Frugal Friday’s Workwear Report: Short Puff-Sleeve Sweater
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Our daily workwear reports suggest one piece of work-appropriate attire in a range of prices.
This was one of my favorite purchases from the Nordstrom Annual Sale this summer, and now it’s available at an even steeper markdown. This short-sleeved sweater is super soft, not too warm, and the perfect length for a long-torsoed person who struggles to find non-cropped sweater options.
I bought the cocoa color this summer, and at this price I will probably add both the navy and black to my collection.
The sweater is $19.60 at Nordstrom, marked down from $49, and comes in sizes XXS-XL. I would say that it runs a bit large, so if you’re in between sizes, size down.
Sales of note for 9/11:
- Nordstrom – End of season clearance, up to 50% off
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase + extra 15% off when you spend $200
- Anthropologie – Extra 50% off sale! The reader favorite wide leg pants come down crazy low in some colors/fabrics, but they're down to lucky sizes
- Athleta – 30% off select styles (including my favorite sweatshirts as well as these reader favorite pants) + extra 30% off sale
- AYR – Archive sale, up to 60% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles – readers love these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- CVS – Epic beauty sale, $10 off when you spend $30
- Design Within Reach – the semiannual sale, 25% off everything! (readers love the Herman Miller Aeron and Sayl!)
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off all stores, plus an extra 10% off when you buy a pair of jeans
- Me & Em – Sale! Up to 60% off (new lines just added, exclusively online)
- M.M.LaFleur – Labor Day Sale Event, save sitewide! (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom Rack – Extra 40% off select clearance
- Talbots – Buy one get 50% off everything
- Theory – End of season sale is on!
Help me understand: if you are assaulted on a college campus (or off-campus event or housing), how are young women taught to go somewhere other than that city’s police and immediately to a hospital for a SANE exam and related healthcare needs they have? This is not for your RA or your school. When you are a victim, these people may not be in your corner or are undertrained peers who can’t really help you.
I don’t understand why a college involves itself at all here. Like why are there college trials/punishments? It should go straight to the police and the college should have absolutely zero role here.
Two possibilities.
1) What happened wasn’t illegal but still did not meet the standards of conduct that the college requires of its students. It is totally okay for a college to have higher standards for behavior than what is illegal and to enforce them with college specific consequences (like getting expelled).
2) What happened was illegal, but the college has lower standards than the law, and wants to protect its students from legal accountability and consequences.
I think a college kids itself that it can be a decider and investigator when it has duties to both parties. It cannot advocate both sides and investigate and decide. There is civil court and criminal court. A felony is a felony. A tort is still a tort. College shouldn’t make a difference.
Colleges have to enforce codes of conduct beyond civil and criminal anyway. Or are you really suggesting they take “cheating on an exam” to court?
If it veers on criminal they should butt out. Also codes of conduct are dumb.
Cheating on an exam isn’t a crime. Or a tort. It likely violates a contract with the school (like an honor pledge), so the school can exercise options but it had better be clear in the facts (not just “AI flagged this for cheating”) or it should expect to be sued. And the school should also be aware of promises it makes to students, like treating them fairly and not arbitrarily. Lawsuits are expensive to schools even when they win.
I wouldn’t want to attend or graduate from a college that had no higher standards for its community than whatever keeps you out of trouble with the law. Aren’t higher standards than the law completely normal in many professions? What are we going to college for anyway? And there are a lot of codes of conduct that make sense to me (it’s not illegal for a TA to ask out a student in their own class, but it’s not hard to see why it’s a problem).
Substances are part of the history here. There are dry campuses where they just don’t want students drinking even if they are 21. You may think that is dumb, but then we come around to the situation where drinking is allowed on campus, but underage drinking is still illegal, and everybody goes to the same parties. So then there’s a strong incentive to handle things on campus and protect the students from consequences of underage drinking.
With assault cases, even when people go to the police, the campus has to sort things out on campus to some extent (do the two parties keep attending the same small class that they’re both enrolled in week to week, etc.).
Anyway my take is that it’s the second reason. The college is trying to protect the accused from any consequences, protect its own reputation as a safe place, and will throw any number of victims under the bus in the process. The Hunting Ground documentary is worth watching.
speaking as a college professor… there are several reasons, not all internally consistent:
– underage students have been drinking and are afraid they will get in trouble (this is a big one)
– police departments are often hostile to, or skeptical of, victims
– students believe the campus authorities are less intimidating (consider campus police v. real police, especially in a major urban area)
– getting a r*pe kit at a hospital can be very traumatic for survivors
– the police are not always good actors, and the criminal justice system can gaslight and traumatize survivors. students may perceive the college to be more sympathetic and kind to them (rightly or wrongly)
– in addition, campus policies (which have to do with title IX compliance, at heart), often have a lower standard of proof than a legal case. technically an assault is usually BOTH a crime AND a conduct violation.
the recent cases in the media are horrible! but this is a lot of what
These are all very valid, but I just think ultimately whatever is in place for dealing with cheating on exams (councils etc) isn’t sufficient for an assault case
totally! although also these are usually difference administrative processes — cheating and other academic misconduct are usually some kind of council of students and sometimes faculty and staff (often called some version of an honor council); there’s a different body for adjudicating Title IX violations (which is what sexual assault is counted as, yes this is also problematic in its own way). This body is usually staff and sometimes faculty as well; not typically students. Usually things like straight alcohol or nonsexual conduct violations are handled by staff in student life.
also, every school I’ve taught at has told students that they can pursue both the college process AND the legal process (and, because of mandatory reporting, the college may pursue its process even against the wishes of the victim). But what message the school says it’s giving, and what message is received, can of course vary. The general advice to “call the campus police first” is supposed to be so the campus authorities can help you deal with the real police and hospital if you go that route; obviously, this can play out in multiple ways as well.
I think calling both the college and actual police is probably the way to go. I wouldn’t trust a college to fully run a legal process, and there have been so many examples of it not going well. But yeah they could catch code of conduct violations that fall below actually breaking a law
I think a college is kidding itself that it can do better than civil authorities. It will never be a neutral arbiter. It has every motivation to sweep things under the rug.
A rape exam is traumatic but do you really want PID to go untreated? It is crisis healthcare and we out to support girls and women. They can pause and exit the process as they are comfortable but they deserve to start it. Think for a moment: this is not that different than going to a gynecologist after a rape. A pelvic exam should happen if indicated either way. A man raped would get care. Or a child. Why not a woman?
I get all of this, but these are not good enough reasons. Either take it to the real authorities or don’t, but the idea of alternative justice is foolish and it should be illegal for colleges to enable it.
Is this in reference to a news story? I didn’t see anything in the Times. Just curious!
College anxiety poster.
A lot of colleges are state or city government creatures, so state action in the process is already often there. So they are bound by a lot more laws that IMO their employees are not properly trained on.
I have worn my hair in a side part for over 20 years. I’m a millennial who works with a lot of Gen Z, so I see mostly middle parts. I think a middle part makes me look like a serene renaissance Madonna or a creepy child from a horror movie. Is this just because of what I’m used to seeing, or do middle parts just not work on some people? What makes a side or a middle part work better on someone?
Bone structure and proportions. A middle part makes my nose look like Mr. Potato Head’s. If you want to switch it up without going Middle Part, try some side parts that are closer to center but still lopsided – even .5 to 1″ off center for me is a dramatically better overall look.
I think it’s just part of the look!
I’m the opposite – I’ve always been middle part! I’m so glad its in style. I just like it when things look proportional and feel that it frames my face nicely. Maybe it works because my hair isn’t totally straight like a horror movie child
Emily Dickinson is in the house these days.
I like to think that my side part makes me look like Veronica Lake :)
Keep the side part if it looks good on you. Middle part does my nose no favors, I don’t care what the kids are doing.
Flying to Denver and will have Sunday to myself. Flight lands at 12 and staying near the Children’s Hospital. Any recommendations for things to do and places to eat? I love nature and hiking so gorgeous views and/or good food, not necessarily in the same place. No diet restrictions. I won’t need a car for the rest of the week, but open to getting one for Sunday if needed. Thanks!
It’s at a high altitude, so that could impact hiking. Where are you coming from?
+1, we are at sea level and if we try to exercise at our normal level on Day 1 of a Rockies trip, our bodies quickly remind us they’re not at normal capacity.
Boulder might be a good place to look up some light hiking- you’re not at peak Rockies altitudes but you can get great views of them.
What did everyone think of the top 100 list of best TV shows now that it’s finalized? So many good ones!
Question for lawyers. What happens if someone wipes their phone after a serious incident involving the death of someone in their care, but they haven’t yet been charged with any crime? If, over a year later, a criminal investigation begins, a search warrant is issued for the phone communications and metadata, but the contents have already been wiped, can the person be charged with obstruction of justice? Can the data typically be recovered from the cell phone company after that?