Splurge or Save Thursday: Albia Tweed Dickey Jacket
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I love a tweed jacket as an alternative to a traditional suit jacket. This one from Veronica Beard is a stunner!
This sharp, black-and-white tweed jacket features a modern collarless V-neck, crest buttons, and black-stitched embroidery.
I’d pair it with wide-leg trousers and a black shell for the office, and jeans and a tee for the weekend.
The Albia Tweed Jacket is $748 and available in sizes 00–16. For a more economical option, check out this double-breasted version from Ann Taylor for $179 (currently 50% off with code “FORECAST”). It comes in regular sizes 00–18 and petite sizes 00–14.
Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
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?
So my twin who wasn’t sleeping last week was hospitalized this week with acute bronchiolitis. We’re home now and he’s doing ok, not great. I’ve requested a referral to a pulmonologist. This is really hard. His twin is sick with cold symptoms, his older brother is having allergies and I’m sick from exhaustion/respiratory issues (we’ve all tested negative for Covid). I haven’t slept in four months. I’m not caring/throwing all the money I can at my problems. I’m just exhausted.
Has anyone successfully gotten their kid to stop W-sitting? After a year of constantly telling him to sit with his feet together, he still W-sits about 90% of the time. Wondering if there’s anything else we can do, as he’s already starting to in-toe.
There’s a post over on Ask A Manager today with the title “it feels impossible to be a working mom with little kids”. Sounds a lot like what people here have been dealing with.
Just a thank you to whoever recommended Snowy Day on Amazon Prime. I had a nice 30 min couch/email session with an absurdly still toddler this morning (due to the ongoing two week center closure for FOUR positive cases) and the show was delightful. And Boyz II Men cameo!!!
One caution – especially if you have/had any pelvic floor issues or had a traumatic birth, be really cautious about high-impact like running/jumping. My dr ok’d running at 6 weeks (?!!!) and that is what NOT to jump into if you have pelvic floor problems/prolapse. If you arent’ sure if you have that, do some research on your own and don’t rely on your dr. A lot of them know shockingly little and it can cause damage/set you back in recovery. Build core/PF first. Hab It is by a PT, and has $10 video series. I’d start there to build your foundation. http://www.hab-it.com/buy-videos/
4yo tested positive a week ago. Husband was positive on PCR a few days ago, with his symptoms dating back to the weekend. My PCR is pending but my symptoms also started last weekend. Our 1 year old PCR tested negative yesterday.
In this scenario, would you keep testing the 1 year old? Does he technically need to quarantine 10 days past our 10 day quarantine? I keep hearing about people with these staggered quarantines and I’m not sure how they arrived at the numbers. I guess it’s possible tomorrow the 1 year spikes a terrible fever and then tests positive, but I really feel like he would have gotten it by now as he was exposed to the 4 year old in the days before 4yo’s symptoms developed, just like we were.
I am just dreading another week of quarantine. It is super struggle bus over here. The 1yo knocked over a plant this morning while both parents were on a call and the preschooler was doing a learning app, so I thought “yes, this is it, we’re doing it, we can survive!” then…. CRASH. dirt and broken ceramic everywhere.
Kiddos headache broke during the night, we figured he was feeling better when he said it was his bear’s birthday when he woke up at 12, and decided it was morning at 430 and began planning bear’s party (that’s what happens when you fall asleep at 5pm). Luckily persuaded him back to sleep. But now I’ve got a splitting headache and cold symptoms. We did a drive thru PCR this am, hoping it’s back tomorrow first thing so he can go to nursery and I can watch Netflix. Our energy level mismatch is a problem…
3.5 year old still puts tons of stuff (mostly toys) in his mouth. Is this something I seek help/a referral from the pediatrician for or just something I’m supposed to figure out myself?
How can I teach my 6 year old to bathe herself? I am SOOOO sick of giving baths! Its a struggle to get her to take one, she refuses to lean back under the faucet so I have to still use the whale cup thingy and I’m just done with it. What’s a reasonable age to expect this? Also, same question for cutting her own fingernails–I still do this too. Am I babying her?
I know this has probably been discussed a bunch of times, but for those who have had kiddos with omicron, how did they do? Have a toddler and a preschooler who were exposed. Toddler is now sick, ugh. We are home waiting on test results but I’m guessing they both have it.
Slightly piggy backing off Anon101’s question: if anyone has resumed exercising after having a baby- how? Any tips?
I was an annoyingly fit person throughout my pregnancy but baby is 6 months old now and I haven’t really been working out since delivery. I attempted to get back in the routine at 6 weeks and 3 months, and quickly stopped both times (at 6 weeks because I definitely wasn’t physically ready, 3 months was probably more mental).
I’m still breastfeeding and waking up about once a night to feed. I know I have the time if I’m flexible about when exercise, but I usually don’t have the willpower when I have the free time.
Can I just tell into the void today?
I simultaneously can understand that I’m playing for a daycare slot, not the hours, get why they charge me, and be mad at paying $1100 for 7.5 hours of care because of quarantines.
Today it physically hurt making that transfer of cash.
Any unicorn WFH moms out there with young kids at home (cared for but subject to daily interruptions) who have managed to solidify a schedule that includes working out regularly, having some time for deep thinking/reflection/planning and being productive/focused at work at least half the day? If so, please tell me your weekly/daily schedule? I care not about having a superclean home in favor of focusing on the above!