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" Woke up wondering, as usual, what to wear this morning. Sucky Mondays are, for me, the most trying, in terms of getting dressed and for a million other universal reasons. And while Tuesday thru Thursday doesn&amp;#039;t generally present anything out of the ordinary in the way of fashion challenges, Friday is uniquely complicated. So I took a quickie survey around the office to see what the overall philosophy was (if there even was one) regarding end-of-the-week outfits. What I turned up was that yes, we REDBOOKers do tend to dress down on Fridays (and mind you, we&amp;#039;re pretty casual here all week long), but for different reasons and in different ways: Krista, who is not a jeans girl, is inclined to wear them on Fridays because she just can&amp;#039;t bear to come up with another show-stopper combo for the fifth day in a row. Alison is of a similar mind, adding that lots of people are already gone for the weekend, so chances are she won&amp;#039;t get spotted looking less than fully pulled together. Cheryl treats Fridays as super-casual in every respect: no big meetings, no fancy lunches, no major events, and thus no need to dress for them. Samantha saves her sneakers (black sequined Converse) exclusively for Friday, and that&amp;#039;s the only consession she makes to the casual vibe. Cristina makes &amp;quot;cute&amp;quot; her priority every day of the week, so if she can&amp;#039;t cause a casual-but-cute ensemble to happen on Friday morning (a goal), she defaults back to dressy. Jeannie and Alyssa both say that the fact it&amp;#039;s Friday doesn&amp;#039;t weigh into what they wear. Casual is a state of mind that can hit on Tuesday or Wedesday, and that&amp;#039;s cool at REDBOOK. If it weren&amp;#039;t, Friday would most definitely be their dressed-down day (which, for both, it was today). For Kim, the busy sports-packed weekends with daughter Julia start on Friday afternoons, so there&amp;#039;s no way she&amp;#039;s wearing anything fancy to the office. Melanie is adamantly on the other side of the coin. She wears a skirt whenever and wherever possible. And I&amp;#039;m pretty sure Stacy doesn&amp;#039;t let Friday drag her wardrobe down, casual being reserved strictly for airplanes, and of course for running around all weekend with Zack. My Friday choices are Mom-related too. During the week, clothing is my currency and the way I communicate. Being &amp;quot;dressed&amp;quot; is expected of me, so I can&amp;#039;t completely abandon ship on Friday. But come 7am on Saurday, I&amp;#039;m all about Claire, and fashion is nowhere to be seen. On Fridays, my brain needs to start the segue from fashion director to full-time mommy. Tricky business. Unlike Krista, I am very much a jeans girl and wear them to work on average three days a week, with heels, something dressy on top, and lots of jewelry. They are not a given on Fridays, mostly because by then, heels seem unbearable. So today I landed on a striped tee (I&amp;#039;m in them without fail every weekend), stretchy black JCrew riding pants (to my thinking, a respectable notch above leggings on the casual scale), and flat black boots, since, try as I may, I&amp;#039;m incapable of wearing sneakers to the office. Tossed on a scarf and one simple strand of beads for the finish. Not too up, not too down. Fashion-wise, my brain is ready for Saturday. Any suggestions for Monday? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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