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I used to be pondering, how I am at all times amused to discover older items that we have featured right here on Corporette® … typically they nonetheless look good, or I bear in mind liking them. Different occasions, the styling or the featured piece of clothes is simply… fug.
Anyway, I began pondering… it is perhaps enjoyable to share some beforehand featured footage with you guys, and talk about — would you put on this stuff immediately? If that’s the case, how would you fashion them in 2025? Should you’ve changed objects like this in your closet, what are you sporting as an alternative of them?
First up, among the issues we featured on July 29 through the years…
What to Put on to Work on July 29
2009: Boden’s Brondesbury Blazer
Okay: I really love this one, though I would find it irresistible extra if this had been a gentle knit like a sweater jacket, and fewer as a result of it was actually made of boiled wool. I really feel like you do not see as many boiled wool blazers as there have been again in 2009, and that’s for the very best — they had been fairly itchy and infrequently unlined.
As of late, I would exchange it with a sweater jacket…
(Looking for the same yellow jacket? Sezane has a pleasant one now.)
2010: Talbots Blazer
Huh… there appears to be a yellow jacket pattern. Tis the season, I assume? I at all times really feel like extra saturated yellows like this Talbots blazer (and the Boden blazer from 2009) are nice for mid- to late-summer, whereas paler, extra pastel variations of yellow are finest left in spring. Ideas?
This blazer was marked right down to $74 once we wrote about it, which strikes me as a value you are unlikely to see immediately at Talbots, however I simply will not be trolling their gross sales sufficient.
2013: Elizabeth & James Embellished Blazer
This Elizabeth & James blazer was, on the time, noteworthy as a result of it was part of Neiman Marcus’s then-sister web site CUSP’s huge sale, with the blazer coming from $565 right down to $254. Good!
I remembered that the Elizabeth & James model had preceded The Row, but it surely took a little bit of Googling to seek out out that apparently the Olsen twins saved the model as a excessive finish one till round 2019, after they signed a licensing cope with Kohls to promote the garments at a a lot (a lot) cheaper price level. That deal appears to have ended just a few years in the past, since I am unable to discover any file of Kohls having the model in inventory since 2021. Nonetheless: maintain the modified focus in thoughts in case you occur to seek out Elizabeth & James stuff on resale websites like Poshmark.
(No, it is not clear from my tiny image or my copy what the embellishment was — it seems like a laser-cut sample or eyelet? I really feel like I would have talked about if there have been beads or different bedazzled gildings.)
2014: Vince’s Chevron-Print Shell
Oof, I really like this blouse. I’m stunned that it is Vince, although — as of late I consider Vince as being extraordinarily effectively made however boring fundamentals in impartial, stable colours. The print right here jogs my memory extra of latest collections from Akris.
Looking on the whole for blouses in pretty prints? As of 2025, among the reader-favorite manufacturers embrace L’Agence, Equipment, Smythe, and Tucker NYC. On the extra inexpensive facet, take a look at NYDJ,* Halogen*, Loft,* and Kut from the Kloth. For plus sizes, take a look at Catherine Gee (and the asterisks)!
2015: Purple Fleece’s Windowpane Skirt
I knew with out trying that this skirt would have been from Brooks Brothers’ Purple Fleece period, which was really a reasonably good period. They’d enjoyable with their preppy facet however priced issues extra affordably than common Brooks Brothers, and the items had been all undoubtedly, distinctively, preppy.
On the time, I acknowledged the holiday-party vibe to the skirt, however nonetheless thought you can get away with sporting it to work with a reasonably sedate outfit, like a navy turtleneck and tights.
2016: Ann Taylor Pencil Skirt
Pencil skirts nonetheless reigned supreme in 2016 — I really feel prefer it took a complete dang pandemic to swing the pattern away from pencil skirts and different structured classics. (I additionally really feel like they’re going to be again any day now, however what do I do know.)
This pencil skirt from Ann Taylor is fairly, even when they are not essentially my colours.
2019: Rag & Bone’s Blazer
I bear in mind loving this Rag & Bone blazer once we first posted it again in 2019 — however one thing concerning the match feels off to me, prefer it needs to be a $50 blazer as an alternative of a $500 blazer. (Or possibly like it may possibly’t resolve whether or not to be an outsized, boyfriend-like blazer or a extra structured, basic blazer.)
Rag & Bone’s Slade blazer has been a bestseller for years and years in case you’re on the hunt for one thing like a extra structured sweater blazer (relying on the material).
2020: Randa’s Tropical Shirt
In July 2020, there have been nonetheless fairly just a few restrictions round journey because of the pandemic — so Elizabeth selected this tropical top from Randa to assist her
carry a beachy vibe to my on a regular basis life. Tiny umbrellas for drinks on the patio? Yup. Coconut-scented all the pieces? Let’s do it. A palm-tree-printed shirt to put on to work? Why not?
Should you actually give it some thought, why NOT, certainly, even in 2025. I am certain we mentioned this typically sufficient again then, however the prime additionally would have made an awesome Zoom prime.
