The daily fashion bible, Women’s Wear Daily, has had a total site redesign (that is fabulous, by the way – kudos, WWD!), and you might be interested to know that they are wide open to the public (non subscribers) for this week only. 
In celebration of their new site, the editors at WWD have offered up 75 Defining Moments in Fashion – which you can vote on for the next three weeks (yes, even after WWD closes back down to only subscribers).  Here is how it works:
The 75 Defining Moments in Fashion poll will be fielded in conjunction with …read more

Monster.com recently ran a poll that asked “Do you think having plastic surgery or cosmetic dental work would help advance your career?”
More than half the nearly 22,000 people who answered the question, 53 percent, said yes. Less than a third, 31 percent, said it would not. [source]
Sad to say, but I can see where it would help some people along the way. You know I am not a proponent of elective surgery (of the plastic variety anyway), but I wonder how many perfectly well suited people are out there that are not advancing in their careers as quickly as …read more

Please look to the right sidebar for a new poll!
The question is: How long does it take you to get ready for a really special event? Think an elegant party or even a really special first date. Something like a wedding could be stretched out over a week, so skip that kind of getting ready.
I hope to hear from you on this poll, I will be interested to see if I am really out of the ordinary here, but based on the study I referred to below, I doubt I am.

Here were the final results:
Do you think that beauty is more important than knowledge in the workplace?

Yes: 12%
No: 56%
Only if you are a model/actress/ect…: 32%

I am glad to see that most of those of you who chose to answer the poll last week believe that there is more to a job/career than looking beautiful.  Most of us have probably had run ins with people in our lives that think they can get away with anything due to their smashing good looks, and unfortunately, a lot of times they really do.  Fortunately I am not so blessed with looks that …read more