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Coffee Break: Wrap Coat

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burgundy wrap coat with big shawl lapels

I just spent far too much time going through the priciest coats at Nordstrom, and this is the first one that I'm truly drooling over.

First, some notes on trends: lots of oversized coats. Lots of coats With Shoulders. And lots of wrap coats.

Also, this wild shrug. (Link fixed!)

This gorgeous alpaca and wool longline coat looks as warm as it looks luxe — that rich bordeaux color is fabulous. I also love the little details on the sleeve. The pictured coat is $2390, but the brand has a lot of similar options starting at $1790 in more solid colors and with shorter hems.

Some of our favorite classic coats for work as of 2025 include J.Crew, Sam Edelman, Aritzia, L.L.Bean, Quince, and Cole Haan. On the splurgier side, do check out Mackage, Soia & Kyo, Eileen Fisher, Fleurette, and Cinzia Rocca. We've also rounded up our favorite washable winter coats!

Black woman wears light blue coat with blue blouse, white pants, and carries a brown suede bag; she has a blue sweater tied around her waist
J.Crew
beige cashmere coat
Fleurette
Babaton coat from Aritzia
Aritzia (exact)
hot pink boucle coat
Sam Edelman (exact)

Sales of note for 3/26/25:

  • Nordstrom – 15% off beauty (ends 3/30) + Nordy Club members earn 3X the points!
  • Ann Taylor – Extra 50% off sale + additional 20% off + 30% off your purchase
  • Banana Republic Factory – Friends & Family Event: 50% off purchase + extra 20% off
  • Eloquii – 50% off select styles + extra 50% off all sale
  • J.Crew – 30% off tops, tees, dresses, accessories, sale styles + warm-weather styles
  • J.Crew Factory – Shorts under $30 + extra 60% off clearance + up to 60% off everything
  • M.M.LaFleur – 25% off travel favorites + use code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
  • Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
  • Talbots – $64.50 spring cardigans + BOGO 50% off everything else

49 Comments

  1. The link to the shrug goes to men’s bermuda shorts (which would actually be wild as a shrug).

    1. Right? Looks like a bathrobe you wear while lounging on a bear-fur rug near the fireplace, feeding your concubine fondue. Hard pass.

      1. I would be so confused if I saw somewhere wearing this. It’s a bathrobe, not a coat

  4. I don’t think I have the shape for a coat like this. I always look like I’m wearing my bathrobe in a bathrobe-shaped coat. (Waist tie wrap style specifically). Whose shape does this work for? I passed on a great deal on a Max Mara coat at a consignment store because I felt like a babushka in it.

    1. I love this shape and neckline. I am tall and pear shaped and it is very flattering.

    2. I cannot figure these out. I used to be a sample size in my 20’s, tall, skinny, and model-shaped, but this kind of coat still looked like a bathrobe on me.

    3. It not only looks like a bathrobe, but specifically a bathrobe an elderly playboy would wear.

    4. I can do a wrap coat if it has a notched collar and is in a color not commonly associated with bathrobes (white) or dressing gowns (this red).

    5. I quite like a bathrobe coat and like this pick, but I need a narrower collar for it to work.

      Size 6 hourglass here, and look smashing in a dropped sleeve, narrow collar and belted bathrobe coat. For me a dropped sleeve adds width to balance the layers at the waist and hips.

  5. Has anyone bought shoes from Vivaia? How do they feel in person?

    I can’t do heels as much anymore and Rothys have no arch support. I like the look of some Vivaias but they seem to be marketed at older women. I’m 38.

    1. I have a pair of the basic pumps, and they should be super-comfortable. There is great padding and support in the soles, and the heels also are cushioned so they don’t rub at all. But the shoes rub the tops of my toes – it’s like the toe box is not tall enough. (The shoes are not too narrow or too short.) I’m taking them to the cobbler to see if they can be stretched. They are bland looking on their own but cute with one of the little adornments I bought (black bow and opal-like freeform).

    2. I have 2 pair. Very cute and comfortable but in the summer my feet sweat like crazy. They are not made of a breath fabric.

    3. They are the most comfortable, supportive, arch-loving shoes I’ve ever had. And as someone with high arches and plantar fasciitis, I’ve tried many. I too bought a couple sets of bows.

      As far as the target market, you may be on to something. I first developed plantar fasciitis exactly at 40. But! They allow me to walk more youthfully, so there’s that.

    5. I had two pairs and didn’t find them comfortable. I have wide feet with bunions so right in the market they are aiming for, but I found them very uncomfortable to walk in during my metro commute. Soles too thin, not enough arch support. I gave both pairs away and won’t purchase again.

  6. where are you guys recycling batteries? (or are you just trashing them?) the little baggie where I’ve been saving them is overflowing.

    1. Regular alkaline batteries can go in the trash. Lithium or rechargeable I take to our city’s dump, which will take them.

    2. My town has e-cycling days where you can drop off batteries and dead electronics.

    3. My city will pick them if I put them in a baggie on top of the recycling cart on one of our twice yearly clean up days where they also pick up items too big too fit in the bins.

    4. I throw away regular batteries, which is what you seem to be collecting. Any electronics go to our city’s special recycling center for hard-to-recycle materials. It’s a great resource to have and conveniently located for me, so I use it often for all kinds of things.

    5. You need to google this for your city, but you shouldn’t put them in the trash, even if it’s technically allowed (it’s illegal in some places). I’ve lived in a lot of places, and some collect them with regular trash if you separate them in a bag on top of your can, some have 2x a year e-waste pick up, others you have to take them to the hazardous waste dump yourself, which isn’t actually that hard and usually free (batteries have been free everywhere I’ve lived, but sometimes larger electronic waste has a fee). There are also a lot of hardware or electronics stores or other places that collect them, and I’ve worked at multiple universities, all of which had collection boxes around campus.

    6. Every place I have lived both the local public library and the fire department accept household batteries for recycling.

      1. my office has a battery recycling bin, but the library also accepts them. or I take them when I make a run to the county dump/recycling center if I have other stuff to drop off. the recycling center is AMAZING, I am fascinated by the logistics of it.

  7. any plus size ladies here (3x+) who have favorite panties? been shopping for new ones for a while.

    3. My favorite are Soma. I’ve been up and down the scale, weight and size-wise. I wore 20w pants at Talbots at my max and the Soma Embraceable Brief in XXL fit me.

    4. Lane Bryant is a good choice and if you can catch a sale of $35 for 5 or 7 pairs or other end-of-season colors/styles you can get some pairs for about $3-4.

  8. Re getting filler isn’t always bad? I see so much bad filler, but maybe there is good filler that doesn’t register as such. I think I’m too afraid of bad filler to ever do it but I’m trying to keep an open mind.

    1. I love botox, but filler not only scares me, but I think it always ends up looking somewhat fake.

    2. You don’t notice good filler which is why it’s good. You only notice the bad stuff. A friend of mine gets her lips done and it just balances her face, she’s very cognizant of not overfilling though.

    3. You notice bad filler. There’s lots of filler out there that you don’t notice, I promise.

  9. If you are in NoVa, or specifically the town of Vienna, is there a county dump you can use when trying to empty out a parent’s overstuffed house? I’m hoping that doing it by the car load will be intentional and not traumatic. Starting with the stuff that is in “my” room, so I have free rein. Bringing in a dumpster could be needed in the future, but I anticipate tossing more than will fit in the trash can (and if we keep it for a bulk pickup, I worry that my brothers and sister will talk mom into “keeping” this mouldy junk because they may someday want / need it, so it needs to GO). The things I see online seem geared towards recycling and this is all straight junk.

    1. You’re very kind to think of this and I wish I had more on point advice.

      When I had to have my childhood home cleaned out in NoVa, the clean out service (which also provided support to elderly moving to assisted living) was able to bring in a dumpster just for a day at a time (so as to draw the least attention possible–better than a dumpster sitting around for weeks). Real estate agents tend to be able to provide specific referrals for this kind of thing.

      In my part of the country, which is far from NoVa, there are companies that will issue enormous bags to pick up less-than-dumpster-more than-garbage-bins loads.

      1. This is the answer. I’m local and the I-66 Transfer Station is about 15 min away.

  10. Time got away from me but we just landed and will be here for 5 days. Would love to meet up! Seniorattorney1 at Gmail if you are here and interested.

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