Washable Workwear Wednesday: Honor Dress
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This Honor Dress was a big hit when I featured it over at Corporette a while ago, and now it’s on sale. I love the sleeves, pooch-friendly ruching, and the fact that it’s machine washable. It’s part of the HUGE Boden sale — tons of washable workwear, including this dress). It was $118, but is now marked to $82-94; it’s available in black, blue, and green in regular, petite, and long sizes. Honor Dress
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Sales of note for 4/16/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 5,521 new markdowns for women!
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your entire purchase + 50% off one full-price item
- Banana Republic Factory – 50%-70% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – $29+ select styles + extra 40% off all sale
- J.Crew – Spring Event: 40% off sitewide + extra 40% off all sale
- J.Crew Factory – 40%-70% off everything + 60%-70% off spring faves
- M.M.LaFleur – New collection just dropped! Use code CORPORETTE15 for 15%
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off select tops + 30% off dresses, skirts, shoes & accessories + 40% off all markdowns
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?
Related to AB’s comment, can anyone give me ideas for an 18-month-old boy’s Halloween costume? He doesn’t really have any favorite characters or anything like that yet. I’m not at all creative, don’t own a hot glue gun, and can’t even sew a button, so I’m looking for something I can buy or make by combining common household items. I honestly don’t even care about Halloween (last year, I was relieved to have a wedding to go to, and my SIL made a costume for Kiddo). But I think this year they may have something at day care, and our family will probably want to get the cousins together and will expect him to be in costume.
My 4-year-old son wants to be a cat for Halloween. I’m looking for a full costume (not just the ears and tail) that isn’t super girly, but I’m having trouble. Any tips?
How much stock do you put in your dreams/ how much do you read into your partner’s dreams? Real question: should I be worried about my husband’s recurring dream?
My husband has a recurring dream that I leave him. In the dream we do not have kids (in real life we have 1 and another on the way), and I say something about how this isn’t the life I want, and I leave him. So, not a cheating dream or an I hate you dream or a constant fighting dramatic breakup dream, but just… I leave.
He’s told me about the dream a few times in the last year, which probably means he’s had it more than that. It makes him really sad and we always have a sit down look-in-eyes little conversation afterwards about how that would never ever happen which I think he and I both know, but this probably reflects a strong anxiety he has, right? Generally our relationship is awesome. We did transition to a new town with all the bumps that entails– finding new jobs, new friends, new routines, etc. And as I said, we have a second baby on the way. But he and I are super solid in-it-to-win-it golden in our relationship. Should I be worried about this apparent anxiety?
How worried should I be? My kiddo’s daycare has been looking — with varied degrees of urgency — for the better part of a year for a new teacher. It’s a small center, and they aren’t understaffed by licensing standards, but everyone is stretched just a little thin, and I can see that the teachers are getting worn out. It’s a Bright Horizons, which is supposed to be a great place to work, and I’m honestly getting a bit concerned about *why* they can’t recruit someone to work there.
Does anyone have good tips, advice, resources for being the sandwich generation?
We relocated to be closer to my extremely high-maintenance parents, as I am an only child and they were beginning to face age-related health challenges. Now their demands for our time and attention are endless. If they had it their way, we’d talk at least daily, and visit multiple times a week. Spending time or engaging with them is exhausting because of some non-curable mental health issues on their parts. (For example, they are always at least 45 minutes late, are great at making logistics super complicated unnecessarily, love to pick fights when we spend time together). As is, we see them about twice a week and CONSTANTLY hear about how they never, ever see us.
I have started to get migraines frequently, and the strain of their ridiculousness is really taking a toll on our marriage. Any time we set the smallest boundary with them, we are met by iciness and a load of other nonsense that frequently is more work than just doing whatever they want. I have gone no-contact before, and am not close to doing that, but I have got to rebalance our lives so that we have at least some protected time as a family without their insanity running the show.
How do those of you with a nanny handle paid time off, if at all? Do you pay for federal holidays that fall on days she would otherwise work? Vacations that you take (without nanny)? We are about to hire our first nanny and I’m clueless on a lot of things!
Baby’s first birthday is in a month (already!) and I would like to skip the opening of presents section. Is that common nowadays? Is it rude?
I mentioned it to my mom and she was surprised and bummed out.
We’re thinking about a daycare change from a large, corporate daycare that is a 2 min walk from my work, to a home daycare setting where she hopefully will pick up a second language and we’ll save thousands of dollars a year, which we would notice at our income level. Downside to a switch is I lose my lunchtime visit and carpool buddy, adding about 15 min to my hour-long commute. Upside to a switch I think she will get better care in a smaller setting. She is such a good baby that she doesn’t require much attention, so I don’t think she’s getting it currently. I think she gets lost amongst the more needy babies.
I know I didn’t ask a question, but I would like to solicit any feedback. I know yesterday there was the discussion about food v. distance, and that’s a factor too.
Ugh…It’s tough to feel confident about ANY decision. You want the best, but it’s hard to know what that actually is. Everything is a tradeoff it seems.
For moms of more than one kiddo– I am starting holiday shopping. I’ll have a 3 y/o and a 6 month old by the holidays and I need some ideas for the little one. Mostly, I want Big Kid to see Little Kid getting pre sot so I’m fine with wrapping up stuff I’d buy Little Kid anyway and calling it a present. We have all the typical baby toys (shape sorter, music cube, rings, soft blocks, duplos, stacking cups, etc etc etc) and books, so I’m looking for ideas of joint presents, or things that you got along the way that were fun for babies that mine might enjoy.
I’m also going to have to provide suggestions for relatives, ugh, so i’ll take whatever you’ve got! So far, I’ve got a long list for the older kid, a few joint ideas (sand/water table, easel, movies, etc) but can’t think of a thing for JUST the little one.
I ordered this and it was super cute but I didn’t find it really matched a need in my current life. It was a little too S E X E Y for work and my social life these days mostly involves pants with a lot of spandex and gym shoes. If you are really slim up and down, it could probably be more work appropriate.