Washable Workwear Wednesday: Jersey Jacket
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These jersey jackets, which we included in our recent Corporette post on Great Blazers under $50, are still in stock, with some of them as low as $20 right now. I think if you’re looking for an easy, wearable blazer that is very affordable, this is a good bet. It comes in sizes 2–20 in both black and this “beige melange.” Do check it out — it’s only $35 at H&M. Jersey Jacket
Here’s an option in plus sizes at H&M.
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Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
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?
Shallow rant ahead. For the past couple of months I have been on a health and fitness kick–working out more, reducing/eliminating soda, rarely eating out except when traveling for work, cutting back on sodium and refined sugars, and cutting back a bit on the usually enormous amount of healthy snacking I do to keep myself going during the workday. I have not cut calories too drastically, but these moderate changes have left me constantly hangry and exhausted. For my efforts, I have been rewarded with a not-insignificant weight gain that is definitely not all muscle. We are going on vacation soon and I’d been looking forward to sporting a bikini on the beach, but my abs are now pretty much invisible beneath pasty pale cellulite that was not previously there. I hate my tankini almost as much as I hate what the bikini reveals. Please tell me to quit being shallow and get over it and just wear the swimsuit and have fun. Ugh.
Ladies, my 3.5 yr. old son has hit a phase that I am finding very difficult. Lately, when he gets upset because I said “no” or did something else to offend him, he says “I don’t love you mommy,” “you’re a bad mommy,” or “you’re rude!” Rationally, I know he asserting himself as an individual, but its SO HARD on my feelings. I try to just respond with “Well, I love you, no matter what” and move on. FWIW, he does not say these things to his father. He has a younger sibling who, admittedly, has been getting a bigger proportion of my attention (and we are working on fixing this), but other than that, I just don’t have a clue.
My law firm is about to announce this year’s new partners. Rationally, I know I’m not making partner (because I stepped/was pushed off the partner track gradually over the last few years) and I know that’s the right outcome financially for me, but….it’s still really painful to see people several years junior to me making partner ahead of me. And I want to congratulate them, because it’s a big accomplishment, but I also want to pretend it’s not happening? Sigh.
This is mainly a question for the parents of older kids, but anyone, feel free to chime in.
Do any of you let/make your kids eat school lunch? My kid’s been eating breakfast, lunch, and snack at daycare since she was old enough to eat food and I’m dreading having to pack school lunches when that time comes. Thoughts on the quality/nutrition these days? Or is this one of those things where all the rich people pack their kids lunch and all the poor kids eat the school lunch?
How do you deal with constant fundraisers from your kid’s school? I don’t know if I’m being extra sensitive to this, but I don’t want to be That Coworker who is always peddling popcorn and wrapping paper and candy bars. I’m tempted to skip the fundraisers altogether and just give money directly, but my kid’s school has things like pizza parties for everyone who sells over X amount. (Where X is a number more than she would be able to get from neighbors and family, we don’t live in or come from a high-earning area.) Am I a horrible parent for excluding her from those just because I don’t want to sell this crap?
They seem to have a fundraiser every other month, which just seems so excessive and ridiculous. What do you do? Do you care about the optics of a working mom selling kid crap at work?
I am going back to work next week after maternity leave and UGH I’m just dreading it. It has been so lovely to take a break from the constant struggle and stress and annoyance and anxiety of working. I love my job but think every job has problems like these, so it isn’t a matter of finding something new. More a matter of leaving this peaceful little cocoon to get back to the rat race!
I need a weekender bag for a trip beginning Sunday (SO LAST MINUTE!). I love the Lo & Sons Catalina deluxe small (especially separate compartment for shoes), but I can’t get it in time because no express shipping. CURSES! any recommendations for an acceptable substitute that has express shipping?
Does anyone know of a good website for “science” experiments (or creative indoors activity) with a toddler? My daughter’s preschool teacher made a rainbow with skittles and hot water and my daughter loved it. I’d like to get some more ideas for stuff to do on a rainy weekend day.
My twins are “graduating” from the fantastic in-home daycare where they have been enrolled for 3 years. I’d like to give the director a gift. For reference, each December, we give her $500–largely because her tuition rate is under-market– and each part-time assistant $50. It seems weird to give a wad of cash as a goodbye gift. Flowers and a card? Or something in between? Money is essentially no issue. She has done so much for our family, I just want to do what is appropriate.
I have this (or a near identical one) in a light pink which I love. I own nothing beige – any ideas on how to style it? Looking it mix up my wardrobe a bit and beige might be a good neutral addition. They have it shown with black and white but that seems dull.