Wednesday’s Workwear Report: Charcoal Cashmere/Silk Long-Sleeve Katie Tee
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I’m in the market for a crewneck sweater that’s not too thick, but not too thin; fitted, but not too fitted; and formal, but not too formal. After hearing about my Goldilocks-inspired search, a friend recommended this cashmere/silk sweater tee from Tuckernuck, and I think I may have hit the jackpot. The knit, the fit, and the vibe are all just right.
We’ll see how it holds up this winter, but I’m hoping that this will be a wardrobe workhorse for me for the next several years.
The sweater is $188 at Tuckernuck and comes in sizes XXS-XXL and in seven other colorways.
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!
When I am extremely busy, fatigued, and stressed, I’m plagued with nausea. Anyone else conquer this? I’m traveling a ton to close a deal, meals are at odd times and rarely healthy – and yet my colleagues don’t seem to be phased.
As a quick fix, your doctor can prescribe Zofran to take as needed.
If you want to know why you struggle with this and your colleagues don’t, you’d probably need to follow up with a doctor anyway.
Are you young / thin? When I was both, I just needed to eat more and more often (and not late at night). Starchy snacks that travelled well helped me — a ziplock of cereal, granola bars, dried fruit.
Yup, nausea/vertigo/migraine are my body’s immediate reactions to travel, stress, illness. Have you had an evaluation for migraine? Making sure that’s addresses is key for me, along with zofran.
Otherwise I’d focus on hydration (cold water helps), electrolytes (pills are best for me, I can’t do the powders), and specific ‘safe’ foods – bland crunchy carbs, cold food (less scent), crunchy fruits/veggies, and lightly flavored broth. Ginger or lemon tea has been a lifesaver in many meetings.
I’ve always been like this. I could never pull off all nighters in high school or college because I’d get overwhelmingly nauseated by 2 or 3 am. I get nauseated when I don’t eat regularly and from some medications and foods and drinks (coffee and other bitter or strong scented things), I have issues with motion sickness, and I eventually developed chronic m*graine where nausea is a major symptom and not eating or sleeping regularly is a big trigger, so I just seem to be really sensitive to it. M*graine meds definitely help a lot, but mostly I need to eat and sleep and then suffer through what I can’t avoid.
Sometimes motion sickness is a clue that vitamin B6 may help. That’s usually doctor supervision territory though.
I could not tuck a sweater into jeans unless it is basically just thick fabric.
BUT I have a question. I found a very nice aesthetic lamp, but it has such an obscure bulb that I’ve scrapped that plan. Where can I get a nice, pretty table lamp that takes plain vanilla lights that I can get at the grocery store? Previously, I’ve gotten them at Target and I’ve tried antique stores (but those lamps seem to be a hot mess of wiring and I am cautious; non-electrified decor would be fine). One attempt from a shop seems to have a wobbly socket. What is the lighting equivalent of moving from Ann Taylor to Brooks Brothers or Boss?
You can often have all the wiring of an antique lamp swapped out if you find your dream lamp!
I’m still trying to find a half way decent bulb. I don’t like overpaying for bulbs that don’t live as long as they claim they will, and I still find incandescent bulbs much, much more comfortable than the LEDs that are supposed to be just as good.
Is an electrician the trade to call for a lamp issue? I feel like I don’t have a weekend to devote to watching YouTube videos and going to Home Depot again and again and again (and I’m still not confident that I could do this as I can barely get lightbulbs to be the right degree of warmth, so I look like I live in a dental clinic or third-rate mall, where everything is either too green or too blue in cast).
I’d imagine an electrician could, but I think sometimes antique people or lamp people can too. My mom just “has a guy” so I never had to figure it out for myself. I have never DIY since I don’t want to burn my place down either with the original deteriorating wiring or with my own mistake!
Shades of Light, Perigold, Visual Comfort, and Rejuvenation have been my favorite upgrade picks for light fixtures. RH, Pottery Barn, and Williams Sonoma Home also have interesting (though $$$) picks.
Fall 2026 fit checks (since I’m doing a try-on for everything I own due to the passage of time and shape/size changes):
— Obviously tapered legs on work pants just don’t look current; a “skinny leg” might still be OK some times
— Above-the-knee skirts aren’t looking right for work, especially when paired with flatter shoes, but I can’t figure out where to hem anything without looking like my legs are stubby; can’t wait for boot season
— Nothing can be tight or straining and nothing should be unflattering; there is only so much real estate in my closet and I don’t need a million “maybe some day” bins of things (bins are for party dresses that only need to come out a few times a year)
Advice / thoughts welcome. I miss the old days when fashion magazines had HUUUGE fall issues in August or September.
+1 to all of this, I’m also pulling out my properly fitted blazers and closer fitting sweaters. The very close fitting sweaters (like the one above) that hit at the hip weren’t quite right with skinny jeans but look great again with wider pants. I have a big collection of not shrunken, not oversized blazers, and they seem to be back in again (yay!).
If it’s not today, it’s never, toss do not store.