Washable Wednesday: Adele Print Matte Jersey Wrap Dress
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Labor day sales have already started — over at Corporette I did a mini roundup for Last Call’s excellent sale (look at these cute little kneepads for crawling babies!), and will be doing one later this morning for the Nordstrom clearance sale, which just started this morning. For Washable Wednesday I’m liking this wrap dress from BCBG MaxAzria. This is one of those dresses that has been a hit for the company, and it returns every season in new colors and prints. I think it could work for pumping, or even work as a nursing dress with a nursing camisole beneath it. It was $198, but is now marked to $118 at Nordstrom. BCBGMAXAZRIA ‘Adele’ Print Matte Jersey Wrap Dress
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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?
Piggybacking off the above thread: Has anyone gotten pressured by their supervisor to shorten their leave? If so, how did you deal with it?
I’m 36 weeks pregnant and my boss has made abundantly clear his expectation that I work up until the end. (Example: the person covering for me is starting two business days before my due date, and my boss expressed his delight that the two of us “would have at least a few days of overlap.”) I’m having an uncomplicated pregnancy so far, and have only recently started feeling the tiredness and achiness creep in — but regardless, I feel kind of resentful of the expectation. As if that’s not annoying enough, an even bigger problem is that my boss still expects me to cover an enormous project with an internal deadline a couple of weeks after I return from leave. There is no way I’ll be able to finish the project in a couple of weeks, so I feel like his position is a not-s0-thinly veiled attempt to get me to come back earlier, and/or to come back and work like a dog to get this done. I’m not planning to take a ton of time off — about 15 weeks, mostly unpaid.
I’m really not sure how to handle this. When I first shared the news of my pregnancy, I was told to “take as much time as I need.” But now that the reality of my being out is creeping in, I feel like that’s definitely not the expectation.
How do people do it?? I’m only 33 weeks, and I am already really struggling to get through the day. I’m in biglaw, so the hours and stress aren’t exactly light, but my schedule has been fairly decent (by biglaw standards) recently, and I’m still struggling. Do most people just push through till 40 (or more…) weeks? Or do a lot of people leave work earlier and just not talk about it? Ideally, I want to save as much of my maternity leave time for after the baby comes, but at what price to my own complete discomfort?
Would love advice on what, specifically, to do to look for a new job/develop a new job without having your employer aware in a smaller town market.
Part of the issue is that I need a shorter commute, have family obligations with two young children, one of whom has medical issues, and legitimately less working hours and am okay with taking a pay cut in order to make that happen in the short term. Part of the issue is that I can see I am basically in a dead-end position within the context of my current firm and there are a lot of administrative issues – there simply does not exist an opportunity to advance in pay or in the direction of law I would like to practice.
There are two local bar associations – one has 40 members, one has 35. There are only two firms with more than five attorneys in this region (which I am tied to). Truly everyone knows everyone. I can do this with a long-term game plan – 6-12 months, but I need some kind of game plan. I know my firm and if word got out that I was at all interested in looking, they’d let me go in a heartbeat. They are well known for not caring at all about associate retention. I have a good reputation, I think, but I don’t know how to move the conversation from “everything is going well” to “I might be interested in buying your law practice” or “I might be interested in joining/partnering with you.” Any thoughts or experience?