Coffee Break: Elissa Belt
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I like the cool, almost organic silver details on this affordable belt from Quince.
The belt is available sizes XS-XL in three colorways: black with silver (pictured), black with gold, and an espresso with gold; it's $58 at Quince.
(Incidentally! The readers have been discussing whether you should always wear a belt when your pants have belt loops both here and here. For my $.02, I never wear a belt with jeans, but then I almost never tuck… I think the cleaner the tuck, the more the belt loops are on display, and the more it looks like you need a belt. On the flip side, if you're wearing a sweater, T-shirt, or other untucked top then the belt loops don't matter much.
I totally agree with the commenters who noted that a belt can interrupt an outfit, as well as be uncomfortable, but I think tailoring is the answer here — if you're getting your pants tailored well enough that you don't need a belt, it's an easy fix to have the belt loops removed.)
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!
out of curiosity has anyone had their measles antibodies checked? it’s spreading fast where I live, yay.
(did anyone else see that NYT thing about how these days it’s “bunker people vs everyone else”… betcha the bunker people are gonna require vaccines.)
I’m immunocompromised on immunosuppression, and have to be very aggressive with my vaccinations (especially Covid, flu, pneumonia). But my docs were not interested/worried about checking my measles antibodies.
That being said, if I lived in Texas or other areas where measles outbreaks were more concerning, I think the answer would be different.
Are you immunocompromised?
Unfortunately, I am not immune to measles. I last had my titers checked 30 years ago when I was pregnant with my son. I’ve had 5 measles vaccines through out my life and apparently none of them took. I had the inactive vaccine in ’65, that one was no good. I had a vaccine when I was in my early 20s. My midwife insisted on checking my titers when I was pregnant in my 30s, and since I wasn’t protected, gave me another vaccine. Same thing with my 2nd pregnancy. I had my titers checked 6 months after his birth and got yet another vaccine from my PCP. When my titers were checked about a year after that, I was still not immune, but my PCP said there wasn’t much point in getting the vaccine again. There’s also the possibility that I had measles as an infant. My sisters had it when I was about a year old and my parents tried to shield me, but I’m unclear on whether that worked or not, my sisters don’t remember and my parents have both passed.
Ha, I edited that to chop down the length and made it incoherent. Sorry.
I have an immune deficiency and had it checked as part of that management. I was no longer immune and was revaccinated. Failure to mount a vaccine response is a common feature of certain immune deficiencies.
I did last year. Dr ordered the titer along with my usual blood work. Turned out I needed a booster so I got one.
I did because I could only find proof of one shot so wanted to make sure I still had immunity. My PCP ordered it at my annual physical, but I think you can also just self-pay and get it done through Quest or Labcorp.
No. My understanding is that negative antibodies after all this time doesn’t confirm lack of immunity. It just fails to confirm that we’re still immune. But if anyone failed a recent vaccine challenge, they should be seeing a primary immune deficiency specialist immunologist.
But if your immune system is healthy and you’re good to get the booster (if you have no contraindication for an attenuated vaccine), you can just get the booster without testing first.
I haven’t been sick with anything since 2020 since that is when I started relying on a mask. So I’m hoping that will keep me from catching measles or TB or whatever else they’re trying to bring back.
I recommend it. Once I got pregnant they screened my immunity for multiple diseases and I was shocked to learn I’m missing a vaccination. My parents have always been aggressively pro-vaccine so either my childhood doctors missed something or this vaccine wasn’t available at the time.
I’m team belts, but this one looks like it came from The Limited in 1988, which is not my vibe. (Although what do I, an old, actually know? I recently have seen several of those Y2K leather medallion hip belts in the wild on zoomers.)
I think this is a situation where people who lived through the trend the first time see it as dowdy and outdated, and the youths think it’s adorably vintage. Sort of like the 20-somethings wearing old lady watches that no 40-something would ever be caught wearing.
How much do you worry about being overdressed to things?
I realized I have a lot of not even formal but just not casual clothes. ANd idk if its the era of life or what but many of my friends wear athleisure most of the time. Then I WFH. So I never wear these clothes.
I kinda just want to start wearing them and if I’m a little bit more formally dressed than other people, whatever.
Literally never. My aesthetic and lifestyle are outdoor dork and there has never been an occasion in my life where I felt overdressed. I know how to dress appropriately for a special occasion but the rest of the time, I push it pretty far in the most casual of casual directions.
Yes, this is me. But if you want to dress up, I don’t care, just don’t make me wear things I don’t want to wear.
You want to start wearing athleisure? Your comment is hard to understand.
No, it’s not and that’s not what she said.
I don’t.
+1 I wear what I want, when I want. I’m 46, I DGAF what anyone else thinks of my outfit.
Clarification: I want to start wearing my slightly more formal clothes to occasions/places where people are more casually dressed.
OOooOOOo. Thanks for clarifying.
I try to fit into the normal range of whatever setting I’m in, but I do think our culture has become very casual, and so sometimes I will look somewhat formal if I just wear an intentional outfit (especially if I compare myself to people who don’t work outside the home who I see at school pick up or whatever, who really put in zero effort and look like they barely brush their hair or change clothes from whatever they slept in).
Not a lot. If my plans are taking me multiple places, I am not inclined to change in between just because one occasion is more formal than another. So what if I’m wearing nice shoes at the theater or hard pants at the coffee shop.
My most casual events are out in the country (bbqs, bonfires), and sundresses or an outfit based on a pair of jeans are plenty casual enough for that setting.
What kind of clothes are you talking about wearing? As long as they are appropriate for the activity at hand I would not consider you overdressed, even if others are in athleisure.
So tailored trousers with a silk blouse and heels would be out of place for browsing the farmers market with your friends wearing joggers and puffy vests on a Saturday morning, while a tweed blazer with jeans, a band tee and sneakers would be fine.
IDK if anyone saw the article in the WSJ over the weekend re law firms pushing 50ish partners to retire. IDK how the math works for that since those are prime kid-in-college years. And beyond that, we don’t offer retiree medical insurance and IIRC Medicare doesn’t start until 65. That’s a gamble I’d rather not take. But in a world without pensions or retiree medical, how do you get the top earners to just leave (unless they get offered a package)???
Oh my god, if you’re a law firm partner and you don’t have enough capital saved to retire in your mid to late 50s (while cash flowing your kids’ college), you’re doing it really, really wrong.
Depends on the longevity in your family and if you are a woman, if you went straight through, if you had kids early or late, if you still have loans, etc. I can see how it hits some in a really unfair way. The health insurance would scare me for not being in a group plan any more.
The people in question are often making high seven, low eight figures annually. They also have insane networks and could easily find part time-ish jobs earning high six figures or low seven. This isn’t a financial hardship issue
OMG this is so not me. Low-$ part time partner here and I will likely make nothing like that. But I’ve carved out a niche that works for me and my clients and after finally having things come together later in life, I hate that now I’ve got to watch my back. Maybe this is all about the big rainmakers, but there are smaller practices that run in the black, even within larger firms.