New Jersey

(Image via Garance Dore)

I love a white shirt. Yeah it's easy, but it's chic. And actually it's not THAT easy to find a good white shirt. Elle has one that I feel a bit envious of actually because it fits very nicely (fitted but not tight) and I enjoy the sleeve a lot. I think if you can find a white shirt that fits beautifully, you're done. Just sling on a pencil skirt and you are The Office Friendly Hotness.

The same applies to white t-shirts. I can never find any that I like, Or I like them the first time I wear them, form a bond, get attached, and then I wash them and they shrink or change shape and what not. And yes I'm sure that wouldn't happen if I paid more and bought better quality, but we do tend to eat a lot of Mediterranean-y tomato based foods stuff in our house and I am always being spat at my bits of red sauce so that just seems like a false economy.

I found a delicious cut in H&M and so I have bought a few so they should last me a while. It does mean that all I seem to be wearing is a t-shirt and jeans ALL. THE. TIME. But...whatevs. It also means more time in bed of a morning not having to put an outfit together and I'm all for that lemme tell ya! I wish I looked at fresh faced as this little lady in mine. In fact I wish I had the balls (well, the legs actually) to wear a short short like this but that's a whole other post.

Working Girl

(Image via Banana Republic)

I have always felt that the lowest of the low (obviously other than Next, but that is just torture porn territory of hideousness, so we won't go there) was TM Lewin.

I worked one summer at a corporate establishment and they used to have TM Lewin sales in the canteen of an afternoon. And people went nuts. Seriously, it was worse than a Jimmy Choo sample sale. And that is pretty bad. But at least at the end of it you get a cute pair of shoes at less than a quarter of the original price. What was going on with the shirts was quite beyond me, and has continued to be so.

However, now that I am posing as Little Miss Corporate (I keep thinking that it will provide invaluable fodder for the novel I am yet to write, there has to be something good that comes out of this) my mind has wondered back the way of the shirt. It is just too hideously dull and faceless or is it a really easy and mindless way to look smart?