Coffee Break: Richie Necklace
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If you were to get this necklace in actual diamonds, it would probably cost six figures… but this inexpensive faux version from Electric Picks is a lot of fun for vacation or a night out.
I still remember, on one of my first visits to NYC as a teenager, a friend and I stopped at Tiffany's, just for kicks — and our eyes popped at a necklace verrrrry similar to this one. The price tag was more than all four years of our college education (which back then was a low low price of $28k per year). Many years later at brunch, I met a friend's mom, who was… wearing a similar necklace. I complemented her on it, and she told me she'd gotten it for herself as a reward for surviving an expensive and grueling mountain climbing vacation.
This is all a long way of saying… real necklaces like this do exist, and people do wear them outside of gala situations. But I think the fake version is a lot more fun if you don't want to be constantly worried about losing it somewhere!
This version of the necklace is $118 and a best-seller at Electric Picks, a new-to-me brand for affordable jewelry. If you want something more understated, I also really like this “Double Take” necklace.
(The brand Nadri is another great one for faux jewelry! If you'd like to consider the real thing, the Victoria line at Tiffany's looks very similar.)
Sales of note for 7/19:
- Nordstrom – The Anniversary Sale has started! Here's our big roundup of the best workwear, as well as everything we've selected thus far. Don't forget to check to see if their daily beauty deal is a good one for you – e.g., 7/23 Lancome; 7/24 YSL; 7/29 up to 40% off select lip products; 7/31 Bobbi Brown; 8/1 Jo Malone
- Ann Taylor – Semi-annual sale, 60% off sale and 40% off everything — readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it's a great separate)
- Banana Republic – Summer sale up to 60% off sale styles + extra 20% off
- The Fold – Up to 50% off, further markdowns
- J.Crew – 50% off select cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 60% off clearance
- Lo & Sons – Summer sale, up to 50% off
- Lululemon – Summer sale!
- Me & Em – Sale! Up to 60% off (new lines just added)
- M.M.LaFleur – 25% off jardigans (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clear the rack, extra 25% off clearance! 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
- Talbots – Red Door Sale! Prices start at $15
- Theory – End of season sale is on!
I recently underwent jaw surgery and I currently have Invisalign to fix structural issues with my teeth/mouth (not aesthetic, so much so I will look almost the same when I’m done).
When I was 11 my upper class mom took me to an orthodontist and they basically explained that yes my teeth looked straight but I had a huge structural issue which needed to be fixed. My mom guilted me by saying she would really rather not have to deal with all the appointments and we could go to Jamaica instead. So I got no orthodontic care.
I live pretty far away from my parents now and they have no idea I’m fixing my teeth/jaw. Unfortunately a cousin is getting married next month so there is a chance my parents will notice the Invisalign. I’m not going to bring up the topic but if they notice they will comment. Any advice on what to say? Right now my tentative plan is something high level like ‘this is medically necessary and I’m thankful I can afford it’ then change the subject. But knowing my mom she will try and insist I didn’t want to fix it as a kid (not true).
Aging changes teeth, so I don’t see why they would make the connection.
She’s only going to make the connection if you make sure she does. And also? Dentists are notorious for advising on care you don’t need. Consider letting go of the resentment towards your mother.
+1.
And: you lived OK as is until now, and this is a make-better vs a OMG you lost a leg because of gangrene cut-and-dry situation.
I had an “asthma-like” attack once and I was just put in bed with a can of Sprite. When it happened again in college (see, long time gap; I was fine and life was uneventful until it wasn’t), I was told to just go to the ER for a shot of Epi (so much for Sprite). The crazy thing is that when you can’t breathe in, it’s not asthma and Epi is for anaphalaxis (which I couldn’t really have had, either, because I’m not dead). So IDK what was going on, but people with no medical training were making choices (I think “watchful waiting” would be what we call it now). And not horrible ones, just not the most OMG do all you can today today today ones.
It could still have been anaphylaxis. It’s not always fatal. It’s just risky to wait to find out if a given episode is going to be life threatening.
+2
Agree with letting go re your mom.
Also: why is it always the mom? Dads seem to skate away on this category of stuff.
Because we are a board full of women.
Jaw surgery wasn’t a thing when I was a child. I had monsterous night guards that routinely popped out and stabbed me in the back of my mouth and left me with TMJ. I had jaw surgery recommended for a child of mine with straight teeth and it just seemed so barbaric. Both jaws broken and held in place with screws, liquid feeding via a turkey baster for weeks, risk of opioid addiction from the pain meds, risk of infection, everything being managed on an outpatient basis, so the 24/7 initial care fell to me (no training, FT job with no real leave possibilities). Could it be that she honestly thought it was not that big of a deal since this is just a recent thing and even so, it is no small thing?
I know my sibling needed oral surgery twice in college for something different and even for a much older child, it was not a nothing for my mom and it had to be done over the summer since my mother taught school and would have time off then.
FWIW, as a kid who had the jaw surgery as a teen, it was life-changing in a good way. Yeah, recovery was no fun, but the proportions of my entire face improved and so did the functionality of my teeth.
I’m the 3:20 poster and we did a lot of discernment and talking to people. What moved the needle was that my personal dentist had a long talk with me about it and didn’t stand to make money either way we decided. And a friend had it for her child who had sort of a Hapsburg-style jaw (not our issue) and had nothing but good things to say about it over all and the doctors.
Not going to lie: it was no joke and my kid would up extremely weak and dehydrated and needed to go on IV fluids after fainting, which could have broken the jaw yet again. There is some permanent numbness and she drooled afterwards for a good month, which was embarassing. It was exhausting to care for a wobbly tall kid who is larger than me around the clock and I’m glad I could rob Peter to pay Paul with juggling time and responsibilities and another child. I was lucky that insurance paid for a lot of it, but out of pocket was still a lot.
I totally get why people think twice about rushing into this. We did, even though we chose to do it. Without good insurance and remote work, it would not have been feasible for us and would have been an option later in life had we said no at the time.
No, there was no concern for me, just the time and money. While this is just neglect, there was also out right physical harm too.
My parents are true upperclass.
Working mom of two, one with special needs. Time is a factor often over money. I never have enough of each but time off can get me out of a job and isn’t something I’d take lightly as a reason to decline surgery.
At this point, I do not think it matters whether your mom refused jaw surgery when you were a kid or you insisted you didn’t want to fix it. You decided you wanted to fix it now. If your mom asks why you’re wearing Invisalign, just tell her that. “My jaw was bugging me, and I finally decided that I would get it fixed.”
My parents grew up with well water (no flouride) and no dental care. They spent a lifetime fixing their teeth. I would expect that that’s not uncommon across many adults. We know more now than we did about a lot of things, but often the cure can see worse than the disease (sinus doctor mentioning that we could strip the linings of my nose to see if I can regrow ones that don’t drown me in mucus).
If you don’t want to get into it, just say “my teeth shifted and I’m adjusting them” — I know tons of people who have given their teeth a tune-up later in life.
“Well things change.”
My mom likes to interrogate me about every little thing. I try to get her to stop, she keeps interrogating, I get frustrated, then she acts like she has no clue why I’m huffy and I look like the bad guy yelling (not raising my voice, just using a frustrated tone at) at this poor little old lady who’s just curious about her only daughter’s life. Do you have a similar dynamic?
My advice is to either way overshare or gray rock. If I way overshare then eventually she doesn’t want to hear about the gruesome details of my, ie, unmedicated C-section. The other extreme is to not give any details at all. Why yes that is a framed photo of my baby as an embryo, which I would only have if I did IVF, meaning I did IVF without telling you. Isn’t the weather nice? Oh, why didn’t I tell you? It was so awful I couldn’t talk about it. How is YOUR health? Repeat as needed.
I wouldn’t get into this at all cousin’s wedding.
Thoughts on Mitch McConnell? I’ve heard they’re just stalling until 8/3 because if he’s dead or incapacitated before that a special election would apply.
Either way I feel like there needs to be more accountability – Kean’s 142-day absence was insane.
He’s old and less resilient than Nancy Pelosi when she broke her hip. Rehab most likely isn’t going as well as he hoped. I don’t think there’s any great conspiracy here. The sort of person who amassed and wielded power the way he has isn’t the sort who is ok with showing vulnerability or accepting the ugly realities of advanced age.
Surely it shouldn’t be up to him.
He was elected to the office, so yes, it is up to him. He can get fired in an election or a recall.
Or do you think he should be made to give attendance records and progress reports to the governor?
I think there shouldn’t be a double standard such that I’m more responsible to do my job.
Not the OP, but if I were his constituent I would want something more than two photos and some vague statements in this age of AI if my official seemed to be on a Weekend at Bernie’s bender.
I think if you cannot represent your constituents you have an obligation to step down. It’s not about attendance records and progress reports, don’t be glib.
I really liked Artlust’s analysis about how the picture was fake.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=27559840303678622
Amy Siskind also had something about how his wife left the country after her husband was hospitalized and didn’t return until the end of the trip, how neighbors say they haven’t seen any family members at his residence but did see people replacing flooring, and how his daughter has deactivated all of her accounts.
I totally think he’s dead. I think even the picture was only released after Lady Graham’s death.
The wife leaving the country is what makes me think he’s really dead. Even in the worst marriage, you wouldn’t normally leave the country as soon as your husband is hospitalized. But it would be totally normal to return to your home country abroad if your husband died and you wanted comfort from your family and friends there.
Yup. If he isn’t dead, he’s comatose.
Beshear wisely said there’s no advantage to a special election since there hasn’t been a Dem senator in Kentucky since 1992. He said the current advantage is there’s one fewer Republican vote in the Senate right now. He’s so right that a Democrat wouldn’t win the special election.
I don’t think anyone thinks a Democrat would win a special election. The issue from MAGA’s perspective is Thomas Massie (rogue anti-Trump Republican).
He lost his House primary? Maybe he has a slightly better chance statewide, but he’s on the outs.
Maybe, but I did like this story:
https://www.newsweek.com/massie-bill-would-bar-funding-for-police-using-flock-license-plate-readers-12244884
I’d love to see this get some traction or at least spark conversation. We’ve normalized mass surveillance as inevitable, and even good! And it is not good.
Primaries have always favored extremists and Trump in particular really controls the Republican party in an unprecedented way, which means anti-Trump candidates basically can’t win Republican primaries now. But a general election is a totally different ball game because independents and centrists (as well as cross-overs from the opposing party) are a much bigger factor. Hardc0re MAGA is well under half the population, even in a red state.
Huh? We would lose Massie in the house. Thats just chaos. No.
If the story that he received CPR is true, then I suspect he did not have a meaningful recovery and is brain dead, and is being kept alive on life support until after 8/3. Then he will quietly pass when life support is stopped … and they will report a second event like a stroke or heart attack killed him.
Did anyone read the NYT article about most ovarian cancers starting in the fallopian tubes? I’ve been considering getting mine removed for a while and this might be the push I need to do it. We’re done having kids and I’m not sure I trust my husband’s vasectomy anyway (extremely fertile over here), plus I never want to be in the situation of dying in my 50s from ovarian cancer like my beloved aunt.
Then it’s tube cancer that has spread, no? IIRC, cancer naming comes form the primary organ / cell. So if melanoma spreads, you can see it because it has melanin. But if it spreads to the liver, it’s not “liver cancer,” it’s melanoma that has spread to the liver.
You’re right in general and specifically about melanoma that’s metastasized to the liver vs liver cancer, but there’s new research that what’s called ovarian cancer often actually starts in the ends of the fallopian tubes near the ovaries.
Normally this is accurate, but in this case, the OP is correct. Until relatively recently, doctors thought that most ovarian tumors arose primarily in the ovary. But it turns out that the malignant cells arose in the fallopian tubes and then flowed out to land on the ovaries, where they grew into a larger tumor. Because of this, those tumors were wrongly assumed to originate from the ovary. It turns out that removing your fallopian tubes reduces your risk of ovarian cancer by 80%, even if you leave the ovaries in place. Here’s a link to the NYTimes article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/health/ovarian-cancer-fallopian-tubes.html
I had a hysterectomy for fibroids back in April, and my gynecologist specifically mentioned the risk reduction in ovarian cancer as a benefit of the surgery.
This seems like a big deal if it means we could avoid the many risks of oophorectomy and still greatly reduce risk of ovarian cancer.
i thought the hpv vaccine was helping eliminate ovarian cancer?
HPV vaccines are helping to eliminate cervical cancer, not ovarian.
and cancers of the vagina, vulva and anus. but yeah not ovarian.
and also many oral cancers.
HPV vaccines are truly a miracle.
It’s oral cancers that could also be cervical cancers, if you think about how they arise. It’s not the same oral cancer you get from dipping. Also an*al cancer.
The last time I picked up a random prescription at Walgreens the pharmacist asked I’ve gotten the HPV vaccine.
It’s great that they’re suggesting this. There are too many now-adults without the vaccine, who may not even know it exists, because their puritanical parents refused it.
You might ask your PCP about a referral to a cancer geneticist. Ovarian cancer can be linked to several genetic mutations, and you might benefit from screening for other cancers.
OP here and I’ve actually had that done with no clear mutations identified (a few “variants of uncertain significance”) but I have higher cancer risk than the average person due to a rare autoimmune condition. Family history of cancer is also strong, although I suspect that some of the cancers were due to environmental exposures that are less of a risk to me now.
I’ve read that removing your tubes can reduce your rates of ovarian cancer. We’ve talked about getting mine removed eventually, even though husband has a vasectomy as well. It’s likely something I’ll look into when I’m older. Anesthesia freaks me out so I don’t want to if not. If I had had C Sections I woulda said yank em.
That’s what my gynecologist told me years ago when I had a salpingectomy done.
I haven’t seen the article but I’d heard that cancers can start in the tubes ages ago. Given your family history I’d go for it. Had mine out in 2021 and it was about a week of recovery, days 1-2 were rough but got easier fast.
I want an MZ Wallace Metro Tote for a work trip. do I want a medium or large? It’ll be my personal item on the plane and I want it to hold laptop, headphones, a hard cover book, water , and all the other essentials.
I’m leaving for Spain next week and expect it to be stupidly hot. Is it okay to wear shorts in, say, Barcelona?
Barcelona seemed shorts friendly.
Shorts are fine. Although personally I find light colored linen pants more comfortable in very hot weather than shorts because it keeps the sun off you but it’s still breathable.
I’m in Madrid right now and it is really hot. Have been in Valencia and la rioja in past week and shorts are fine.
Having been in Italy when it was stupidly hot, a loose linen dress brought more relief than shorts. Also, if you are shopping in the US, the men’s faherty linen shirts are perfect for slouchy put together. Hubs has all but given up on their being “his” anymore.