Washable Workwear Wednesday: Evangeline Jersey Wrap Dress
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There’s something about spring that makes me want to incorporate more prints into my mostly dark, solid-colored wardrobe. Boden has some of the best spring-y (and summery) prints.
There are so many great mood-boosting prints to choose from, but I’m eyeing their Evangeline Jersey Wrap Dress in Palm Leaf, Tropical Charm.
I can always add another wrap dress to my closet, and this one checks all my boxes and then some — a soft jersey fabric, lined bodice, side pockets, and machine washability. The pretty tropical print reminds me of beach vacations of summers past and gives me hope for future ones soon.
The dress comes in Palm Leaf (green) or Chartreuse (which looks more yellow). If you’re not into prints, it also comes in Sapling, a pretty spring green. It’s $120 and available in petite, regular, and long; sizes 2 to 20/22.
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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You ladies will appreciate this – yesterday I presented to two VPs while battling mastitis and actively nursing the baby in attempt to relieve the clog which spurred said infection. Video off (thank goodness – no one put their video on for some reason so I didn’t even have to feel bad!), and he never even made a noise so they didn’t know. I am ever so thankful for modern medicine today – OB called in the antibiotics right away so I had a dose in my system last night before I even went to bed. I had mastitis with my first years ago but somehow forgot how awful it was.
Moral of the story – don’t skip a pump because you’re too busy. You might end up out of commission for an entire day which is even worse!
My 16 month old is a biter, hitter, and hair puller. He’s actually a very sweet and good tempered baby (haha), but seems to delight in physically expressing his emotions. Unfortunately, he often takes this out on his 5 year old sister. I feel awful about this because she is really sweet to him (mostly!), and takes it very hard that he’s hurting her. Other than intervening immediately (which we do already), how do we put a stop to this? Does he just have to grow out of it? He does the same to us, and it also hurts! But for us, it just hurts physically, we understand that he’s not intentionally trying to cause us pain. His sister doesn’t quite get that.
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thoughts from anyone? go for it or wait another year until he calms down?
for what it’s worth, we used to travel a lot with our daughter at that age, but 1. differerent kids, 2. pandemic made us lose that habit …
thanks!
my question probably sounds really tme, but I just now feel like I might have my stuff together enough to attempt plane travel with my kids. We’re thinking of taking a 2 hour 45 minute flight in June with my newly turned 4 and 2 year old. the 4 year old will be no problem, but I am VERY nervous about entertaining my 2 year old on the plane. His attention span is not more than 15 minutes for TV and it sounds painful. However, I also don’t want to keep waiting (and waiting) as i’ve done for so long in hopes the kids will get more manageable. Anyone have any advice? The things that are giving me the most anxiety are tantruming on the plane, and difficulty with sleep once we get to our destination.
I know this has been discussed a ton but… should I get a Mirena (IUD)? I have a 1-yr-old, we’re probably planning on a 2.5 to 3 year age gap before child number 2. I don’t love the sound of 3 months of bleeding, but other than that it seems much more convenient than condoms, which is what we’re using now.
My 22 month old is repeatedly peeing through his diaper and clothes and onto sheets every night. Any tips?? I am literally washing everything every day. He messes with his thing sometimes to where its pointing up in the diaper and then when he pees its a huge mess. what am I missing??
You all may know this already, but the dependent care FSA limit was increased to $10,500 for 2021, in case you would like to change your elections.
What do you all do when people assume you work at a level lower than you do? I’m in law enforcement and a woman, and I find that men (especially those in outside organizations like advocacy groups and research organizations) regularly assume that I don’t have the same rank/power/whatever as my male colleagues. People inside get it because they are very rank conscious. People outside assume that I’m the woman in charge of the fluffy stuff. I can’t see myself saying: “actually I am very important” because I would sound like a jerk. Would love any advice you all would have. I’m generally in favor of not worrying about it and getting on with it and letting people understand my role later, but lately I’ve kind of being feeling like calling people out on it. Especially because I’m getting it from supposedly “woke” organizations that consider themselves more progressive than government.
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Paging Cb: Princess Anne met an electric bin lorry today and I thought of your son