Washable Wednesday: Ponte Flounce Skirt Dress
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This washable ponte flounce dress has a zillion great reviews over at Lands’ End and comes in a zillion nice colors and patterns. This berry basket print is one of the sale colors (limited sizes, alas), but other prints include a springy “paradise blue floral” and “weathered lavender paisley” (to see them, click on the different size types); it’s also available in solid black, blue, red, and teal. It’s offered in regular, petite, tall, and plus sizes, for $34-$89. The pictured dress is $44. Lands’ End Ponte Flounce Skirt Dress
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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?
Does anyone have suggestions for freezer meals or meals that can be prepped/frozen and then cooked in the crockpot or heated up instantly? I eat meat and don’t have allergies, but I’m not a big fan of soups or stews. I need to have dinner ready within about 10-15 minutes of walking in the door though.
Can anyone recommend a cup for my 5 year old to drink milk from?
Transitioning to drinking milk from a regular ceramic mug has been hard for him. He has been using (metal) straws to drink from various plastic cups but I’d like to move away from plastic, and from straws. He also likes to drink on the sofa so we end up with spills.
I’d like him to use a coffee style mug. Got him a ninja turtle cup but he complains that the handle isn’t easy to hold for him. Not sure what’s a good compromise here. What do kids drink from at this stage?
I like daydreaming about raising our baby, even though we’re at least a year away from TTC, so please bear with me on this question.
How many of you use those slings to carry your baby? To me, it seems super practical to use one almost exclusively, but I would love to hear the pros/cons. If you don’t use one, what do you do? How many different carrying apparatuses do you use? The thought of lugging a huge stroller into restaurants/in and out of cars/in crowded places sounds absolutely terrible.
Can anyone share pain management tips they’ve used for a natural labor? I’ll be in a hospital setting with regular OBs (no midwife or doula), but they are very supportive. I had a bad experience with an epidural and would prefer not to have one. The other pain meds they give did nothing for me the first time around. I have read Ina May’s book and am open to other reading suggestions!
I like the dress, but I’m still annoyed at how LE handled the Gloria Steinem interview and then apology. Now that I re-read it with a cooler head, I’m not so furious at the apology (it basically says “sorry if you were offended”) but I’m still ticked that they felt it necessary to apologize at all, and that they didn’t back Steinem in any way.
I’m normally a big LE fan (I am wearing at least 1 LE piece every single day on my current business trip, I just realized) but I don’t think I want to give them any of my money right now.
DC/NOVA moms – have you been to the Northern Virginia Parents of Multiples semi-annual consignment/vendor fair and, if so: (1) is it worth it? looking for two specific big ticket items – a jogging stroller and toddler sized table and chairs; and (2) if you don’t get there at the stroke of 9 when it opens (or line up before?), will all the good stuff be gone? Thanks!
Mamas, especially mamas of more than one, how on earth do you find time to exercise? Since having my second baby a year ago, I feel like I just can’t fit it in. I’ve pretty much lost the baby weight, but I feel icky when I don’t get enough exercise. I try to jog in the morning before the kids get up if I’m not too exhausted, but this happens like once a week. Or take the jogging stroller if the baby wakes up early, but I usually feel like it is too cold and too much of a pain to bundle him up. Or I do a 7-minute workout. I have a gym in my building at work (but not at home; I miss you apartment convenience!), but I never feel like I have time to use it. I dunno, maybe I’m just looking for someone to tell me to suck it up and get off my a** :)
I know we’ve talked about deciding whether to have another child before, but how do you make peace with being done? I’d like a second, but logistically and financially it doesn’t make sense. We’d have to (1) move to a bigger house (not a smart financial choice given the market in my city), (2) figure out how to take the kids to different places in the morning (because older kid will start kindergarten in the fall) which would be very challenging as just handling one half of drop off/pickup already interferes with my work schedule, and (3) I would probably have to give up on my very good chances of making partner at my biglaw firm for a variety of complicated reasons, not the least of which is knowing I don’t have it in me to make the final push while pregnant/with a newborn. Clearly the sensible choice is not having another kid, but how to get my head and heart in the same place?
Moms of two under two — and particularly those who work full time and handle daycare drop offs and pickups– can you give me a little run down of how your daily schedule looks? I’m due with my second later this year, and I’m starting to get anxious about how our routine is going to be, especially as I struggle to drop off and pick up 2 kids (and without a car as a I live in a city). Let’s assume for now that due to work schedule and commute that I’m the only one who can take care of this. Can you give me some insight into how you manage to get everyone out the door in the morning, back home in the afternoon and fed/ready for bed in the evening?
I can’t keep my household healthy. I have a toddler and a three month old. Since the baby was born we have had 3 cases of pink eye (me & both kids), hand foot & mouth (toddler) bronchitis (husband) a stomach virus (me) and everyone has had at least one cold. Prior to these three months we had not seen this much sickness in the prior 3 years combined. The baby just started daycare this week (my first week back full time) and is already home today with pink eye. I feel like we have been militant about hand washing, laundry, and sterilizing. We have a healthy, well rounded diet—the baby is EBF. What am I doing wrong? Any advice about beefing up our immune systems or otherwise keeping everyone healthy?