Washable Workwear Wednesday: Alice Shirt
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I still have not found a dress shirt I truly love. Marie Marot specializes in women’s shirting, and perhaps their Alice shirt is the one I’ve been looking for.
This striped cotton shirt comes in six color combinations. The slightly oversized silhouette balances traditional details like a single front pocket, and white collar and cuffs. Take this traditional Monday through Friday option into the weekend by adding a pair of your favorite jeans and comfortable loafers.
The Alice shirt starts at $174, depending on the color, and comes in sizes XS-XXL.
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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
while I’m in total agreement with all of the posts below (and even a contributor to said posts) about not getting along well with parents as an adult, but it also makes me feel a bit like what’s the point in trying with my own kids.
Anyone rat their parents out for their driving and live to tell the tale?
My MIL walked my son through a crime scene (someone blew through a traffic stop, police chase, drove and struck a police officer) because she couldn’t see / process that it was a situation that should be avoided. My son got a long look at what he thought was a dead body as a result.
We had assumed her poor vision was mostly up close, but now we are questioning both her vision and judgment/cognitive capacity.
I think ethically we have to report her but my husband’s reluctant. We’re in the UK, and there’s a provision to report anonymously.
I’m going to visit my parents with my 2 year old, and there house is not toddler-proofed. It’s the first time I’ve visiting with my kid, because they are borderline hoarders and all the time in the house itself will be stressful. They have finally gotten over the fact that I won’t be staying there, but I still need to book a hotel. Are there any reasonably priced hotel chains that have bedrooms? Or at least sitting areas away from the bed, so I don’t have to spend the whole night in a dark room?
A recent thread about what to do for your spouse when you go out of town hit home this week and I wanted to share a few things DH did before he left town: roll the big heavy trashcan to the street and arrange pet care. I totally forgot that our puppy can’t yet be home by herself for 8 hours while I’m in the office. So he arranged doggie day care, and even though I had to drop her off and pick her up, whew! So that’s something that the traveling spouse could do to make life a little easier.
Also, I was low key dreading solo parenting because I don’t have confidence in my executive functioning when I’m solo parenting, but even though my ipad battery died overnight, meaning no alarm this morning, and because I stayed up reading until midnight, and even said puppy slept in, my and the kids were dressed, breakfasted, and out the door in 30 minutes and were not late to school! Major win.
I missed the mother’s day complaints thread Monday but my real takeaway was that i really do need to get off social media. I have four kids 3 – 10. Three of them had made me a card at school and I got two of those that evening although one was my second grader’s coupon book which had things like “make my bed” which didn’t feel particularly generous haha. What he DID do was host my extended family, including mother, for dinner at our house that night. Soooo I guess it’s good he kept his inlaws happy? I do feel like mothers who are in the middle of raising children should be celebrated a bit more on this day than grandparents though – I will hopefully remember this!
If you’ve made it through that essay, I realized the real issue I have with mother’s day and all of the celebrations is that even though we see her often, I am not super close to my mom. If we were peers, I do not think we would be friends. She tries to be an involved grandparent, she was an involved parent (and SAHM). It makes me feel like I’m doing something wrong. We had lunch yesterday with another woman and my mom just kind of got on my nerves for much of the lunch. And then I feel like a horrible person. I have no traumatic experiences to relay or anything like that. We have different senses of humor. I don’t know, it’s weird. She raised me and was totally a good mom. Does anyone else feel this way? It feels like such a guilty secret on a day when everyone is posting “happy mother’s day to the best that ever did it” or “happy mother’s day to my best friend” and whatnot. I feel doubly guilty since it’s a hard day for people who have lost their moms, and I realize I’m lucky to still have mine.
PSA for pregnant women and moms of small children: you may be entitled to a temporary handicap placard in your state. I started looking into this because my parking garage at work has such narrow spots that I can’t open my door fully (I have a small sedan), which means I knew I wouldn’t be able to get in and out of my car in my third trimester. There are no expectant mother spots.
I called the DMV and they said pregnant women and parents of a child under 3 can get a temporary handicap placard. My OBGYN was totally unfamiliar with this – to my surprise – and at first refused to sign the form because “it’s not like you’re disabled.” There is literally no other spot in my parking garage that is accessible to me rn, so yes, I do have a medical condition that requires accommodation temporarily. I spoke to a different provider and she signed the form no problem. It took about 2 weeks to get the placard — just in time for my belly button to pop! As always, don’t be afraid to advocate for yourself and your needs!
thank you everyone for your very kind and supportive comments yesterday to my post regarding caring for my dad post surgery (and having twins). I’m kind of in a lose-lose situation with my dad no matter what at this point, i should’ve shut down this idea long ago.
I kind of love the rage level in the comments right now; sounds like this crazy time of year is starting to get to everyone.
I’m SO IRRITATED with everything right now, but I’m going to hone in on websites where the links at the top of the page drop down when your cursor floats over the link but you don’t click it. i’M TRYING TO CLICK ON THE ITEM THAT YOUR DUMB DROP DOWN JUST COVERED UP. STOP MAKING IT HARDER FOR ME TO BUY STUFF FROM YOU.
Any other peeves to let out?
I just feel like if my stupid doctor wants me to have a fetal echocardiogram, their office should find room for me on the schedule. And if they won’t and send me to some other random place and I wait for fully half an hour on hold only to be told they won’t book me either, that’s it. That is all the energy I have and I’m just not doing it. I’m so over them acting like I can just make appointments and then their office saying no. I’ll just give birth in a barn.
What even is this photo? I appreciate the realism of what I might look like at the end of a stressful day wearing this shirt (if, you know, unbuttoning almost to the navel were appropriate in my office) but it doesn’t show it to its best advantage! There’s some weird photoshop thing going on with the pants too…why do they abruptly get tight below the knee? Did she blouse them into combat boots?