Suit of the Week: TWP
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For busy working women, the suit is often the easiest outfit to throw on in the morning. In general, this feature is not about interview suits for women, which should be as classic and basic as you get — instead, this feature is about the slightly different suit that is fashionable, yet professional. Also: we just updated our big roundup for the best women's suits of 2026!
What are your thoughts on unusual blazers — great for creatives or casual days, or just weird?
We've rounded up unusual suits for creative industries, as well as dramatic blazers, but this suit from TWP is one of the odder ones I've seen! I don't hate it, and I keep thinking the blazer is fine if it's worn open, but something is still off.
I think for starters it's too big on the model (her thumb is almost entirely covered!)… and while I'm ok with a wide leg, I think the pleats here make the whole thing too busy. Readers, what are your thoughts — would this be a winner or loser for you?
The blazer is $1,195, and the pants are $695, both at Saks.
Sales of note for 9/11:
- Nordstrom – End of season clearance, up to 50% off
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase + extra 15% off when you spend $200
- Anthropologie – Extra 50% off sale! The reader favorite wide leg pants come down crazy low in some colors/fabrics, but they're down to lucky sizes
- Athleta – 30% off select styles (including my favorite sweatshirts as well as these reader favorite pants) + extra 30% off sale
- AYR – Archive sale, up to 60% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles – readers love these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- CVS – Epic beauty sale, $10 off when you spend $30
- Design Within Reach – the semiannual sale, 25% off everything! (readers love the Herman Miller Aeron and Sayl!)
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off all stores, plus an extra 10% off when you buy a pair of jeans
- 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 – Extra 40% off select clearance
- Talbots – Buy one get 50% off everything
- Theory – End of season sale is on!
Help! I live alone and I am SO TIRED OF cooking for myself, meal prepping and failing at it! Let me count the ways in which I am terrible at this:
I consistently have too much or not enough of whatever I need.
I buy fruits and vegetables with the best of intentions, only to find I don’t get through them fast enough OR I have more than I can eat OR they get moldy.
I rarely eat meat, but when I do try to cook it, I feel like it never turns out well and grosses me out, especially as leftovers.
I have the best intentions of eating fruits and vegetables as snacks, but I get so bored with them.
No matter what I buy and plan for, nothing seems appetizing once I get it home.
Some days work and relationships take up all my mental load and I just do not have the bandwidth to give dinner a lot of thought.
I don’t mind cooking but I am not realistically going to cook 7 dinners a week, nor do I want to. For some reason I am in a really bad place with this. Any advice!? I am so frustrated with myself.
I’m with you. Can you make sure you are eating healthy for breakfast and lunch so that dinner is just something easy or light? I robotically throw a plain yogurt into my bag with a container of berries every morning so I ensure a healthy breakfast. I make myself a salad with chickpeas (yay Trader Joe’s cumin chickpeas) cherry tomatoes, cut up avocado and feta, or some other salad every day for lunch with a snack or two. Then when I come home, if I feel like eating crackers and cheese, or something premade, I can do it without the guilt. I’d add that Trader Joe’s has a lot of decent stuff to help with shortcuts.
What’s the alternative? Eating out, hitting up the Whole Foods salad bar, hiring a personal chef, getting delivery … just do these things until your tired of them and ready to eat at home again.
Honest answer, are there any good meal prep services in your area? In my city, we have one store that is entirely targeted towards normal (butter, sugar, fat, etc.) meals, not weight loss or gym rat meals, that are either small portions or tv dinner like options. Sweet spot of more expensive than if I cook, but cheaper than delivery/takeout. That gives me variety to break up the leftover palooza from whatever I cook as I can only really eat the same thing for three meals.
Cook something once a week you love (for me it’s soups) and that are good as leftovers. Stock Trader Joe’s for 3 other nights, takeout one night and go out with friends the other two.
I used to get a takeout dinner on Monday and save half for lunch the next day or day after. Or get a restaurant meal for lunch and just have a light dinner at home that night. I was fed, but not cooking more than 1-2 times a week.
On a weekend, I’d cook and have friends over so I didn’t need to deal with leftovers. 1-2 guys would make sure it was all gone :)
So I really like making foods that can be ‘recycled’ so for example lentil chili can be eaten on its own or on a chili dog, fries, chili mac or as nacho topping. I will always roast extra veggies so they can go in a pasta one night or on a bowl another night. I try and strategically get veggies that work with a lot of cuisines: broccoli for example I can throw in instant ramen with some tofu or it also works as a side dish on its own or in pasta or a stir fry. I like freezing individual jars of stew, chili, curry etc so I don’t have to have the same foods back to back and can skip cooking some days. If you get into a groove you can always have a rotation of things in f
the freezer and elements in the fridge so you only have to cook from scratch 2-3 times a week.
You don’t have to eat meat if it grosses you out, I dont!
Do you ever shop at Costco or Trader Joe’s? It’s okay to get some prefab options!
I’m stuck cooking seven dinners a week because of dietary restrictions, and I would not volunteer for this at all. Can you budget some take out that you pick up after work? I know restaurants are expensive right now, but there usually are some more practical options if you eat any non western cuisines that have a local immigrant community. If you don’t like non western cuisines, see if there’s a Monday or Tuesday special at a place you do like. This can be a palatable hot meal solution for when only a palatable hot meal will do.
Dinner doesn’t always have to be a hot meal. I’d much rather eat fruits and vegetables as part of a charcuterie cheese board with a nice beverage than “as snacks.”
If you eat eggs at all, there’s a lot that can be done in the omelet/quiche/frittata family of dishes.
I run a family of 5 and I experience all the same problems you do. My advice? Cook a meal that YOU like, once a week. Get the Paprika app so you can scale recipes down: even with 3 boys sometimes a recipe is just makes too much for all of us. Don’t buy fruit or vegetables you dislike or that you “feel like you should” eat. Try one new thing at a time. I learned to love cooking by mastering ONE meal during the pandemic (it was tacos, btw so nothing exceptional). From there I wanted to branch out. My kids still refuse to eat about half of what I make “curry AGAIN?!!” And that’s fine, because I like it and I’ll eat leftovers. But I don’t plan to have leftovers and I don’t make food that no one wants to eat. Good luck!
Came back to say that it’s not a character flaw to hate cooking. It’s actually really hard to make it worth it for just one person. If you have a good meal kit service that might be an option. I don’t know if that’s cheaper than eating out.
I say this as someone who loves to cook- you’re fine! You’re busy and cooking is a chore that you don’t have time/energy for! You’re doing other things with your life right now!
I’d suggest taking a long hard look at what you do eat- takeout, girl dinner/snacks, canned soups and frozen casseroles, etc and figure out what is working for you and what isn’t. For example, if you don’t eat the carrots you have to peel, don’t buy them. If you need ranch dip to make veggie sticks appealing, great! On the other hand, if dinner is a pile of crackers or takeout and you feel like crud after eating that, what could you sub in easily?
I could have written this. I also REFUSE to give up my Sundays for meal prep – no way. What’s worked best for me is having decent freezer and pantry options available (I always have pasta and jarred sauce, for example) and being OK with super easy breakfast for dinner options. Berries have been garbage quality in my area this year, so I’m mostly doing frozen at this point and just dealing with the worse texture.
I feel your pain. I try to have a few homemade microwave meals in the freezer. Things like heart soups, black beans and rice, pasta dishes. Pasta isn’t nearly as good after it’s been frozen, but even at that is still better than some of the other quick and easy choices.
The other thing is meal planning. I don’t necessarily do it to the level of specifying what I will eating for lunch on Thursday, but I do have a certain amount of breakfasts, lunches, and suppers for the week – all of them easy. Sometimes there’s and entry or two that says “just forage” meaning find something in the feeezer, or cheese and crackers and olives (I always have all of these), or buy something.
Then: Grocery list from the meal plan. Shop the list. Eat the plan. Reduces waste.
Has anyone worked through this, perhaps for a parent or relative?
A is a former SAHM who is divorced from B, who is 62 but still working. B has a high-paying job and decades of work credits. A is new to the workforce (10ish years, but all at very low-paying PT jobs due to childcare, pandemic, etc.). A will claim social security on B’s record, but when can A make her claim? When A is 62? When B files his own claim (ages 62-70)? When B reaches his full retirement age (IIRC that is 67 for someone who is currently 62)? When B becomes 70? A is just 53, but is really just scraping by and any extra funds would make a difference. B has a non-lifting indoor job, so in theory B could work until he is 70.
I want to say that A has to wait until she is 62.
And then regardless of when she could claim, are ex-spouse’s benefits varied at all if she waits to claim (the way if I’m single, I’m substantially better off claiming at 70 IF I think I will live a long time (yes))?
IDK who you even ask about this, but waiting on the phone or going to the local SS office isn’t it.
Ask AI
Once B files, A needs to wait until full retirement age to get the maximum benefit. Rules are different if A is also taking care of a disabled dependent or child under 16.
A needs to wait until A’s full retirement age to claim? What if B is either >=70 or still working then?
Youngest dependent turns 16 this year.
Google literally answers this in two seconds.
Is anyone familiar with a shop (online only maybe) called Beach Riot? They have some adorable tennis-themed gear but I found them on google today looking for something else and I’m not familiar with them. [And I have a teen who loves this look and she has not mentioned it as a gift source.] This would be for me, so I’m happy to pay for quality (and actually play tennis).