32 Cheap Thrills and Splurge Items I'd Buy From the Insane Nordstrom Sale

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Ah, Nordstrom. It's a beautiful place. I think that one of the many things that people love about Nordstrom is that it has one of the best selections of both high-end and budget-friendly items of any department store/e-tailer on the planet. So it's very feasible to add a $30 top and the latest designer It bag into your cart in one sitting. As you know, Nordstrom has some really epic sales that mark down thousands of items and typically last for at least a week. Luckily for us, the latest one—the Nordstrom Fall Sale—just launched, with tons of current-season items marked down by as much as 40% until November 17.

I'm well aware that good sales can be thoroughly overwhelming, but my strategy for tackling them is simple. First, I search for the high-end items I've had my eye on all season (to see if they're finally marked down), and then I start exploring the cheap thrills to stock up on basics like denim and turtlenecks. That's exactly what I did here, so in case you don't have time to weed through thousands of items like I did, scroll away! First up: my favorite splurge items, followed by the cheap thrills I'm losing it over.

Splurge Items

Cheap Thrills

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Allyson Payer
Senior Editor

Allyson is a senior editor for Who What Wear. She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories for Who What Wear. Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.