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"  I&amp;#039;m off to Cabo tomorrow morning for a week of Mexican food and sun and bankers! No, that was not a typographical error. Or a Freudian slip. I meant &amp;quot;bankers&amp;quot; in the most literal way possible. I have this really good buddy from college that I&amp;#039;ve known for years\u2014he&amp;#039;s like a big brother to me. Anyway, he&amp;#039;s now some bigshot at the bank he works at and he came in really high in sales for the quarter (that&amp;#039;s pretty much a direct quote from the man himself and I don&amp;#039;t really know exactly what it means, but I&amp;#039;m going with it). The bank is taking a bunch of the highest sellers on a company retreat/awards dinner thing and it just happens to be taking place in Cabo (ELLE.com execs, are you listening?). AND he just happens to have broken up with his latest flavor of the month recently, leaving me to be the designated wing-woman of the week. Nice, huh? LOVE when I can capitalize on my friend&amp;#039;s break-ups. KIDDING, guys, kidding. Sort of. Anyway, as I&amp;#039;m going to be surrounded by bankers and bankers&amp;#039; wives all week (oh joy) and I have to at least make a semi-good impression to help keep up the reputation my friend has built at the company, I&amp;#039;ve been pondering what to pack. In other words, I can&amp;#039;t just bring a bunch of bikinis and sunscreen and call it a day. There&amp;#039;s some sort of black tie banquet one night, and all of these extra events that call for inscrutable dress codes like &amp;quot;resort casual&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;resort cocktail.&amp;quot; FYI\u2014I work in fashion, and I have NO idea what these terms mean.  PLUS\u2014the company&amp;#039;s arranged all of these optional activities for us like beach horseback riding, water-skiing, going across a zipline (whee!), and an organic cooking class where we go to some farm and pick ingredients ourselves before making the meal. I plan to take full advantage and participate in everything. So that said, not only do I have to pack a ridiculous amount of real clothing, I also have to bring sneakers and hiking stuff. Ew. Packing tonight will be rough. So, I took a little browse through our Closet for inspiration last night, and stumbled across this gorgeous, mustard yellow Catherine Malandrino dress (pictured above). I mean, if this isn&amp;#039;t &amp;quot;resort casual&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;resort cocktail&amp;quot; mixed into one wondrous little garment, I don&amp;#039;t know what is. What do you guys think? Cute? Banker appropriate? P.S. I&amp;#039;m going to be attempting to blog from Cabo next week via the resort&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;business center&amp;quot; (I&amp;#039;m hoping that means they have computers, etc.). However, I cannot promise that the entries will be entirely lucid or contain any original thoughts or anything like that. BUT! Let&amp;#039;s all hope for the best, shall we? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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