Shop Sale SUPER Smart Guide- here.

Investing on what you’ll wear a ton when you’ve saved a ton.

Years of impulse purchases just because something’s too good to pass up at sale time has bitten us all. At the same time, it’s crazy rewarding when you found that perfect piece that you wear a ton, and bonus, it was on sale. I’m going to triangulate here all my experience as an individual who does love style and clothing, with my deeply intimate knowledge of the collection, and my conversations with thousands of you on the gaps in your closet to help you make some decisions before sale time ends. Ok?

1. The Great Skirt here that strikes a key balance - between high fashion, practicality, and year round-ness. The sporty nylon fabric is heavier in weight than our crispy nylon - that density supports all the design details. It’s super flattering on everyone, dressing up the simplest of tops but chilling out something more complicated. And it goes year round - the pics here were taken in the fall - this is my sketch of me on vacation. See? Fit note: take your size, this is an easy fit with the elastic waist.

2. The Valve Tee - here. valves are the items that can dial up or down - depending. Please don’t confuse this with “hi/lo” dressing. Sometimes an average cotton tee with a fabulous skirt is like putting canned whip cream on a rich Viennese pastry. Sure from a distance it looks ok, but the taste is off. Fit note: slim fit - I wear a 4/27/S in Tibi. I wear the small here. Normally a S fits a 4 / 6, but if I was a fuller 6 I would go to a M here. It’s a top that can never really be too loose - even tiny Sarah can wear a small with ease - but if you wear it too tight, it would cut up under your arms a bit.

   

   a. The fabric is refined enough that when worn with an incredibly rich fabrication like the wool pant here on the left, it plays at the same level while “toning everything down” a bit.

   b. Serious enough that under the most serious of suits, it works. Full stop.

   c. I love a designer skirt - but sometimes when paired with an overly designed top, it looses the ease I crave. This tee is the answer. This Prada skirt gets toned down, made incredibly wearable - but a sloppy tee wouldn’t have cut it. This works.

3. The Designer Dress- here. sometimes the deeper sale is when I say - “ok, why not try?” Sure, that’s one way to look at this dress. But the surprise will be, this is the dress you’ll have forever. It’s incredibly modern and chic, but defies any trends happening. Everytime you have the occasion where you want to wear something interesting, a dressy event where you’re going for city chic, a more casual event where you want to be more because, life is short, why not? Then this is the dress. It also morphs with accessories - I love that - when you can make a statement dress make a different statement depending on the occasion. I even throw a sweater on over it and it pretends it’s a skirt. Bonus.

4. The white jacket. Here. The proportions on this jacket are so so so so good. And it converts to a vest. When everyone is wearing a basic jean jacket, this one packs all the same chill but is so much more. When everyone has on a super formal jacket, this one packs all the same refinement, but does it in the coolest way with zero pretension. I poached some of the picks below from KICKPLEAT - one of our favorite stores in Texas (Austin, Houston and Dallas). Visit if you haven’t!

   

   You can see the jacket on me at 5.5’ and Sarah at 5.0. She’s wearing an xxs; I’m wearing the S.

5. The blazer here you’ll write to me decades later and tell me you don’t know how you lived without it is the Bonded Twill. It is such a statement, yet it’s a work blazer, it’s a with jeans blazer. And MOST highly at the top of the list, it is so very very rich and luxurious. You will not know until you try it. Take your regular size. I wear a 4; Sloane wears a 2, Sarah wears a 00.

And here are things I buy on sale for specific reasons….

So luxurious, which is always a sure sign that it’s a forever piece. The key words to look for are things like: chrome-tanned lamb leather, 100% virgin wool tailoring, Heavy weight 100% cashmere, Double faced 90% Cashmere plated with elastane for durability and stretch.

The lamb leather moto jacket; The zip up virgin wool jacket that’s also a top; the rich cashmere pullover, the unbelievably amazing zip up double faced cashmere hoodie. Fit notes: all easy fits - I wear a small in all, but I could easily wear an xs or an M.

Do you have any questions about the items that are on markdown? If you ask them here, we’ll jump in and answer them. Your question may help someone else, so ask away.