Workwear Thursday: Michelle Stretch Ponte Trousers
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It’s raining highly-rated washable pants for work! We’re featuring one $51 pair over at Corporette proper today, but these NYDJ trousers (featuring NYDJ’s “famously flattering lift-tuck technology to help flatten the tummy and lift the rear”) are also highly-rated, also machine washable, and also on sale as part of the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale. Nice! They’re available in gray, black and a brown “ganache” for $75 during the sale — they’ll go back to $114 when prices go back up on August 8. NYDJ ‘Michelle’ Stretch Ponte Trousers
Check out our roundup of washable pants for work if you’re on the hunt.
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Sales of note for 5/14/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty Deals up to 25% off (ends 5/17)
- Ann Taylor – Suit Yourself! 30% off suiting (ends 5/16) + 25% off your full price purchase (ends 5/18) + extra 60% off sale (ends 5/14)
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Up to 60% off everything + extra 60% off sale + $1 shipping on all orders
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off long-weekend styles + 50% off select swim and coverups
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100+ + extra 20% off $125+
- M.M.LaFleur – Lots of twill suiting on sale! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off all markdowns (ends 5/18) + 30% off dresses, skirts, accessories, and shoes
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?
Just want to thank everyone for the advice you gave a few days ago about constant nausea, especially at work. Wanted to share that in addition to snacking on saltines and such, I also tried out acupuncture on Tuesday. Although I was still nauseous the night after, the next day and today my nausea is almost completely gone. I feel like a new person! It could be complete coincidence or even placebo, I have no idea. But I would definitely recommend it if anyone else is in the same situation!
My daughter (2.5) is suddenly telling us all the time that she is cold – including outside in 85+ heat, and when she is wearing flannel long sleeved pajamas in our apartment, which I keep at 73 degrees. She said it last night and I was about to ask if she had confused “hot” and “cold” when her teeth started chattering.
Is this a normal thing? Could it mean something else (one time she said it and what she wanted was a cuddle, not a blanket)? Or should I just dress her more warmly (which would mean sweat pants and a jacket in August)? I’m surprised that it’s just starting to come up in the last two weeks, even though she has known temperature words for months.
I’m at wit’s end. Expecting #2 with a 4 year old daughter. The 4 year old has a hard time staying in her bed in her room all night. She will call for us every 2-3 hours during the night wanting us to hold her, pat her back, get her blanket, etc. Both DH and I are exhausted waking up 4-6 times a night because she’s yelling for us. I hear 4-5 year old sleep struggles are normal but…are they really? Any ideas on how to get her back to bed and self-soothe without us having to visit her multiple times at night?
I’ve been exhausted in my first trimester and have been napping a lot. She knows about the impending arrival of a sibling and is VERY excited. Sometimes I wonder if she calls out to us (mostly me) at night because she doesn’t get enough time with me during the day? I don’t know. Would love any ideas.
Background info:
She sleeps about 1.5 hours every afternoon at daycare.
Her bedtime is roughly 8-8:30 pm preceded by bath, milk, storytime in that order.
She usually gets up around 6-6:30.
Has anyone tried Toppik spray for thinning hair? I’m so embarrassed of how wide my part is – in pictures it looks like a scar on my head – and I’m wondering if this will help. I used to have really thick, lovely hair and PCOS + pregnancy has ruined it.
Question: My son went to the dentist for the first time when he turned 3. They didn’t do x-rays but did clean his teeth and were super nice. We’ve since moved, and life got in the way, and I’ve finally gotten him another appointment. But this new practice (also mine) said they’re going to do x-rays. Is that normal for a 4.5 year old? Seems a little excessive to me, but correct me if I’m wrong!!
Best way to say thank you to daycare teacher that is not my son’s normal teacher? Teacher came in after hours last night to let me in because dad forgot his nebulizer.
Question for moms: what sort of classes would you recommend so I’m ready to give birth in November?
I have a six-hour class at the hospital, but due to scheduling had to do it over two days in September rather than the weekly classes. I would prefer to go without an epidural, but I don’t have any philosophical opposition to one. Most of my close friends have horror stories that ended in unplanned c-sections, and my mom’s were amazingly short and easy (if she’s to believed), so I’m not getting great advice about how to prepare. I’m concerned that I’ll be six weeks out from birth and realize the class I took wasn’t enough, but I also don’t want to spend twelve weeks in a natural childbirth class that includes a lot of information I don’t need and preaching I don’t agree with.
What did you do to prepare, and would you have done it differently?
Any recommendations for books about raising siblings? I’ve heard of the classic Siblings Without Rivalry– is this still relevant? Useful for small children? I want to avoid some of the effects my sister and I have discussed as adults, including feeling trapped in our archetypes (Redux is smart; Sister is creative) and also interested in practical advice about engendering support and cooperation from an early age.
One thing I’ve heard that I like is not to blame the baby for things that effect the toddler. E.g. “We have to leave the park because baby needs to nap” is better expressed as “We have to leave the park because it is time,” so that the toddler doesn’t resent the baby. Any other things you’ve found useful for small children siblings?
@buffybot, thank you for the Embryo Hunger Games comment. That made me laugh!! Hugs to you as you head into IVF.
I got 38 freaking eggs. NO WONDER I was so bloated! Of course who knows how many are mature, will fertilize etc. See above re: hunger games.
But, I’m back at work and feeling mostly fine, though sore. I’m feeling good about FET being a month out, because it will give me some time to recover and I have travel coming up for work so the time should fly. It really is crazy to think if the first FET works it’ll have been two full years of ‘trying’ (15 months on our own and 9 months of treatments!).
I tried a pair of NYDJ pants once and they were frump-tastic. I felt like I aged 20 years instantly.