Coffee Break: Phoebe Boot
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If you're a fan of the Phoebe flat from Margaux, there is now a boot with the same “cloud-like cushioning.”
I like the square toe, stitch seam detailing, and stacked leather heel. The boot comes in four colors, three widths, sizes 33.5-45 (US 3.5-14) (but a lot looks sold out right now).
The boot is $445.
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!
Have you ever done an intervention for a friend for something NOT related to drugs/alcohol? Seriously pondering one for my sister’s life choices.
Can I ask what category of life choices that aren’t drugs/alcohol require an intervention?
I’m coming up with bad significant other, or maybe diet/managing health stuff? I feel like the bad significant other is a conversation you have once and then drop it.
I posted on the moms page yesterday about a rough family weekend (staying with my family member and her husband who have a terrible, toxic marriage). Before they got married, we had ONE conversation where I expressed support for her if she wanted to change her mind and call off the wedding. She didn’t, they have two kids, and it’s stressful and awful to see how bad things are. However, even that doesn’t rise to the level of a family member striding in to “intervene.” It’s up to her. I’m a bit curious whether natural consequences might get through to her – family no longer wanting to stay with her being the main one.
It really depends on the choice and whether its legitimately dangerous or you’re being judgey.
If my parents had their way they would have given me an intervention for my social sciences degree. Jokes on them I earn more than anyone in my family.
Real question: do you think there’s any chance at all that you telling her she’s screwing up is going to help? And what support are you willing to provide to help her make different choices?
It’s not my place to do an “intervention” with a consenting, full-grown adult who is entitled to make her own choices, but in a fantasy world, man, I’d love to sit my cousin down and tell her to get the divorce already. They’re so ill-suited and make everyone around them miserable.
+1 just because you don’t like the choices someone is making doesn’t mean you get to have any say.
I don’t get this. People are allowed to talk to each other. Yes sometimes difficult conversations require tact. But full grown adults can handle hearing other people’s perspectives on their choices.
That’s different from an “intervention” though.
Yep. There’s a huge difference between “I’m concerned about you for ___” and “You’re out of control and need to stop ___.”
Isn’t the point of an intervention to get someone to go to rehab?
Please watch this episode of How I Met Your Mother and start intervening in the lives of your loved ones. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1256186
If it’s for a relationship you fear will kill her, I think you should give it a try after thinking for a loooong time about what the best way to talk to her about it is. Nobody tried to talk me out of marrying a guy who had broken furniture during an argument because they didn’t want to overstep. I don’t know if I would’ve listened, but I wish someone had tried.
I don’t know about “an intervention,” but of course I’ve talked to people about concerns before. People in situations don’t always have perspective; there’s no way around that. They’re the ones in the situations. People don’t always see their own patterns. And sometimes people have explained things to me that helped me understand how their choices are working for them. I’ve also appreciated having the opportunity to alleviate other people’s concerns before. I don’t think it’s preferable when people are thinking something but leaving it unsaid!
+1. As a group I’ve gently approached someone about her boyfriend’s alcohol abuse. X, Y, and Z things you’ve told us are concerning, do you think he sees a problem with his alcohol use, would you be happy parenting a kid with him if his behavior doesn’t change, what would cross the line for you, etc.
But that’s very different from telling someone “Your choices are bad, you’re ruining your life, here’s how you’re harming the people around you, you need to do X to snap out of it.” Unless the person is at risk of committing violence, being a victim of violence, death, going to prison, or irreversible financial ruin I don’t think you can approach it this way.
I’d say no. A mutual friend ranted at my brother about all of his poor choices for the past decade (including not working since Obama was in the WH) and now they’re not speaking.
What are your dream travel destinations? Which are you trying to do while you’re young/healthy enough to enjoy them (hiking, biking, scuba diving)?
I really want to take the family and go mountain biking at a bike park in Austria. I also want to ski in the Lofoten Islands in Norway and raft/kayak the Futaleufu in Chile. I’m a big believer that you’re never too old to try something adventurous – especially if you’re a woman, a mother, or a grandmother. We get SO many messages that those kinds of trips aren’t for us but they absolutely are!