Wednesday’s Workwear Report: Bow-Neck Knitted Sweater
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Our daily workwear reports suggest one piece of work-appropriate attire in a range of prices.
This sweater might be a little too twee for some folks, but I’m really loving the built-in bow and gorgeous red color. Actually, let me correct myself. It’s from Boden, so it’s a “jumper.” I would keep this in my closet to lift my mood on a day when I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
The red color would look lovely with camel, navy, or just about any neutral, but I have a pair of light pink pants that are waiting patiently for this to show up at my door.
The sweater is $140 at Boden and comes in sizes XS-XL. It also comes in camel, ivory, and black.
Sales of note for 8/21:
- Ann Taylor – 25% off fresh fall styles! Also, there's an online-only warehouse sale — $20 tops, $25 sweaters, $30 pants, and $40
- CVS – Epic beauty sale, $10 off when you spend $30 (Walmart is having its “Beauty Event” as well right now!)
- The Fold – Up to 50% off, further markdowns
- J.Crew – Last chance summer styles on sale
- J.Crew Factory – 8/21 only: 50% off pants and shorts, and free shipping on all orders
- J.McLaughlin – Extra 40% off sale
- Lilysilk – Anniversary sale, save up to 70%
- Me & Em – Sale! Up to 60% off (new lines just added, exclusively online)
- M.M.LaFleur – Lots of new pieces added to sale (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clearance, new markdowns up to 75% off! Nice selection of Vince, Veronica Beard, Reiss and Rag & Bone, a ton of affordable work dresses from Calvin Klein, Maggy London, Eliza J, and Donna Morgan
- Revolve – 20% off most beauty!
- Talbots – End of season clearance, extra 70% off markdown tops and extra 60% off other markdowns
- Theory – End of season sale is on!
Anyone regret donating/throwing clothes that you habd outgrown (body or style)? I have some mini and bodycon dresses that I just don’t expect to wear ever again. I have young nieces, no kids, debating whether to save a couple totes in case they want to explore them. Worth keeping, or donate?
Generally, no. Stuff I wasn’t wearing b/c it wasn’t my size, I don’t miss (and I’ve never retained any former smaller size). If it’s party pieces not worn due to lifestyle, I miss the party and could always find a new outfit. Not enough parties in 2026.
My nieces have never wanted anything I’ve had (silk DVF wrap dresses, etc.). One daughter borrows things from time to time.
Unless they’re iconic brands from the era a la Herve Leger Bandage Dress… let them go. My only regrets have been from not doing this sooner and allowing the stuff to clutter up my life, having learned the hard way that no, just because I lost or gained that 15 pounds does not mean I want to wear the clothes from that size that I had in 2016.
Personally, I’d donate. Reasons:
• I don’t want to store stuff for years in the hope that somebody, someday might be the exact right size/height at the exact right life stage and turn out to want it and value it the way I did.
• I’ve decided that on the off-chance I do regret something, it’s not the end of the world. Regret can be just a passing emotion; the threat of possibly feeling it doesn’t need to govern my decisions. Besides, it’s just regret over clothing. Pieces of cloth.
Yes – few but yes
– red suede skirt from Kenneth Cole, 2002
– button-up shirt with red and brown stripes, also 2002
– off-white leather peplum top, Theory, 2006?
– formal BCBG dress that I wore to my brother’s wedding, 2010
– a few more formal dresses
The stuff that I miss is high quality. I keep a lot of formal wear and costume-y pieces (including old dance costumes!) and those get rotation on Halloween, and my kids have used old minidresses (including some of my mom’s from the 70s!) for decade days at school, etc.
My stepmother has given me some stuff from her fab-u-lous life in the 90s as a banker in London, and unfortunately, as much joy as it brings me to see it in my closet, I have never worn it because the cut and style are outdated. I don’t know which way this cuts – maybe keep it if it’s very expensive, but if it’s just run of the mill, definitely toss.
Fabulous earlier London like Patsy from AbFab? Or too try-hard like Eddy Monsoon? I’d take either though.
Amazon just updated its terms of service to include binding arbitration of “ ANY DISPUTE OR CLAIM RELATING IN ANY WAY TO YOUR USE OF ANY AMAZON SERVICE, OR TO ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES SOLD OR DISTRIBUTED BY AMAZON OR THROUGH AMAZON.COM.” Amazon is about to begin drone delivery in our neighborhood. Is it really possible that this broad language means that if a drone drops someone else’s package on my house or my dog or my kid and I happen to have an Amazon account, I will lose my right to sue? Or will courts interpret this language only to apply to tr—-actions where I am a party?
Is Amazon even going to be the owner of the drones? Or once it is tested, all drones are leased out to third party delivery LLCs who have their own drivers and everyone is underinsured, so if you do sue and win, you win an LLC with a lot of judgments against it and a bunch of leased drones to pay for? Because that’s how delivery on land seems to work. Look at the placards on the back of the delivery vehicles.
Has anyone gone down the road of “is it mild cognitive impairment or early dementia” with a loved one before? And does it matter which it is? Speaking as a history major, with no medical training, it seems that for many places and situations (assisted living facilities, dealing with powers of attorney, etc.), having a diagnosis of dementia closes some doors but just “mild cognitive impairment” is just treated as part of aging (so Uncle Gregor, who used to fly jets, has a hard time in the airport if Cousin Lise isn’t there with him, but can do all ADLs on his own, but his bills are all on auto-pay and who knows how he’d be without that (true for any of us though now that no one writes checks)). But I don’t know what I don’t know (and I also don’t know how to get a real sense of what is going on here). Where do I start and what sort of doctor would really know?
I went down this road with myself in my thirties, and it was a treatable condition. I wonder if I’d have ever been diagnosed if I’d been older, or if it would have been treated as part of aging! It also took a lot of advocacy with the healthcare system to get anywhere, some of which I really needed loved ones to do for me because of my symptoms at the time. So cognitive impairment is sometimes treatable.
If it is really aging or dementia, geriatrician is the medical specialty for aging. There are also social workers that specialize in geriatrics. When I searched to find a link for you the first result was AARP, which is not a bad place to start.
My mom’s dementia was diagnosed and is now monitored by a neurologist, so I would start there. They will be able to determine whether testing is warranted and how to determine whether it’s vascular dementia, Alzheimers, etc.
My dad has self-referred to neurology because he feels like he’s getting forgetful. I think it’s too much time on his ipad and maybe a hearing issue? But I’m not a useful kind of doctor. They are doing some baseline tests but think he’s probably fine.
It was fun to see myself quoted in Kat’s post about business development! This is a good conversation for us to have over and over again. I mentor attorneys in this area in real life too. I am surprised there isn’t more engagement in the comments but go take a read if you’re working on this in your career.
Does speech to text just not work or not work for some people? Someone who regularly texts me has (I think) started using it and it is like getting messages from a hallucinating drunk person. How would you say something like “did you proofread this or are you hitting the sauce early?”
In one case in my friend group this was literally carbon monoxide poisoning, so just throwing that out there.
In another case they were having vision issues and weren’t proofreading successfully.
I think it sometimes doesn’t like my accent. Our smart device only understands my husband. Someone was giving me a lift once, and I was the only one who the GPS would understand (all very strong Scottish, versus my Californian).
I have a family member like this. I can usually figure it out, but if not I just write back and respond to what I can and say I didn’t understand the part about the pizza at the airport, or whatever nonsense came through. For my family member, it’s because of arthritis and because she loves to talk and has no incentive to be brief when dictating, hahaha