Weekend Open Thread: Maeve
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I recently bought these Maeve pants from Anthro, and I have to say they're one of my favorite recent purchases. The trick is that they're a knit, so they're actually like a sweatpant material instead of a stiff denim. They're ridiculously comfortable, and I love that they came in petites so I didn't have to get them hemmed.
(Pro tip: size down, they run on the bigger side.)
They come in a huge range of sizes, including sizes 23-34, 23P-34P, and 16W-26W. (Tall sizes are down to lucky sizes, unfortunately.) The Colette cut is one of the most popular pants at Anthropologie, and we recently picked it in our updated roundup to the best wide leg pants.
The pictured knit denim pants are $96-$128 right now.
(Of course they are far from the first to have sweatpant denim — the rag & bone Miramar jeans have been hugely popular for that lately!)
Sales of note for 8/28:
- Ann Taylor – End of summer sale, last call — extra 70% off all sale, new markdowns added.
- CVS – Epic beauty sale, $10 off when you spend $30 (Walmart is having its “Beauty Event” as well right now!)
- The Fold – Up to 50% off, further markdowns
- J.Crew – Last chance summer styles on sale
- J.Crew Factory – 40% off new arrivals, extra 15% of $100+ orders
- J.McLaughlin – Extra 40% off sale
- Lilysilk – Anniversary sale, save up to 70%
- Me & Em – Sale! Up to 60% off (new lines just added, exclusively online)
- M.M.LaFleur – Labor Day Sale Event, save sitewide! (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
- Talbots – End of summer clearance, 70% off markdowns, including lots of colors of the reader favorite cardigan!
- Theory – End of season sale is on!
I’m staying in Manhattan this weekend and have no plans. What would you recommend I do?
A Broadway show is always the answer for me
Museums. Eat well. Picnic in the park.
depends heavily on what you’ve done before in the city, what you’re into. nyt just had a bookshop crawl in brooklyn. if it were me i’d take a look at what the museums have to see if anything is of interest. i’d also just start at 59th and 5th and start shopping down 5th ave, you can do same in soho.
When I have weekends like that I like to go to a weird/fancy exercise class, get brunch, get a massage or spa treatment, shop, and find a cultural attraction.
ooh see if you can go to AIRE ancient baths? or maybe someone can recommend a good korean spa, although that may be in queens
Aire used to have a bizarre aqua cycling class in the basement that was literally just spin bikes thrown into a pool. I don’t recommend it but the spa looked nice.
i’m 55 and have started playing the “is she younger or older than me” game. it’s amazing how hard it is to tell sometimes — people who have protected their skin tend to look younger, and the people who have not really, really look older.
What kind of conversation are you trying to start around this?
I try to remember that people who have hard lives or health problems or bad genes (or just live a long time) look older too. It’s not a moral failing and not deliberate neglect that causes an aging appearance. And it’s also okay to age.
Basically everyone thinks they look younger than their age, and very few do (it’s almost comical how prevalent this idea is). But go ahead and congratulate yourself on looking young, just please don’t disparage others.
She never said she looked young.
I agree. Who knows these days. Recently I met someone who I thought looked middle aged and she was 70!
I find that certain types of makeup, especially the overdone or outdated kind, can make people look so much older.
Think dark eyeliner around the whole eye, too much bronzer, self tanner etc, combined with an unrealistic „girly curly“ hairstyle…
Honestly, I am wearing less makeup now at 45 than I was wearing 10 years ago – the foundation and eyeshadow settles too much in wrinkles , so I’ve moved to lipstick, cream blush, eye brows, and brown mascara. I also moisturize the heck out of my skin and think it looks younger than some of my peers who do the whole face all done look.
I think I commented here a while ago about the horrifying women’s networking event I attended where I could somewhat tell who was on a vanity GLP-1 based on their sunken-in face and wiry arms.
I have a few people in my life (my boss and my in laws) who just b!tch and moan if they don’t get their way and try to bring everyone’s mood down with them. Unfortunately, I have to spend a lot of time with these people which means a lot of time walking on eggshells and I am so over it.
I’m sorry. When I’m in this mood, I just shut up! I don’t know why people can’t at least do that.
I was just thinking about something similar. I posted a week or two ago about canceling a family vacation because everyone was refusing to commit and seemed incredibly unenthusiastic for actually getting it scheduled, despite professing interest in going. I ended up feeling kind of down about it because our once-close family had already fractured somewhat after multiple deaths and now no one can be bothered to plan because it’s easier to just stay home. I’m concluding, though, that it’s on me to protect our family’s enthusiasm and interest in having fun and taking trips and doing enjoyable things. I’ll keep inviting whoever wants to have fun too but the days of letting the downers of the group sink everything for everyone are over. It’s amazing how contagious a negative outlook can be and I need to fight against it.
I hate this. Why do so few people know how to regulate their emotions? It’s fine to feel things but it’s YOUR responsibility to process them without taking it out on others