Washable Wednesday: Knit Shirred Surplice Dress
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Happy Hump Day! This dress comes with longer sleeves too, but something about the proportions of the short sleeves looks best to me here. I like the bright, happy colors it comes in (blue, green, pink, as well as navy, pictured), and the fact that it’s machine washable. It was $65, but is now marked to $35 at Lands’ End (available in regular, petite, tall, and plus sizes). Lands End Knit Shirred Surplice Dress
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?
I’m an associate in Big Law. Yesterday a male associate told me his wife is expecting child number two. I joked that my husband is already thinking about the next child, despite the fact that our daughter is only a few months old. The associate responded, Why not? I’d love to have a four-month maternity leave. It’s a paid vacation from the firm! I said well, maternity leave wasn’t that restful with a colicky baby and no sleep, plus recovering from a c-section. And getting back into work was hard too. He kept saying how much he’d love to have a “paid vacation,” so this didn’t resonate with him.
How should I have handled this? The more I think about his comments, the more I want to strangle him!
Speaking of daycare…
What do y’all do for backup care? Usually either my husband or I can stay home if kiddo is sick, but we ran into a situation for the first time today where we both really needed to be at work – at least for a few hours. We don’t have any family nearby, telework is not an option, and neither is bringing a sick toddler in to the office. Luckily we have a recent college grad who is around for another week or two before she starts working, but all my other regular babysitters are not available during the day, and now I’m worried about it. ugh.
How is this dress for flattering the post-partum belly? This dress is really cute, but I’m an apple shape in general with extra pooch from my pregnancy, so I worry that it would accentuate the belly.
Random daycare vent: As much as I love my daycare (and I do), sending me an email at 11 on Wednesday morning and *reminding me* that my 2-year-old son’s “About Me!” poster (complete with pictures, decorating, print-outs, etc) is due Friday morning isn’t all that helpful when no one has ever mentioned the poster to us before now.
Guess I’ll be running to Target on the way home from work today, even though I was there last night…
Thanks all for the great comments yesterday about BF’ing, formula-feeding, lactation consultants, skin-to-skin care, etc. I really appreciated all the feedback!
Did you say FREEMIE ?!!! (rushes to log on to LE website)
How would you describe the V opening of this dress? It looks like a wide V in the photos. How is the thickness/weight of the fabric? Thank you.
I’m wearing this today in a print, its my favorite dress for my casual office. I put a couple stitches in to hold down the front crossover v – when my son is playing koala sometimes he grabs my dress to try to pull himself up and has given me a couple borderline wardrobe malfunctions. But if you are nursing this is a good dress to be able to expose 1 side at a time, and it will wiggle down off your shoulders pretty easily for pumping if you don’t mind being top half naked as some people have mentioned they do. Or in my case, since I have a little room in the chest (I have to buy for my hip size more than chest) it would probably also fit the freemie cups in pretty easily.