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 8/14:
- Ann Mashburn – Seasonal sale, up to 50% off – we just included them in our updated Top 10 Brands for Comfortable Heels!
- Ann Taylor – 25% off all suiting! Also, extra 60% off clearance — readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it's a great separate)
- Anthropologie – Extra 40% off sale!
- The Fold – Up to 50% off, further markdowns (new lines added)
- J.Crew – Up to 30% off
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off sitewide, extra 60% off clearance
- J.McLaughlin – Summer sale, up to 50% off
- Lilysilk – Anniversary sale, save up to 70%
- Me & Em – Sale! Up to 60% off (new lines just added, exclusively online)
- M.M.LaFleur – 20% off pants (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clearance, new markdowns up to 75% off! 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
- Saks Fifth Avenue – Take 25% off one item (ends Mon)! Great selection of Veronica Beard, L'Agence, Vince, and more.
- Talbots – End of season clearance, 60% off all markdowns. $24.99 pants and jeans
- Theory – End of season sale is on! Love all the colors their best-selling sweater tee comes in, and some colors are on sale.
- Tory Burch – Private sale, ends 8/19!
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.