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Our daily TPS reports suggest one piece of work-appropriate attire in a range of prices.
Sales of note for 10.10.24
- Nordstrom – Extra 25% off clearance (through 10/14); there's a lot from reader favorites like Boss, FARM Rio, Marc Fisher LTD, AGL, and more. Plus: free 2-day shipping, and cardmembers earn 6x points per dollar (3X the points on beauty).
- Ann Taylor – Extra 50% off sale (ends 10/12)
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything plus extra 25% off your $125+ purchase
- Boden – 10% off new styles with code; free shipping over $75
- Eloquii – Extra 50% off a lot of sale items, with code
- J.Crew – 40% off sitewide
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site, plus extra 25% off orders $150+
- Lo & Sons – Fall Sale, up to 35% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Save 25% sitewide
- Neiman Marcus – Sale on sale, up to 85% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 50% off 2+ markdowns
- Target – Circle week, deals on 1000s of items
- White House Black Market – Buy one, get one – 50% off full price styles
And some of our latest threadjacks here at Corporette (reader questions and commentary) — see more here!
Some of our latest threadjacks include:
- What to say to friends and family who threaten to not vote?
- What boots do you expect to wear this fall and winter?
- What beauty treatments do you do on a regular basis to look polished?
- Can I skip the annual family event my workplace holds, even if I'm a manager?
- What small steps can I take today to get myself a little more “together” and not feel so frazzled all of the time?
- The oldest daughter is America's social safety net — change my mind…
- What have you lost your taste for as you've aged?
- Tell me about your favorite adventure travels…
fjt
I bought the same pair in the spring, but in grey patent leather croc print. I can’t wait to wear them this winter in the snow! You can still be stylish in Aquatalia. BTW, before purchasing on Zappos, I always check Amazon, they often have the same shoes but they are cheaper. I wonder what will happen now that Amazon purchased Zappos?
Anonymous
Do you realize the only person who knows the name if your shoes are the people you tell and the only reason you’d tell someone is because you want them to be jealous! Who cares who makes them. And if you’ve got that much money to spend on 1 pair of shoes, maybe you should think about helping families in need ( like us) who only own 1 pair. See our home burned down and we lost everything I cancelled my insurance when my prince chasing turned into a toad and walked out. I am a single disabled mother of 2 teenage daughters and my youngest will be 7 next month.
We are fortunate to stay with family but everything is gone.
We humble accept donations. At this point in my life, I am not too proud to say please help us.
Email ” fireassistance@yahoo.com” if you’d like to help.
God bless you.
Julie Schafer
Absofreakinlutely true!!! I wouldn’t pay more than $40 for a pair of boots and I don’t care who made them. Besides, honestly, who can tell what’s on your feet and do we really care??
That’s what’s wrong with this world. Spending $400 on a pair of boots when you can get the exact Dane look at Walmart or target. Better yet, go to Salvation Army or Goodwill and get them for $9.99. That’s where I got my ugggssss. ( ugly )!!!
We should help others out when we can. Funny how I wrote about the same time as the person who wrote about losing her home to a fire.
I want to help!
I’m going to write to her and maybe if we should all send her a gift card to Walmart for shoes for her family?
WHO’s WITH ME!!!! ALL YOU
NEED IS HER EMAIL ADDRESS AND YOU CAN
SEND AN EGIFT CARD! !!!
IM SENDING $400 in a Walmart gift card. LETS SEE HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE CARE!!!!!
God bless you dear’ !!
koko
Agreed ! I’ve been craving to wear boots lately too! What is wrong with us? We complain when summer is not here, and then want to wear winter clothes while the sun is beating down on us? Women hey :)
jojo
You are not insane, dears. I have been ready for winter since March.
KLo
I’m lusting autumnal, too, but am I the only one who thinks these look a little like something out of a WalMart clearance rack? Or am I just being cranky today …?
Anonymous
Absofreakinlutely true!!! I wouldn’t pay more than $40 for a pair of boots and I don’t care who made them. Besides, honestly, who can tell what’s on your feet and do we really care??
That’s what’s wrong with this world. Spending $400 on a pair of boots when you can get the exact Dane look at Walmart or target. Better yet, go to Salvation Army or Goodwill and get them for $9.99. That’s where I got my ugggssss. ( ugly )!!!
Amy
I have Aquitalia booties and wear nothing else all winter. They feel like slippers.
SM
Agree with KLo. Not for me.
LPC
Great thought. Here in California our only weather issue is rain. And there’s always that moment of hesitation, will it rain today? And the resultant distress when I’ve bet wrong and worn suede. These boots would solve an actual, experienced, problem.
KAM
Agreed with KLo and SM. I do look forward to tweeds and cashmere… but not these boots.
Kit
walmart comment dead-on.
EAS
Agreed with the Walmart clearance rack comment. These are beyond fug.
Yasmin
Maybe it is a West Coast thing? I don’t like these shoes either…they seem very matronly. I generally love the clothes on this website, the shoes, not so much. There has to be something between these shoes and platforms, right?
Hope
I’m feeling pretty special today here in wintry Sydney wearing red suede ankle boots!! With, of course,black pants….
Amy
Actually I find my Aquatalia booties to be on the ugly side- my mother-in-law mailed them to me- but I end up wearing them day after day under long pants because they are just so, so comfortable. Every morning in the colder months I think about putting on more attractive shoes but just don’t do it. I can walk to meetings around the city in them without thinking about it. TOo bad they aren’t making them better looking or they’d be perfect.
carissa
I wore boots today! And I’m in Dallas. I have feet issues and they just fare better in socks, so under my chocolate trousers I wore chocolate boots. I feel so justified since I read that Ken Downing, fashion director at Neiman Marcus, wears chelsea boots every day of his life. Granted, he and I are both in creative fields.
Emilie
Agreed with those above, my first thought was “butt ugly”. I generally agree with Corporette, but not on this one.
DW
Interesting site; came across this topic whilst searching for work appropriate chelseas, and seems it’s that time again (namely, spring when this topic first came up, only one year later) and here I am likewise thinking about “boots”as I just ordered myself a pair of chelseas from the UK; I myself tend to wear ankle boots all year-round (seasonal materials of course). I am also a senior lawyer, practicing in conservative Toronto, where ankle boots are fine; in fact, when it comes to the chelsea, it may interest you to know, Carissa (and any one else who may be interested), that the particular style, also known as jods (or dealers in the UK) were actually invented by Queen Victoria’s royal boot-maker, appealing to Her Majesty and also the busier, more demanding lifestyle of noble Victorian women in general. Such boots subsequently became “in fashion” for noble men as well (Napoleon himself enjoyed “jack boots”). Indeed, boots were the appropriate attire for noble men throughout the day (at night, switching to an Albert slipper (in regal purple or black with bow tie or buckle, worn with a formal tuxedo, and still worn by the High Court in Britain avec robes, and elsewhere in the EU by men for formal evening events, with women similarly switching out their “formal (day) boots” for a ballerina court shoe (classic flat) or kitten heel (also known as the pump) when donning formal, evening wear).
More recently, I read that the PM of Australia, while meeting with the Emperor and Empress of Japan, wore chelseas with his suit, and apparently looked quite splendid, indeed. Then, these are a classic boot, and being a classic it never thus goes out of style (assuming of course that it’s blake-stitched onto a sole of leather so as to be clean and stream-lined, and in a classic colour). Not necessarily the “go to” boot when appearing before the court (if before the High Court in Britain, be sure to wear your “court slipper” or “ballerina” — as that’s what the judges do, but if attending a British morning wedding, at least for a man, simply nothing but a chelsea in formal English tan will do; indeed, the Brits are quite traditional). No reason for women today to feel guilty at all about wearing ankle boots in turn (smashing with suits (trousers) really) in turn, and especially since their origins trace to Queen Vic herself. Yes, might say I’ve a thing about boots, too, and reason why, on finding this discussion, I thought I’d pop in to post.
As to the boot shown, albeit one year later so as to perhaps make this comment irrelevant in that respect, must say, I’m not too crazy about that particular model; nothing wrong with it per se, just not my own personal cup of tea. But if it’s to someone else’s fancy, style being a rather personal thing, then why not, I say. Good site, and interesting discussion. Cheers. ~ DW