Actual Fashion Question
 

I thought there was some edict for conservative fields like banking and law that slingbacks are borderline whorish. Seems stupid, as it's not exactly the same thing as showing one's rack at work, but I never see them around here.

Mules should just be goddamned banned from the street during business hours. They make women mince along incredibly slowly, which means I want to just knock them into the gutter when I'm trying to go anywhere via the sidewalk.

Actual Fashion Question
 

I would be in big trouble if my firm instituted this rule. I used to be a fan of sleeves, but more and more and more I have grown to dislike them.

Actual Fashion Question
 

Is your firm hiring?

Flinty

Actual Fashion Question
 

I need clarification on this. Is this a ban on something that goes around the ankle more than once, or anything that straps around the ankle? I'd hate to have to banish my fantastic three inch mary janes to the back of the closet.

You must have missed her Barbara Walters interview on Friday. She is flat out crazy. And not in a good way. The self mutilation (which she claims to have outgrown now that she's "a mother" is being manifested by the multiple multiple tats that she sports. And her relationship with her father is weird - but I don't know Jon Voight that well.

All we could say as we sat and watched the train wreck that is her life is...she's psycho.

Actual Fashion Question
 

I have seen sleeveless Nike t-shirts, baseball jerseys, football jerseys (which also counts as meshware) and ghetto baggies so low and so big that you would swear they're coming off.

She always looks like she mates then kills. That, and I would take that make-out session with her brother (not to mention her voluntarily having had sex with Billy Bob) as a serious, serious warning sign.

They say Heywood Jablomi is running a word-of-mouth campaign
 

So you're running for Sheriff of Aiken County, S.C. And you want to run on the platform that politicians should be responsive --- nay, accessible --- to their constituents. Only problem: your campaign slogan is "Mike Hunt/Accessible for You."

Weekend stuff -- the Number
 

Our weekend plans involved a discussion over dinner and coffee (coffee?!!!) about how much of your sexual history you disclose to a new partner.

Our friend is dating a wonderful woman who he sees as rather sexually inexperienced, almost virginal. He told her his number, and she freaked. (He's 37, so his number is naturally on the high-end.)

So at the start of a relationship, do you reveal the number -- and do you tell the truth?

Actual Fashion Question
 

Oh my. Actual offenses observed in my office:

1) Pants that "used to fit" and are now worn UNDER the belly that can no longer be contained inside the waistband;

2) Shirt with too many buttons open and disco medallions peeping through the exposed chest hair (actually seen on both a GA and and an SA);

3) An overabundance of silver jewelry - 2 or more big bracelets and several rings on each hand;

4) Doc Martens with a suit; and

5) A tongue piercing (apparently acquired after fall interviews).

Note: edited for spelling.

Weekend stuff -- the Number
 

SO and I were talking about this over the weekend too. We have never exchanged numbers. I never knew about people keeping up with that until I moved to Dallas. Lots of women here do that. SInce I was married by 24, the number became sort of irrelevant. Anyway I figured out my number while I was getting ready this morning.

I'm opposed to number exchange unless it is necessary information (i.e. "I've never done this before"). What purpose does it serve other than giving people something to obsess over?

Weekend stuff -- the Number
 

No good can come of this.

I never tell the truth. Most people can't handle the truth, regardless of what the truth is.

Weekend stuff -- the Number
 

Never reveal the real number. Your bf/gf doesn't really want to know. It will come back to haunt you. The number is either higher or lower and can be used out of context in a future argument about nothing (e.g. well you're the ho who slept with 20 guys or how would you know, you've only been with 2 guys).

Weekend stuff -- the Number
 

The OM and I exchanged numbers. He was a man-ho.

As for activities, we don't really discuss what we have done. From time to time, I have asked him specific questions (like 3some). He answers and tells me he doesn't want to know what I have done or with whom.

Actual Fashion Question
 

Mary Janes technically strap over the instep, not the ankle, even if they do so high up. Something wrapping even once around the ankle is iffy, even if the shoe has a real back to it, when the strap comes from the back of the heel rather than the sides of the shoe (though sometimes a wider, lower heel, a lot of coverage and/or a T-strap can take the curse off).

I've heard of the "slingbacks = slut" thing, too, but I have to admit I've never seen it in action. But then I'm not in midtown; midtown is notoriously frumpy, and half of my suits would probably be considered slutty there just because the jackets are not cut straight from shoulders to hips but instead go in at the waist. I've definitely heard of "open toes/mules/no hose = slut" edicts, but I've never heard of anyone actually getting nabbed on the hose thing, if only because that would involve a partner commenting on a female associate's undergarments, which most of them are too smart to do.