Washable Workwear Wednesday: Essential Polo
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Heading back to the office? Here’s a soft, yet structured polo that will ease you into the workweek.
This long-sleeved polo features a button front and is made from a stretchy, breathable blend of tencel, lyocell, and modal. The semi-fitted cut works on its own or as a layer under a sweater or blazer. Just add a pendant necklace and wide trousers.
Banana Republic’s Essential Polo is $65 (but check for frequent sales). It comes in sizes XXS–XXL and is available in five earthy colors.
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 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
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No advice needed, just wanted to commiserate. My youngest kid is now 8, and is quite specific about her sense of style. Which is great! I give her a lot of autonomy over what she wears and what she picks out at the store. It isn’t always what I love, but whatever, as it’s appropriate for the occasion and her age. I feel good about this UNTIL a special occasion rolls around. Like she did NOT want a specific holiday outfit for family dinners, church, etc. This year, after one unsuccessful and very un-fun shopping trip together, I decided I didn’t feel like fighting the battle and let her wear whatever. I couldn’t even convince her to wear red or green, lol. I’m just sad that I no longer get to dress for cute kid things that I love, too. Yay for bodily autonomy, but it does hurt my mom-feelings sometimes. :(
Just wanted to say that the styling of this shirt made me lol. Nothing says workwear like my boobs in your face!
Has anyone here dealt with enlarged adenoids? For a month or so now, DS’s breathing almost sounds like he’s snoring.His sleep doesn’t seem to be suffering, but we’re going to take him to the doctor. Curious whether others have had the issue resolve on its own, or how you knew that surgery would be necessary.
Where would you go in Europe with a <1 year old? My husband and I would like to take a trip (June or September) to Europe with our new baby. Baby will be 6-9 months old. My sibling and his wife life in Europe and would meet us for a long weekend so we'd have both extra adults on hand for part of the trip We were thinking France or Germany, but a friend recently noted she found Scandinavian countries very baby friendly and so we were considering switching it up.
so i just went downstairs (WFH day) to refill my coffee and our nanny told me in tears that her daughter’s best friend passed away last week in a freak accident. her daughter is 12, turning 13 on Friday and the friend was a few years older. Nanny was off all of last week and was here yesterday, but her daughter came with her so she didn’t say anything. Her daughter is already kind of a sullen moody teenager who is very quiet and my nanny says struggles to make friends. Our nanny has been with us for 4.5 years. Any ideas how to support her?
I’ve got a weekend full of 6 year old birthday parties coming up. Do you have a go-to, gender neutral gift suggestion? I was thinking magna tiles, but that’s expensive when you’ve got three kids to buy for!
So my daughter was at a playdate; and someone on roblox asked her “where she was?”and she gave out her friends address. Allegedly this was a fake person and single player game, but I do not understand roblox. We talked to her about safety and she feels really bad, we apologized to the friends family (who was very upset about this). Anything else we should do to prevent this from happening again? I also feel dumb for not having this conversation earlier, about online safety, and it makes me worry about what other conversations I should be having with a 10 year old.
This is a hyperspecific request – liquid kids’ Claritin/loratadine that doesn’t taste like death? Switching from liquid (Costco brand) Zyrtec and that was no problem, but the CVS loratadine is apparently awful. Hoping to stay with liquid because it’s cheaper and what they’re used to, but also fine if they’re all bad for some reason and we just switch to chewables.
Can someone help me figure out these logistics? We are planning on moving from our city neighborhood to a suburb. We are planning on getting an agent, etc., in the next few weeks, but we are not really set on a timeline for the move and know we may be looking for a while. We are going to start our search in Area A, which would mean our current daycare would be about 30 min away and that we would be trying to move to Daycare A, which would be about 15 min away and close to my office. However, we are concerned that we may not be able to find something in Area A, and if we ended up buying in another area, both Daycare A and our old daycare would both be about 30 min away. (I have a hybrid job, so even though daycare would be close to my office, I don’t want to drive in every day if I don’t have to.)
So my question is… do I go ahead and put DS on the waitlist for Daycare A now? We love our current daycare but just do not think we are going to be living in this area longterm. I’m also concerned about having a period of time where we have moved but are still waiting to get into the new daycare and are having to drive super far for dropoff/pickup… any advice?
Yesterday, I asked my 4 y.0.’s teacher for recommendations on kids to set up a playdate with, because he doesn’t seem to have clicked with anyone in his class and I want to help him with one on one time with another kid. His teacher had trouble thinking of a suggestion, because “the kids don’t really like playing with him because he hits.” I was shocked because I had never heard this and just a few weeks ago had a conference with this same teacher, where she said he gets along with everyone and has no problems socially, other than that he doesn’t engage much with the other kids. She had also mentioned that she was pulling him aside to play things like math games with her since he wasn’t doing much with the other kids. She said he enjoys math games with her, so I didn’t object, but from what I can tell, he wants to have friends, he’s just having trouble (he was new to the class in the fall. Everyone else knew each other already and many of the families are extremely close – several went on vacation together last week). I’m pretty upset that suddenly she tells me that no one likes my kid because he hits, when she told me just 2 weeks ago that everything was fine socially. That said, its more important to help my son enjoy school and learn how to interact with other kids than vent my anger. Is it best to let that go and just talk to the teacher about helping him with social interactions? Am I going to stir things up if I mention that I feel she dropped the ball by not mentioning his social issues? I need help approaching this in a productive way! Thanks!
Cross-posting with the main site: Can anyone recommend a therapist for anxiety, specifically around insomnia right now? I’m especially interested in cognitive behavior therapy. They could be in Manhattan or Brooklyn or work remotely, and ideally they would accept insurance or not be super expensive, but I’m semi-desperate.
Happy New Year! I have been working from home since March of 2020. My beloved babysitter who would do kiddo pick-up and afterschool time left last year to take on full time work. Somehow, I’ve slid into feeling like I can/should be the one to be everything to everyone: taking kids to all their afterschool and before school activities, all the childcare, all the cooking (kids have allergies so eating out is tough) and going for a promotion at work. A big part of that is that I home all the time, so I feel like a pseudo-at home parent. I am exhausted and done. I’m trying to hire an afterschool babysitter with not a ton of success. Any suggestions? (Single parent here – so asking a partner to help is a non-starter.)
For those who had 2+ year olds who were still breastfeeding…how did it ever end? I was hoping that my 2 year old would one day give it up one day like her older sister did at 1, but no such luck. We’re past “don’t offer, don’t refuse” as she will demand. On a weekday, I’ll probably nurse 2-3x (morning, after school, before bed).
Kids polo recs that come in navy? I’ve been unimpressed with the Gap ones I bought this year, but maybe a high degree of fading is the norm for darker clothing?