Suit of the Week
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Sales of note for 8/29/25 (I'm bolding the ones I'm checking out first):
- Nordstrom – Summer sale has started!
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your full price purchase, $99 dresses, jackets and shoes, and 60% off sale
- AllSaints (some of the best leather jackets!) – Clearance event, up to 70% off
- Anthropologie – Extra 40% off sale + 25% off designer denim
- A.P.C. – Last days, 50% off!
- Athleta – Up to 60% off + extra 30% off sale – readers particularly love these casual pants
- ba&sh – Extra 25% off Labor Day Sale – readers love these cardigan lady jackets; some are marked down to $190
- Banana Republic Factory – 50%-70% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 20% off everything – readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- Brochu Walker – Labor Day Sale, up to 30% off
- Everlane – Summer sale up to 70% off – reader favorites include their scoop tee, their ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and their oversized blazers!
- Frank & Eileen – Lots in the sale section up to 40% off
- Kaai – 10% off work bags and 50% off Loop bags
- J.Crew – 40% sitewide (readers love this blazer, these pants, these sneakers, this suiting, and their sweater blazers and winter coats in general. Also note that they've expanded their size range up to 3X/24! See our full roundup of what to buy for work at J.Crew.)
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything and extra 60% off clearance
- L.K. Bennett – Sale items up to 70% off, lots of shoes and more in the sale
- Me + Em – Up to 60% off, online only
- M.M.LaFleur – Save up to 70% Labor Day Weekend – Take an additional 20% off already-discounted items
- Naturalizer – Last call! Up to 70% off
- Neiman Marcus – 15% off select beauty & fragrance including DIOR, Nars, Chantecaille, Victoria Beckham, SK-II, and La Mer (ends 8/30)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clear the Rack, extra 25% off clearance (we recently featured this great $30 sweater blazer, but I think it comes in more colors now)
- Rothy's – Up to 50% off last-chance sales
- Sarah Flint – 25% off sitewide
- Soma – Sale up to 70% off, bras 2 for $65, $6 panties with any purchase (also buy 3 panties, get 2 free) – readers love these PJs and these no-VPL panties
- Spanx – End of summer sale, extra 30% off sale styles with code — reader favorites include these pants in regular, petite, and tall sizes all up to 3X (the very rare option for a plus-size petite!); Nordstrom also has a big collection!)
- Talbots – 70% off markdowns final sale + 25% off regular purchase – readers love this classic cashmere sweater, this classic cardigan, and their suiting (available in petite, regular, plus, and plus-size petite!) (here are all the reader favorites at Talbots)
- White House Black Market – Extra 60% off sale styles for up to 80% off, also $50 off your $200 purchase, and $30 off all pants
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Agree. Nothing of value to add. But I agree.
I don’t understand the point of a short-sleeve suit. It’s not formal enough for times when a real suit is required, and otherwise I think it looks a little strange. I guess if you just love wearing suit-like items, though, it would work, but I find suits somewhat uncomfortable as it is, so why wear more of them?
I love this and will wait for it to go on sale! This is the perfect summer equivalent to a black-and-white small pattern jacket with black pants – for client meetings where the partner will just throw a sports jacket on over his usual slacks and dress shirt, but such an ensemble would look ridiculous on a woman.
I have several JCrew suits and their quality is quite good for the price point. Suits like this one almost always go on sale too, so you will probably be able to get a great deal on this one in a few weeks.
C – any thoughts on the point that you couldn’t wear this suit when a “real” suit is required? I need a new suit and if I’m only going to have one, does it need to be more formal than this?
I live in the south and see these short-sleeve suits everywhere. Very practical, especially in summer. I’d keep to the ones with smooth, i.e., not ruffled or gathered, sleeves, so a cardigan (air conditioning) would go on over it without bumps.
I love J. Crew suits too. Always reasonable priced. The fit is younger and more modern than Ann Taylor, yet no too trendy. I tried some Theory suits which are about twice the price–I think the J Crew suits are still better made.
S — oh yes, you definitely need a more typical suit. We’ve got to write some sort of intro text for this Suit of the Week feature — it’s intended to be the similar to the flavor of the week. Vanilla and chocolate are still the flavors that are anchors — that’s your black/navy long-sleeved three button jackets-with-knee-length skirt suits (with matching pants, of course) — this feature is just the rum raisin of the week.
I second Corporette’s response to S. You definitely need a more traditional suit if it’s your only one, but if you’re getting many, I love short sleeved suits in the summer. My office is technically business casual and plenty of women at all levels don’t wear suits unless they’re meeting with clients, etc. but I’m one of a few female litigators and I look very young so I tend to wear suits every day because I think it helps my image around the office. I feel like the short-sleeve suit is a good alternative to the cardigans/skirts a lot of my coworkers wear that I think would make me look too young but still give me a more casual alternative.