Washable Workwear Wednesday: Everyday Silk Shirt
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Elevate your Monday through Friday with this elegant silk shirt.
Banana Republic’s popular Everyday Silk Shirt is made from washable silk charmeuse. The relaxed silhouette isn’t sloppy thanks to fitted shoulders and a point collar. You can even wear this on weekends to step up your coffee run.
The Everyday Silk Shirt is $150 and comes in “cream white” and black. It’s available in XXS-XXL as well as petites.
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 3/2:
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- Ann Taylor – 30% off the Weekend Collection + extra 30% off sale + 30% off your purchase with extra 15% off $200+
- Banana Republic Factory – 40% off + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Up to 70% off clearance + 25% off select jewelry
- Express – 30%-70% off everything + $69 all Editor pants, jeans, and chinos
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 70% off clearance + 40%-50% off the Weekend Shop
- Lo & Sons – End of winter sale, up to 50% off — reader favorites include this laptop tote, this backpack, and this crossbody
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Nordstrom – 4,000 new markdowns for women!
- Talbots – 25% off entire purchase
I think I’ve seen recommended here whitewater rafting trips, or rifugios in northern Italy, but not specific recs. If you have done either of those trips with elementary aged kids, I’d love if you have recs for locations, tour operators (would probably just self guide hiking, but would need tour for rafting), etc. Just kicking some things around and I’ve searched online but trust this community more. TIA!
Does anyone have any experience changing your toddler’s childcare situation dramatically and if it had any longer-term affects? Posted last week that my babysitter gave 1 month notice so I’m looking at my options.
I’ve found an OK real daycare, a couple in-home daycares, and one SAHM with a baby willing to take another kid. All of which have very different dynamics than the 2-3 toddler group my son had been experiencing, which I think was a goldilocks situation. I’m worried about illness and the chaos of a dozen toddlers together all day. Like, maybe he’ll come back from daycare completely wiped out from the long day. Or he’ll get used to chaos and have a low tolerance for entertaining himself quietly. But I’m also worried he’d get bored without another playmate with that mom with baby situation and act out because of that… But maybe none of this actually matters and I’m making a mountainout of a molehill because I’m pregnant and hormonal (tested positive same week the babysitter put in notice). Talk me down, please.
Following up on the swim lessons question: how long do you keep your kids in lessons? What level of competence/skills do you want them to get before stopping?
Does anyone have a recommendation for a college counselor? Our high school provides the bare minimum. We need help identifying target schools beyond our state u. Kid somehow pulled off a 36 ACT and has no interest in ivy rat race. And our kid would be more receptive to guidance a third party guidance rather than perceived nagging from parents.
Just here to discuss the realities of sandwich generation life. I posted maybe a year ago about my dad on hospice and that I have two little kids. Dad is still on hospice, he is slowly going downhill but it is taking much longer than expected. My daughter is about to be 4, so she sort of understands, but not really. My dad took a turn on Monday, and I plan to take the kids to see him Thursday. We haven’t been able to visit him for a week or two because everyone has been sick. My daughter was really upset when I told her because Thursday is a very fun event at school she has been looking forward to. I did my best to explain that we need to see grandpa because he is very, very sick and that it is more important than the school event. This is all so very hard and very complex with little kids. Hugs to anyone else going through it.
I’m not really a gifts person and would rather go out to dinner or to an activity to celebrate my birthday. This year for my birthday, I planned a dinner with DH and a couple of our friends who were in town, and it was really nice. On my actual birthday though, DH got me a present, which was . . . a bath products kit from CVS. And an old one too, where you could tell it had sat on the shelf a while because the vinyl bag was cracking. I would have rather gotten no gift than this. What should I say to him?
I’m super excited to set up a play room for my daughter and hoping to hear any recommendations the more experienced women have. My daughter is 3 months old, we have many friends who have kids close in age from 2 years old to a couple still in the womb. My vision is to have a fully baby-proofed playroom in one of our living rooms, adjacent to (and visible from) the dining room, so everyone can feel comfortable hanging out with their kids at our house. I love to plan parties and gatherings and I’m conscious that our group needs are shifting with all the babies being born.
The current room has a couch and love seat that are off-white, but from a consignment store. I plan to keep them there knowing they will probably get dirty and that is fine. I’m getting rid of the square wood coffee table (too many pointy corners).
I purchased a foam “play mountain” with a slide and steps that is appropriate for toddlers (just 18 inches high) and I was thinking about getting some kind of little fort for a corner and maybe 2 of the nugget brand ottomans “chunk”.
Any other hit toys or things to consider to draw all our friends and their kids to our house?
I want to put my 16-month-old in swim lessons but the only convenient swim school doesn’t have any availability on weekends. I’m hesitant to put this off since I know recommendations are to begin with water play/comfort as early as possible but I also can’t take off work for this every week. When did you start your kids in lessons?
Just here for sympathy (but very much welcome any miracle cures if you have them). My son’s night terrors have really escalated, and we’ve had one peaceful night in the last week. It’s wearing on him, and on us, and once we got him settled last night, I burst into tears b/c the look of abject terror on my baby boy (he’s 8, but will always be my baby boy) face is so, so awful.
We’re working on prompting more liquids during the day and cutting off at night, but it’s hard because he’s not home until 4, we tried waking him before but that just triggered a worse than normal terror. Maybe it’s growth spurt related, he’s currently 95% for height (and seems to have shot up in the last month) and 11th for weight, so just a string bean. Just at my wits end a bit – doctor referred to sleep clinic but it’s a long, long wait.