Suit of the Week
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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'm surprised to see some suits already down to lucky sizes in the Nordstrom sale! This basic blue suit is one of the more affordable options (with all sizes left, 00-16) and I can see it being the perfect suit for on campus interviews, to keep at your office as your “emergency suit,” or beyond.
The suiting pieces are $86-$119, but they'll be $129-$179 after the sale, with lots of matching pieces.
Some of our favorite suits from the 2026 Nordstrom Anniversary Sale include these — they all come in black as well as the color featured. I also love this St. John; these Santorelli ones are gorgeous but may be limited to lucky sizes. See all our NAS roundups here!
Sales of note for 7/15:
- Nordstrom – The Anniversary Sale has started! Here's our big roundup of what to get first, as well as everything we've selected thus far.
- Ann Taylor – Semi-annual sale, 60% off sale and 40% off everything — readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it's a great separate)
- Banana Republic – Summer sale up to 60% off sale styles + extra 20% off
- The Fold – Up to 50% off, further markdowns
- J.Crew – 50% off select cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 60% off clearance
- Lo & Sons – Summer sale, up to 50% off
- Lululemon – Summer sale!
- Me & Em – Sale! Up to 60% off (new lines just added)
- M.M.LaFleur – 25% off jardigans (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clear the rack, extra 25% off clearance! 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 – Red Door Sale! Prices start at $15
If you live in NYC do you have a nice getaway spot? North fork? Hamptons? Do tell
If you mean owning a place, no. But I go to Martha’s Vineyard every summer.
my parents have a place in connecticut, lots of nice options. my cousins had a house on the jersey shore where i grew up going. lots of options depending on your priority.
Assume you’re single/divorced, and have 3 or 4 adult children in their 30s (plus multiple grandkids), not all of them local but all of whom you see at least once a month. In what context would you feel like you were being excluded/rejected if your adult children chose to hang out or take a short vacation and you were not invited? I’m not talking about the over the holidays, or a long vacation, more like a long weekend where two of the siblings and their families want to hang out and do not invite the grandparent. The grandparent is invited to plenty of other vacations/hangouts. Just trying to figure out how unreasonable my MIL is being. I think very, but I am an only child so I’m willing to be persuaded otherwise.
I don’t know, but when my sister and I arrange a quick trip, we always tell my parents and invite them to come, even when we know they probably can’t. We try to be mindful of them.
She’s being unreasonable.
Agreed.
We don’t know this at all—did she just say she’d like to be included or something else?
as the mother of teenage boys i really think i would love it if they enjoyed eachother and were friends enough to go away together when they were older with their kids. we have been away with my brother and his family without my parents (and without my other brother whose kids don’t match our’s in age or interests)
For the time change debate, could we not just split the difference and decide that the time is now X:30?
Or create a new slogan and say, “As Arizona goes, so goes the nation” and we all just switch to whichever one they’re permanently on.
Switching time is ridiculous, I hope it’s permanently fixed soon!
This issue is a prime example of how our government is incredibly dysfunctional and ineffectual. Everyone (~90% of the population) wants the clocks to stop switching and yet nothing changes.
They just don’t work for us. There are monied interests that like the status quo, so they get their way instead.
I don’t understand what monied interests benefit from its getting dark at 4:00 p.m. in the winter.
But lots of debate about which way to change it, with vested financial and health interests on both sides. I’m opposed to the structure moving through congress, which takes away morning light in the winter to give extra light summer evenings. Research shows it’s not as lined up with our circadian rhythms, and as a morning runner I like morning light! But golf courses, for example, prefer the light layer in the day.
I prefer lighter evenings but I’ll compromise if we can just. stop. changing. the. stupid. clocks.
Leave the actual time alone. If businesses want to adjust hours, that is their business.
Ironic because as a morning runner, I prefer DST for myself in the summers because I prefer running in the dark. (I’m making no commentary on where this entire system will or should end up)
Everyone wants them to stop switching, but they can’t agree on which way is the problem! (I am team permanent daylight savings, but I get why someone would prefer it the other way. I think it all comes down to when you prefer your outdoor activities. I want daylight after work in the winter and don’t care if it’s dark in the mornings. I see people complaining about kids having to wait for buses in the dark, but they already do that here because some of our schools start at 7:15. Which is way too early, but that’s a whole other discussion)
I think if we switched it to real, standard time, hours would adjust.
+1 Arizona for the win on this
The only thing worse than switching clocks is having the sun rise at 9 am or set at 3:30. If we can’t change our schedules seasonally to match the day length, and have to run businesses and schools on clock time, then daylight savings time is a very reasonable compromise.
It’s unsafe for the vulnerable populations that no one cared about when it was first proposed.
the link to the suit takes you to pajamas
What is the difference these days, really?
What’s your dream handbag, and why?
Mulberry Bayswater. Such a classic without being trendy or logoed. TBH I should just buy one they aren’t that expensive, I spend more on long weekends.
Curious if anyone has ordered custom length curtains online? I want natural fabric (cotton or linen), solid ivory. Already have the rods mounted from prior house owner. Were you happy with the vendor?