Washable Workwear Wednesday: Holly Knitted Jacket
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At Corporette, we’re huge fans of the sweater jacket. It combines the structure and polish of a blazer with the warmth and comfort of a cardigan.
This bright, cheery version from Boden will chase away the winter wardrobe blues. Made from 100% cotton, this boxy, nautical style jacket has gold buttons and contrasting piping. Wear it with everything from high-rise, tailored trousers Monday through Thursday to your sharpest jeans for casual Friday.
The Holly Knitted Jacket is $144 with code (originally $180) and comes in six colors/patterns. It’s available in sizes 2 to 20/22.
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 2/7:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Extra 25% off your $175+ purchase — and $30 of full-price pants and denim
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 15% off
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 60% off 100s of styles
- J.Crew – Extra 50% off all sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything including new arrivals + extra 20% off $125+
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off one item + free shipping on $150+
im one month from my due date with my first, and just over it: “it” being everything. Im too tired to work, to socialize, to be a good partner to my husband, to even prep for baby’s arrival. my pregnancy has been normal and i have no reason to think ill deliver early so looking at another four weeks or so, probably. tips for how tf to get through these last few weeks? i hate to end pregnancy/start baby’s life with this attitude :(
Anyone have any brilliant EASY ideas for “dress up like an idiom” day? We just found out about it, it’s Tuesday of next week and this weekend is my kid’s birthday and we’re throwing a big class birthday party on Saturday and have family coming in from out of town to celebrate on Sunday, so I’m not sure when I’m going to have any time to work on this. Fortunately we have a canned costume for “dress up like your favorite book character” on Thursday, because she was the Princess in Black for Halloween.
Also gahhh elementary school and their complicated theme days!!!! I miss daycare, when theme days were just like “pajama day” or “silly sock day.”
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DD has plenty of interaction/ playtime with her same-aged cousins and neighbors, but it’s the school friends specifically that I can’t quite figure out what we should do. We’ll force the issue/make the time if we’re really out of bounds by not having these dates so far but idk what’s “normal.” She has asked once or twice but that’s about it and typically only when she hears about other kids going home from school with one another.
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Asked this late on the main board yesterday, and got some great advice (including something that sparked more questions).
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We LOVE our place – it’s really a gem, and we’re both in good shape. However, having never been pregnant or tried to schlep a small child up 3 flights of stairs, I can’t tell if staying there is a terrible idea that we’ll regret.
Has anyone used a health insurance claims advocate for help managing/pursuing a lot of relatively small medical claims? Is this something a claims advocate will even do (as opposed to working on huge medical bills from a single hospitalization)? We have theoretically great out-of-network coverage, but my kid and I both see multiple out-of-network therapists regularly so we are submitting a lot of claims for reimbursement, and our insurer keeps finding reasons to randomly deny some of them (while reimbursing identical ones from other dates). We’re usually able to get it sorted out after a few phone calls, but the job of keeping track of all the claims, getting additional paperwork from providers when requested, and following up multiple times on the claims that get denied is really adding up. We’re talking about multiple appointments per week, so tracking these has practically become a part time job. Trying to figure out if this is something we could realistically outsource.
my daughter broke her pinky finger on the playground this last weekend and she’s having surgery tomorrow to put two pins in it and the pins will be removed in three weeks. has anyone had a surgery like this? I’m concerned if the pinky will look and go back to normal after the few weeks. surgeon seemed to feel confident about the outcomes but would love to hear any anecdata.. thank you!