Blast from the Previous: July 29

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I used to be pondering, how I am all the time 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 instances, the styling or the featured piece of clothes is simply… fug.

Anyway, I began pondering… it is perhaps enjoyable to share some beforehand featured photos with you guys, and talk about — would you put on this stuff in the present day? In that case, how would you model them in 2025? For those who’ve changed objects like this in your closet, what are you carrying as a substitute of them?

First up, a number of 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 might like it extra if this had been a comfortable knit like a sweater jacket, and fewer as a result of it was really made from 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 sometimes unlined.

Today, I might substitute 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 all the time 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 after we wrote about it, which strikes me as a worth you are unlikely to see in the present day at Talbots, however I simply is probably not 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 website CUSP’s massive sale, with the blazer coming from $565 right down to $254. Good!

I remembered that the Elizabeth & James model had preceded The Row, however it took a little bit of Googling to seek out out that apparently the Olsen twins stored the model as a excessive finish one till round 2019, once 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 a couple of years in the past, since I am unable to discover any file of Kohls having the model in inventory since 2021. Nonetheless: hold the modified focus in thoughts for those who 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 appears to be like like a laser-cut sample or eyelet? I really feel like I might have talked about if there have been beads or different bedazzled gildings.)

2014: Vince’s Chevron-Print Shell

Oof, I like this shirt. I’m stunned that it is Vince, although — lately I consider Vince as being extraordinarily nicely made however boring fundamentals in impartial, strong colours. The print right here jogs my memory extra of current collections from Akris.

Looking on the whole for blouses in fairly prints? As of 2025, a number of the reader-favorite manufacturers embrace L’Agence, Tools, Smythe, and Tucker NYC. On the extra reasonably priced aspect, 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. That they had enjoyable with their preppy aspect 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 would get away with carrying 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 whole 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 after we first posted it again in 2019 — however one thing in regards to the match feels off to me, prefer it must be a $50 blazer as a substitute of a $500 blazer. (Or possibly like it could’t determine whether or not to be an outsized, boyfriend-like blazer or a extra structured, traditional blazer.)

Rag & Bone’s Slade blazer has been a bestseller for years and years for those who’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 a couple of restrictions round journey because of the pandemic — so Elizabeth selected this tropical high from Randa to assist her

deliver a beachy vibe to my on a regular basis life. Tiny umbrellas for drinks on the patio? Yup. Coconut-scented every thing? Let’s do it. A palm-tree-printed shirt to put on to work? Why not?

For those who actually give it some thought, why NOT, certainly, even in 2025. I am certain we stated this typically sufficient again then, however the high additionally would have made an important Zoom high.