Washable Workwear Wednesday: Elland Stretch-Crepe Dress
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Now that spring is in full bloom, I’m looking to add some brightness to my wardrobe.
I just got a catalog from The Fold, and their Elland Dress caught my eye — its vibrant blue is perfect for the warm days ahead, while the folded neckline will flatter your face for your next Zoom meeting. Its stretch crepe fabric and asymmetric pleats are also perfect for those striding back to the office.
The dress is $395 and available in U.S. sizes 2–12.
Another washable option with the same sharp cap sleeves is the Sarah Dress from M.M.LaFleur. It’s currently on sale for $80. While black is available in 0P to +3, the other five colors (deep indigo, deep plum, pomegranate, posey, viridian, and black) are lucky sizes only.
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?
This is a really interesting essay — it breaks down the mental load into four parts. Anticipate, identify, decide, monitor. What a helpful framework — and like the study, I do almost all of the anticipate and monitor, probably 3/4 of identify, yet we decide jointly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/parenting/women-gender-gap-domestic-work.html
Sometimes I wonder how my husband would cope if something happened to me, and my kid would constantly be in too-small clothes, not enrolled in aftercare, subsist on takeout, etc. But he loves kiddo to pieces and that’s the most important thing.
Can you go to physical therapist that specializes in this? That would be my first recommendation. If that’s not an option, I’d check out the Every Mother program and/or Expecting and Empowered. I was working on mine and then got pregnant again so haven’t successfully closed one yet so no advice on that front. But I was super excited to hear that with my planned C-section they will also close my DR surgically when they stitch me back up. Small bright side to that.
First day back in the office today (voluntarily; remote work is continuing until September) since March 12, 2020, and it is weird. Like a time warp. Notes from the things I was working on in March (I was out for an appointment and then everything shut down, so there wasn’t a planned, I’ll be out for a while let me pack things up exit), a calendar that says February, books open to the pages I left them on, lots of expired food and medicine, and a shocking amount of dust considering I’m pretty sure the cleaning crew is supposed to be dusting. But it’s nice to see people in person and be free of kid distractions! Just very surreal. I hear more people will be coming in as they are fully vaccinated (I am) but it’s both weird and awesome to see even the handful of people here who are not DH or DD.
We’d like to get my daughter a bike for her 3rd birthday. She never took to a balance bike, mostly because she watched her older cousins on “normal” bikes for so long I think. So we want to get her a more traditional training wheels bike.
I hate hate HATE the pink/girly themed bikes that I’m seeing at Target, dicks and other places. REI has some solid colors (a nice purple, a blue, etc) but they’re relatively expensive compared to other places. Are there any other bike stores/brands out there I should be looking at? REI has the one I have my eye on in stock for pick up at the local store (yay) but wondering if there are any other alternatives out there that aren’t so…. pink?
What’s the best online program to help fix diastasis recti? I’m 5 months postpartum and it’s clear I need to do some kind of exercise.
Any tips on getting my two-year old to sit still to cut her finger/toe nails? TV or videos used to work like a charm, but now she really, really fights it, and it is almost impossible to get it done.
I have a 8 month old and we’ll be heading to the beach for the first time in a few weeks. I got some of the reusable swim diapers from Primary, but want some disposables, too. What are the best brand? Huggies? Pullups? Do you put kid in regular diaper and just change into swim diaper when they’ll be going in the water (since they don’t contain liquids)?
does anyone have a recommendation for a brand of pull ups? i bought some and they were horrible.
You can ask the teacher to pass on your contact info to the other kid’s parents. Often they will not give out info without the other person’s permission.
Honestly though, we did not often do playdates outside of daycare even pre-covid so don’t be offended if they say no. Daycare is one big playdate and non-daycare time is family time.
We have a cat, a dog, and a 6 month old baby. Our nanny found two fleas in the nursery this morning. Both the cat and dog are on preventative, but the dog goes outside (obviously) and we know it’s not 100%. I don’t think we have an infestation – the fleas were on areas that the cat commonly sleeps. Is there anything we should be doing? I feel like a bad mom but part of me is like, *shrug*, this is just what happens when you have pets?
What’s the best way to ask daycare classmates on playdates these days? There’s no class directory. I see other parents occasionally at drop-off and pickup, but rarely without the kids around and I don’t want to ask for a playdate in front of the kids (especially in these times, because what if their kid wants to do it but parents are being very Covid cautious)? Do I ask the teacher for the other parents’ contact info?
talk to me about crib to bed transition. we need to transition our almost 3 year old soon bc he no longer fits in his crib (we were dumb enough to get a mini crib). We are dreading it. he is not a rule follower and we tried doing naps in the crib and it is so hit or miss (sometimes he naps ok, but a lot of times he needs my husband to lay with him while he naps , and sometimes he wont nap at all and make a big mess in the room instead).
we are thinking of doing it in a month when we move so that we can just buy a regular bed for him. but maybe i should reconsider and buy a regular size crib for the time being as annoying as that is.
Late to the party on the conversation from yesterday on girls clothing being tighter and more revealing than boys clothing, but here’s my 2 cents:
Swimwear from Hanna Andersson — not a cutout, string bikini, or visible bu t t cheek as far as the eye can see. Holds up well too. (Clothing from Hanna in general is good if your goal is casual, cute, and non-se#ualized.)
Also, I ordered some bike shorts for under dresses from a company called lucky & me on amazon that I really like. They are the $30 three pack with the lace at the bottom. They fit well on my tall, average weight (but with junk in the trunk) daughter. They fit close to the body without being skintight and are long.
This is a lovely color, but the cap sleeves bewilder me slightly, and I’ve seen them on at least three different dresses now in recent weeks – I think one was a J Crew dress over on the main site. Are cap sleeves having a Moment this year? (Caveat: I am a non-fashionable person and have been baffled by cap sleeves all my life, including on my own clothing growing up, as they offer no coverage and hit me at an unflattering part of my arm – your taste may vary!)
My 21-month-old has been doing a routine lately of getting upset during dinner and saying “all done!” before he’s eaten much, and then 10 minutes after I take him out of his highchair he’s asking for crackers, cheese, etc. Sometimes he’ll eat the same food I had served for dinner if I hand pieces to him as he asks for food. Any advice?