Washable Wednesday: Stripe Welt Pocket Sheath Dress
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We’ve mentioned this popular sheath dress before, but I like the fun stripey version, available in green and brown, a fun black-and-white abstract pattern, and even a few fun patterns. It’s well priced, available in plus sizes, petites, and talls, and machine washable. Score. The pictured version is $79, full price. Lands’ End Stripe Welt Pocket Sheath 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?
The stripes and pocket placement on this dress do that model absolutely no favors in the hip area. Seems like it’d be cute in another print, though.
Does anyone have recommendations for how to reduce belly pain when exercising? I am 6 months and training to walk a 10K (after having been on absolutely no exercise restriction for two months of this pregnancy, which turned my body into mush.
But now, I find that whenever I walk more than about 20 minutes at a time, the muscles that “hold up” my belly – the ones sort of where my hip bones are – get really sore, both while I’m walking and afterwards.
Does anyone have recommendations either for exercises or for some sort of belt or “holding in” device that would make walking less uncomfortable? I can only imagine this problem is going to grow as I continue to do so.
I hope that the separation from your husband is progressing as smoothly as possible – thinking of you and your baby girl!
Now for something actually on-topic: Do any of you have this dress? I like it but am wondering if it is actually nice enough to wear in a biz-cas environment, or if it reads as too casual in real life. FWIW, I am eyeing the brown striped version.
My 9-month old developed separation anxiety in the last couple weeks after I was hospitalized unexpectedly. Before the separation anxiety started, husband and I had decided to sleep train, but neither of us are comfortable leaving a terrified baby crying alone in the crib. We had resolved to have my husband handle night wakings as an interim step, but even that isn’t working because she won’t be calmed until I’m holding her. This is not fussing – this is wailing with tears and vomit and banging head against the sides of the crib (or against dad’s chest). Does anyone know of good resources for handling separation anxiety? The stuff I’m finding is about leaving babies at daycare, which isn’t a problem since my husband does daycare drop off and the anxiety seems to only occur when I’m nearby.
KJ, you and I are at the exact same point with our kids. I am the poster from earlier this week. Our guy has two little teeth and chews on everything all day long, although I don’t think another tooth is about to come out imminently . We are going to try spacing out the feedings first (maybe starting this weekend) and then go for Ferber technique if needed after that. Our daycare provider also told me today to have my husband go in and comfort baby at night. I have been doing so until now, but she says that if dad goes in baby will learn to dissociate falling back to sleep with nursing.
More sleep training questions!
My husband and I have been trying to come up with a plan to sleep train our 6 month old. She generally goes to sleep at bedtime without any trouble but wakes up a few times during the night and usually won’t go back to sleep without nursing. The plan right now is to take the next couple of weeks to decrease the night nursing and then try Ferber.
Last night Baby threw us a curveball by crying at bedtime. It took maybe 45 minutes to get her to sleep with rocking/bouncing. She woke up three times in the night, nursing twice and going back to sleep pretty easily. Then this morning, what do I find? Her very first tooth! My guess is she had some discomfort from the tooth at bedtime, and that’s what caused the crying. I didn’t see any other signs of teething like fussiness during the day or fever or anything like that. She has been ferociously gnawing on everything for at least a month now.
So my questions is: How do you work sleep training with teething? I hate the idea of letting my baby cry if she is in pain, but how do I know the difference?