Accessory Tuesday: Tory Belt
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This handcrafted leather belt from AYR might be the only belt you’ll ever need.
That’s because this belt includes four different buckles you can swap depending on your outfit. The versatile 1” width works with a myriad of outfits. Use it to add structure to a flowy dress or to cinch your favorite longline blazer.
The Tory Belt is $175 at AYR and comes in 3-5 sizes depending on the product.
Sales of note for 8/6/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – Semi-annual sale, 8/6 ONLY: Extra 60% off sale and style steals starting at $25
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – Extra 45% off all sale
- J.Crew – 30% off wear-now styles & up to 60% off all sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything and extra 60% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – 25% off all previous flash sale items! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off.
- Nordstrom – 9,800+ new women’s markdowns
- Spanx – Free shipping on everything
- Talbots – $15 & up all markdown tops & 50% off all other markdowns
Several posters below are describing books as “junk.” May I gently recommend not doing that? My parents were very heavy handed in steering us away from “junk” toward “classics”, and all of us stopped reading anything non-required for several years as adults.
If your kid is going through a phase where they’re basically reading the kid equivalent of beach reads and romance novels – who cares? Plenty of adults do that, too, especially if they work intellectually demanding jobs (like your kids are if they’re in school). Let reading be mostly joyful for them, and they will opt in to classics and tougher literature as they grow.
cross posted. This is my annual plug to make sure you have life insurance. Every year I have a slightly different sad reason for the plug, and this year it’s because a friend of mine died of cancer at 40. She was diagnosed 3 years ago and didn’t have good life insurance because she never got it in her 20s and had a random stroke at 33. So after age 33 she was not really insurable. Then she got cancer at 37. She was the primary breadwinner. Hug your loved ones and get life insurance. Today.
Just a general idea both for this site and in life – I encourage all of you to try to embrace the “most generous interpretation.” like the first poster today. try to assume good intentions.
Ugh, I had to get a rental car while my car is in the shop, and they have used some heavy perfumed deoderizer in it. I’m okay while driving the car bc I keep all the windows down, but I can smell the air freshener in my hair while sitting in my office (my hair soaks up smells and I have a really sensitive nose). It’s giving me a massive headache. Any suggestions? Every time I turn my head, I get a fresh whiff, and it’s overwhelming.
Looking for vacation ideas for Thanksgiving break and December break. We would fly from nyc area and looking for places that aren’t too cold and bonus if not a huge time difference. With younger elementary and middle school kids
Favorite family-friendly ski resorts that aren’t on I-70 in CO? Looking for options with ski in, ski out lodging and it doesn’t have to be fancy – older condos fine. Somewhere with a cute town for exploring on an off day would be nice too. Ideally it would be somewhere with very low crowds, but that’s a tough sell these days.
Within the past month we’ve had my daughter’s birthday, the kids’ joint birthday party, a week long family vacation and both kids have transitioned to new daycare rooms. My son’s birthday is this week and his excited request is for “blue cupcakes”. The hunt for daycare approved mini blue cupcakes might be the thing that tips me over the edge.
How do you keep track of books your kid wants to read, might like, series, etc? I bought a reading journal off Etsy for my son (school doesn’t do reading logs) and that’s worked well, but I feel like I’ve got screenshots, Apple notes, scribbles down places for my son. I use Storygraph for myself, but this feels a bit messy to have them both together.
Hi, I’m the poster yesterday who was looking for a mantra to let go of stress about school. I did not mean to offend people! I had typed out and deleted several paragraphs explaining our situation because I decided ya’ll didn’t need all that and I just needed to be told that everything would be fine. But basically, our kid is autistic and we are transitioning from a small private K where there was tons of communication and support to a public school where we have received almost zero communication, and what we have heard conflicts with the website. I wouldn’t be so worried dropping off a neurotypical 6 year old with no info on who his teacher is, no orientation, etc., but I’m worried our kid will not do well with all the changes. I do think he’s ready, but it’s hard to jump into the unknown like this. And it doesn’t help when the school admin acts annoyed that I’m calling with questions like “online it says our enrollment was denied, can we confirm we are enrolled?” (that seems like a big deal!)