On March 1, New York became the third state to ban single-use plastic bags, following California and Hawaii. As someone who’s lived in the city for over eight years, I can cosign how common it is to spot a plastic bag, drifting through the wind (hi, Katy Perry)—and littering streets or getting caught in trees. Aside from the oil it takes to produce them, plastic bags pollute our oceans and end up in the stomachs of sea creatures, which is reason enough to ditch them for good.
At the moment, most grocers and retailers are offering five-cent paper bags as an alternative, but why not take it a step further and avoid single-use bags altogether? Whether the ban is enacted in your state or not, going reusable is one small step to make a real impact—and it doesn’t have to mean carrying that dusty tote under your bed, either. In an effort to curb pollution but still keep it cute, we found 10 of the best reusable shopping bags out there. Add one (or a few) to your cart, and promptly brag to your friend about how chic and green you are—then make them buy one too!
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A long weekend is as good a time as ever to treat yourself to something nice…and what better place to start than with the best Presidents’ Day sales? Seeing as the holiday falls in late February, Presidents’ Day deals are a sneaky way to score last-minute winter finds while it’s still cold out. Retailers and brands are basically saying “Pls take everything from us so we can make room for spring styles”—so anything you’ve been eyeing from fall and winter collections are now available for less.
To save you the time and effort of scrolling through hundreds of Google pages, we rounded up the absolute best Presidents’ Day sales worth shopping right now. And we’ll be updating this list all weekend long with the best deals as they roll in. Whether you’re after a new winter coat, lug sole boots or a wardrobe’s worth of essentials, now’s the time to strike.
Presidents’ Day Fashion Deals
Nordstrom: Up to 40% off hundreds of styles through February 23.
Anthropologie: Refresh your wardrobe with printed blouses, winter coats, and warm knits at an extra 50% off sale styles this weekend.
J.Crew: Use code WEEKEND for an extra 60% off all sale styles, plus 30% off nearly everything else.
Kate Spade: Get up to 60% off sale styles and 25% off full-priced styles with the code LONGWKND. Pro tip: There’s a ‘Francois’ bag modeled after a French Bulldog. No pressure.
Coach: Take up to 40% off handbags, shoes, coats, and more.
REI: Planning a ski trip? Score on discounted ski and snowboard jackets, pants, goggles, and other winter gear at up to 50% off this weekend.
Sandro: Up to 60% off winter styles, plus an additional 20% off for a limited only.
Uniqlo: Free shipping this weekend only, plus limited promotions on seasonal favorites.
Urban Outfitters: Take 30% off all BDG Jeans February 14 to February 19.
Vince: Discounts up to 60% off seasonal favorites.
Presidents’ Day Home & Mattress Deals
Amazon: Amazon is taking up to 40% off best-selling tech, including Apple Airpods, iPads, Echo Dots, Kindle tablets and more during its Presidents’ Day Sale.
Allswell: Use the code PREZ to get 15% off any mattress and 20% off any of the brand’s bedding.
Casper: The Internet’s favorite mattresses brand is offering its best discount yet. The Casper Presidents’ Day sale gets you 15% off a Casper or Wave mattress until midnight, February 17.
According to Hayes, that sort of hyper-focus is reflected in the brain. “It’s like the bit that’s responsible for getting your attention onto a task and switching your attention onto the next task is slow to start working, but once it starts working, it’s hard to get it to stop,” she says. Also, people with ADHD are less sensitive to dopamine (the neurotransmitter that helps us feel pleasure), so some tend to do things that might be risky or excessive — say, buying a pricey item they can’t stop thinking about — in order to boost its production. “If we’re hyper-focused on something, we get more dopamine, and it predicts we’re going to get a massive payoff,” says Hayes.
Many people with ADHD create systems to keep their spending in check when their impulsivity gets out of hand or their minds feel one-track. McQuiston, for instance, allows herself the occasional cheap impulse buy but waits six months before purchasing big items. “And that’s how I have no tattoos I regret,” she says with a laugh.
Here, McQuiston and other women with ADHD share more shopping and dressing tips for those who have the condition.
Work with your brain, not against it
“If you’re trying to force yourself to work in neurotypical ways, it’s not going to work for you,” says McQuiston. “You’re going to get so mad at yourself every time you mess it up — which you’re inevitably going to do, because our brains just don’t work that way.”
For freelance writer Kathleen Walsh, that means cutting uncomfortable tags out of clothing and avoiding dangly jewelry, but also buying oversized items for the purpose of keeping herself focused at work. “I sit with an enormous sweater draped over my head in order to restrict my field of vision so I don’t get distracted by surrounding activity,” she explains. “It’s weirdly effective and nobody cares if you look a little nuts.”
Learn what items are off-limits
While you might be drawn to the same types of clothing as everyone else, it’s crucial to know what pieces are just not going to work for you. “I can’t purchase ripped jeans because I will pick at them until it destroys the fabric, and I’ve lost more expensive pairs of sunglasses than I can count,” says Emma Metzler, a college junior who, in late 2019, started a Reddit thread asking for fashion advice from people with ADHD or similar sensory issues that’s gotten hundreds of responses. As a result, she tends to keep her outfits “simple and functional,” forgoing most accessories, distressed fabrics, and bright colors (“they make me feel jittery in the worst way possible”). “By sticking to things in more muted or basic colors,” Metzler adds, “more things match — less decision making.”
Use your phone as an ally, but know when to put it down
Many people with ADHD, says McQuiston, tend to be bad at record-keeping and impulse control, “so I would advise people to download some [budgeting] apps and use your Google calendar as much as you can.” Apps like Mint and PocketGuard can help you keep track of your spending and save up for bigger purchases if you’re worried you can’t be trusted to put the money away yourself.
On the other hand, it’s important to know when your phone’s exacerbating the issues caused by your ADHD, such as distracting you while you’re browsing a store’s aisles. “I’ll turn off my phone If I’m really on a mission and I want to not be there all day,” says Kessler.
Organization is everything
Regularly going through your closet and decluttering can be a major help, especially when it comes to finding clothing easily and knowing what new items you truly can use. “It made such a huge difference in my life when I got rid of all the things I didn’t need,” says Metzler, noting that she uses professional organizer Marie Kondo’s KonMari method when her drawers start to overflow.
Walsh, meanwhile, keeps her belongings in “giant bags” so nothing gets lost, while Kessler pre-selects her outfits for the mornings so she doesn’t waste time getting out the door.
Don’t be ashamed of your style, whatever it is
So what if you have to wear noise-canceling headphones while shopping to stay focused or cut out some tags before putting a new item on? Wearing an outfit you feel good in, regardless of what changes you might’ve had to make to it to appease your ADHD, is “such a big confidence boost,” says Metzler.
“Yeah, [ADHD] has definitely got its challenges, and sometimes they manifest in clothing,” she adds. “But I’ve learned, through lots of trial and error, how to use it to my advantage — and now, I love that part of myself.”
Do yourself a favor and take a few minutes today to hear this week’s episode of Glamour‘s “What I Wore When” podcast, during which Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Dorit Kemsley tell the downright wild story of an Alexander McQueen dress she impulse-bought in Las Vegas during her wedding weekend. The dress—red, tight, and “worth every penny”—has now become known as the “baby-making dress” for reasons we can all infer.
As a functioning Bravo-holic, I was particularly eager to chat with Dorit, who joined RHOBH show in 2016 and became a fan favorite thanks to her playful approach to style, her loyal family and, yep, her slightly ambiguous accent. She was fun, forthcoming and impressively self-aware during our hour together, and we covered a lot of ground including her rationale for buying buying clothes and shoes and bags well into the thousands of dollars, her lifestyle brand Beverly Beach, the Champion sweatshirts she loved as a teenager in Connecticut, how motherhood has impacted her style, and why Real Housewives always seems to look better and better every season.
Second to her baby-making dress story, I was especially intrigued by Dorit’s honesty about wanting to look good for her husband, and how dressing for him, in a lot of ways, is really dressing for herself. I think a lot of women would be afraid to admit that publicly—wanting to look great for a man—and I so appreciated her perspective.
Listen to the episode at the link above—you won’t regret it!
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Raise your hand if you’ve been wearing the same bra for what feels like a decade. Or the same underwear. (Or both.) We’ve all been there. Luckily, January is the best time to update your underwear drawer, because some of the best brands have huge lingerie sales to kick off the new year. You can get everything from comfortable bralettes from Free People to gorgeous onesies from Bluebella, and embellished separates from Savage x Fenty—all on discount.
It’s time to ditch the old bra with the missing inserts and make room for new everyday essentials or sexy, borderline complicated-to-get-on intimates (Valentine’s Day is right around the corner).
We found a ton of underwear and bras on sale for the long weekend—with deals up to 50% off—which should make this much-needed haul far less tiring on yourself (and your credit card). Whether you need a new full-coverage style for extra support, a bodysuit to wear under high-waisted denim, or just love a good lacey thong, here are 11 can’t-miss lingerie sales happening right now.
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Every single character on HBO’s Insecure is a joy to watch, but none quite as much, for me, as Tiffany DuBois. As one article put it, Tiffany “is the friend with more of her proverbial ‘shit’ together, and thinks that the petty drama that her friends deal with on a daily basis is a little beneath her. She’s annoying and pretentious, but she keeps her crew well-rounded.” She’s also obviously very funny, thanks to comedian Amanda Seales, who plays her.
I was looking forward to meeting Seales because I’m always curious about how the world’s busiest women dress—and she is definitely busy. In addition to shooting Insecure, the 38-year-old regularly performs stand-up, is the host of NBC’s Bring the Funny, has a weekly podcast, leverages her almost one million Instagram followers to educate on causes she feels strongly about, and lectures across college campuses. Now, Seales can add “author” to her list of jobs. Her book of essays and life advice, Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use, was released in October.
For our episode, Seales wanted to talk about what she wore when she first got onstage as a comic—silver and black sequined leggings and a plain top—and how that’s become her uniform while performing. The conversation around dressing as a female comedian is endlessly compelling to me—Seales says that when she was starting out, her goal was to avoid wearing anything she felt would start a conversation about the way she looked instead of her jokes. “I decided, you know what, I’m going to make the thing I wear leggings that are fun,” she says. “The theory being I want to be able to still show my shape because I like my shape and I feel like it’s a part of my version of femininity, but yet not wear something that I feel is going to be more of a conversation about aesthetics.”
The leggings she wears—often with elaborate prints like classic rap albums and ninjas riding unicorns—have become a signature, and Seales says that people regularly ask about where she gets them. “But they don’t know that this really just started as me trying to find a way to find a middle ground. I don’t know any guys that, before they go onstage, are thinking about, Do I wear the suit? Do I wear the zip-up hoodie? This polo collar might send the wrong idea.”
When I ask Seales where she gets her leggings, she is savvy: “I’m not going to say the site because they don’t pay me any money to say it.”
Seales and I also talk about fast fashion—she came in wearing a great acid green turtleneck from Zara and a puffy wrap coat from ASOS—but about luxury purchases too, including the neon pair of YSL stilettos she brought with her to our recording, the Rolex that she bought herself, which, she admits, she probably doesn’t really need, and the first pair of Gucci shoes she purchased when she realized she had income that could be considered disposable. We also discuss her mother’s cooking, having impressive vocabularies, and the concept of real friends in today’s debatably authentic Instagram age.
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