Suit of the Week: McQueen
This post may contain affiliate links and Corporette® may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
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 have always felt like the McQueen Leaf jacket was one of the sharpest-looking blazers out there, but other office-friendly pieces have been harder to find from McQueen. But I'm loving this unusual gingham suit.
The NET-A-PORTER product page notes that McQueen's Fall '26 collection “disrupted traditional jacket codes through exaggerated proportions and unexpected cuts.” I love the outward-facing lapels that reveal the collarbone, and even more that i love it that they styled it with a blouse here — it's always so hard to figure out how to style these for an actual office.
The jacket is $3500, available in Italian sizes 36-46, and the straight-leg pants are $1490. The suit also comes in black! (Also, I can't quite figure out how I feel about this but I think I love it… the iconic jacket now comes in two denim washes.)
Sales of note for 8/10:
- Ann Mashburn – Seasonal sale, up to 50% off – we just included them in our updated Top 10 Brands for Comfortable Heels!
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase, $99 dresses, and extra 60% off clearance — readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it's a great separate)
- Anthropologie – Extra 40% off sale!
- Bare Minerals – Free shipping over $50! Love their Love thir OG Mineral Veil setting powder
- The Fold – Up to 50% off, further markdowns (new lines added)
- J.Crew – Up to 30% off
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off sitewide
- J.McLaughlin – Summer sale, up to 50% off
- Lilysilk – Anniversary sale, save up to 70%
- Madewell – Up to 30% off
- 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
- Saks Fifth Avenue – Up to $500 off your purchase! Great selection of Veronica Beard, L'Agence, Vince, and more.
- Talbots – Semi-annual red door sale, 50-60% off all markdowns, and free shipping on 150+.
- Theory – End of season sale is on! Love all the colors their best-selling sweater tee comes in, and some colors are on sale.
Wow. This is my aesthetic, but not my life.
do you think you were more emotional in your 20s, 30s, or 40s. I’m 49 and feel like I’m constantly crying these days but still feel like I was more actually emotional in my 20s.
I’m not sure I experience all the hormonal perimenopause emotions as genuine heartfelt emotions. Sometimes there’s really not much logic underlying them.
I’ve had whacky hormonal mood swings almost all my life, and they’ve never felt particularly more or less real than other emotions. I’ve always felt like emotions happen to me and then the logic part of my brain looks around for reasons to try and rationalize it. Sometimes the emotions are a reaction to external stimulus and sometimes it’s internal stimulus and figuring out exactly why is a challenging art, but being sad because my dog died doesn’t actually feel any different than feeling sad because I’m hungry and hormonal and the emotion isn’t less real. It just needs a different method of handling and processing.
This is the physical manifestation of that awkward feeling when you can’t get the layers right after putting on a winter coat with too-snug sleeves over your blazer.
The denim ones are phenomenal.