Washable Workwear Wednesday: Frisco Belted Poncho
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I love this poncho for a business casual environment, a casual Friday at work, or even for work travel. It can be dressed up or down — as you can see from the way they styled the white one, I can picture wearing it to keep warm on a cool beach day, and for the way they styled the red one, paired with statement earrings and a more tailored pant. I love the details such as the belt and the more open weave on the shoulders and sleeves. I think having it belted makes the poncho cross over into workwear with the right accessories. It’s $128 at Anthropologie (online only) in sizes XS–XL. Frisco Belted Poncho
Amazon has a plus-size option in orange and white.
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Sales of note for 11.25.24 (Great Black Friday Sales!!)
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Early Black Friday, up to 60% off — great deals on Natori, Vince, Theory, Boss, Cole Haan, Tory Burch, Rothy’s, and Weitzman, as well as gift ideas like Barefoot Dreams and Parachute — Dyson isn’t marked down at all but you do get 3x points on beauty purchases.
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your purchase, plus extra 15% off full price styles
- Anine Bing – Shop more, save more (spend $200-$300, get an extra 15-25% off)
- A.P.C. – Shop 40% off
- ba&sh – Up to 40% off Fall/Winter styles, including select colors of reader favorite Gaspard & Guspa cardigans (also included in Tuckernuck’s sale)
- Banana Republic Factory – 60% off everything + extra 20% off (or extra 30% off with your Gap Inc credit card) ends 11/26
- Bloomingdales – Take $25 off every $100 you spend on items labeled BLACK FRIDAY; ends 11/24
- Boden – 30% off on 1000s of styles, including reader favorites like this blazer and these dresses
- Cuyana – Free shipping over $95 (and 10% off your first order over $150)
- Demellier – 20% off with code, free worldwide shipping & returns
- Design Within Reach – 25% off sitewide (including reader-favorite office chairs Herman Miller Aeron and Sayl!)
- The Fold – Black Friday, up to 30% off everything
- Eloquii – 50% off everything + extra 10% off $125 or more
- Everlane – Up to 50% off everything
- Furla – Up to 50% off select styles
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off almost everything – LOTS of winter coats 40% off, down to $204-$230
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything, plus extra 25% off orders $125+
- Kule – 30% off sitewide
- Kohl’s – Earn $10 Kohl’s Cash for every $50 Spent – includes Travelpro luggage!
- LaLigne – 30% off in their ONLY sale of the year
- Lo & Sons – Up to 70% off – reader favorite laptop tote is under $200
- Macy’s – 20-50% off beauty brands like Clinique and Armani, 50% off designer handbags, 50-75% off sparkly jewelry, and 40-50% off women’s boots
- Mansur Gavriel – Winter sale, up to 60% off
- M.M.LaFleur – “20% off everything” (but exclusions apply)
- Ministry of Supply – 30% off sitewide
- Mulberry – Up to 40% off, including Bayswater, Islington, and more
- Neiman Marcus – Earn a $50-$1250 gift card, including on beauty and fragrance purchases
- Rothy’s – Everything up to 30% off (some also on sale at Nordstrom)
- Shopbop – 25% off storewide with code, including great blazers from Rag & Bone, IRO, Smythe, and select L’Agence (also lots of nice Black Halo dresses)
- Soma – Early Black Friday $29 bra event (up to 50% off)
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Sue Sartor – Week of Joy sale, 30% off sitewide
- Steelcase – 25% off sitewide, including reader-favorite office chairs Leap and Gesture
- Strathberry – Pre-black Friday, enjoy up to 30% off select styles!
- Stuart Weitzman – Extra 25% off full-price and sale styles
- Talbots – 40% off your entire purchase + daily deals
- Theory – 25% off sitewide + up to 40% off select outerwear
- Tory Burch – 30% off $250+
- Tuckernuck – 20% off sitewide
- Universal Standard – At least 30% off sitewide, up to 70% off all styles
- Victoria’s Secret – 30% off everything, and 7/$35 panties
- White House Black Market – 60% off clearance, 30% off sitewide for WHBM members
- 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
- BabyJogger – 30% off sitewide
- BestBuy – Lots of deals on gaming consoles, including PS5, XBox Series X, and more
- Carter’s – 50-60% off entire site and store
- ErgoBaby – 25% off bouncers
- Graco – Up to 30% off sitewide
- Hanna Andersson – 50% off sitewide
- J.Crew Crewcuts – 50% off almost everything, prices marked
- Nordstrom – Lots of deals on Stokke, Maxi-Cosi, BabyJoger, Posh Baby, Silver Cross, and more
- Old Navy – Everything on sale
- SNOO / Happiest Baby – 30% off Snoo, up to 50% off sitewide
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?
it seems to me all these nasty comments are coming from one nasty “Anonymous” today. Why don’t you come up with a real name so we can totally dismiss whatever you say?
OP- Fewer hours sounds like a home run! Even if it’s still a lot of hours, fewer is wayyyyy better. My husband started a new job when my son was born and it was tough…. we are 6 months in now and sometimes I yearn for the old setup, but I remind myself that life is all about change and all this is for best.
Not technically Cmoms related, but we got annoying news from the leader of our organization today (some major changes coming, including a few really stupid promotions) which had me kind of down, and THEN my boss – who is tough, but fair, and the greatest mentor I’ve ever had – announced she is resigning at the end of January 2019. She is AWESOME about hours and flexibility, and the most working-mom friendly person I have ever worked for. Ugh.
Apologies in advance for the long post. I recently (less than a month ago) gave birth to twins. To provide some context – DH is the primary breadwinner in our household by far. DH was not looking for a new job, but was approached by a company back in Feb about an opportunity and he just got the offer last week. It’s at a good company, seems like a good career move, and it would be fewer hours (he currently works 14-16 hour days on average). He has done a ton of due diligence, talking to people about the company, the opportunity, whether it makes sense for his career, etc. and it is a resounding yes that he should take the offer.
In my postpartum emotional state, it just feels like so many changes at once and I am having trouble getting on board. We do make joint decisions in our household and he has kept me in the loop and we’ve spent hours discussing this. If I really wanted him to walk away, he would. He will be giving up a decent amount of cash (that we could use, but can live without) and will make things a bit tighter financially in the short term, for more long term gain. This is more of a long term career move. The logical part of me knows I am being short-sighted and am not really in a state to be making rational decisions and need to just trust him. I just wish it was a year from now when this was happening instead of so soon after having kids. (our plan when he accepted his current job after grad school was for him to stay for 3ish years, and he has been there for about 2 years, so I am also having trouble with the fact that this is different than what we planned, and with my type A/planner personality this is challenging, though I do realize plans sometimes need to change).
In his field, opportunities like this don’t come up all the time. I would like to get on board with him accepting, but my anti-change personality combined with my sleep-deprived, emotional state is instead making me anxious about the change even though his status quo job is not so easy either…last night or maybe I should say this morning, he got home from work at 12:30am.
It’s really hard to be working full time and then have to share your weekends and limited time with your kid with people you don’t like. I had this situation with my daughter when she was little and it was tough. I really just wanted to say no you can’t see her at all but I knew that was not best for her. Now that she is a bit older I find it much easier to just let them have her and go do an activity I enjoy rather than sit with them while they have their time with her. It’s less aggravating for me because I don’t have to spend time with them and they are happy with the one on one time.
Maternity clothes question — when they tell you to order your pre-pregnancy size, are they taking bre@st growth into account, or just belly?
We survived our UK to US west coast flight. Baby (10 most) fussed for 10 minutes. Things that helped – bulkhead seat so he could sit on the floor and play, an assortment of toys, ages of nursing, and plenty of snacks. He totally adapted well although somehow managed to get out of his pop up tent and onto the floor last night (sleep crawling?). He’s enjoying the new environment and being able to hang out in rompers and no socks. The AC was broken yesterday and I was worried how my little Scottish boy would handle 95 but he didn’t seem to mind.
I loaaaathe my in-laws. However, my husband and I have been good about letting them come over every other week or so to see my 8 month old. My MIL has been insistent that she and my FIL babysit my baby and my husband and I go out to dinner. Our xmas gift was even a babysitting coupon (a gift for you or us?). Since our baby goes to bed at 7, I mentioned that maybe they could babysit after she goes to bed and then we go out, but she didn’t like that idea.
My thing is…
– I don’t really want to go out dinner
– I enjoy taking a break from pumping on the weekend
– Why is coming over and seeing her with us there not sufficient?
– Why do you so desperately want to be alone with her?
– My husband and I are such introverts and would much rather just hang out on the couch after bedtime.
Are other MILs like this?
AIMS – Thanks for the recommendation for Uniqlo cardigans! I had been on the hunt for versatile summer cardigans for work and these are exactly what I was looking for. I bought three colors!
Any last-minute, sage advice for handling a 6.5 hour drive with a 2.5 year old? Hubby insists on driving during the day.
How do you all handle bad dreams for preschool-aged/elementary-aged kids? In the past, if one of our kids has shown up at our bed at 3am saying that they have had a bad dream, they crawled into our bed. (I remember liking the feeling of security of being with my mom after a bad dream as a kid.) In the past, it has been a rare occurrence. However, our four year old has had “bad dreams” most nights out of the past week. When she crawled into our bed early this morning and fell back asleep, she was whimpering and crying in her sleep a bit. I do not want to be dismissive of her concerns, but I fear that it is creating a habit. Thoughts or tricks that can help?
Yesterday when I picked up my 17mo from daycare, her teacher informed me that my daughter spent the day pushing all the other kids. For context, it was her first day back after a 4-day weekend; most of these kids were her friends in the infant room; my daughter moved up to the toddler room 1 month ago. How do I work on correcting her behavior? Granted she’s not even 2 yet, but I don’t want to raise a bully. Her teacher did have her sit down for a few mins after every pushing incident, but I’m wondering if there’s something else we and the school should be doing to nip this in the bud.
Reading all the comments yesterday about the moms who were so helpful when your babies were born really made me sad. My mother is so lacking as a mom. When I brought my baby home from the hospital, she couldn’t have cared less. I had to ask her to come meet the baby. She came over, looked at the baby for about an hour then went back home. I didn’t see her again during my entire 6 month maternity leave. Whenever I asked her to visit to help with the loneliness, she would respond by telling me how busy she was and that she would get back to me about when she had some time. She lives 30 minutes away.
Father’s Day gift ideas? What’s everyone doing? I feel like all gift ideas I see are grilling, golfing and alcohol related and I’d like to branch out. Thanks!
Is it a bad idea to fly at night while my one year old would usually be asleep? We’re trying to set up summer trips and this would be a one hour flight. He’s usually a champion sleeper so I’m worried this will totally mess him up, but the tickets are cheap!