Coffee Break: Scarf Waist Belt
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I was browsing through Sarah Flint's website and noticed this beautiful scarf waist belt — I don't remember seeing such a nice way to create a scarf belt.
I've always admired the creative ways people use scarves — tying them on handbags, wearing them as tops, wrapping them around ponytails, turning them into belts — but most of those ideas seem to require either a lot of practice or a YouTube tutorial. This feels like a much more foolproof option.
But this is really clever — it's a solid leather piece that has numerous holes in it, designed for you to thread a 90cm scarf through it. The leather piece is reversible so it's two pieces in one: there is a calf leather version with cream on one side and a tan “saddle” on the other side, a navy and red version, and the pictured black and cognac. There's also a nice version with two textures, black calf on one side and deep espresso suede on the other (part of their Mary Orton collab).
Scarves of course are classic, but I don't feel like they've been trendy for a long time — and I think that's changing. I'd love to hear which are your favorite scarves!
The belt piece is $260-$265; Sarah Flint also has a nice scarf collection.
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I had no idea scarf belts existed, but I love this!
Styling question: I bought a pair of bright yellow kick-out cropped jeans. I think they called the color “dandelion.” Help me think of how to style these? Right now, all I can think of is navy or white.
Link to jeans: https://www.loft.com/clothing/jeans/catl000015/rivete-high-rise-kick-crop-jeans-daffodil-bloom/774897.html?priceSort=DES
Pretty color! Espresso brown would work, I think, and these would look great with a blue denim jacket (almost any wash, really) or chambray shirt.
those are really cute! i’d go with lighter colors like white, cream, light gray, light blue. navy would work. maybe a purple?
how heavy is the jean material?
Agree that denim (jean jacket, chambray shirt) would be great; olive green could be interesting, too, though you might have to experiment to find the right green.
charcoal, olive, but also could be good with dark stripes, or floral in the right colorway, maybe other patterns.
These would look adorable with a blue and white floral print!
This is really lovely and tempting as I have a large scarf collection that doesn’t get much use now that I’m mainly WFH.
As much as I like Mary Orton’s style something about her vibe gives ‘1990s sorority girl’ in a movie who would make fun of the main character for thrifting.
I feel that Saturday Silks or some other big SEC/sorority twilly scarf shop sells these and my insta has been stalking me with it since the fall. I have an absurdly large amount of things in my car, since I’m trying to get away from wearing so much black.
haha you can see her idolizing parker posey and that ketchup scene
Can someone remind me of the bottom line with LSAT scores? Predictor of doing well in law school or doing well as a lawyer or nothing much at all?
My take on SATs are that they show you people who can do a bit of math, enough for accounting or finance or engineering or other sciences, so are maybe valid as a way to keep people from wasting their money pursuing a path where they either wash out in the first year or can’t complete it in 4-6. But maybe not much beyond that.
Predictor of doing well in law school and passing the bar.
My experience as an LSAT prep tutor is that the better you did on your first diagnostic LSAT (before any prep), the easier a time you had in law school even if your score on your application was lower than someone who spent a year doing tutoring, and if you are capable of achieving over a 175, you probably will actually like being a lawyer.
same.
I think the first part is true but the second part is not. I got high 170s and I did not enjoy being a lawyer at all. LSAT is basically just an intelligence test (especially an un-prepped for LSAT) so it’s a good predictor of how easy you’ll find school but not how much you’ll enjoy the job.
Same. Also high 170s and I hate the law.
Last part is probably high 170s just puts you in a better position overall with a better school, then better job choices, so your odds of finding a job you enjoy are higher.
I guess I mean that the easier a high 170s comes, the happier you’ll be as an attorney. The happiest attorneys I know genuinely employed the LSAT and did very well. (Or are independently wealthy and barely do any legal work at all).
I don’t think that’s true — high 170s without any prep/tutoring (which was my situation) just means you’re good at logic games, and that doesn’t necessarily relate to enjoying legal work. I come from a family of math PhDs and like someone else said math people typically do very well on the LSAT but a lot of them would not enjoy the writing-intensive nature of a legal career.
Plus even if you enjoy legal work reasonably well, there’s a lot more to being a lawyer than legal work. I didn’t mind the writing part of being a lawyer, but I did mind the business development side of it, which has absolutely nothing to do with your LSAT score.
Not true for me either. I aced the LSAT and I loved law school, got straight As in law school without much effort, enjoyed my bar study and absolutely hated being a lawyer. A good LSAT score reflects good test-taking ability, which is much more correlated to your performance in law school and on the bar than the practice of law. Some of the happiest and most successful lawyers I know had mediocre LSAT scores. I thought most firms got away from asking for LSAT scores because it was such a poor predictor of career success. There’s one firm that famously still cares and it’s kind of legendary because so many attorneys think it’s comical.
Agreed with Anon at 4:17. The LSAT is about test-taking ability (which is part intelligence, part being good at tests). In my personal experience and among my local colleages and law school friends, there is no positive correlation between getting a high LSAT score and enjoying practicing, or even being GOOD at practicing.
I saw a presentation by a George Washington University law professor showing that GW law students’ LSAT scores corresponded closely to their position on GW’s grading curve. Query whether that analysis applies for all law schools, depending on how they evaluate LSAT scores. My take on LSATs is that law school may not be a good economic proposition if you score less than a 150.
In my experience it’s a good predictor of how well you’ll do in law school and how likely you are to pass the bar. It’s not a good predictor of career success/enjoyment. Being a lawyer is nothing like doing logic games.
Yes, math majors can do really well on LSAT without really having anything else in common with lawyers.
My sense is that doing well in law school (and maybe other types of professional degrees) and then being good at it is not just being smart enough to keep on schedule with the material and not fall behind, but your willingness to just grind. You have to really like it to grind through (because it is either hard or a lot or both) for year after year.
I thought I was fairly smart in high school but I found out that I can just grind much later when I finally needed to grind. But it’s a particular sort of grinding that appeals and IDK how you know that in advance.
Ideally K12 would have more opportunities to learn this!
I know. But for the “smart” kids who are bright but not the profoundly bright groups that get scooped into special programs, IDK how you do this. OTOH, I know a ton of kids who decided not to be engineers the first semester of college when the experience of doing tons of problem sets and doing poorly on them was not what they were emotionally used to. IDK if they’d have been able to push through or even liked that profession, but I feel like it’s a think with maybe a quarter to a third of the kids of people I know in that degree program.
It’s one of the reasons it is a bigger deal not to be challenged in school or to be left bored than people like to think.
Hands down, the thing I valued most about my engineering degree is that it taught me that it was okay to fall flat on my face. Science and math were comically easy for me, even at my very good high school. Engineering school was a different monster.
i went to a private high school and honestly worked harder in high school than i did at my ivy league college. maybe the amount of work at my top 5 law school was equivalent to high school. i was accustomed to having to do a ton of problem sets in high school in order to do well in certain math classes and to raise my grade from a C in physics to an A-, but the problem with this is that i was so burnt out by the time i finished law school. i took and passed 2 bar exams, but essentially had a panic attack studying for the bar. i did not practice law for very long due to various life circumstances. i actually think i could’ve really liked certain practice areas of law if i had focused more on choosing based on what aligned best with my personality and preferred working environments versus just prestige/what was expected of me. i now know i do not do well when i do not have control of my schedule, so big law was terrible for my mental health. not so much bc of the long hours, but the unpredictability of it. versus my friends who became doctors, they know a year in advance when they are on call, or when they were in med school, they knew which rotations meant they would essentially have no life for two months.
Extracurriculars, especially sports do a great job at this. Not just school team sports, but also dance, cheer, etc., and even making your kid muck stalls in exchange for riding lessons.
Extracurriculars are good but they’re not a substitute for being challenged academically. Growing up I worked very hard at a sport I didn’t have that much natural aptitude for and made a ton of progress, but school always came very easily with no effort. I internalized the idea that sports and music and things like that were supposed to take work but school was supposed to be easy if you were smart. I pretty much fell apart when I got to fancy engineering college and was challenged academically for the first time.
My daughter also has a very high IQ but is growing up with much more practice being challenged academically, partly due to being tracked into her school district’s gifted class at a young age and partly due to mild dyslexia that made learning how to read challenging and continues to make spelling hard. And I can really see the difference in our experiences and how she’s developing academic grit in a way I did not.
Predictor of what law school you’ll get into, nothing more.
Someone in my life posted a lot of very identifiable information on a local/regional R3ddit account (full names of family members, the high school she attended, where she worked in town as a teen, things like that) and is now complaining that she got doxxed when someone responded to her comment using her first name. It’s for a fairly contentious local legal case, so presumably she wouldn’t have wanted her true name out there and yet took no steps to make it private. Maybe I’m not up to date on internet norms now, but is it really doxxing if you hand the information over on a silver platter?
It’s still doxxing. It’s just easy doxxing.
A lot of subr3ddits prohibit posting such private info, so likely the post will get taken down even if the OP doesn’t take it down herself.
It did get taken down (which I support/agree with) but now my friend is frequently posting about how it’s SO unfair she got doxxed and how everyone is so unkind to her. Kind of rubbing me the wrong way when she posted all that personal info and still hasn’t deleted it or hidden her comment history, but maybe I’m being too hard on her.
You’re not being too hard on her. This is weird behavior in 2026.
+1. This is internet 101.
Care less. It shouldn’t rub you any way at all.
Is it doxxing if you’re the one outing yourself? Plus doxxing is usually malicious so that other people will gang up and harass the doxxed person.
It’s not if she introduced herself by name. But if she didn’t provide her legal name and someone else, yes that’s doxxing. And yes it’s obviously malicious to out someone’s name, address, phone number, etc. on an anonymous public forum.
I think it’s just ESH.
In Reddit language, ESH. The person doing the doxxing should not have done so; she should not have put out any public information about a case (her lawyers likely even have a clause in the retainer about that), let alone with so much specificity.
The poster is naive to think no one would recognize her after sharing all that stuff; the person who used her real name was nevertheless rude to do so.
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I just want that jacket…
It looks lovely, but it is 90 and humid already, so no.
Also, I’d need to see it on a short woman built like a tic-tac to know if it is really for me or not.
if I like the look of the Staycation pants at T9 is there anything else i should be looking at at like athleta or lulu? size 16p.