Washable Workwear Wednesday: Erica Dress
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At first glance, this dress doesn’t look like it could be machine washable, but it is! I love how the dress is full coverage (long length, full sleeves, round neck) but still seems breezy and fun. I really love how the folds of the top and bottom meet the waistband of this dress, and I can see it being flattering both on curves and a more straight shape. I like how the pattern and cut of this dress give it movement — the two small “ticker” patterns seem wearable, but the “rainbow multi stripe” seems more for the bold or fashion bloggers among us. The dress is $190 at Boden and is available in sizes 2–22 in petite, regular, and long. Erica Dress
A more affordable option is from Anne Klein — it comes in sizes 0–16 and is on sale for $111.75. Eloquii has a plus-size alternative for $99.95 that is available in sizes 14–28
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
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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?
To the WWYD poster from yesterday – I take it you’re in Mass? I believe the recommendation from the state is to encourage anyone whose is more at risk and who can work from home to do so, so I would probably WFH in your shoes, given the “pre-existing condition” of pregnancy.
I feel like there is so much conflicting information out there on this and the situation is changing so quickly that I’m not sure what to do. I take public transit and am still planning on coming in until told otherwise but maybe that’s not the right approach? Selfishly, I just want to avoid feeling stir crazy by being cooped up in my house with no social interaction for too long. What’s everyone else in MA doing?
Do these not exist? Even stores with both tall sizes and maternity options don’t seem to carry maternity options in tall; if they do, it’s all legging and athletic wear, nothing work appropriate. What have other tall women done?
So far I’m managing to squeeze myself into regular pants, but that isn’t going to work much longer.
Feeling genius this morning. We just bought new Tupperware to replace our old, beat up set. I was about to throw out the old containers and feel bad about plastic waste when I thought ‘what am I doing?’ And gave several of them to the nine-month-old, who thought it was second Christmas.
To the people who gave me advice about my early-rising 2yo yesterday…THANK YOU! Last night I gave him a tablespoon of nut butter before bed, and when he woke up at 5 I went in and covered him with a blanket and — miracle of miracles — he eventually went back to sleep until the civilized hour of 6:15! Who knows if I can repeat the magic but seriously, I can’t thank you guys enough. Both for the advice and for the commiseration.
How are folks planning to manage the various WFH and daycare/school closures mismatch? My daycare is downtown and DH and I both work downtown. Both in Biglaw. At the moment both of our offices are open and daycare is open. My guess is that will change at some point in the next week or two (DMV – we have cases in the area and it seems like only a matter of time until covid-19 shows up at one of our offices or daycare). We have no local family and all family we do have is 70+ with pre-existing health conditions and currently in states without covid-19 cases. I’m not keen to ask them to travel and even if we did I’m not sure any of them can look after our 9 month old on their own for more than a day at a time. None of our backup care options will work if the reason the office or daycare is closed is because of covid-19.
While I don’t love the idea of the office closing and daycare being open I could do the commute round trip twice a day. It would be between 2 and 2 1/2 hours total commuting time. Would I be nuts to try to work from WeWork if they are open or a coffee shop?
If daycare closes and work stays open or goes WFH (most likely scenario) I think I’ll have to take FMLA leave. I can get small amounts of work done during naps (but we often only get one 2 hour nap) and before kiddo wakes up and after she goes to bed, but its not going to be anywhere near the 10-12 hour days I typically put in. Does anyone have any other suggestions I haven’t considered?
Y’all, we reluctantly tried cry-it-out last night, after six nights of increasingly inconsolable crying. It seems like it worked! Knock on wood, but baby only cried 11 minutes when we put him down at bedtime. He woke up once in the night, and I gave him a bottle, rocked him and sang one song and put him back down, and he only cried 7 minutes before falling back asleep.
Just a minor vent – why do manufacturers only put TV characters on the clothing of the gender that corresponds with that character? My just turned 3 year old boy loves Doc McStuffins – he’s going through a big “I want to be a doctor” stage – and asked for a Doc McStuffins shirt. But all of the clothes with her on it are pink/purple, often frilly girls’ clothes. While I would be fine with DS wearing a shirt from the girls’ section, he apparently has absorbed gender norms and doesn’t want things that look stereotypically girly. Really annoying that girl characters seem to be segregated into the girls-only section when they have significant cross-appeal.
We have a first world problem that I would love your opinion on. I have 3 boys ages 6, 4, and 7 months. Our 6 and 4 yo go to a private school mixed aged kindergarten. We decided to do half days this year bc my DH and I were on leave for most of the school year and then we were getting a nanny. Our nanny picks up the big boys from school at 12:30 and brings them home. Round trip it ends up being an hour to drive to school, pick them up, and drive home.
Next year our 6yo will move to full day 1st grade. We can’t decide if we should keep the 4yo in half days or switch him to full. Full days at kindergarten include lunch, nap, and more outside play. It’s an extra $350 per month to have him in full days.
Pros of half days: $350 per month to spend on other things (our budget isn’t super tight but this also isn’t pennies to us), no nap for the 4yo (he sometimes needs one, but is also a terrible sleeper at night when he has one).
Pros of full days: I can’t imagine what my 4yo will do at home without his brother (so, no bored 4yo is the pro), my 7mo will not have to ride in the car for 2 pick ups. More time for nanny to help around the house. We LOVE our nanny but my 4yo is a challenge to have around. However, he does great at school.
WWYD? Registration deadlines are coming up, so we have to decide soon.
I need a perspective check: My mom travels pretty frequently, and when she travels, she leaves her dog with me. In the past, it has been ok (not great but ok) but things have changed. In the past several months, the dog has developed serious medical needs. The dog requires medication three times per day (morning, evening and before bed). Before she can have her meds, she has to eat a meal. About half the time, the dog takes her meds (about 6 pills) with peanut butter but the other half, the dog refuses. When the dog refuses, I have to force the medication down her throat, which results in me nearly crying with peanut butter everywhere. The dog refuses because her stomach is upset, which sometimes results in the dog throwing up her food, and then she needs a pill to settle her stomach before she can have her other meds. The dog also requires twice daily ointment to treat a skin condition. In general, the dog is tense and not used to being left alone. She whines from downstairs when I put the kids to bed. I can handle the dog on the weekends, but not during the week when I barely keep it all together as it is. I need to tell my mom that this is more than I can handle, but saying that I can’t handle something is very much viewed as unacceptable in my family.
The other thing is that my mom watches my kids every Friday afternoon and will help out if a kid is sick if she has nothing else going on. I have reason to believe that my mom thinks this is a fair trade of acts of service. She helps with my kids, and I watch her dog when she travels. I deeply depend on her to help with my kids. I need perspective here and any advice you may have. My mom avoids conflict and cannot handle confrontation. Help!
My husband is a professor and the university he works at grounded all faculty yesterday – no more non-essential domestic or international travel. (I think they should have done this weeks ago, but that’s a different topic). Anyway, DH told me last night that three separate male faculty members “joked” to him that now that they couldn’t travel all the time, they’d actually have to spend time with their wives and kids. We’ve long suspected that a lot of these guys travel way more than they need to, and live life on the road to shirk home responsibilities and now I guess we know that’s actually true. I know there are women who are (understandably) disappointed in losing out on business travel opportunities, but I just can’t imagine any woman framing it as “this s*cks because now I have to see my family.”