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Suit of the Week: The Fold

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For busy working women, the suit is often the easiest outfit to throw on in the morning. In general, this feature is not about interview suits for women, which should be as classic and basic as you get — instead, this feature is about the slightly different suit that is fashionable, yet professional. Also: we just updated our big roundup for the best women's suits of 2025!

This is such a stunning suit from The Fold. I love (love!) the waterfall details below the angled pockets, giving it a an elegant touch — and I love if you buy the blazer, it will mix and match with other items in their Clever Crepe line.

(Also — I did not realize their Cleve Crepe line is “washable, breathable, and crease-resistant” — nice!)

You can save up to 25% in their “Workwear Mix and Match Offer.” The blazer is $545, with multiple matching pants, skirts, and alternate blazers.

Sales of note for 10/29:

111 Comments

  1. can anyone recommend an ergonomic keyboard you love? I’d love another split-keyboard one since I’m used to that… TIA!

  2. Does anyone have IRL experience with this fabric from The Fold? I generally hate how synthetics get shiny so fast.

    1. I own a few of their clever crepe products and they have a great handfeel. I also generally wash the tops/pants without issue and haven’t had any problems getting the blazers dry cleaned.

      1. Same. I have had mine for almost a year and it looks great (and I hate synthetics).

  3. If you’re comfortable sharing, how much did you pay for estate planning? Was quoted $4K for a standard trust / will package in a large metro area and have a few other inquiries out. Seems expensive, but I’m also new to this and would prefer to use a professional vs. DIY with an online service.

    1. $1500 for simple wills for both of us. Our children are adults, so no guardianship, no trusts, etc. Far-out suburb of a MCOL SEUS city.

    3. $5k for wills for both of us. No trusts involved; that would have added some cost.

    4. $800 for a very simple estate situation in a LCOL area but this was 10 years ago now, so with inflation I assume it would be more like $1,500 today.

    5. $5k in VHCOL on the west coast. Little kids and a condo, but nothing especially complicated and unusual.

    8. we paid 3k 7 years ago in Houston. we probably should update, but we did this when i was pregnant with twins.

      1. 10 years ago, paid $3k for all the documents – wills, POAs, etc, including trust for one minor child – in Dallas

    9. Nothing due to an ARAG legal benefit at work. I think it would have been about $3k out of pocket. VHCOL area, basic trust and estate.

      1. This is about what I paid in the Bay Area. Wills, revocable trust, advance planning docs.

    11. $6k for a living revocable trust and AMD. Included transfer of one house into the trust. In VVHCOL (Bay Area) and all the quotes I got from reputable firms and solos were in that range.

    12. i think ours was about $5k — we have a special needs trust as well as wills.

    13. We paid $3.5k and got a friends and family discount, normally it’d be $5k. VHCOL suburb. That included wills, estate plans, and end of life documents (power of attorney, medical directives, etc.).

    14. I am an estate planning attorney and I charge $3400 for a trust package for a married couple. I’m middle of the road price wise.

    15. 5k in Los Angeles with a friend discount. 5 years ago. I’d expect to pay more now.

    16. $2500 in Ottawa. It was quoted a bit lower but I ended up requesting a slightly complicated trust arrangement for my mother, the irony being it only happens if all 7 of our family dies in a common disaster and it’s what we spent all of the money on. Full package of powers of attorneys etc.

    18. We ended up spending about $6,500 in a MCOL area for a will and health care POA documents. I used a trusted attorney specializing in estates and real estate disposal (relevant for us). Our document had some specialty tweaks, nothing too complicated but not boilerplate.

  4. Does anyone in the city of Chicago have current info about what’s happening with ICE and associated protests? We live in the far burbs and I was planning to take my kid and some friends into the city (River North area) on Friday since they don’t have school but one of the friends (not white, if relevant) asked me for more details about what’s happening with ICE enforcement and protests downtown and I don’t really know. Anyone have info to share?

    And yes I know it’s the marathon this weekend too but we’ll be out of there well before road closures, etc. go into effect.

    1. It felt like there was a greater ICE presence last weekend in more touristy areas (River North, river walk, Millennium Park) but the rest of the week has felt quieter downtown. I’ve found the r/chicago subreddit is pretty active in reposting ICE sightings – would recommend checking that for more up to date info. For example, today there is a lot of activity in Logan Square.

    2. I live in Oak Park, directly West of the Chicago boarder. They were on my block on Monday hassling some construction workers. There is a lovely church 1/2 block from my house that has a Spanish immersion pre-school and they have already detained/questioned people there. People in my area are very stressed as it is a very diverse area.

      1. Obviously, if she’s an undergrad, she’s not a lawyer! But that’s as far as my knowledge extends.

    2. I don’t mind them if they’re well done, but a typo, formatting error etc and it’s game over. If you want a fancy resume it needs to be perfect.

    3. this is a bad idea for a variety of reasons. it is not the norm. tell the undergrad to check with her school’s career center. also, most ATS cannot properly review heavily formatted, column resumes.

      1. This – ATS – is the main issue. Sorry undergrad. But you can still pass along some content advice, I am sure.

    4. No to color and no to column panels.
      Most companies use some sort of application system, and in my experience, the tools that pull info from resumes that you upload are not super sophisticated. Any unusual non-linear formatting creates issues.

      Stick to a boring format. Content is way more important than layout. Focus on correct spelling, bullet points with parallel style and matching tense, and of course content that shows the impact you had, quantifiable if possible.

    5. I’m in law so a stuffier industry in general, but it adheres to the 1-column format. I would expect for an undergrad for Education to be at the top, then Work, then Skills (if they can’t be nicely incorporated into either of the above, which would be ideal), then Interests.

      I don’t see people putting their full address – rather just city and state, + email and phone.

      Use of graphics instead of words (like the bars instead of saying “fluent” for language skills) is not going to go well for resume scanning systems.

    6. Does it even matter when most resumes (90% by some estimates) go through an AI tool and not a human reviewer at first?

    7. For a true CV that goes in the back of a pitch book – color is ok. For an undergrad resume, not the norm with color. I’ve seen similar formats in B&W and don’t hate them since the white space gives me room to take notes while interviewing.

    8. No color and no gas gauge bars. I would also side-eye any undergrad who sends me their “CV” rather than their resume, so perhaps coach them on the differences so they are making an informed decision if they continue to call theirs a CV?

      1. I was presenting at an academic conference and they wanted a CV, I am a government regulator, I do not publish. So I made a CV and it was just a bunch of things that are typically unattributed like official guidelines, etc. The organizers definitely thought I was being sassy but it made me very popular at the conference and people kept coming up to me being like ‘OMG you wrote that?!?’

    10. Boring and standard and easy to read is good; color and complex formatting is bad. Headshot is extra bad- you’re just giving people a reason to discriminate against you.

      Exception: any company/industry that thinks design (so graphic design firms, apple etc)

      I’m guessing you mean resume and not academic style CV (mine is ~15 pages). Undergrads really shouldn’t be doing a CV unless they’re applying for higher ed and even then maybe not.

    11. Too many lawyers answering. This is standard in marketing and other more creative areas and industries.

      1. I was going to echo it has been pretty common in creative fields, but even most of my friends in these fields are going to basic because of ATS. I would advise keeping the creative format for in-person or emailing to a contact and have a plain format for ATS systems.

  6. Q for the high school moms – how big a deal is is that my 9th grader hasn’t studied for the PSAT at all? the initial communication from the high school was that freshmen were off that day, but now they’re mandated to take it. I know NHS is 11th grade…

    1. I never studied for any of my placement tests (nor for exams, tbh), but I was always good at test taking and scored high regardless.

    2. I also never studied for any standardized tests and got very good scores. I don’t think PSAT studying is really a thing though. You take the PSAT to figure out how much you need to study for the real SAT.

      1. +1. I asked my 8th grader to take it cold the first time so we could gauge if we needed a course or if at-home studying would be enough.

      2. The PSAT score is what goes into National Honor Society consideration, so that’s what the OP is referencing above.

        I took the PSAT in 8th grade as part of an evaluation on what high school courses would be appropriate (like, all honors level in freshman year, or no) and did zero prep – it was just meant to be a snapshot of your readiness such that it existed.

        1. You mean National Merit scholars? I think National Honors Society has more to do with grades and community service.

          1. whoops, ran with the NHS reference from the OP. Yes, National Merit is what I’m recalling.

          2. I think the PSAT that counts for that is in 11th grade though. So you can take it in 9th and/or 10th with zero consequences.

    3. Not a big deal if they’re good at standardized tests. It’s just another standardized test.

    4. It’s just a practice test. My kids’ school requires it in 9th and 10th. Don’t sweat it.

    5. He only needs to study for it in 11th grade if he has a shot at a NM scholarship. Otherwise, the PSAT is useless. (And I say that as someone who both benefited greatly from a NM scholarship and had a kid who was a NM finalist but attended a school where that meant nothing.)

    6. No need to study at all – this is a practice test and will give you a good baseline. Also, and I say this with love, figure out how to dial down your anxiety. Worrying about studying for the psat in 9th grade indicates a long, stressful, miserable high school experience for both you and dc.

  7. Does everyone make $500k a year? It feels like all of a sudden everyone’s salaries are so much more than I would expect them to be. Feeling so behind.

    1. Probably a lot of people on this board, but definitely not a lot across the country (even if you just look at white collar jobs). That is an obscene amount of money. We live in a VHCOL area, have a bunch of kids, DH makes about $270K including bonus, and I’m not working at the moment (see: bunch of kids). We definitely have to budget and our lifestyle is nowhere near what I see posted around here, but we’re comfortable and want for nothing. And I do feel like we have a certain perspective, having had a HHI of $85K just 10 years ago! But to your point, it does feel like a lot of people’s salaries have increased very quickly, and I do wonder about how people can afford so many things above and beyond what we can.

    2. I’m 39 and not anticipating that I’ll ever pull down even half that. Spouse and I together make about $160k, own a home in a MCOL, no kids.

    4. LOL, no.

      I don’t say this facetiously: I doubt my household together with the neighbors on each side gross that much.

    5. your ‘everyone’ is a skewed sample. Husband and I are very fortunate and highly educated, and even together we don’t make that.

    6. Of course not.

      Although I do empathize with you on just feeling so behind sometimes. Another good friend just moved into a 1.3m house… wtf am I doing? Renting still. But oh yeah, her husband has family money and she’s a high earner. Anyways, yes, it can be demoralizing. Only thing that helps me is focusing on gratitude and running my own race.

      1. A close friend bought an $8.5 million dollar home in SF. She and her husband have good jobs in tech and probably are in that $500k+ income range but I’m still not sure how that math is mathing. I suspect there’s family money involved although I don’t know for sure.

        1. My assumption if the math isn’t mathing is either family money or RSUs/bonuses if tech/finance.

        4. Either they have money, have family money, or are spending money they don’t have!

      2. but you never know if they’re going into debt and living paycheck to paycheck to afford the 1.3m house!!

      3. Would 100% assume family money. No one is buy an $8.5 million house with a $500k income.

    7. I mean, you are on a blog that by its nature is designed to attract highly compensated people, so don’t let the sample size here throw you.

    8. I have a grad degree and make literally 1/10th of that, lol. I have a husband who earns more but nowhere near $500k (it varies but usually between $120k and $150k) so together we are close to $200k. We feel like we’re doing very well, although living in a LCOL area and having no school debt are significant factors in that. It also helps that we live in a college town and – excluding the football and basketball coaches whom we’ve never met – no one here makes that kind of money. The richest people we know work in the business school and earn maybe $250-300k and most people we know have similar incomes to us, so there’s not really a keeping up with the Jones element.

    9. That’s double my HHI. My neighbors and I all live in fancy pricey houses and none of us are earn that much.

    10. I have a BS in Engineering and have been working for about 20 years in VHCOL. I make $217K in salary and bonus adds $13K so total of $230. With 401K match plus additional stock, it is total of about $250K. My degree and job is not in the tech industry, but regular old basic engineering stuff.

      1. Not a significant thing, and you’re obviously doing well either way, but I don’t think people normally count 401k matching in salary.

        1. I don’t think most people do but my husband, who works in tech and others in tech seems to add it all together when talking about how much they make.

    12. Not quite, but very close to it when all my comp on top of salary is considered. I don’t really talk about it, but there are signs that we have a bit more money (e.g., my very broad shouldered husband will only fly at the front of the plane, picking up the check for nicer dinners, etc.).

      1. +1 – I hit $100k at 31, and $250k at 44, but my first role paid $32k. I jumped around aggressively in the last ~8 years as I knew the firm I was at when I had my kids was underpaying me but the benefits and work/life balance were good so I stayed put.
        I’ve also encouraged all of my junior employees to actively pursue roles with higher salaries and shared what I make/what I made at their level.

      2. Yes, make that now at 45.

        At 30 I was making $60k.

        I got a grad degree and leaned in hard.

      1. The vast majority of lawyers don’t make $500k. You pretty much only make that if you make partner in Big Law which is like 1% of all attorneys.

          1. It’s still not most lawyers. Most lawyers never go to Big Law and of those who do, many leave before that point or soon after. Earning $500k for a couple years is pretty meaningless if you’re going to go in-house in a few years and make half that for the rest of your career. Sustained incomes at that level are really rare for lawyers.

    15. Husband and I make less than half that in a good year, although it’s still good compensation for our location. But it does feel like our salaries have not kept pace with inflation and COL, for sure.

    16. No way. Not even close. However, I agree that salaries have drastically increased in the last five years for people willing/able to change jobs and get one that matches their experience level. I more than doubled my income with a new job this year. My old one was at a dying company and very underpaid. I was lucky but I do think there are sometimes prizes to be won if you go for it.

    17. No. Even in consulting, most people don’t make that unless they become a partner. Now more people making $200,000 is definitely common past 40.

    19. Nope. Law. Government. Career employee decades into the pay scale. And it’s no where near that. I do have a pension, gold-plated health insurance, and reasonable hours most of the time.

    20. I make more than that (got VERY lucky with a high-paying niche industry). Outside of my industry, there’s no one that I know in real life that makes anywhere close to that.

    21. Revenue generating roles pay very well.

      Investment banking and law pay so well because the margins in big law are huge so they can afford the salaries.

      Sales people also earn very well. Real estate is incredibly well paid as is scaled technology. Pick your industry carefully. Read the financials to know their margins. If less than 10% they can’t afford to pay you well.

  8. My organization has started writing people up for extremely minor things. Like a new policy implementing a fake due date for a randomly recurring thing (which precedes the real due date) was implemented last month and this month they are writing up people who failed to calculate the fake due date (real due date comes out in an email when the sporadic thing is due, fake due date is mathed). Similar but different, I was written up for something that happened a year ago that was objectively a good and beneficial decision which brought in lots of money. HR failed to find a policy that I violated but the write up stands. At the same time I’m told I’m a valuable employee and getting pep talks about hanging in there. What the actual F?! Why would an entire organization do this? I’m failing to understand the strategy and I’d love to get a more senior’s take.
    I am obviously looking but the job market is bad, and I feel trapped in an abusive relationship.

    1. To set up layoffs that they will pretend are performance based or because they want people to quit

    2. Writing you up (what does that mean happened — something went into your file?) for making a beneficial and lucrative decision that didn’t violate a policy sounds unhinged. Obviously there is SOME kind of context to the situation that we aren’t privy to, and it’s hard to give you a take on it without knowing what that is.

    5. Agree with the other poster that they are gearing up for layoffs and/or just generally trying to show a pattern of “failure”. If you’re required to do a specific task each week, even if it doesn’t materially impact anything, not doing that task enough times in a row is an easy case to say that this person is consistently not doing their job. It’s petty and not a real reflection on your actual work, but gives them cover to lay you off or let people go “for cause”.

    6. Gloves off. Start applying for jobs now like your life depends on it.

      Your job is to find another job. Dial it in at work. Check policies on sick etc. so you use your time efficiently.

  9. I think someone here was worried about passport processing during shut down. We applied for my kids’ on September 23 and they arrived today.

    1. That was me! Thank you! I lost mine and although I hope I find it this is good to know in case I have to get another one.

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