Washable Workwear Wednesday: Kalani Dress
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Some days, trying to find pants and a top that match is just too much — an easy-care dress is just what I need for hump day.
This elegant navy tile-print dress has a tie-waist belt, side pockets, and a mandarin collar. Just add some simple gold or silver jewelry and a blazer or cardigan for warmth for an easy look that goes from desk to dinner. And, at the end of the day, just toss it in the wash.
The Kalani Dress from Hobbs London is $315 and comes in sizes 2–16.
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 12/30:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – The Half-Yearly Sale has started — up to 60% off! See our roundup here.
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your purchase; extra 40% off + additional 30% off sale styles
- Banana Republic Factory – The Winter Sale: 50% off everything + extra 60% off clearance
- Boden – Sale, up to 60% — 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 – Semi-annual clearance, up to 85% off; extra 60% off clearance
- 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!
- Hannah Andersson – The Twice-a-Year Big Hanna Sale: Up to 60% off (even new arrivals on sale!)
- J.Crew – 25% off full-price styles; up to 50% off cashmere; 70% off 3+ sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 60% off winter faves; extra 25% off $100+
- L.K. Bennett – All sale half price or less
- M.M.LaFleur – Flash sale, extra 30% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale, extra 40% off markdowns, and daily Red Door Deals starting at $19.50
Just needed to applaud this dress selection and share my love of Hobbs! If you are ever in UK/Europe, prices are much better than buying here in US. Great resale selection between various platforms. And I always take 1 size down from my US size for a good fit.
My 36 YO niece is about 3 months pregnant and I want to get her a gift card for maternity wear. I am 20 years out from this so I have no idea where to shop for this now. She has a military job so wears a uniform every day so does not need work wear, and normally wears like Old Navy or that price point, for outside of work. I want to get her the gift card for somewhere nice, something she wouldn’t normally buy for herself. Any suggestions?
This is just me being insanely curious. We’re in Charlotte and looking into private schools for our rising kindergartener. One of the requirements for the schools here is to take the WPPSI-IV test with a psychologist. I am just curious if anyone is in the Charlotte area and knows how they use the scores from these tests, or if you’re not in the area, if you’ve gone through this, how your schools used these scores. I’ve already looked on local mom Facebook groups and no one talks about this on any of these forums.
What age did you start your kids learning a second language (if you are not heritage speakers)? In our family, we have a strong tradition of studying Spanish, although we are not heritage speakers (my mother in law was a Spanish teacher, my father was a historian specializing in Spain, my husband, I, and our respective siblings all studied Spanish throughout our educations, including 4 years in college, and I lived and worked in Latin America for years before my marriage). I had ambitions of starting to teach my son (now 3.5) at home, but it hasn’t happened yet and so I’m considering at what age to start him with some sort of class. Any thoughts on the best way and age to get started?
I have a kindergartner with speech articulation issues who did six months of private speech therapy right before starting kindergarten. When she started K, we decided to pause the private speech therapy and see what the school evaluation had to say. There were some delays in getting the evaluation done, but they finally did it and they said she is in the bottom 1% for sound articulations (which was also what the private evaluation said). But the school report also says she is understood almost all the time by her teachers and peers, and in our observation she’s now typically understood by strangers too. And the errors they listed (r, th, sh, l) are all things that google says are later developing and common to mess up through age 7 (she is 5.5). So I’m kind of having a hard time squaring it.
Anyway, the school can only give her 20 minutes of speech therapy twice a month, and it will be virtual, which doesn’t seem great. I don’t know if we should go back to private speech therapy, which will be expensive and inconvenient. The “bottom 1%” thing makes me think we have to go back to private therapy, but the rest of the report makes me think it’s ok to just do the school therapy, at least for this semester.
Any thoughts if you’ve had to make a similar decision?
For those of you who have/have had a nanny, what is your policy about nanny coming to work when kid(s) are sick? Our eldest has her first minor cold (congested/runny nose), and nanny is here today, but it got me thinking about at what point does illness merit nanny staying home? I would think anything that would keep them out of daycare, yes? (fever, vomiting, etc..)
I taught tweens for an hour today – and I’ve lost my voice (talking over their noise, even when they weren’t talking they were NOISY!) and am knackered. I’ve always had a lot of respect for teachers, but that’s increased by 10x. So many classroom management issues, the teachers seemed engaged but pretty fed up with the behaviour.
My kids all went to school/day care today! Now maybe I can get some work done…
Y’all, we started 4 YO at a new school on Jan 3. We were there 1 day and then got hit with a pretty bad cold, so we kept him home for the next 3 days. Then he went to school for 1 week, and then it was a holiday, and then a snow day, and then today he has a cough again. Is he ever going to go to school? :(