"Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit"

QUICK: Name where that quote is from!

If you said "How I Met Your Mother" then you were correct!

On a more serious note, I went suit shopping right around this time last year after going through some mock interviews and wearing a dress instead of a suit. Realizing my mistake, I knew I had to change my choice and go big and buy a big girl suit. After doing some research, my final choice was a Banana Republic staple lightweight suit:

Blazer & Skirt

I chose the Banana option over plenty of other choices for a few reasons:

1. They have tall, petite, and regular options for all different shapes. You can look at the size guides and have a better idea of what to buy for your (ab)normal shape!

2. Reviews are posted. I do a lot of online shopping via reviews. I think you really can get a good idea of the fit and quality of pieces from shoppers. Old Navy/Gap/Banana Republic also do a great job of highlights repeat shoppers who really understand the fit of their clothes.

3. I could return it easily. Ordering online makes me nervous especially with big purchases like this because if it doesn't fit it will HAVE to go back. I have always had good experiences with this shipping!

4. Advice. My dad made a great point in telling me that I'd probably never (note: not finite, but more of a suggestion/guess) work anywhere I would need a HEAVY wool blazer. Or at least not in the short-term. A lightweight wool was perfect and black was an obvious choice. Our business school suggests buying a skirt suit first and a black suit before any others, so combining this advice, I went with the lightweight, black skirt suit.

When making your purchase keep in mind what shoes you'll most likely be wearing with your new ensemble and if you'll be more comfortable in pants or a skirt. I am by no means a suit expert, but I figured as a job applicant, I'd share MY decision process!

xxKatie

DIY Monogrammed Phone Background

I have a pink OtterBox that has treated me very well and saved me MANY times from shattering a front or back of my iPhone. While Lilly, Kate Spade, Tory Burch and Pantone make great super attractive phone covers, I am a tried-and-true OtterBox fan!

Since it's rather boring, I try to spice it up as much as I can with backgrounds! One of my friends urged me to download the new update for 3Initials app! BOY-OH-BOY is it cute!

3Initials App background with my iPhone organized

Background without apps

You can change the size, color, background, type and number of colors for all kinds of different monograms! Last Sunday, my friends were ooh-ing and ahh-ing over my background so I let them make their own:

This was what they were able to come up with! As you can see, you can change the size, orientation and background for all of them!

I tweeted this photo over the weekend and y'all were very inquisitive as to where to make the background and now you know! I was referring to the 17 text messages Friday night that I had received after falling asleep at 8pm watching the "Hot Donuts" episode of Duck Dynasty. I woke up at 11pm and didn't know if it was daytime or nighttime I was so disoriented. All my friends were wondering where I was and if I was coming out! Instead of y'all noticing that, you saw my fun 3Initals background!

This is my current phone background and reminds me very much of my yellow seersucker Carolina Cup dress--it even had pink embroidery!

Be sure to check out the 3Initials application in the App Store on your iPhone!

xxKatie

About.Me

Blogger

Tumblr

BlackBerry Messenger

LinkedIn

Foursquare

Yelp

Texts

Pinterest

Polyvore

Twitter

Google+

Klout 

Facebook

Wordpress

Emails

Social media, ways to connect, ways to build your brand, all of the above?

Ever question how to keep it all organized? Sometimes it's really hard. Actually, most of the time it's really hard. You phone can have about 90% of these apps if not 100% of them. I have a bookmarks bar chock full of all these different websites/applications that I maintain on an almost daily basis. Ask anyone with their own website, and I'm sure they'll say the same thing. We all have our own ways of staying organized, however, I've found a great new website to keep everything all together! Good news!!

Introducing About.Me! 

Imagine combining all your different webpages into one personal map!

About.Me keeps track of all your different applications that you might use to promote your blog, website, self, etc. It's s clean website that you can customize as much as you'd like! You can upload photos, change fonts, edit colors, and of course, showcase your social media prowess! I organized mine yesterday into what you see here. I crafted mine to be partly a resume (or similar to my resume in my bio), and partly an organization of social media. 

It would be really easy to list this as a website on a resume for a potential company to visit and see your social media exposure! You also can tailor it to exactly what you want people to see. For instance, there's no need for people to see my personal facebook page, so instead I linked mine to my facebook fan page instead! You can alter almost everything on your page...pretty cool! I encourage anyone who's spread their social media networks out online to take advantage of About.Me!

xxKatie