Thursday’s Workwear Report: Cotton-Viscose Short-Sleeve Sweater
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Our daily workwear reports suggest one piece of work-appropriate attire in a range of prices.
This short-sleeved cardigan from Lands’ End would make a great topper for days when you want to cover your arms a bit, but it’s just too hot for long sleeves. I would pair the light blue stripes with a shell in a similar color and some navy trousers for a perfectly summery look. It also comes in a really pretty “raspberry sorbet” if you’d like another color.
The sweater is on sale for $28.79 (marked down from $79.95) at Lands’ End and comes in sizes XS-XL and 1X-3X.
Sales of note for 6/19:
- Amazon Prime Day has started! You can check out our roundup here…
- Nordstrom – 25% off clearance! Nice selection of Vince, Veronica Beard, Boss, Theory, Beyond Yoga, and Zella
- Another Tomorrow – Seasonal sale, 50% off select styles
- Ann Taylor – 50% off everything + free shipping! Readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it's a great separate)
- Athleta – 30-60%off reader favorites like Brookyn and Endless pants, and the Pranayama wrap is marked down to $55. ,
- AYR – Ooh, good sale section — but lots on final sale. Readers love (LOVE) these comfy work pants and these jeans.
- Bare Necessities – Semi-annual sale, up to 70% off, plus get an additional 40% off clearance swim. Readers have sung the praises of these cooling pajamas and their bra-sized swimwear
- Boden – 15% off new women's wear styles with code
- Evereve – 20% off dresses!
- Glossier – Last day 6/19: 20-25% off almost everything (including subscriptions!)
- J.Crew – Extra 15% off your purchase (on top of up to 50% off select styles)
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off orders over $100, and extra 20% off orders over $125 – readers love their schoolboy blazers and sweaters (down as low as $84), and they have a great selection of summer suiting in the sale. Ooh, and these scallop-trim t-shirts have major Boden vibes.
- Jenni Kayne – Semi-annual warehouse sale
- M.M.LaFleur – Archive sale! (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clearance, new arrivals 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
- Ruti – Semi-annual sale, up to 70% off!
- Splendid – Up to 60% off women's sale!
- Talbots – 6/19 only: free shipping, no minimum! Readers love their cashmere cardigans
I feel that there is a lot of AI and private equity hate here, but I’m also hoping that there are many CPAs at Big4 and big regional firms. I am a new CPA and work in audit. I understand that the SEC makes audit separate from tax and consulting, which are seen as more lucrative (and are essentially sales and cross-selling jobs at the highest levels). Several other big regional CPA firms have taken PE investments and now we are also. I think from googling that the idea is that you get cash to use to . . . invest in AI and replace all of us? Build outsourcing site in India where they can get humans to work vs AI (which my Big4 friends tell me they are doing)? Fire all of us and have us do less with less? IDK but people are freaking out. I’m so new that IDK if I need to pivot out of audit, go to Big4, everyone will be rushing into audit, or maybe it’s too soon to tell. Everyone seems to hate private equity though, so there’s that. Please tell me quickly what I’m missing because the all-hands meeting I need to go to will surely not be the whole story on this.
You are panicking about something you can’t control. Which is very normal, but not useful. I hope you get some good advice, but in the meantime, adulthood is learning to pivot, getting kicked down by circumstance, and getting up again and hopefully persevering. Rooting for all of us against greed.
You will get pro private equity comments here too. They just don’t disclose they work(ed) for the devil
It is time for a big “cook and freeze single serve lunches to take to work” day. I’d love your favorite recipes! I’m particularly looking for bean recipes, (for fiber, protein, and lack of freezer burn purposes) but there are no food restrictions.
I roast a chicken w a bottle of white and sliced onions, boil some bones, make a stock (or you can just use wine, onions, and boxed chicken stock) and then put the wine chicken drippings and stock in a casserole dish w cannellini beans (precooked from Whole Foods) and let them cook in the oven for a few hours, stirring and adding water while I read or do laundry. Add the roasted chicken at some point and mix it all in. It’s pretty nice re-heated.
This is a really cute pick!
Anyone on a GLP-1 experiencing something like a transference from “food noise” to shopping noise or something like that? I think since I don’t get dopamine hits from snacking anymore, my brain is looking for quick joy from other things, like buying makeup or shoes, and it’s impacting my wallet.
Hahaha, yes. But I think this is more personality specific. I always liked shopping (I get ideas and want to try them) and the excitement of that is heightened (and unfortunately, I have more success w my ideas) on the GLP-1s. Not just clothes though, vintage home decor hunting, hard to find ingredients from specialty stores, projects. It feels like my brain is more excited about stuff.
This is a really pretty pick.
There’s a store (not Sephora) I buy a few things from that offers samples with each purchase. They also have a scent sampler kit that I’ve purchased. They have a scent that I’m curious to try, it’s not a part of the sampler, and not an option for the samples I can pick out with purchase. I reached out and asked if they could send me a sample with my next purchase (a face cream I like) and they told me no, but that if I purchased the scent, they could send me a sample to try before opening the scent (so it would still be returnable.)
To me, it sounds like they do have a sample available and they’re choosing not to send it to me. I only offer the above to show that I like their products and buy with relative frequency. I’m quick to walk away from nonsense, but I do like the face cream. Should I be annoyed (I am) or is there reason to this I’m not seeing? I hate the process of returning things and the bottle of scent is close to $200.
for some scents, the store may have only a 1-1 ratio of samples to full size products. As opposed to scents where they have an intentional freebie pile.
imho you’re spending more time chasing a standalone freebie…. than you would just ordering and returning if you don’t like it.
Can’t you just try the scent in a store?