After Christmas Sales!
Athleta has started their semi-annual sale, and as of today, you can get an extra 20% off sale items with code EXTRA20. That down jacket I mentioned the other day is now only $103 with the sale + discount.
Bandier is doing a tiered discount sale. If you’ve got a particularly long wishlist over there, you can get up to $150 off.
Carbon38 is offering an additional 30% off sale items with code XMAS30. You can get Vie Active’s rockell tights in satellite orchid for only $38! (My review here.)
Lululemon’s infamous Boxing Day markdowns are live, including quite a few winter goodies for much nicer prices, like the runderful 1/2 zip for $69 and the down for a run vest for $99.
Nordstrom’s half yearly sale is underway, and it includes a pretty significant activewear selection.
Sweaty Betty’s year-end sale has some new markdowns. The thermal run leggings (my review here) are now down to $84. I picked up this ombre tank, these leg warmers, and this coral LS.
New Releases
Lululemon had their Christmas upload late last night. I’m actually loving the look of this new pattern, blooming pixie. It’s right in my color palette and reminds me of the older lulu I love. I especially love bags in this print for some reason. Hoping I can get some speed shorts in this! Shown: urban warrior duffel, run all day backpack and all sport bra 3-strap (the two bags are only available in Canada right now).
I’m also happy to see peacock blue showing up in a few pieces, like these align pants. This color showed up briefly over the summer and went away sooner than I would’ve liked, so maybe I’ll get my peacock blue fix after all.
One more from lulu: I like these pace queen tights in inkwell. They’re a simple but pretty design for run. Bordeaux is nice too, though I’ve gotten a little bordeaux’d out this season.
Besides their sale, Athleta also has a few new releases floating around. They have these new bold stripe chaturanga tights, which are seriously just like K-Deer’s signature stripe design, although at least these are lacking K-Deer’s stitching style. Although sometimes design similarities can reasonably be interpreted as coincidence, and though I usually like to give the benefit of the doubt, this one seems a little hard to interpret as anything other than copycatting. It’s a bit disappointing to see, especially since K-Deer is much, much smaller than Athleta.
On the more positive side, these new navy superimpose chaturanga tights are fun.
One more brand doing the sale + new style thing: Sweaty Betty. This new finish line top in is pretty, and is also available in a nice deep blue too. They’ve also got a groovy new geometric print on these stability leggings.
Ugh! Those striped Athleta leggings make me want to boycott Athleta. I love K. Deer leggings and love supporting small businesses so when a huge company like Athleta knocks off something from a small business it just makes me sick. I hope Athleta realizes this move will lose them more customers than it will gain them.
I agree. :(
Yes, it’s so frustrating for me too. It’s one thing when Forever21 makes a $20 ripoff of a $3000 handbag. It’s a totally different thing when Athleta and K-Deer are competing for the exact same customers. I’ve seen Athleta’s “sophia stripe” get a lot of attention already (they sold through crazy fast before getting restocked), which is money that K-Deer should have been getting. I’d like to think that not everyone at Athleta realized it was a rip-off before it was too late, and that they’ll find some way to right the wrong.
Let me know what you think of the SB athlete tank. I got one on Black Friday and I like the cut (higher coverage in the front), color, fit and the way it falls but it doesn’t have flat lock seams and more slick (less cottony) than other racerbacks. I kept it and find the material great for high sweat workouts.
Will do! I’m hoping for the best, because it would be great to have an option besides lulu’s CRB for a basic tank.
YogaSmoga’s racerback is really nice and a dead ringer for LLL CRB but with a more conservative neckline. They will mark them down occassionally. On C38 I ordered the splits59 Ashby tank. I don’t usually like ribbed tanks, but for the price, I’ll try it!
Thanks for the suggestions! I had YogaSmoga’s racerback a while back, but fell out of love with the fabric. This was a while back, though, so I might try it again. The ashby tanks are just soooooo long on me (I bought one on sale a few months ago), so that’s a hesitation I’ve had with them. For some reason CRBs always end up being just right. Perhaps I just need to try harder to get out of the rut…
Lulu really knocked it out of the park with their markdowns! I originally had 11 items in my shopping cart and spent a good hour whittling down. Ended up with speed tights, the vintage green scuba (not a great price but I’ve been wearing my other 2 constantly as winter coats with the mild winter we’ve been having), run toque & forage teal WUPs. Also got a Michi bra on the new Revolve markdowns. I have a bunch of rewards to use at Athleta, but the K Deer knockoff really sours me to them.
Yeah, last year I feel like I remember the Boxing Day MDs being kind of underwhelming, but this year they weren’t so stingy. I ended up getting a runderful 1/2 zip in stores this week when I returned my runderful pants. Re: Athleta, there seems to be significant backlash on social media, and I’m hoping Athleta will handle it gracefully instead of sweep it under the rug. We’ll see.
CB38 has oneday 50% off sale item today(Dec27th) I already ordered some yesterday and got major damage today as well :$ Always wanted to try new brands!! I hate when the big company such as Athleta being a copycat…oh they probably rationalize as it is just similar design not copy, but come on! It actually happens too often, so sad…
Scored the Rockell tights for $30 on C38!!
Me too! I’m normally a size 2/4 in lulu so hoping the xxs will workout
You should be good to go. Someone said they sized down twice and could still get into them, so I think you made the right sizing call. :)
Received my Rockwell tights today! In love! Good call on the xxs. The waist is a little loose but glad there is an inner draw string!
The deals are unbelievable! I bought Blue life fit tank, legging, crop, Alternative dress, and Upside jacket for a grand total of $205. I am excited to try these new brands. I thought I was done after all the sales before Christmas.
Wow, that’s fantastic! Nicely done. :)
Those C38 deals were pretty amazing! I hope you like what you snagged. :)
I am LOVING the blooming pixie print in that particular colorway. So pretty and feminine. It looks like we won’t have speeds in that color, but may get the run times, and the flow y bra once it’s uploaded in the US.
I also saw the inkwell pace queen tights in store yesterday, and they looked cute. I think the bright green trim is clear mint, but I couldn’t really tell. The whole combo is colors is really nice.
Yeah, I saw that there was the blooming pixie trim, but sometimes they still make the full print on top of that, so I’m crossing my fingers they’ll do that for this one. :)
I bought the Blooming Pixie Urban Warrier Duffle today. I tried hard to like the black or the grey, but I fell in love with this only matches a few things print. I even pulled every one in the store off the wall to pick my pattern placement.
I don’t have a gym bag (because I run on my treadmill or outside), this will hold my Macbook and I’ll use it as a non business trip carry on and overnight bag, so I didn’t feel too conflicted about indulging. Best part is that I had birthday gift cards and wasn’t spending my own money. :)
I’m awfully tempted by the blooming pixie bag! I only recently started using a gym bag, so I have slightly more reason to have more than one right now, especially since the urban warrior is bigger than the one I have. I might wait to see if it goes to MD…