Brooks Brother's Sale

Save 25% at the Brooks Brothers Friends and Family Sale - Promo Code friend56


The sale goes until Monday May 12th, and it's great for work clothes for both men and women -


For men the pinpoint non-iron shirt in a classic blue check pattern,



Not everyone realizes that Brooks Brothers also makes fantastic pieces for women, like this gorgeous wool skirt -





and this petite non-iron shirt -




Happy shopping!

Bluefly Designer Sale and Shopbop Extra Discount

Bluefly is having a sale on designer clothes, there are a lot of Nanette Lepore, Yaya and other fun contemporary brands  marked down another 15%.

Shopbop is offering an extra 25% off of clothes in their already 70% off sale section. use the code EXTRA25

Happy Shopping

eLuxury Sale

eLuxury is having a big sale, and free shipping today only.
Get to shopping!

Ironman Clothes

We saw Ironman yesterday, I loved it and loved Gwyneth's wardrobe as Pepper Potts. It looked like Diane von Furstenberg's fall runway show, like this outfit -

The shoes are not exactly practical, but the rest is wearable.

She mainly wore dark colors, but I'd like to think Pepper would wear this Akris dress even though it's light -
For those of us with the less than Tony Stark sized wallet, and the greater than Pepper Pott's hip circumference, this Banana Republic dress is a good way to interpret her style -

The Game of Shopping

The WSJ has a piece about how the online sample sales have turned shopping into something like a game. A game that isn't so much fun. So true.

How to Look "Priceless"

We saw the French film Priceless last week. Audrey Tatou manages to look adorable, beautiful really, while hooking rich men to finance the lifestyle she wants. She looks freaking amazing the whole way through in her Chanel, Costume National and Burberry among other brands. The shoes she wears are gorgeous including very cool Costume National sandals(they make the brands obvious to get the point across that it's all very expensive), the film was made a couple of years ago so we can't really find the same shoes, but I like these Pour La Victoire sandals for a much more affordable version -




or these -

A week until Mother's day...

Do you have your gifts yet? Don't forget about the Viv and Ingrid 20% off discount, use the code mothersday20.

Robyn Rhodes, another of my favorite Jewelry lines, is also offering a special deal for mother's day. Use the code ILOVEMOM until May 11th.

My New Obsession...

of this week is this Kooba bag, I posted about a similar one before, but this one is my favorite -




I keep checking to see if they still have them, since this color seems to have sold out briefly elsewhere, or at least has been harder to find than the ubiquitous black or white patent. I love it.

Sales at Pink Mascara

Pink Mascara has some great deals going for Mother's Day - the first is -




The second deal only lasts through tomorrow and it's 20% off of dresses over $150.Not a bad deal i must say, they have some very cute things -




This Lewish Cho dress is adorable and you can wear it out for brunch, or with heels and a metallic clutch out for evening. They have alot of other cute ones.

Seasonal Closets

I have fond memories of the early fall and early spring days when we would switch the clothes in our closets. That ritual when I would put the summer clothes away and bring out the winter clothes, or vice versa. I loved it. I was a clothes horse even at 3 and very opinionated about what I wore. My mother says we got thrown out of the nursery school carpool because every morning just as we would enter the elevator to start the day, I would dart back into the apartment to change my outfit or shoes. That meant we were late and the other families didn't appreciate that. They didn't know a future-calling when they saw it.

In early fall sweaters and corduroys didn't remind me of cold to come, I was excited because they were fabrics and colors and styles I hadn't worn in 5 or 6 months. And bringing out the summer clothes didn't warn me of the 100+ degree heat we get in Chicago in the summer, instead all I saw were the pretty skirts. I felt the soft cotton and thought about the sandals I would buy this year. Winter boots never excited me, my parents were lucky that my form of rebellion was generally no more severe than stubbornly wearing converse high-tops on snowy winter days, although one year my mother kept trying to throw out my green ones and I kept digging them out of the trash - they were my own creation at that point, cut down to low-tops with hand painted designs on them - definitely not trash.

This weekend there was a piece in the New York Times home and garden section about the ritual of changing the seasonal clothing in the closets, but from a mother's perspective. I now live in northern California where people don't have this ritual. My friends who grew up here thought it was so strange when I told them about it. The summer can be chilly here so people don't put away their sweaters, and in January it can be warm enough for a tank top. If they have a down coat it's usually with the ski gear I guess. So even though I live here now, clearly you can't take Chicago out of the girl - I still love the ritual cleaning and putting away of sweaters - it's a sign that I've decided spring is here and it's here to stay - like when I wore shorts one early May day when I was 11, you'd think that would be totally normal - except for the blizzard outside that left more than 6 inches of snow on the ground.

What can I say, my rebellions were clothes-related, a sign of things to come and all things considered, really easy on the parents.

Weekend Brunch Outfit

I posted a brunch outfit a while back, and people seem to really like that, so I will try again.

I like this Ella Moss dress for a warm weekend midday stroll,



These sandals are adorable, and affordable at $58 -




And I LOVE LOVE LOVE this bag -

The Grown-Up Romper?

Most kids wore the one-piece outfit called a romper at one time or another (most of those times are before the age of 8 I'm guessing) Adults wore them in the Studio 54 heyday, but not really in my lifetime - except for say, Gloria Gaynor or someone who was big in the 70's and found it worked for them.

In college I had a friend from Florida (I thought the weather in the state made a difference, I mean they weren't bundled up in huge coats all winter like we were in Chicago) who had really cool style, bought all of her clothes at vintage and second hand stores and she wore a full-body jumpsuit and made it work. But I could never do it, but Shopbop is carrying a few rompers now and I wonder who buys them.

This is a full-length version -
It's $299, that is seriously steep for a look like this.

They also have the Lauren Conrad short one,


Tobi
has a whole section for jumpsuits, like this
Society for Rational Dress Gather Jumper


It's a little shapeless, butI really like this one, it's pretty hot -
Grace Sun Wide Leg Jumpsuit

This one has a military, or maybe its safari look to it -
Nicholas K Cal Jumper

I love the neckline of it.
So it looks like there are styles for everyone who wants to sport this look.

Walmart tries to get back into clothes

The WSJ looks at Walmart's attempt to get back into 'fashion' - looks like as long as they don't try to compete with Target they might do ok.