Coffee Break: Multi-Pocket Tote
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This bag caught my eye over at Tory Burch — it's so unusual. Apparently it “echoes jackets from the Fall '25 runway collection.” I would think of the pockets on the outside as being a bit more decorative than functional, of course, but I do think it's a cool bag.
It gets interesting with the price — it was $880, but is now marked $619. But! It also says “$527 for Private Sale.” This piqued my curiosity; I wondered if it was an archive/resale portion like you can find on some sites. But according to the offer details from the homepage, it's an online only sale that ends 8/19. Why are there two sale prices on a single product page? Who can say.
In any event, the bag is $527 for now, with free shipping in continental US. It also comes in brown. You can see everything in the sale here.
Sales of note for 8/10:
- Ann Mashburn – Seasonal sale, up to 50% off – we just included them in our updated Top 10 Brands for Comfortable Heels!
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase, $99 dresses, and extra 60% off clearance — readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it's a great separate)
- Anthropologie – Extra 40% off sale!
- Bare Minerals – Free shipping over $50! Love their Love thir OG Mineral Veil setting powder
- The Fold – Up to 50% off, further markdowns (new lines added)
- J.Crew – Up to 30% off
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off sitewide
- J.McLaughlin – Summer sale, up to 50% off
- Lilysilk – Anniversary sale, save up to 70%
- Madewell – Up to 30% off
- Me & Em – Sale! Up to 60% off (new lines just added, exclusively online)
- M.M.LaFleur – End of season sale! (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clearance, new markdowns up to 75% off! Nice selection of Vince, Veronica Beard, Reiss and Rag & Bone, a ton of affordable work dresses from Calvin Klein, Maggy London, Eliza J, and Donna Morgan
- Saks Fifth Avenue – Up to $500 off your purchase! Great selection of Veronica Beard, L'Agence, Vince, and more.
- Talbots – Semi-annual red door sale, 50-60% off all markdowns, and free shipping on 150+.
- Theory – End of season sale is on! Love all the colors their best-selling sweater tee comes in, and some colors are on sale.
Has anyone tried Bared Footwear? They’re stalking me online and may have gotten me with Pipilo
Yes, love them.
I don’t get this bag. The card slots look upside down? Obviously the pockets are decorative as Kat noted, but wouldn’t it look more correct if they were right-side up?
Well, waffles, it’s ugly. That’s all there is to it.
I really want to flip this thing inside out to make those pockets all functional.
At first I thought maybe it would fold in half, so you would have a smaller bag with all the little pockets inside. Since no, it’s just a weird bag.
I really like the color. But it looks so awkward to hold/carry.
Curious where people are buying costume jewelry these days? I have a decent collection of fine jewelry but enjoy some fun pieces mixed in. I just got an order from BaubleBar and it was awful – plasticky trash. I wasn’t expecting amazing quality but I literally have nicer necklaces from Loft! Conversely, I snagged a necklace from Veronica Beard on markdown and it was lovely but $175 for enamel and brass on sale is nuts. Please do not recommend Dorsey, I am aghast at their prices. I bought the ‘Clarette’ necklace when it was under $300 and now it’s $645 for coated brass!
Etsy. Always etsy.
Any particular sellers? I get overwhelmed by the sheer amount on offer.
No, I just look for vintage pieces that interest me and go down rabbit holes.
The real real – they have nice costume brands in addition to gemstones.
I had nicer necklaces from CVS than some of what I received from BaubleBar.
I don’t expect influencers to be 100% honest but I am ready to stop following The Stripe and Grace Atwood at this point. Everything she recommends is either absurdly expensive, or clearly a cheap referral item. She raaaaved about her BaubleBar pieces and they are such trash IRL.
Impulsively and in random places. I’ve always been a fan of costume jewelry having a story about where you found it and that it made you smile when you saw it. Most complimented necklace years ago was found at the checkout of a random nail salon I went to with my sister. Other good finds have been at antique shops, art festivals, museums and a random store I found wandering around on holiday.
Museum shops, but they can be a mixed bag.
Museum gift shops often have surprisingly great jewelry! I love the V&A’s selection.
Vintage J crew on Etsy or EBay.
Antique shops, yard sales, and smaller local boutiques. I love costume jewelry but I want to see it and touch it so I can rule out it being cheap junk before I buy it.
Thanks to all the commenters who responded about my shoulder. I called my doctor for a sports PT referral. Fingers crossed.
If you can find a rehab place focused on younger people/athletes, I’ve had the best luck with those PTs. If you’re in NY/NJ/CT, the hospital for special surgery has good rehab options under their brand.
I’ve always lived in houses with standard 8-ft ceilings. We just moved into a new home recently where every room in the house has a 10-ft ceiling. So not vaulted ceilings, but just very tall ceilings throughout. Any suggestions for how to think about scale or proportion when decorating with tall ceilings?
I’m good on curtains and know how to have those appropriately proportioned. But all of my furniture from my old house looks teeny tiny and I’m trying to figure out what I need to choose to make everything seem proportional. (I’ve always had the opposite problem with antique-aged houses that needed small boned furniture.)