Coffee Break: Nina Flats
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Are you a yea or nay for the high vamp trend? I'll admit, the trend was originally a hard pass for me… but as I've looked at more of them the look is growing on me.
These Tuckernuck flats are some of the best-looking of the bunch, IMHO — they definitely have a much higher vamp than we've seen in years past, but I like that it isn't too high. (We've discussed whether toe cleavage is appropriate for work in the (distant) past; what are your thoughts on, ahem, phalanx cleavage?)
The shoes come in five colors, sizes 6-11, for $195.
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!
Shailene Woodley was giving big Emily Dickinson vibes last night, and I think that the high vamp flat goes with fall and dark academia sort of fashion. It can get costumey quickly though (IMO).
I don’t love the look. As a very petite person with average size feet (5’, 7.5 shoe), I look for leg lengthening and foot shortening.
They’re so ugly. Who is buying this stuff??
Maybe me? They are less clunky than loafers but I need a shoe with some real estate in the leather to hide various neuroma pads. Plus, as a narrow-heeled person, more shoe in the front of my shoe tends to hold my foot in it better.
Everyone? I feel this they’ve been at Tuckernuck, the default for suburban moms and no ones’s definition of cutting edge fashion for years now. It’s fair to hate them but where do you live that you’re not seeing them?
I live in a major city and I never see these. In my mom’s suburban hell they are common though.
Somewhere where people don’t buy ugly things just because they’re trendy, I guess?
Same.
OTOH, I feel that shoes on me are consumables and I’m frequently shopping for trail runners or my most basic work shoes. For the runners, I can never get the same color twice and unless you are getting Varas or basic ballerinas, styles get tweaked and updated (snipped toe? almond toe? pointy toe?). Sometimes it’s what’s out there that your foot likes best. There will be another pair before they get too dated to wear because shoes just wear out.
The shoes look like they’re much too big and/or wide for the model.
And/or there’s some oddly AI enhanced toe cleavage.
Yes, how does she have toes there! Or how long are her toes.
I think they’re maybe the ends of the model’s metatarsal bones?
Okay that makes more sense. I guess my feet are fat compared to a model!
Small town non profit board member here. I just found out a board I’m serving on doesn’t have D&O insurance and doesn’t feel it necessary. I am the only one pushing for it. Am I wrong? Where I used to live, it was a given that boards were insured. Is my risk tolerance miscalibrated or is theirs?