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Coffee Break: Lottie Loafers

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brown tortoiseshell loafer

One of the things I liked while looking through the Nordstrom Half-Yearly Sale yesterday were all the great loafers on sale — particularly these ones from Stuart Weitzman, which has always been high on the readers lists of most comfortable shoe brands.

I like the tortoiseshell brown pictured here, but there are other options on sale, including a nice black patent.

The loafers were $495-$525 full price, but the sale colors are down to $346. Nice!

(Psst: you can see my full roundup of the Nordstrom Half-Yearly Sale here, or if you prefer just to scroll through pictures check out this page.)

Sales of note for 1/15:

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  1. If you were or are a partner at a law firm, how did your pay work? I’m trying to figure out what to ask as I get promoted. Were you an employee or a K-1 owner (no W-2 pay)? Did you get a draw? Were there true-ups? Was it based on collections that year, an average of X years prior, and/or did a committee set discretionary comp? Did you “see” what everyone else made/got, or did you only see your own numbers? Was your fiscal year the calendar year or did you have different year-ends? Were there any late-year surprises?

    1. It really depends on the firm. I am a w-2 non-equity partner at a v50 firm but there are non-equity partners at other v50 firms on a k-1

    2. This is wildly dependent on the firm, but I’ll bite. I’m a partner at a successful boutique, junior equity. Billings and collections are open and shared amongst partners each month, with monthly and YTD numbers for all billing professionals (about 60 of us overall). All partners get the same base salary (moderate for the area), and juniors get two bonuses a year (seniors get them quarterly). Discretionary comp is determined by a committee for all employees.

      The fiscal year ends in November so we can pay out comp as year end bonuses – with a big push for collections in October/November, as you may imagine.

    3. I’ll add to this as an accountant with experience of partnerships and comp in general. The answer to your question is, it depends. You’ve asked a simple question with little context, and there’s no easy answer. Please elaborate so someone can answer.

  2. I’m looking for a pair of hot pink pants. Prefer a baby boot cut (but straight would do). True ankle pants (vs cropped) are OK or a bit longer (I’m on the short side). Something like the old BR Logan pants — traditional styling, like suiting pants just different in color. What might be in stores now to look at? Size 8-10 pear (but Talbots randomly are too big in the stomach and the rise is too high).

    3. Kasper suiting had some cute hot pink pants. I bought the blazer but didn’t think I could pull off a whole suit. Also check out Great American. There was a cool hot pink suit sold as separates in the past. I believe they were bootcut as well. (I bought the black version and it’s one of my favorite suits.)

    5. Ann Taylor has some pants in the pink family, I think the color has “berry” in the name. Not exactly hot pink, but they might be worth a look.

    7. Boden has some good options. I have the Belgravia wool, which are brighter in person than on the website and are a real wool suit pant, but I see other possibilities when I filter their pants by color, too!

  3. I’m feeling a bit out of sorts coming into the holidays and year-end. Any tips on how to reflect on a roller-coaster year?
    I had some career highs (finished my CPA) and lows (fired by DOGE), as well as personal highs (moving to a new place) and lows (family illnesses). I’m finding myself weepy and feeling a bit raw. I’d like to give myself space to process it all, but I don’t want my introspection to get in the way of enjoying the present.

    1. I use NYE to journal – candlelight, nutritious food, and start the year with a brisk walk.

      1. Journaling is great! A common suggestion from this page is Year Compass (free, online, printable) which isn’t all down and reflective and feels like it lines up with your year of ups and downs.

    2. I think you can try to be intentional about setting time aside to process. Say, I’m going to that X evening between 7-10pm to eat my favorite meal, light candles, take a bath, and maybe journal (if you want to really focus on processing) or read a book (if you want to be near your thoughts, but with a distraction). I’ve found that setting a time and place to deal with my feelings helps to prevent them from running away with me.

    4. First, I recommend not trying to one-shot it. Too much pressure and it doesn’t really capture a broad slice of your daily moods and thoughts.
      Are you able to plan several walks in nature? I’m hoping to do this myself so I’ll share my plan:
      3 walks, and a journal entry for each one. Each walk will have a focus (past, present, future, for me. But could be Money, Health, family or something like that.)
      It’s hard for me to break away from family to get reflective time, so I’m going to try to take a walk through a big park, to a coffee shop where I will journal.

    5. I have been doing short daily journal entries. Enough to recognize my feelings but not enough to wallow in them. Steady stream of crap: FDA arbitrary derail of clinical trial; developer forcing me out of my favorite place on the planet; medical problems. I need to slowly vent.

    6. You’ve had a tough year. When I feel weepy and raw, I find that watching a sad movie, or reading a sad book, and bawling my eyes out really helps. The crying is a physical release. I have a tendency to try to suppress tears and feel like I shouldn’t be reacting that way, which builds up a lot of physical and mental tension. Crying over something unrelated to reality gives me the physical release without the internal mental struggle over it.

      1. Agree with this. It’s ok to feel, let it all out. That’s not wallowing. And congratulations on your achievements this year!

  4. I have an in-person interview next week – my first since 2019. I’m planning on wearing a dark teal pants+blazer set, which I’ve paired with a white button-down and black leather Converse before. Given that I want to wear nicer shoes to an interview, especially since the suit color is louder, I’m thinking patent black loafers. Should I find a black button-down to match them? Blue on white on blue on black seems odd to me, but I’m out of touch and would love to hear suggestions

    1. What industry and how senior are you? I ask because most mid career or more senior women interview in a non-matching jacket outfit now, in case that expands your options. Full on teal suit is a lot of look.

      1. I’m a mid-career project manager and have contracts with different industries, but this is a state government role. Thanks for your feedback on the teal and the non-matching jacket…I might have to shop this weekend for some black/gray/navy options. Thank you!

    2. No, not a black button down. It’s really hard to picture this look! Maybe switch to a black knit tee underneath instead?

  6. And in today’s episode of Why Are Men? I was in the nail salon today getting a mani-pedi, and a random middle-aged man walking by opened the door, stuck his head in, and yelled, “I think it’s great that you ladies are taking care of yourselves!”

    Ugh. Mind your own business, Dude.

      2. I think it depends on whether he meant “taking care of yourselves” in the beauty/male gaze sense or more in the self care/mental health sense? I interpreted it as the former but could see how it could be the latter too.

      3. Getting your nails painted isn’t “taking care of yourself.” I don’t need some creepy old man insinuating that it’s a thing women need to do.

          1. I’m not at all miserable. But I don’t need creepy strangers intruding on/evaluating my personal care appointments.

          2. Exactly, Senior Attorney! We are not, by merely going about our business in public, subject to the opinions of random strange men. It’s intrusive and rude, and incredibly presumptuous and privileged. What a creep to arrogate to himself the right to judge us.

  7. You’ve had a tough year. When I feel weepy and raw over things going on in my life, I find that watching a sad movie, or reading a sad book, and bawling my eyes out really helps. The crying is a physical release. I have a tendency to try to suppress tears and feel like I shouldn’t be reacting that way, which builds up a lot of physical and mental tension. Crying over something unrelated to reality gives me the physical release without the internal mental struggle over it.

  8. Help me use my words and tell a (lonely, elderly) neighbor I don’t want to socialize? He’s started dropping by and knocking. I usually ignore, but snapped at him this week when it was 11pm and he wouldn’t leave.

    I’m bringing him a little Christmas package today and want to leave a note to the effect of–sorry about the other night, I’m generally not available for socializing, I hope you have a nice holiday. This guy can’t take any hints so I’m ready to be direct.

    1. He’ll die soon and that will take care of your problem. Be nice in the interim.

    2. Don’t let him in. When he knocks on the door you either ignore it or you open it a crack and say “Oh, so nice to see you but I’m in the middle of something. Have a nice day!” And close the door gently in his face.

      And also? The Christmas package is sending mixed messages, honestly.

    3. 11pm is not ok unless it’s an emergency! Don’t apologize, but let him know what is and isn’t ok.
      And no to the gift, this guy is already pushing it, I think it would escalate.

    4. Please don’t give him a gift with a message that you would like to be left alone. He will ignore the please do not bother me message, and will only take from your kind gesture and attempt to soften the blow that if he is persistent enough, you will come around and respond positively.

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