Everyone Thursday: Vergine Sweater Dress
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A sweater dress may not be on your list this week, but this casual but chic sweater dress from Club Monaco is part of the great sale going on. Not only is the cashmere blend, hand washable dress marked down from $190 to $70, you can take another 30% off with code THESALEONSALE. I love it as styled with tall boots for a casual, wintry day at the office, but you could dress it up with a long pendant necklace (hello, the tassel necklace would be perfect) and classic pumps. Club Monaco Vergine Sweater Dress
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Sales of note for 5/8/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Up to 50% off select styles + 15% off fragrance (exclusions apply; ends 5/11) + give $150 in gift cards, earn a $25 promo card (ends 5/13)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your full-price purchase + extra 40% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 40-60% everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – $25+ select styles + extra 45% off all sale
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off must-have styles + extra 50% off select sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 50% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 25% off all tops, pants, jeans, and shorts + 25% off all markdowns
And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
I am attending a baby shower this weekend. I’m past the baby shower phase myself, so this feels like a fun and novel activity. I’m actually looking forward to kibbutzing about baby/pregnancy stuff–about which I have tons of (now) useless knowledge–and then (key part) remembering that I’m done with the pregnancy/infant game 4-evah (my youngest sleeps through the night and has for months! I’m done bfing! wheee!!!). The feeling is not schadenfreude, but something close… relief? Happiness I survived?
That being said: what’s the craziest shower experience you’ve had? Like, horrid gift? Terrible cousin antics? My shower experience is limited, tbh, so my best story involves only that I was once able to exactly pinpoint the age of a baby at a shower (2 months) immediately upon meeting said child and mother, which shocked her and my friends who were with us (like, HOW DID YOU KNOW?!?!?!). (I’d already had two kids by then, so it was more like an experienced parent’s party trick than a juicy story.)
So I am not a parent (yet), but I’d love to hear how parents on this site approach screentime (TV, movies, ipads, etc.) for young children. My main questions are:
1. What plans or goals, if any, did you have regarding screen time before your child was born?
2. What, in actuality, has been the case since your child was born? How has it changed as the child gets older? Do you have specific rules/boundaries, or are things handled on a more ad hoc basis? Are you and any other caregivers (including your partner, if any) on the same page?
3. Do you prefer certain shows, apps, games, etc. to others?
Can anyone recommend a cooler bag or other contraption they like for taking bottles and parts to pump at work and/or on the go? I am heading back to work next week and trying to figure all this out. I am also looking for recs for a tote or cross body bag of some kind to carry the massive amount of stuff to and from work (usual purse stuff, occasional files, pump, cooler, occasional pair of heels, and, in my dreams, some gym clothes).
I love this for weekend wear but I don’t think I could wear this to my business casual biglaw office. I think it would need a belt (in addition to pumps and the right jewelry) to make it more structured.
But I might order it anyway. If you’re between sizes, do you think you would order up or down?