Comedian Amy Poehler is one busy lady these days.  She just gave birth to a baby boy, is developing a sitcom for NBC to debut this spring, is still raking in kudos for her impressions of Hillary Clinton on her former show, "Saturday Night Live," and now she's working on becoming an internet star.  Amy and two of her friends, Meredith Walker and Amy Miles, have teamed up to produce eight webisodes called "Smart Girls at the Party."

Most women are nervous about wearing prints; they worry that prints are frumpy and ageing, or obnoxious and overwhelming.  They also worry that a print piece will be hard to incorporate into their wardrobe because it will be such a stand-out item.  While all of those things can be true, the biggest mistake most women make with prints isn't any of those things; instead, women are choosing the wrong size prints for their own size and shape.Who knew! 

When your body is not precisely what manufacturers imagine the female body to be, shopping can be hard -- sadly, though, very very few of us are able to grab clothes off the rack and have them fit perfectly on the first try.  Tailoring is your friend, of course, but so is trial and error -- sometimes the pieces you never expect to be cute on you are the most fabulous.

There is one thing that all pregnant women agree on: maternity clothes are horrible.  They're made of weird fabrics that you would never find in the non-pregnant closet, they come in styles that no one really ever wears, and they never ever fit right, no matter how big or small you are.  

When BlogHer and JCPenney offered to send eight Oklahoma City-area bloggers shopping, I emailed everyone and asked them to answer two simple questions: What's your everyday uniform? and What is your greatest style challenge?  I got the usual responses -- size, shape, lifestyle, budget -- and then I heard from Jennifer.

Everyone envies the petite girls -- after all, they're so little!  And cute!  But wearing a size that is smaller than the typical off-the-rack sizes can be frustrating, and too often petite women give up and wander into the juniors department to find pieces that fit.  But honestly, if you are out of high school, you're too old for juniors.  And really, even if you're in high school, you might want to step away from the kid clothes. 

I have mixed feelings about the casual office; business casual is easier on the wallet, for one thing, and more practical in terms of overall wardrobe building.  At the same time, though, somewhere along the line "casual offcie" became code for "Hey I'll just wear this crappy old hoodie from 1986 because my office is always cold."  No.  NO NO NO.  Absolutely not.  

Trends are fun -- each season, there is something new to try, something fresh and cool.  The trouble with trends, of course, is that while they look great on models and movie stars, they don't always work for real people.  But that doesn't mean you can't find a way to work the trends into your own closet.  The trick, as I'm sure I've said before, is to find a trend that works with your current closet and add a few pieces that you can mix and match with what you have.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman with small children must be in want of an easy-care, easy-wear wardrobe.  What is NOT true is that this wardrobe needs to be frumpy and boring and so very five years ago.  But updating your closet when you're a mom -- particularly a pregnant mom -- can be a daunting task.  You're simultaneously conscious that your buget is shrinking as fast as your belly is growing.  This, my friend, is a time for essentials and accessories.

I have the world's best job. Seriously.  I get to spend my days looking at shoes and talking to people about what to wear.  The only thing that could possibly make it any better would be actually getting to go shopping, in a real store, with these people, and spend an hour in a dressing room trying stuff on.  And thanks to BlogHer and JCPenney, I'm getting to do precisely that.