Coffee Break

Accessories for your suits and other office wear.

  • Coffee Break: ‘Laureen’ Leather Pump

    This comfort heel from Nordstrom is highly rated, and I think it looks like a great basic. Zappos has a few more colors, as well. The shoe is $124 and is available in medium, narrow, and wide sizes (and note that 6pm has four other color choices from $61 to $75, as well). VANELi ‘Laureen’ Leather Pump Psst: On…

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  • Coffee Break: Easy tote

    I always think of one of my favorite fashion movies, How to Steal a Million, whenever I hear or see anything Givenchy — Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole are planning a big heist to steal a sculpture (“it’s valued at a MILLION DOLLARS!“) and O’Toole decides Hepburn should dress up as a member of the cleaning crew…

  • Coffee Break: Alice Skimmer

    I was intrigued to see that Cole Haan has a new “Grand OS” technology for comfort, now that their Nike Air collaboration has ended — and even more intrigued to note that the only place you can really find out which shoes have the new technology is at the Cole Haan website, as there is…

  • Coffee Break: Fulton Moccasin

    Commenters were recommending this flat the other day, and I really like the look of its clean, neat lines. Zappos has it in a ton of fun colors right now, but Amazon has some nice deals on basic colors like this “luggage” leather (also in black leather and black suede). It was $99, but is…