Coffee Break: Vinnie T-Strap Heel
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We featured these Weitzman heels in our big update to our Top 10 Comfortable Heel Brands article last week, but they're so lovely I think they deserve their own Coffee Break.
Weitzman's had their low Vinnie slingback pump for a while now, but I love this T-strap update. As someone with duck feet (sigh) I've always loved a good strappy heel because it keeps my narrow ankles from slipping out, and there's something about these that just looks so elegant.
The shoes are on a lovely sale, too — they were $525, but through 7/7 you can get them 25% off, so $394. NICE.
Sales of note for 7/19:
- Nordstrom – The Anniversary Sale has started! Here's our big roundup of the best workwear, as well as everything we've selected thus far. Don't forget to check to see if their daily beauty deal is a good one for you – e.g., 7/23 Lancome; 7/24 YSL; 7/29 up to 40% off select lip products; 7/31 Bobbi Brown; 8/1 Jo Malone
- 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
- Theory – End of season sale is on!
I am visiting my parents this long weekend and I struggle I always have is that they are just not the best cooks. How do I problem solve this without offending them? I woke up at 4 am today due to hunger because I could only eat so little at dinner. I don’t mind taking them out to eat or cooking myself but I don’t want to hurt their feelings and how to suggest it in a non rude way. I guess the silver lining is that I may lose a few pounds…
what’s the issue, lack of flavor? poor ingredients? old-fashioned bland cooking like you’re served a plate of beyond-limp boiled veggies? (Like my mom is actually a decent cook, but was blown. away. at the idea of roasting brussels instead of boiling them to achieve restaurant results.)
just get through it- buy protein bars or similar, eat in private, take wrappers with you when you leave (baggie in suitcase?)
shared meals- you found a great recipe to try, can we all cook together?
I think a lot of it.ow to cook, buy the cheapest ingredients, make foods I liked when I was 10 assuming I still like them (think kid foods) and have the same 3 meals they rotate when I visit which I am incredibly sick of. I think they assume I like them.
Meal replacement shakes in a carton are my usual solution for visiting people whose food doesn’t work for me. Kate Farms or Ensure or similar.
I’m not sure how to broach the topic if that is a goal. My dad is nostalgic and still wants to eat kid foods from when he was a child, so I don’t think he’d understand.
Today, find a way to go out and buy some nuts, trail mix, protein bars, or whatever else you need to eat in the middle of the night. Add some cheese, yogurt, or whatever else you’re used to snacking on, to the fridge.
Offer to take them out to eat.
Offer to cook a meal — “let me run out and get the ingredients!”
And simply accept that you’re a house guest staying in a home where the food is not to your liking (and give your mom or dad — whoever is doing the cooking — grace for failing to make adjustments for the adult you are in 2026, and still wanting the child you were back in ___, back home with them. It’s a frustrating parental failing, but an incredibly normal one).
I agree with other posters. I do this when staying overnight. Bring something you like for breakfast and snacks, and then keep trail mix or protein bars in your bag for emergency snacks.