Coffee Break

Accessories for your suits and other office wear.

  • Coffee Break: Carrie High Heel Pumps

    These gorgeous heels from Boden come in a number of different colors and textures — plush burgunday as pictured, solid suede options in black, navy, and rose, and two really fun animal print options on “animal print hair on cowhide.” I love the vintage feel to that super high heel cup, as well as the…

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  • Coffee Break: HeatTech Shorts with Waist Warmer

    I noticed these HeatTech shorts at Uniqlo recently, and they look like they could be an interesting addition to your wardrobe. Note that there’s no Spanx-like effect — they’re not going to suck you in and are apparently kind of loose — but if you’re freezing under your dresses, skirts, etc., they seem like a…

  • Coffee Break: Medium Club Convertible Crossbody Bag

    I recently got an AllSaints bag and was really impressed with the quality of the leather and the softness and general functionality of it. This one has a really nice interior pocket and an outside pocket, and it just looks like a great little bag. It’s getting very positive reviews too, like, “My usual bag…

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    Workwear Hall of Fame: Dorothy Flex Pump

    This pump from Michael Michael Kors is getting awesome reviews. It comes in the pictured olive suede as well as taupe suede, black leather, and black with a gold star pattern. I always like olive with navy and/or cobalt, but that’s me. It’s $98.95 at Nordstrom, available in sizes 5–11. (Oooh, note that Amazon has…

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    Coffee Break: Hosiery Mate

    I was updating an old post on how to wear stockings to work (fun story: we occasionally get flagged by Google as a NSFW site because of posts like that, in part because posts like that attract some… interesting… commenters, and in part, as best I can guess, because we’re featuring images of pantyhose packages.)…