Work-From-Home Friday: Cropped Wool Cardigan
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I’ve had the good fortune of working at home full time for the past few months. While I’ve given up wearing dresses for the time being, I’ve settled on a work uniform that consistently includes sweatpants and leggings. I’ve tried countless ways to make those bottoms feel more work-ready. Over the summer, I wore “dressy” T-shirts and tanks. As we rapidly race into winter, I’ve started adding a cozy sweater or cardigan.
Recently, I’ve been pairing higher waisted pants with a cropped top (not the belly-baring cropped tops of the ’90s, but one that hits my natural waist). My latest purchase is Thakoon’s Cropped Wool Cardigan. Yes, that Thakoon of the high fashion runway now makes thoughtful, well-designed clothes you can wear on the runway of real life.
This luxurious, medium-weight cardigan feels so soft and comes in three lovely, versatile colors. (I have it in the pictured rust red and love it paired with both black and navy.) For now, I plan to wear it curled up on my couch. However, it will also easily transition back to the office when the time comes.
The cardigan is $78 (marked down from $195) and available in XS to XL. Cropped Wool Cardigan
This cropped cardigan from Bobeau comes in sizes 1X to 3X and is on sale for $40 at Nordstrom, reduced from $68.
Sales of note for 5/14/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty Deals up to 25% off (ends 5/17)
- Ann Taylor – Suit Yourself! 30% off suiting (ends 5/16) + 25% off your full price purchase (ends 5/18) + extra 60% off sale (ends 5/14)
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Up to 60% off everything + extra 60% off sale + $1 shipping on all orders
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off long-weekend styles + 50% off select swim and coverups
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100+ + extra 20% off $125+
- M.M.LaFleur – Lots of twill suiting on sale! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off all markdowns (ends 5/18) + 30% off dresses, skirts, accessories, and shoes
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?
Ladies – My 4 year old tested positive for COVID this AM. She’s asymptomatic. Obviously we’ll quarantine but any thoughts on sleeping arrangements? We have a two bedroom apartment and the four year old shares a room with our 1 year old. Praying we all stay healthy. Any other tips on how to manage if any of you have been through this?
We are almost to winter break, but I am running out of patience and need advice on how to get us through this school year. My Kindergartner is in a full day program (8:30-3) which I know is a lot, but has also been in full day daycare and preschool since birth. Our district is virtual at the moment (they’re making noise about a return to classroom option in January but no specifics yet). He is miserable and so am I.
He will not pay attention. He won’t repeat anything the teacher says. He won’t do the work when she asks. He will disrupt the class at least twice a day. My DH and I both WFH and have a 2nd grader also in virtual learning. We’ve tried having him sit with each of us, having him alone in his room, having him at the dining room table and us within earshot but not next to him. None of that changes his behavior. We’ve tried explaining what he should do. We’ve tried demonstrating what he should do. We’ve tried taking a day off and sitting next to him to help, which only marginally improves his behavior. It seems like he’s about average for his class, maybe? There are other kids who are more disruptive/ disengaged, and others who actually participate.
Some of this is just typical kindergartner, and some of this is due to the unnatural state of being on video calls for 6 hours a day (his teacher gives tons of breaks, and they get an hour at lunch where we go for a walk or get outside and play almost every day). But regardless, this is not working for any of us. Pulling him and homeschooling him for the rest of the year won’t work – even if one of us could quit/ pause our jobs, neither of us has any desire or training to be a teacher.
What are my options? Are there tips we aren’t using? Are there alternatives we’re not thinking of? Should we just… let him goof off since it’s “only” kindergarten? How are other working parents managing this?
For the mom with the daughter with ED who posted yesterday – I saw that post too late to reply, but wanted to agree with other commenters that you def want to walk through this with her care team. Some people with ED are strongly triggered by clothing sizes and going up from one size to another could be an extremely emotionally challenging event. For others, the sensation of too-tight clothes is triggering bc it physically communicates that you’re getting larger, and moving to clothes that don’t feel too tight could actually relieve some of that emotional distress. It really is fairly particular to the patient and her therapist will be able to help.
I was a kid with ED and would have really struggled with this, so good on you for being sensitive to it.
For those that celebrate, what do you usually do for Christmas vs what are your plans this year? How are you talking to the kids about it?
for us, We usually have a big my mom’s side family Christmas Eve party, followed by my immediate family coming up to my house (we live a two hour drive away), sleeping over, and doing a my-side Christmas morning/brunch, then my family all leaves and my kids sit around and play. DH’s family is just his parents and they do not fly and live across the country. We usually do a Christmas Eve Morning facetime and open presents that way.
This year, plans are still a bit in flux but I think my family (mom, dad, brother/SO, sister) is coming to our house Christmas morning for presents. They’ve all been fairly isolated throughout the pandemic and my mom has been providing us childcare. The kids will Zoom with DH’s parents, maybe christmas day instead of christmas eve. I think we’ll have a really low key christmas eve.
I’m really sad because my grandmother is still alive at 94 and the Christmas Eve Party is what she lives for. She’s been the host and I’ve gone every year since I was born (I’m 38!). Literally, the world could end and we’d all still be at her house for Christmas Eve.
But this year, we just can’t. Forget indoor gathering size limitations (we’d be a group of ~22 in a state with a 10 person cap), she’s 94 and nobody in our extended family can say for sure they are COVID-free (my aunt just had it, my brother is a nurse and has had it, my kids go to daycare, my uncle is a firefighter, etc). Even if we were all tested, we don’t feel like we can show up business-as-usual. I think my aunt and uncle plan to go to her house for Traditional Christmas Eve. I worry so much that in the midst of a really hard year, not having Her Event will really break her.
In the most 2020 of 2020 moves, it would seem that my IVF frozen embryo transfer is going to fall on Christmas morning. This is my first transfer. I have a 2.5 year old from a successful IUI. It’s been 14 months trying for #2 and this feels just horribly perfect… perfectly horrible? I don’t know.
Can anyone talk me through what the transfer is like? How fast it is? I know it’s way less intense than the retrieval – no anesthesia. Is it like an IUI? The one day in all of 2020 I genuinely want to stay home with my family. Sigh.
One of the reviews of this is so funny — “I have been looking for the cardigan for years. I have purchased several that were too long, too scratchy, too something I didn’t like. Even resorting to vintage shops. This sweater is the perfect length and silhouette for the wide leg jeans and trousers I love.
I would not recommend to any of my friends because they would not want to spend this much, AND they still have not warmed to wide leg. Still wearing their skinny jeans and jeggings and looking so 2000.”
In 2000, it was ALL about the lowrise flare/bootcut jeans and platform shoes. I also remember wearing very wide leg jeans and pants at the time, but very long ones, not the cropped length popular now. No one would have been caught dead in skinny jeans and jeggings didn’t even exist in 2000!
Has anyone else gotten more sensitive to wool as they got older? I swear I used to be able to wear it no problem but now anything with wool in it — or honestly, ANY animal fur (including cashmere!) makes me itchy.