Frugal Friday’s Workwear Report: Intarsia Puff-Sleeve Sweater
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Our daily workwear reports suggest one piece of work-appropriate attire in a range of prices.
How pretty is this puff-sleeved sweater from T Tahari? A short-sleeved sweater is a staple item for me in the summer, and this gorgeous citron yellow color will transition beautifully from summer to fall. Wear it with a black midi skirt now and add some tights and boots once the temperatures start to drop.
The sweater is $24.97 at Nordstrom Rack and comes in sizes XS-XL. It’s also available in black with a white flower.
Sales of note for 7/29:
- Nordstrom – The Anniversary Sale continues! 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., 7/29 up to 40% off select lip products; 7/31 Bobbi Brown; 8/1 Jo Malone
- Ann Taylor – 50% off summer styles + 60% off clearance — readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it's a great separate)
- Banana Republic – 30% off your purchase (ends 7/31)
- The Fold – Up to 50% off, further markdowns + extra 10% off
- J.Crew – Up to 30% off
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off sitewide
- Me & Em – Sale! Up to 60% off (new lines just added, exclusively online)
- M.M.LaFleur – End of season sale! (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clearance, new markdowns 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
- Talbots – 25% off your entire purchase
- Theory – End of season sale is on!
By any chance could someone post a gift link this article? I tried to get it on archive .org but no luck. TIA!
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/travel/botanical-gardens-us-cities.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1lA.3lrs.46d_4T1sXXph&smid=url-share
Here you go.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/travel/botanical-gardens-us-cities.html?unlocked_article_code=1.11A.7fit.8bWKT4_N_-w3&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Can anyone recommend a travel agent with whom they’ve had a good experience, particularly one who specializes in France? I’m going with a small group and we know we want to go to at least one wine region, but we’d like some guidance about where to go, where to stay, should we book tastings in advance, etc. Thank you!
Laura Dugan at Crafted Escapes
Not to hijack this, but would she or any other agent be able to help with a last minute vacation? I just want someone to plan a fun trip for me and my family and I have been just too busy to get to it. Flexible on where to go but don’t know who to turn to. Feels like a good job for someone who plans travel for a living to let me know of some last minute deal. Any other leads welcome!
allie.goes.places on insta
I have to wear this dress (link in comments) in mocha color in a wedding. any shoes/purse are ok. what color should i go with?
https://www.bloomingdales.com/shop/product/dress-the-population-audrina-plisse-maxi-gown?ID=5177803
I would probably look for shoes in a metallic bronze or gold.
I can recommend these: https://www.naturalizer.com/product/womens-vera-dress-sandal-3019511/dark-gold-leather-ec0215515
Maybe not the most fashion-y, but actually comfortable for heels and good if you need to walk on grass (as opposed to stilettos)
Most rewearable – metallic of your choice, whether silver or gold or copper would look best really depends on how the fabric looks IRL (looks like it leans warm?)
Fun contrast – icy pastel blue or lavender
yes! my first thought was gold but icy blue or lavender would be fun — you could also try a red if it’s more in the fall
Or possibly a mauve or rose for contrast
This is what I came to say. I think it would look great with this and depending on the shade, be very rewearable. My skin is by no means actually pink, but I’m a pale caucasian and have a pair of pale shell pink pumps that seem to work as a neutral shoe, nude for me but a little less dated than actual skin color nude for me. If I were OP I’d look for a rose/mauve/pink with a tone and saturation that paralleled the depth of my skin color.
I would do a gold or a champagne color.
Is there a website or service you can sign up for where you plug in a specific product (i.e., my expensive sunscreen/moisturizer) and it lets you know if any retailer (dermstore, sephora, etc) is having a sale?
Have any of you looked into MTHFR genetic testing? We have a kid who has off-the-chart ADHD. No meds have ever really helped. We tried everything, starting with a regular pediatrician, who gave up and now a pediatric psychiatrist focusing on girls who have ADHD (and the doctor has ADHD herself). I really like her. We have tried everything, with only moderate relief (in that kiddo goes to a regular school and does well, does not have any conduct problems, but everything takes her much longer to do and everything just exhausts her and her peers have bullied her a lot over the years and she has gone through life as a loner who would love human connection but it’s always been beyond her outside of family and a few caring adults).
My social media feeds are now sending me a lot of MTHFR / folate stuff. It all looks scientific and seems logical: we are all assembled differently, drugs metabolize differently in different people, etc., etc. We did the testing years ago, kiddo has two mutuations. Even after trying some supplements, nothing changed and I gave up on this as maybe the thing that would help. Now, after years, if it is ramping up again on my feed, is something new there? Or is it just a bunch of woo still (or maybe it works for some people, but it did not matter to us)?
I’d so much love to help my child that I’d use a healing crystal if it worked, but I know better. And while I feel that some boys “grow out of it,” I don’t think that it will be like that for my kid.
Has she alo been tested for a learning disability? ADHD can come with both above and below average IQs.
Also boys don’t ‘grow out’ of ADHD they just offload their executive functioning to wives.
This sounds like something you’ve already pursued to a dead end.
Sort of. But was years ago. And pediatric care is in such short supply that who really knows anything beyond one data point of one child and one doctor (who I think is great). People make discoveries all the time, but in suburbia, I don’t know when that is. Time can change what was a dead end into something that isn’t.
WSJ published an article about naked dressing. I think this trend has been around for awhile, particularly with celebrities. I have not seen this in the wild, but I don’t live in a fashion forward city either. https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/naked-dressing-hailey-bieber-madonna-d2a1d94b?st=eeW1WH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
This reminds me of the poster who discussed how being able wear whatever you want to work is not empowering. That was an iconic post.
I want to read that prior post. Can you link to it?