Washable Workwear Wednesday: Phoebe Jersey Dress
This dress is a unicorn in that it has sleeves and pockets. It comes in a bunch of very twee prints, but the patterns are all small enough that it’s not overwhelmingly cutesy for work. It’s very highly rated at Boden and looks like a fun, easy dress that’s got some personality. Because it’s jersey…
Advice on Work-Life Balance — To Your Pre-Mom Self
2018 Update: We still love all the advice on work-life balance in this post — but you may also want to check out our more recent discussion on The Mommy Effect study and whether working moms underestimated the trials and tribulations of working motherhood. Over at Corporette, we recently rounded up some of the top…
Pumping Tuesday: Skipper Collar 3/4 Sleeve Blouse
Happy Tuesday! I was intrigued to see a reader give a shoutout to this VERY affordable blouse as “my unicorn post-partum work shirt” in a recent comment — as she noted: It has everything – flowy in the torso, lose enough that you can lift it to pump, dark colors, wears like iron, works with…
News Roundup
Some of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently… Refinery29 has some advice for business casual workwear. (Some of it is a little out there, though — what do you think?) Bloomberg looks at how motherhood is affecting women’s careers. The Washington Post describes how hard it is for…