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Suit of the Week: J.Crew

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woman wears gray suit in four-season stretch

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 2026!

I love a good pintuck detail on a pant! This classic four-season stretch suit from J.Crew is coming back to longer pant lengths after a few years with cropped pants, and I'm happy to see it.

The suit comes in six colors in classic, petite, and tall sizes; select colors are on sale.

Sales of note for 9/11:

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  1. I was thinking about the post about culture around here. One of the things I’ve noticed is that there’s less complimenting of good advice and less saying thank you. If you see a great comment, maybe let the person know you liked it? I am guilty of reading something, being like “wow, that’s helpful!”, and scrolling on without saying anything nice.

    Idk, maybe this is a silly idea! But just throwing it out there as a way in which I think the culture has shifted.

    1. That really is a good idea! I do think little things like that make a big difference to overall culture.

      1. Thank you! I am going to try to make a point of doing it (and hopefully of making helpful comments where I can!).

    2. No. The problem is not people who are engaging in normal conversations not being grateful enough. There’s a long history of mean girl behavior being encouraged and supported here. How else can women be made to think they need the right blouse or water bottle to be acceptable?

      1. Mean girls are everywhere. Years ago I feel like I benefited from learning some of the things that set them off.

      2. Alright, taking my own advice: I gotta admit, it is pretty funny to make a mean comment about a “culture of mean girl behavior”. Of all the caustic comments posted here this week, at least yours was funny :)

      3. Yeah, as long as name-calling and truly hurtful, cruel comments are left up forevermore, nothing is going to change.

        1. so do you think all comments should need approval before posting? or that kat should go thru and delete older comments that are mean in order to tidy up an old post?

          2. If she can m0d every instance of “tr@nsport” then yes, she can also do it with some of the most common insults and/or delete truly cruel posts. It wouldn’t take long to scan each day and I think it would improve the quality and tone of the place. Most other websites already do this.

          3. I think the amount of moderation is right (and there is a line; comments have been removed before for crossing it).

          4. If you prefer the moderation of most other websites, then you already know you have your pick of places. Those of us who prefer a lighter touch have a diminishingly small number of options to pick from. Please don’t say this place should be like everywhere else on the internet when you could just go to any of those other places on the internet to get your fix.

          5. You’re entitled to your opinion and I’m entitled to mine! We both give this site clicks and support it, so your opinion isn’t worth more than mine.

        2. I think an effort to make positive comments can counteract the mean girl ones, though. If only the negative ones are posting and not the positive, it gives the impression that the negative is the only response, when I don’t think that’s always the case.

          1. Yes, and I also think that paying attention to the negativity makes it flourish. It’s easier to put another turd in a punchbowl that already has 5 floating in it.

      4. I mean, it is technically a fashion blog, so the “right blouse” (and the corresponding existence of a “wrong blouse”) feel like they are actually part of the point.

          2. It’s a reference to a popular trrroll that was allowed to frequent in the old days. Very sexist & demeaning.

    3. I forgot if I already said thank you for this or not but just in case I didn’t, thanks to the reader who recommended KeySavvy. We sold our used car for far more than we could have gotten from the dealer or Carmaxx and felt “safer” doing it.

  2. Any recs for Seoul? Planning to add 4-5 days late sept/early oct to a work trip and have my DH join. Taking ideas on everything: restaurants, cafes, tourist attractions and must-do’s… where to stay that is not the Four Seasons… thank you in advance!

    1. I lived in Seoul from 2015-2017, so none of my suggestions would be current, but there are a million fantastic restaurants and cafes. Itaewon is easy to navigate. Meyongdong has a big outdoor market with great street food. It also has a dumpling shop that is one of my all time favorite places. http://www.mdkj.co.kr/en/.

      I did a quick hotel search and found this useful site. It describes the main areas and shows them on a simple map:
      https://destinationlesstravel.com/best-areas-where-to-stay-in-seoul-south-korea/?

  3. Help me shop for my 14 year old! My newly minted high schooler has decided that she doesn’t have any cute clothes for high school. This is a bit of a shift after living in basketball shorts, free t-shirts, and hoodies for her entire time in middle school. She also hates clothes shopping. BUT she would like the following items:
    – a pair of baggy jeans (a la her favorite kPop bands)
    -a ruffled/tiered demin skirt
    -two “cute” tops. (I think cute means nice details rather than exact cut- she doesn’t like anything too revealing or low V necks.)
    Is there one place we can look for these things? Either in person or online?

    1. I’d go to your nearest large mall. I’d look at the following – JCrew/JCrew Factory, Aerie, Gap, Madewell, Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters. I suggest Brandy Melville with the disclaimer that you should NOT go here if she’s anywhere above a women’s size 4/6 – it’s the 2026 version of the 5/7/9 stores but very popular with kids.

    3. That sounds like my niece 2 years ago, down to hating shopping. Good spots to find all those items are Old Navy, Gap, Aerie, American Eagle, Abercrombie, and Hollister.

    4. You’ve already gotten some good suggestions. I would add Altar’d State and Dry Goods as other possibilities.

      1. Just a warning, Altar’d State is a Christian religious store. Some of the clothes are cute, but it’s your choice if you want to support a store that uses bible verses as marketing.

        1. Evangelical. Not generic “Christian.”

          Christian is not bad. Evangelical is bad. “Christian nationalist” is bad.

          1. Is that its actual status? (Genuine question. It looks like it moved from Christian to generic “faith based,” and the charities it talks about supporting are described neutrally currently. Are they just trying to hide something?)

          3. No, I don’t think it’s evangelical or aligned with right-wing causes.

            it’s also like… a lot of big corps have bad politics, and not always the ones you’d expect. Vineyard Vines is based in liberal New England, but the owners are big MAGA. You do you but personally I can’t really think that deeply about the politics of the owners of every brand I’m buying. I’m not Christian but would have no issues shopping at Altar’d State if the clothes appealed to me.

        2. My fifth grader discovered the atheisiure offshoot of this store before I realized what it was. AS-something or other. She loves it there. *cringes*

    6. My 13 year old wears a lot of hollister. She just got baggy jeans and a couple cute tops (floral peplum type things).

    7. I have a beanpole of a teen and she likes her baggy jeans. Cotton On had really good stuff which wasn’t cheap but the cut is beautiful. They also fit her well enough which is not easy. What fits around the waist isn’t long enough….

      The other good place to find things like ruffled denim skirts and cute tops is Primark. They have the smaller sizes for this slim child plus huskier sizes for my younger daughter who has my ‘strong’ body type.

  4. I’ll have like half a day in Providence, Rhode Island next week, and then to the airport. Any recs? Will have a college student and sibling with me.

    I was thinking about a short walk around Brown, maybe look in the RISD museum. Or other ideas? Food recs for late lunch?

    1. For casual shopping, strolling, and eating (and a couple of bookstores that are supposed to be good), I’d go to Wayland Square.

      If you want to stick around the Brown campus, the Brown Bookstore on Thayer Street used to be a pretty good bookstore, and I imagine it still is. I think Thayer Street has changed a lot since I lived there, so I’m not sure there’s much else to do, or interesting places to eat, on Thayer Street.

      1. Oh, for a Rhode Island tradition: go to Federal Hill, to Caserta’s for Sicilian-style pizza. If anyone is still hungry, you could then walk down the street to Pastiche Bakery for dessert.

  5. Oh man I feel so cheated from the morning thread – We did NOT get PE credit for marching band! But also the athletes did not get PE credit for basketball/football/whatever sport …. they just got weight training as their separate elite PE. I was so happy when juniors/seniors got upper level PE and step aerobics was an option!

    1. My kid dinner state required PE and switched schools and is having to do it again and she is PISSED!

    2. I was a busy high schooler, with theater, choir, track, and debate. I can’t remember the details exactly from 20+ years ago, but I think I only “officially” ran track for one semester, but I need two semesters of PE.

      I was at track practice before school and after school, but it wasn’t a formal class period for me for both semesters, so I had to add PE.

      The coaches literally came up to me after the first week to ask why I was in the class, and told me I should go do my sport. But I was too busy with all my other electives, I couldn’t fit track into schedule in the right semester, so I had to add a semester of basic PE.

      I get it that we need minimum standards for high schoolers, but it sucks for the people who are over-achievers and/or do activities that tend to reinforce each other (like trying to do choir, theater, and debate, even though most participants did 2/3 of those, was a nightmare for my schedule).

    3. I got PE credit for marching band, but it was a net negative. We had to take 4 semesters of PE, including one semester of freshman PE with swimming. Marching PE was in the fall only and left you with a useless semester elective slot in the spring. Non-band kids could knock out the PE requirement by taking PE both semesters freshman and sophomore years, leaving room in their schedules to take both foreign language and science junior and senior years. Band kids had to give up two out of the six available course slots to band (one for band and one for marching PE) every year, leaving only four slots for academic courses. The result was that band kids had to take summer school and summer community college courses in order to fit in enough science classes to get into college. None of us had the chance to take multiple AP science courses and most didn’t take four years of language.

  6. I was literally wearing these pants to work today. Same color and everything. The J Crew Natalia pant are my current workhorses for work slacks. I have them in black, gray and navy. The black are starting to pill a little but I’ve gotten a ton of wear before that started. I’m narrow hipped for whatever that’s worth for sizing. Love these.

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