{"id":5293,"date":"2012-08-20T16:45:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T21:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2013-01-17T07:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T12:31:30","slug":"bloomingdales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/bloomingdales\/","title":{"rendered":"bloomingdale&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I start a new engagement for my company with a different client in a few weeks, and they&#8217;re a little less business casual (as in, not business casual at all) than the last engagement.  Or any job that I&#8217;ve had in about 12 years.  I&#8217;ve got plenty of black pants and cute jackets and can certainly make do, but I thought it would be nice to get a few new items to just freshen everything up a bit, so I hit bloomie&#8217;s.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s much nicer to shop there now that they&#8217;ve finally moved the &#8220;women&#8217;s&#8221; department (the fancy name for plus-sizes) out of the basement\/subway station where it had languished for years.  I mentioned this to the sales ladies and they were in <i>vehement<\/i> agreement.  That lower-level part of the store is now part of the men&#8217;s department &#8211; maybe men don&#8217;t mind shopping (and working?) so close to quite so much\u2026vermin?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_4607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"623\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5294\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_4607.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_4607-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_4607-400x267.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_4607-800x535.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I start a new engagement for my company with a different client in a few weeks, and they&#8217;re a little less business casual (as in, not business casual at all) than the last engagement. Or any job that I&#8217;ve had in about 12 years. I&#8217;ve got plenty of black pants and cute jackets and can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[14,10,31],"class_list":["post-5293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-new-york-city","tag-photos","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-1nn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5632,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}