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Sales of note for 7.19.24
- Nordstrom – The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale is now open to everybody! Here are all of our picks, and here are reader favorites.
- Ann Taylor – Semi-annual sale, extra 50% off markdowns + 20% off everything!
- Banana Republic Factory – 40-60% off everything, take an extra 20% off your purchase
- Eloquii – 50% off select styles
- Everlane – Up to 70% off
- J.Crew – End of Season Sale, extra 50% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything
- Lo & Sons – Summer sale, up to 50% off
- Madewell – End of season sale, up to 70% off with code.
- M.M.LaFleur – Save 25% sitewide. (Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is the biggest sitewide discount I've ever seen…)
- Rothy's – Lots of great finds in the “final few” section
- Talbots – Semi-annual red door sale, extra 40% off markdowns
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Shayna
Wish there was a Bloomingdale’s closer to me… Doubt I would hit $500, but $250 … hmm, well, maybe it’s a good thing there isn’t one within thirty minutes!
Interrobang
25 of these or one Birkin?
Make mine a Birkin.
divaliscious11
So with you – actually putting my pennies in a separate account to by my first – and if I get this next promotion, I’ll get it sooner rather than later!
I have a fun Kooba that I love….
Anonymous
This.Bag.Is.Gorgeous.
Looooove it.
sheila
lust, lust, lust . . .
As to the above, who has 25 all purpose handbags at once?? I can see maybe having that many if you toss in evening clutches, beach bags and travel bags at once, but a birkin is not going to go all those places.
Interrobang
Poor dear, you don’t?
B
Not everybody is rich or a status-[blank] like you.
How incredibly rude and condescending.
Little Lurker
I think Interrobang was kidding.
E2
That was obviously a joke
fresh jd
LMAO @ this whole exchange.
jcb
Pretty! I love a good Kooba. So many bag sales, wish I hadn’t already speant all of my clothing budget (stupid mint.com).
Anyone else read this article? I’m not really buying into the whole idea, but it is interesting.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135/
Shayna
It’s interesting, but I do think it downplays the wage gap at the higher echelons… the fact that the few women CEOs are paid more than the average CEO hardly fixes the fact that there are so few…
Thank you for sharing!
jcb
I had the same thought. The evidence is more at blue-collar level – fewer manufacturing jobs, more in-home nursing jobs, etc. Still, interesting.
Amy
Younger (I would say under 26 or so) women who have not read Susan Faludi’s Backlash should do so. It talks about the “cycles” of anti-feminist statements in the media that crop up every 20 years or so. It’s been going on since way before the women’s movement of the 1970s, and it was about due to come back around again.
During backlash cycles (although it seems like the “cycles” are a little closer together these days) there will be these types of stories, about how women are “taking over” and masculinity is being “devalued.” This article was more pro-feminist than many we’ll probably see in coming months/years but it’s the same message that’s been recycled by the media for a long, long time. All it usually does is foment more “angry blue-collar guy” sentiment from certain quarters and then we’ll start hearing more about how men need to “take back their place” in the home and at work. Some may not remember, but the Promise Keeper movement was born out of the last backlash and got a lot of press, although they never actually had that many followers.
It’s the old conservative fallback position – when you can’t plausibly blame the world’s woes on anything else, blame feminism.
The comment threads on articles are always more informative and more amusing than the source article. Underachieving men predicting the end of the world because more women are going to college. I’ll believe the theory of the “female takeover” when we get male/female 50/50 balance in both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, the list of Fortune 500 CEOs, we end gender pay inequality, and we have a female president. Until then, I’m not convinced. Too many women are still being shunted into “pink ghetto” careers where they get stuck making less money than men in comparable roles. We’ve come a long way, baby but we still have a long way to go.
anon
ah yes, the Promise Keepers. I think Deion Sanders joined after his wife left and took the kids.
Law-Less
Grrrr….I went onto Amazon to purchase “Backlash” and I somehow wound up puchasing 5 books! I can’t wait until the Bar is over and I can actually read some of them :)
Ru
I hate Amazon for this specific reason =)
MHU
The bias to selecting girl babies (when a choice is made) may come from a desire of parents to avoid sex-linked genetic disorders, not from any feeling about the relative positions of men and women in society.
jcb
Yes, there are quite a few broad assumptions in that article.
fresh jd
DYING for this bag!!!
K
RRrrr. Now I see maybe 3 bags at Bloomie’s that I want to get. Arr.
Clerky
Never understood the bag fascination. This looks beautiful but bags just aren’t my thing (which is just as well, given that my penchant for buying clothes!).
divaliscious11
Funny – I am the opposite. I could wear daily some version of black top/black trouser or black dress…but shoes and bags are it for me…. I’ve been proactively working to add some color to my wardrobe over the last 5 or so years, but even still, lots of black, charcoal grey and chocolate brown…
Leather tote Man
great bag
d