for about an hour about what this skirt does for my butt. It’s made of a magical material that somehow gives it the perfect curve and I feel like I am going to close on both a merger and an expensive date at the fanciest restaurant in town with a good-hearted financier named Carl. I love how covered up and yet super sexy this look is. You don’t have to be naked to flaunt your curves.
This look is easy achieve using staples in your wardrobe. Pair a pencil skirt with a blouse that has visual interest- like a ruffle or a fun pattern- and top with a bright cardigan of your choice. If you want to accentuate your figure, add a belt. There you go, instant office bombshell.
Want to recreate this exact look, because you just HAVE to have it? Item details below are here to help you out!
