Coffee Break: Nigella Flats
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Last year, when we rounded up extremely comfortable business casual shoes that readers liked, a number of readers said they loved Boden's flats… and true to form, the store has a TON of cute ones at the moment.
My favorite, I think, are these pointy-toed flats… the seam down the middle of the vamp gave me pause, but ultimately I think I like it as an interesting feature. I also like the way the leather texture changes at a similar seam at the back of the heel.
(I also like these ruched Mary Jane ballet flats and these “flexi” loafers.)
The Nigella flats are available in sizes 36-42 in four colors; they're $190 but you can take 10% off today with code.
Sales of note for 9/25:
- Boden – Up to 50% off sale + extra 15% off (I'm trying to figure out which color(s) of this sweater I should order…)
- Ann Taylor – 25% off the weekend collection and extra 50% off sale section
- Anthropologie – Extra 50% off sale!
- Athleta – Lots marked down to 40% off; with an Athleta card you get an extra 20% off.
- AYR – Archive sale, up to 60% off
- CVS – Epic beauty sale
- J.Crew – Fall styles start at $39
- J.Crew Factory – 40% off new arrivals, extra 20% off orders $125+
- Nordstrom – over 9800 new markdowns
- 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 – 40% off one item, 30% off everything else
- Theory – End of season sale is on!
I think I’m finished trying and failing to buy shoes online. I’m going to DSW today with the pants I need to wear, socks, and just trying things on until something works. I’m tired of the “will it fit” game.
this. sometimes it’s just easier.
yup, I do the same at Nordstrom
I almost never shop in person for anything anymore, but last night I went out and purchased a mattress at a mattress store. I learned my lesson.
I have gotten really tired of buying and returning online orders. I have started doing more in person shopping and even with fewer choices, I’m happier with what I’ve purchased. Fabric, in particular, has become such a guessing game. There are things I have bought online that wouldn’t have gotten a second glance in person.
100% Breaking down the boxes is such. a. pain.
These shoes are so cute but alas I don’t have my 20 year old feet anymore!
What about these shoes looks uncomfortable to you?
My feet would be sweaty in under a minute. Plus the narrowness of the toe would rub my pinky toe badly.
This. I can’t stand shoes like this. They might be flats, but they hurt in a different way.
Same. The low-key, all-day pressure across the toe box is excruciating.
Besides, on every pair of pointy shoes I have owned the tip gets utterly destroyed with one misstep on a staircase, sidewalk, threshold, grate, puff of air, etc.
if I am older than 20 am I too old to wear this?
https://athleta.gap.com/browse/product.do?pid=1174423002&vid=1&searchText=ombre#pdp-page-content
Yes. Sorry.
I don’t think so, and I’m normally Ms. Judgy about this stuff 😂
You could totally rock this at any age!
Yes.
It depends. You can wear that to a outdoor concert, especially an outdoor festival, if you are 27 or younger. I see that the description says hiking, climbing, or off trail exploring. I would not wear that on any remotely serious trail unless you want to look like a gumby. You can wear it to a National Park with your family if you’ll be going only to the easily accessible scenic spots and taking pictures with other tourists around. You will look like a gumby but it will be okay.
That is a really cute jacket and I would totally wear it over something less revealing than a sports bra.
The jacket or the whole outfit?
The jacket isn’t limited to any particular age.
Wearing a bra and shorts as an outfit should be done only while exercising imho, regardless of age.
This looks like the jackets the lady runners of all ages wear on drizzly days on my local rail-to-trail.
OP – just the jacket, ha. just something to wear as a light layer on rainy days if i’m going to the gym basically.
That’s totally fine!
I’m not following the day to day of hearings at the capitol, but my algorithm picked up a few clips from Jack Smith’s testimony today, and more notably Eric Schmitt’s questioning and Katie Britt’s reaction when R’s were trying to gotcha-him and failed miserably after mixing up a college vs NBA team mascot. If you want a little lighthearted entertainment and perhaps another reason to shake your head at the state of our politics today, it’s worth checking out. I genuinely have no additional context for today’s hearing and no opinion about Jack Smith, but man that was funny to watch to this political outsider. How can senators be so bad at their jobs?
Ha, that’s funny. I’m from Iowa but had not seen it.
But the alleged text the senator read did say he was in Atlanta, which doesn’t make sense for a Maryland-Iowa regular season basketball game. Did the senator doing the questioning make that up? They never showed the actual texts.
The poster with the screenshots was apparently only shown for a few moments, but according to press reports, it did not say anything about Atlanta. It only referenced him being at a basketball game.
But I am wondering if the entire text message chain said something about “College Park”, which is where the Missouri team plays, but is also a small city in the Atlanta Metropolitan area.
i’m more surprised that you have no opinion about Jack Smith!
Not sure if this is field-specific, but I present at a lot of conferences, and the number of men who get up onstage with less preparation, more frenetic presentation styles, and generally saying they’re talking nonsense or not qualified, compared to the women who show up generally polished, clearly prepped and rehearsed, and either subtly or explicitly dropping their credentials is wild. It’s not that the women are boring or robotic or reading their slides, either, they are good, engaging presenters!
I’ve been evaluating my own speaker feedback and decks with AI to improve from just-above-average to off-the-chart high scores.
It’s irksome because some of the initial feedback comparisons don’t make sense when compared to a male speaker. Example: “speaks fast”… that doesn’t hold up when you compare my rate of speech to some better-scoring men. “It was good, but it was a lot of information, I need time to think on it”… how come the male speakers don’t get that feedback?
I know gendered feedback and perceptions exist, but good grief. If I went onstage and said, “No idea why they let me up here, I’m just spouting nonsense, but let’s get into my Very Non-Nuanced Opinions and hopefully there’s at least one useful slide in my ridiculous deck!”, I would get pulled from the stage.
nah, they’d just say you were sleeping with someone to get on stage. unless you’re over 50 in which case you must be someone’s mother.
Really? I posted after a conference a few months ago that I was sick of highly qualified women starting off their presentations with “this isn’t my area of expertise so bear with me” or “I’m filling in for a colleague, let me know if it makes sense” and similar. It’s almost always women talking themselves down before they even start.
That is my experience as well. It drives me batty to hear women downplay their skills and expertise before they even get started. Ugh. STOP DOING THAT. Men do it sometimes too, of course, and they should also stop. And the phrase “does that make sense?” should be banned from the English language. It is somehow both condescending to the listener (“are you smart enough to understand me?) and denigrating to the speaker (“am I too stupid to express my option?”). And for the love of all that is good and holy, stop telling me your presentation is boring.
Yes!! I’m so sick of “prepare yourselves, this is going to be a really boring one, teehee” or “I’m sure this is exactly where you want to be right after lunch lol”
i was looking for black pants in my closet and realized… i still had maternity pants. from my FIRST pregnancy. 16 years ago. i vaguely remember thinking that the gap bootcuts were so hard to find in my size that i was going to hold on to them, but JAYSUS.