Lululemon’s Black Friday Deals Are The Best We’ve Seen Yet

As the ultimate destination for high-quality workout clothes and performance gear, Lululemon doesn’t need to get in on Black Friday — but it is, which is great news for our closet and perhaps less great for our wallet.

Taking place from November 23 through November 28, the premium activewear brand’s Black Friday event is your chance to stock up on the best leggings, sports bras, and more. Selfishly, we count the days until Black Friday simply because we’re genuine fans: In addition to keeping you posted on the best-selling styles that fellow gearheads are obsessed with, we’ve done deep dives on everything from swimwear to the oh-so-cozy Softstreme pieces the brand has to offer. And with the holidays just around the corner, you know we have you covered with the best holiday gift ideas, too.

Scroll on for some of our current fave finds from Lululemon’s We Made Too Much section, which we can only hope is a sign of things to come for next week’s sale festivities. (Afterward, if you’re still click-happy for more deals this weekend, check out our coverage of all the best Black Friday sales here.)

Black Friday Leggings Deals

Built to wick sweat, dry fast, and keep you cool, Lululemon’s low-friction, super-soft leggings are the workout staple you need.

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Black Friday Sports Bras & Tops Deals

From high-support bras to breathable tops perfect for yoga, Lululemon has you covered and supported (literally!) with breathable, adjustable, and even reversible sports bras.

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Black Friday Outerwear Deals

Top off any outfit with a hoodie or jacket that’s meant to be shown off. Whether it’s a cozy sherpa fleece or a velvety-soft oversized sweatshirt, you’ve got options when it comes to your cold-weather vibe.

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Black Friday Accessories Deals

Your Black Friday haul isn’t complete without a good accessory or two. From the internet-breaking Everywhere Belt Bag at unprecedented prices to cushioned slide sandals, here are a few of Lululemon’s most-coveted accessories and best scores.

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Black Friday Sweater Deals

Cue coziness with Lululemon’s array of chic knitwear — which, yes, is just as good as the performance pieces. Best of all, you can choose from a variety of fiber contents ranging from cotton to wool blends and much more.

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No One Does Thanksgiving Fashion Better Than Blair Waldorf

There’s a particular outfit from Gossip Girl’s six-season run that lives rent-free in my mind. It’s Upper East Side queen bee Blair Waldorf in a brocade mini A-line dress, paired with lace black tights and a chunky-rose shaped necklace in the Season 3 masterpiece Thanksgiving episode “The Treasures of Serena Madre.” 

It’s the kind of outfit — styled by the show’s costume designer Eric Daman — that makes Blair Waldorf a Thanksgiving fashion icon. The show ended in 2012, but Waldorf’s style inspires many fashion fans today. On TikTok, searches for “blair waldorf thanksgiving” have amassed over seven billion views.

@mariajuterud Forever fashion icon #foryou #fashiontiktok #outfitideas #gossipgirl #blairwaldorf #blairwaldorfedit #blairwaldorfaesthetic #blairwaldorfoutfit #gossipgirlaesthetic ♬ original sound – chairsbby

Throughout the show, Waldorf — known for her preppy style and deviously good headbands — rolls out Thanksgiving Day outfits that mix festive flair with elevated preppy staples. They also evoke Waldorf’s inner child, a result of her fond memories of the holiday (making pies with her father, for example) that implode over the course of the series, as each Thanksgiving episode blows her childish fantasies up in her face. 

Followers of Gossip Girl lore know that when Blair Waldorf is in the mood for pumpkin pie the outfits are about to be delicious. 

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Take, for example, the Season 1 Thanksgiving episode “Blair Waldorf Must Pie!,” in which the Upper East side princess is dressed in a lacy Marc Jacob mini dress, paired with a Trina Turk cape, lace tights, and thin gold headband. In that same episode, we see a flashback of Blair Waldorf’s previous Thanksgiving (a throwback scene of her parents cooking before their divorce cuts deep to any child of parental separation), where she’s wearing an A-line baby doll dress over a purple turtleneck and a thick green headband. 

While on paper the Thanksgiving outfits might not seem different from her usual style, visually, they hold an innocence and fantasy that’s hard to describe. And that’s because, just as with Waldorf, so much of our Thanksgiving traditions — coming back home, having a family dinner — are all about satisfying our inner children. 

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I speak from experience. Years ago, when I first became obsessed with Gossip Girl, Waldorf’s Thanksgiving style influenced me to go back to A-line dresses, bows, and headbands for the holiday. While I was already a grownup, her fall style gave me childish jitters that could only be calmed via an A-line dress and tights (even though I lived in the Caribbean at the time). Since then, every Thanksgiving I remind myself that, while the fantasies we ascribe to Thanksgiving may be just that, style can always help us fulfill them. 

Waldorf, for example, didn’t stop dressing for her inner child every single Thanksgiving, no matter how many schemes and only-daughter complexes exploded at the dinner table. In Season 3, we see her sport that gorgeous brocade frock while getting angry at her mom for her supposed pregnancy while Jason Derulo’s “Whatcha Say” plays in the background (that last detail is essential to this scene, I promise). By Season 4, she’s about to fly off to Paris to visit her dad wearing an orange plaid dress and sheer black tights when she gets derailed to see her best friend Serena in rehab. Every year, there she is, styled up with the best of intentions to celebrate her favorite holiday, including references to children’s clothing that somehow look chic on a 20-something. While she should know better by now, why waste an opportunity to create an unbelievably impossible fantasy? Or even dress up for it? 

@theclassicmadison Happy thanksgiving to all my gossip girl lovers 🖤🖤 channeling miss Blair Waldorf in my thanksgiving look #30daysofoutfits #preppy #blairwaldorf ♬ original sound – gossipgirl

Of course, Blair Waldorf’s Thanksgiving dinners are a lot fancier than most people’s. In reality, we mostly want to wear pants that are comfortable enough to accommodate the day’s many courses and maybe a sweater we’re okay with capturing in family photos. But, if Blair Waldorf is any indication, then a little style regression might be the best Thanksgiving fashion hack. Have an old baby doll dress hanging in your closet? Time to dust it off. Has there been a bow headband in your shopping cart for months? ‘Tis the season to give it a chance. Whatever makes you feel like Thanksgiving this year might actually be a fun time, just like the veiled nostalgia of your childhood makes it seem, wear it to dinner. 

If all fails, at least you’re wearing an outfit that makes your inner child smile. And that’s better than any cranberry sauce. 

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Vera Bradley Is Back Like It Never Left

TikTok creator Sean Taylor took note of the first time she saw a Vera Bradley handbag pop up on her “For You” page. The paisley-printed, quilted style brought her back to high school, a time when low-rise jeans and tube tops reigned. “I feel like I was seeing a bunch of little things that I was wearing in sophomore English class,” she says. With hip bone-grazing denim and strapless styles already big with the TikTok crowd, Taylor figured Vera Bradley bags would be next to get cool again. 

Turns out, she was right. On the app, searches for “Vera Bradley” have since grown to over 110 million views. It’s a cross-generational amalgamation of shoppers who never stopped wearing the brand — which was first launched in the 1980s and enjoyed mainstream popularity in the 2000s and 2010s when celebrities like Taylor Swift and Kelly Rutherford paraded their oversized totes — as well as a younger generation of users who were either too young to have one during the bag’s heyday or are discovering them for the first time.

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Caroline Lord, 24, remembers her elementary school Vera Bradley lunch box in the “Cupcakes Green” print. Among her friend circles, she says, Vera Bradley duffle bags were the “cool bag to have” at sleepover parties. “I have a love for the brand, as do most people my age,” says Lord.

Vera Bradley is just the latest brand from the early aughts to satisfy the nostalgic yearning of millennials and Gen Z on TikTok, following other ’00s mall mainstays like Gap, J. Crew, and Banana Republic enjoying viral success. On TikTok, it has become popular for creators to show off vintage duffle bags from the brand, as well as share their memories associated with the bags. There’s even a two-part video series that guesses what your favorite Vera Bradley print says about you. (My personal favorites: Java Blue says “horse girl,” Blue Rhapsody was for dance class.) 

“Vera Bradley is a nostalgic brand for many, especially those who associate core memories with our products,” Allison Hiatt, Vera Bradley’s chief marketing officer, tells Refinery29. “I think the rise in popularity of our bags on social media stems from that nostalgic element and the timelessness of our products.” Lord shares this feeling: “I still have the lunchbox saved just because it was so precious to me.”

TikTok creator Jessica Britvich also saved her Vera Bradley bags. In one video, she calls her duffle bag “old faithful.” Now 30, Britvich recalls being introduced to the brand in middle school when girls wore the tote bags to carry their books. “Every year, that would be like the back-to-school thing, to get a new tote bag from Vera Bradley,” she says. Later, in college, the duffle bag started gaining traction, prompting Britvich to go back to Vera Bradley for the bag she still owns today: “Love or hate the patterns, they are good quality and can hold your life in there.”

@jessbritvich #stitch with @HeySeanTaylor Long live the Vera Bradley Duffle #verabradley #verabradleyduffel #millennialcore #verabradleyduffle #millennialfashion ♬ You Can Do It – Instrumental – Ice Cube

Hiatt says that the brand’s core demographic at the moment is the 35 to 55 crowd, but that Vera Bradley considers itself a “cross-generational” company. And on TikTok, that’s exactly what’s brewing. Taylor, for example, says that her followers in their 30s and 40s, who used to prize the bags, have messaged her to say that their teenage daughters have put Vera Bradley bags on their Christmas wishlists. 

It’s enough to make Taylor — once tepid about the comeback — search for vintage Vera Bradley bags on Poshmark. “I have my eye on a yellow and blue tote that comes with a matching mini bag,” she says. “I feel like that might be me.”

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