Splurge Monday’s Workwear Report: Lian Tapestry Jacket
This post may contain affiliate links and Corporette® may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Our daily workwear reports suggest one piece of work-appropriate attire in a range of prices.
This blazer from L’Agence is kind of a big swing, but I think it would be gorgeous for a person with a very specific type of job. Early in my career, I crossed paths frequently with lawyers who represented Christie’s and Sotheby’s, and I could see several of them wearing this exact jacket with perfectly tailored trousers and quietly luxurious flats that cost more than my mortgage.
If this is your vibe, snatch this up while you can.
The jacket is $875 at L’Agence and comes in sizes XXS-XXL.
Sales of note for 5/15:
- Nordstrom – 3800+ items in “new markdowns” — I kind of wonder if they've started marking down stuff for their Half-Yearly sale that usually starts the week before Memorial Day. Good deals on Veronica Beard, Vince, Reiss (esp. coats), as well as Wit & Wisdom and NYDJ
- Alexis Bittar – Vault sale! 100s of re-issued archival styles up to 70% off, plus 25% off all full-price styles too
- Ann Taylor – Extra 40% off sale
- Boden – Up to 50% off with new styles added
- J.Crew – 40% off your purchase and 50% off dresses
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 20% off orders over $125
- Lands' End – Up to 60% off sitewide + extra 60% off sale and clearance
- Loft – 50% off your purchase, and 5/15 only: take 60% off the LOFT Versa collection
- Mango – Weekend exclusive, 30% off everything, and free shipping with $260+
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Supergoop – 20% off sitewide + free Glow Stick (also, free shipping with $50+)
- Talbots – Extra 40% +15% off all markdowns, plus Summer Fridays One Day Sale (5/15), $19.50 pocket tees and $29.50 relaxed chino shorts.
- Theory – 25% off sitewide
- TOCCIN – 30% off select items with code! (You can't stack codes, but on full price items try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off!)
- Vivrelle – Looking to own less stuff but still try trends? Use code CORPORETTE for a free month, and borrow high-end designer clothes and bags!
I’d wear this to my regular old corporate lawyer job without thinking twice about it, though am unwilling to spend $875 on a piece that I could really only wear a few times per year.
Yes, I would wear this in a minute if the color scheme suited me! Although I am also unwilling to spend this much on something I could only wear occasionally.
What accounting and document management software does your firm use? I work at a small mid-sized firm (approximately 30 attorneys), and we are looking to upgrade. We currently have a custom-built open text document management system and use Omega (an older software owned by Aderant) as our billing and accounting software. But, it’s getting old and having issues. Our largest practice areas are transactional (estate planning, estates, business, real estate), medical malpractice defense and civil litigation. Our medical malpractice team has used Aderant for several years, but it has never worked properly for us and the search functions in the document management system are not robust enough.
All firms that I or my peers worked about used either NetDocs or iManage for document management.
We use iManage for document management and Intapp for time.
I have to bring a book to a book swap party. Any recs? Was hoping to find a crowd pleaser for a group of young forty-ish moms. I know that Stranger has been popular but I don’t think anything divorce related would be popular. Something like the Housemaid but everyone has seen the movie. Also any recs for any lifestyle or cookbooks (can’t decide if it might be better to bring something like that for the non-readers). TIA for any recs!
Based on last week’s thread, Yesteryear sounds it would be a great choice
How about A Gentleman in Moscow? Amor Towles writes beautifully.
On the flip side, my book club hated this one. We had several DNFs.
Love Amor Towles. The Lincoln Highway is great too.
I loved Gentleman in Moscow but couldn’t get into Lincoln Highway. Will add A Man Called Ove (which I read totally unprepared and ended up ugly-crying on a plane).
agree. like was it supposed to be a fable? and also i generally don’t like the plot device of one thing after another going wrong. i like rules of civility ok but none are as good as gentleman in moscow
Yesteryear, So Old So Young, The Correspondent, Molly Baz cookbook, American Fantasy, Brawler, are all books I’ve enjoyed recently (as a fortyish mom)
There’s a new cookbook called To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes that’s been very popular in my FB cookbook group. It’s quite literally about the recipes people thought were good/popular enough that they had them engraved on their headstone and the people who put them there.
If you’re located in the south, Rick Bragg’s The Best Cook in the World is a delightful collection of tales about his family with recipes at the end of each chapter.
The Correspondent is my book club pick, and I really enjoyed it. Why do we assume 40-ish moms can’t read something in the literary fiction genre, vs. something trashy?
Well the Stranger has been the best selling book for exactly that crowd, I wouldn’t not bring it because of the topic but because a bunch of other people probably will. I’d do Yesteryear or Famesick in the best seller category.
romantic comedy (someone it is is divorced but i wouldn’t say its divorce related) something classic– pride and prejudice or emma? the girls at the kingfisher club? the chaperone?
Yesteryear, or has everyone read it already? Greta & Valdin (Rebecca K Reilly) was really sweet and funny — sort of like literary Schitt’s Creek vibes. I’m reading Dear Monica Lewinsky right now and like it.
This Motherless Land is really wonderful.
What are your favorite longwearing lip products? Even with a lip primer, it seems like after a few hours I’m left with a “lip liner” ring and all the color gone from my lips.
How much do you complain about your job?
I’m in a group chat with some friends who are always unhappy with their job. Now, this is the group chat to vent in so it could just be that. But its more than “ugh my coworker is annoying” – its anxiety every Sunday, “I don’t want to go to work” every day, “this week will be super tough” every week, “I wish so I don’t have to go to work”, etc.
I’m not sure if this is just normal commiserating or something more serious. I don’t love working of course but the only time I felt this bad about a job it was not a good fit at all.
Nope, not normal. Unless you think it’s your friends performatively adopting the Sunday scaries because it’s part of the zeitgeist?
A lot of people are in jobs that are not a good fit. And these days, it’s not so easy to find another path. I could be one of these friends, but I try to keep a lid on it for the sake of my relationships.
Never. That is not normal.
i always say that in my life when i start getting the sunday dreads regularly it’s a sign to move on. i think a lot of people live like this but that doesn’t mean it can’t be avoided…. work is too big a part of life to be unhappy there all the the time
It’s probably something more serious, but what can they do? I know I have friends whose jobs are actively draining their will to live, but they need the income and the health insurance. I currently have friends who either actively liked or were fine with their jobs before DOGE, before management decided that AI would make it possible to understaff even though it’s lowering efficiency, or before return to office policies were forced on people who had been remote since they were hired 10+ years ago. These disruptions are affecting a lot of people.
I also have friends who don’t feel well while dealing with new health issues, so jobs that were tolerable before are now using up much more of their energy. It’s one thing to have a tolerable job and look forward to the rest of the day, but it’s another thing entirely when all you do after work is rest. Working to live feels better than living to work.
favorite places to eat in Big Sur, Carmel, and Monterrey for a family of four with older elementary aged kids? Mix of fancy and casual would be so appreciated! We’re going for a week to celebrate a big milestone. My kids are polite and do fine in upscale restaurants. We love seafood and a good brunch spot in particular. Hit me with your faves!! Thank you!
In Carmel, Portabella and Bicyclette. In Pacific Grove, The Red House for brunch.
I lost a lot of weight recently and I’m down several sizes. My weight stabilized around September so I spent the winter updating my wardrobe. Now that it’s warm in Boston I need to do the same for warmer weather. I have casual wardrobe down, but I’m really struggling with my professional uniform.
I’m 41, executive-level at a financial services firm, only woman in the team. Guys wear the predictable uniform of Lululemon ABC pants and golf shirts through the spring and summer. I have pants to wear but I’m struggling with tops, and I frankly prefer skirts and dresses. I long for the days when a rotation of sheath dresses got the job done but I digress….
FWIW I just paused my Rent The Runway because so much of it was just way too trendy for my taste. I’m pretty classic in style – updated timeless? I’m not trying to be 25 but I don’t want to be a fully outdated elder millennial. I have a blend of Jcrew, Boden, Veronica Beard on rotation currently. I wish I had an anchor 5-7 dresses on rotation to mix in with pants and tops (which I also need). 5’7”, size 8-10 or S-M depending on brand and cut.
Where do you recommend I look? Where are we shopping for this? What’s your inspo?? Help!