Washable Workwear Wednesday: Crinkle Shirt
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Keeping dress shirts perfectly crisp and wrinkle-free is nearly impossible, so I can get behind a shirt where the crinkles are the point.
This shirt’s crinkled texture adds dimension and texture. This longline blouse is made from an organic cotton blend with a hint of stretch for comfort. While it stands out on its own, it would also look great layered under a sweater or wool jacket.
Eileen Fisher’s Crinkle Shirt is $158 and comes in black, “maritime” (navy), or this season’s favorite hue, coffee (brown). It’s available in XXS-XL as well as petites.
Looking for other washable workwear? See all of our recent recommendations for washable clothes for work, or check out our roundup of the best brands for washable workwear.
Sales of note for 10/12
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 6,200+ new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Flash Sale: 40% off full-price purchase + 60% off sale styles
- Banana Republic Factory – 50-70% off everything + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Friends & Family Event: Extra 25% off sale
- Express – Big Fall Fashion Sale: 40% off everything
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off at all stores and sitewide, 20% off $150+
- Lo & Sons – Fall sale, up to 40% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Fall Refresh Event, up to 25% off (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Talbots – Friends & Family Event: 30% off your entire purchase
Any recs for rear facing travel car seats? My brief research shows the cosco scenera next, is that still one of the best? That’s what I used ages ago, my kids are way older than that now but I’m helping a dear friend who is overwhelmed with a lot and has a newly 1-yr old. I remember the scenera being a beast to install but otherwise light and serviceable; would be willing to pay more for something more user friendly if it’s out there!
Recommendation time! The Manicurist Active Smooth nail polish/treatment looks fantastic. It is sheer but really makes my hands look more put together. No base or top coat. No chipping for 5+ days for me with 1 or 2 coats. Dries quickly. I am not a person who has worn polish on my hands for years but this is so maintainable I’m doing it regularly! Bonus that it supports nail strength and help.
Other rec: Maybelline eyeshadow stick called color tattoo in color I Am Cheeky. It’s the same shade as the Laura Mercier stick (I have both) in Amethyst. I prefer the maybelline for daily wear because it goes on very light at first and is easily blendable. The Laura Mercier is gorgeous and so highly pigmented that it feels a little too evening for the daytime, and also it leaves a crease print of darker pigment near my brow bone by the end of the day.
Shopping for a modular sectional sofa for our main living room and I am so overwhelmed. Hoping to have something in place by the time we host Thanksgiving. I have 5 and 7 year old boys but no pets, would prefer something that’s not gray – I like beige and saturated/jewel-toned colors, and don’t near a big city with a lot of resellers. Modular is a dealbreaker for my husband!
In a perfect world, we’d spend under $2k-ish, knowing that we will be hard on it and need to replace in 5 years. I like the options from Costco, especially the Henredon Corvin and the Thomasville Fallon. I get excited about options that are closer to $1k because I’m cheap, but it wouldn’t break us to spend more. What non-Costco options do you have and like? Do I need to completely throw away my budget for a Lovesac? Thank you!
Anyone up for a brag/sharing what’s going well in motherhood thread? We’ve all seen enough of the complaints – why not share the wins? Don’t worry about whether it’s “fair to take credit for it” – just share what’s making you happy!
I’ll start: after a rocky start with feeding and a lot of stress, our son is generally eating a variety of foods and doing well. He just saw family at an event and got SO many compliments for looking healthy and robust and handsome, which made me so happy after the challenges of his first year.
Also, we’ve been able to stick to our pre-parenting goals/intentions for screentime rules, which feels really nice.
I have so many thoughts on this! But it’s mostly based on what my mom did when I was a kid, as my kids aren’t reading independently yet.
~Primarily, I influence by supplying them with much better books. There are so many good books! I take them to the library around once a week and stock a full home library of excellent and fun books. I also expect to push challenging reading occasionally, because that’s my tiger mom trait.
~I’m already reading ahead to evaluate the new generation of books. It helps that I’m an absolutely avid reader. I’ve found a few I think are great (highly recommend “A Boy Called Bat” even for adults!) and a few that I would put off for longer than the recommended age (animal stories are all so so sad!). When the kids bring home things I haven’t read, I’ll probably do like my mom and grab them after bedtime.
~Many problematic issues will be fine to read about as long as we talk through them. But some are learning experiences about the content, and others will be learning experiences about the merit of certain books. The Color Purple and Twilight were both books about problematic controlling relationships, but one is a much better book!
~A few things I would outright ban from the house. The bar is pretty high, and probably different from what would bother most people. But there are lines.
I’m having trouble determining which toys are truly inappropriate for an under 3 year old versus simply labeled 3+ in an (over)abundance of caution. I get that part of it is kid specific. LO has never tried to pry the plastic eyes off stuffies but he cannot be trusted with anything that can become a thwapping stick. I’ve had to confiscate even 1-year old approved things like longer train tracks and those threading games because he flails them around like a… well like a flail.
I’m struggling to come up with Christmas gifts. For example, I keep hearing magnatiles are great, but they are 3+. I really wish toy stores were still abundant! How do parents these days determine whether their kid will appropriately respond to a toy before they buy it?
There was a post maybe a month back about someone looking for hunt and find books, and one of the posters recommended Pierre the Maze Detective.
Thank you! I’ve gotten the ones from our library and we’ve had a blast with them, my 5 year old tells stories when they do them (“Now, Carmen, come around the stairs, I’m waiting for you…”) and we pretended we were Carmen and Pierre when we did a corn maze earlier this month.
I posted last week about my daughter being influenced by diets in the Big Nate books, and I appreciated everyone’s comments. Curious how much screening people do of the books their elementary/middle schoolers are reading on their own? My kids bring home 20+ books per week from the library and school library, and other than making sure the reading level is fairly appropriate, I don’t do more than that (to my detriment I guess now that my 8 yr old is telling me she wants to go on a diet). For awhile, I wasn’t thrilled by the books she was bringing home about crushes and pushed back on those, but then she just started getting them from the school library, so I gave up. But I also agree with the poster I wouldn’t love the idea of my 13 yr old reading the ACOTAR series. Interested in other’s thoughts!