by Solange Lopes | Apr 20, 2014 | Career |
Happy Easter Everyone! Here at The Corporate Sister, we wish you all a very happy Easter Sunday, hoping that your day is filled with love, laughter, and lots of chocolatey treats….And we also would like to thank you for all the support and love you’ve shown The Corporate Sister, and would like to give it right back to you!
On this beautiful week and awesome Easter Day, this is what we round up as note-worthy, inspirational, and all around “warm-your-heart”, “make you laugh, smile or yell” news:
Well, this is the news we’ve been enjoying the most this week! And as we’re off to enjoy chocolate bunnies and treats, we wish you all again an amazing Easter!
The Corporate Sister.
by Solange Lopes | Apr 18, 2014 | Career
Embroidered voile peasant top – $69.95 – eShakti.com
Hi again…
For our lunch break today, we are so glad it’s Friday, and to invite the week-end in, we are showcasing this voile embroidered peasant top from eShakti.
I love the country-chic charm of this blouse, which makes me think of open spaces and…tiem off from work! The blouson sleeves and sophisticated embroidery balance out the scoop neck for a relaxed, yet boho chic vibe. I would wear this on the week-ends with a nice pair of jeans and some relaxed loafer flats, or sport it on a casual Friday with some relaxed ankle pants under a cool yet professional blazer.
It’s $69.95 at eShakti, and not only is it a great buy, but what is absolutely great about eShakti is that all their clothes are customized to fit your height, size and style, and ready to be delivered in 14 days. And for petites like myself, it’s just perfection!
Seen a great, work-appropriate fashion piece or store you’d like to share? Please email us at corporate@thecorporatesister.com!
by Solange Lopes | Apr 18, 2014 | Career |
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Happy Good Friday!
It’s no secret that I love fashion. Nothing like a great outfit or a fantastic pair of shoes to bring a smile to my face, and I would even venture to say, pump up my productivity at work. You know how they say, “when you look good, you feel good”, well some of us would dare to add, “when you look good, you may even work better”!
As much as a good sense of fashion, especially when displayed by women in the workplace, has been associated with lack of professionalism or competence for that matter, it seems the professional fashion tide is now turning! Hence the explosion of fashion blogs aimed at professional women, and the resurgence of “wear-to”work” for fashion retailers. Not only is there now much of a demand, and a growing market, for professional fashion, but there is also an increased positive focus on the image and presentation of women in the workplace.
While in certain male-dominated fields, women still may have to tone down their femininity to fit in, there is now a growing sense that a good sense of fashion will not necessarily hurt a corporate sister’s career, but may actually very well help it.
1. The image you project is also that of the company: in fields like marketing, PR or real estate, image is everything! Displaying a tasteful sense of fashion also reflects on your company in a positive way.
2. A good sense of fashion helps you get taken more seriously. A recent survey demonstrated that well-dressed women, and women who wear tasteful make-up at work, tend to be taken more seriously than their less well-dressed counterparts. Good excuse to go shopping!
3. Well-dressed employees boost employee morale: from speaking to many a corporate sister out there, it appears that departments and companies with better-dressed employees tend to display higher morale. There seems to be a sense that these departments and companies are doing well, and thus are capable of offering more prospects to their employees.
So, if all of that good fashion sense isn’t steering you straight to the mall, I don’t know what will…
The Corporate Sister.
The Corporate Sister
by Solange Lopes | Apr 17, 2014 | Career
Skala Print Dress – $340 – reiss.com
It’s lunch break, and for our mid-day fashion interlude, we are erring on the side of a beautiful splurge, with this oh so fashionable Skala print dress from Reiss. Loving the unusual pattern of this dress, and the lime sorbet color of this otherwise round neck, cap-sleeved traditional dress.
This Skala print dress is a great addition to both your work and play wardrobe, with interesting and flattering details such as the nipped-in waist (help slimmer silhouette!), the elegant fluted hem, and the ladylike shapely panel detail.
At $340, it’s a bit of a Thursday splurge, but we only live once right (or feel free to insert whatever other excuse makes you feel better about whipping out your credit card….)
Seen a great, work-appropriate fashion piece you’d like to recommend? Please post below or email us at corporate@thecorporatesister.com!
The Corporate Sister.
by Solange Lopes | Apr 17, 2014 | Career
Photo: britnidanielle.com
Happy Thursday!
As ambitious, career-savvy corporate women, many, if not most of us, have not only heard of, but subscribed to the “Lean In” movement authored by Sheryl Sandberg. And seriously, you’ve got to be living under a rock not to have heard of it, with all the media buzz and general debate, even controversy around it…
And talking about controversy,one of the comments I’ve repeatedly heard discussed about in professional Black and minority women circles, is around how much, in all objectivity, the whole “Lean In” movement applies to us, Black and minority women. As Sandberg points it out herself in one of the first chapters of her book, the corporate statistics in very many different aspects for Black and minority women are way worse than that of Caucasian women. And if we can add to that, our history, realities and struggles also happen to be drastically different, thus pre-disposing us to even lower levels of corporate presence, engagement and consequently, success.
As biased as this may sound, many a Caucasian woman’s, if not most, first encounter with discrimination occurs in the corporate world; while Black and minority women count discrimination as an everyday reality and occurrence throughout their lives, and are mentally, psychologically and spiritually worn out by the time they even make their first step up the corporate ladder. And while Caucasian women have their gender and demographics as a barrier to their career advancement, we have History, gender, socio-economic, political and demographic realities, among so many others, to thank for an already late start in our corporate careers, not to mention the crawling progress we’ve made so far.
So dear Ms. Sandberg, as you’ve recognized the need for, and actually just published a new “Lean In” book for new graduates, wouldn’t you also agree that Black and minority women also face a unique set of circumstances that deserves to be explored, discussed and dealt with too?
Sincerely,
The Corporate Sister.
The Corporate Sister
Happy Easter Everyone! Here at The Corporate Sister, we wish you all a very happy Easter Sunday, hoping that your day is filled with love, laughter, and lots of chocolatey treats….And we also would like to thank you for all the support and love you’ve shown The Corporate Sister, and would like to give it right back to you!
