These Under-$150 Nordstrom Finds Are Peak Extravagance Yet Affordable

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My closet is currently stuffed to the brim, but I'll never turn down the chance to at least browse my favorite online haunts. The latest selection I'm fixated on is from Nordstrom. And if you know anything about the retailer, this one is pretty legendary. I've already talked about the viral accessories Nordys has in stock, but now, I'm shifting gears to one of my specialties: expensive-looking staples for less. 

When it comes to scouting affordable fashion finds that deceptively look designer, it's best to go for pieces with simple details and hefty materials. Think thick knits, crisp poplin, denim, and structured jackets with minimal touches. Scanning Nordstrom's latest, I spotted several of those go-to items, including blazers that I'd never guess were a cent below $500. Keep scrolling to run through all of the luxurious staples I discovered. Each of them is guaranteed to serve peak extravagance. 

This story was originally published at an earlier date and has since been updated.

Fashion Market Editor

Indya Brown is a fashion editor, stylist, and writer living in Los Angeles. While going to school at Columbia University in New York City, she got her feet wet in the fashion industry interning at Elle magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and New York magazine's The Cut. After graduating in 2016, she joined The Cut as a fashion assistant, eventually working her way up to fashion editor. There, she worked on a multitude of projects, including styling inbook feature stories for New York magazine's print issue, writing and pitching market stories for The Cut, and serving as fashion lead for The Cut's branded content. While New York has been her home for over 10 years, she moved to Los Angeles in the midst of the pandemic in 2020 for a new chapter. Now she is a fashion market editor for Who What Wear, focusing on emerging designers, rising trends on and off the internet, interior design, and BIPOC creatives and brands. Aside from her duties as a fashion market editor, Brown is also a freelance stylist and writer, working on national print and video commercial campaigns for Sephora, The Independent, and Cadillac. Her bylines also include Harper's Bazaar, Vox, and The New York Times. But once the computer goes down and the emails turn off, she's likely eating her way through Koreatown, hunting down vintage furniture, scoping out new outrageous nail designs to try, or taking a hot cycling class.