Washable Workwear Wednesday: Lapel Coatigan

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I love a cozy coatigan. They often skew a bit casual, but here’s one from Ann Taylor that may work for the office.

This cheerful (and washable) coatigan is the perfect winter pick-me-up: The notched lapels, long sleeves, and button front move this topper from weekend to work. The practical patch pockets are perfect for ID badges, and the bright kelly green color is surprisingly versatile. My favorite pairing is with navy, but it will also work well with white, cream, or tan.

The coatigan is on sale for $95 (marked down from $159) and available in regular (XS–XL) and petite (XXS–L).

While it’s a true coat and not a coatigan, this pretty green coat from City Chic is available in sizes 14W–24W for $189.

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 2/7:

(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)

  • Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
  • Ann Taylor – Extra 25% off your $175+ purchase — and $30 of full-price pants and denim
  • Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 15% off
  • Boden – 15% off new season styles
  • Eloquii – 60% off 100s of styles
  • J.Crew – Extra 50% off all sale styles
  • J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything including new arrivals + extra 20% off $125+
  • Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
  • Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
  • Talbots – 40% off one item + free shipping on $150+

And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interestworking mom questions asked by the commenters!

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I’m looking for an audio only baby monitor that will allow me to have 2 baby units and 2 parent units in the same house with good range. For some reason I can’t seem to find anything like this. 2 baby units seems to be the big issue. Anyone have a recommendation?

You’re a genius. That totally worked. Thanks! (Not sure why I couldn’t figure that out myself, lol. Need more coffee.)

I ordered one box from Lovevery for my baby, with the intention of canceling after since I don’t want to be stuck in a subscription for $80 boxes every two months. I tried to log back in to cancel my subscription, and the website is telling me it does not have an account with my email (so I can’t reset the password) even though I clearly received the order confirmation to my email, and I get several marketing emails a day to the same email. I’ve emailed their customer service and just got an auto-reply that they are short-staffed and will get back to me. Then nothing but crickets. No way to get hold of the company. The cynic in me thinks this is a dark pattern to make it super difficult for people to cancel (which is in violation of several laws, including CA auto-renewal laws), but I want to give them the benefit of the doubt. What do I do to prevent the next $80 charge though? Take it up with my credit card to block them?

Update on the three positive rapid tests and negative PCR test. Second PCR test came back negative too and two rapid tests today are negative too. Trusting the two PCR tests now.

Knock down, drag out fights nightly continue as we struggle to get our almost 4 year old (4 in April) to bed at night. She’s a darling all day long and at night she just does NOT want to sleep. She has daily quiet time and sometimes sleeps. We’re going to limit the sleep (if she gets any) to not more than an hour.

Last night we held the door shut and she went ballistic. It was only after she was SO upset that I was able to go in and calm her down and get her to go in to bed. Even still she insisted she doesn’t like sleep and tried to get up a ton of times. I’ve laid with her in bed. She also came in to our room overnight and got in bed with us. I’m losing my mind. Her ok to wake light has no impact on her at all. We have solid routines until the point we go upstairs. She takes melatonin. I don’t know what to do next. Is this what a sleep consultant is for? SOS.

I think this is a great article, and posting because while I think this community is largely, mostly positive, there are often times I feel like it’s a jump to “well me and spouse are 50/50, I wouldn’t have married someone who wasn’t”.

“Unequal partnerships are not always foreseeable or easy to avoid. Once a couple is enmeshed, both staying and leaving can bring deep suffering. So let’s stop blaming women. A working mother without a supportive spouse is struggling enough; she doesn’t need peers proclaiming that they’ve figured it out and suggesting that she could too if she were smart enough or feminist enough or knew how to ask.”

https://hbr.org/2022/01/stop-telling-working-women-they-just-need-an-equal-partnership-at-home

WWYD. After 15 years in the industry, i started my own consulting firm. I work about 20 hours/week freelancing. I gross about $110k/year (but have to pay lots of self employed taxes). DH works at a job he’s had for 9 years and he’s had several promotions and various roles. He’s now making $200k +$130k bonus and works barely 40 hours/week. There were times he’s had roles and been working 60++ hours/week. We are both now permanently WFH.

Kids are in preschool, kindergarten and 2nd grade. DH and I are late 30s.

I just got an offer for a full time role that would be about $300k + $50-100k/year bonus. WFH but once COVID passes, it will involve a fair amount of travel (exec level type stuff, not on site at client type work). It would be a big challenge and a high profile role, but it would also be a TON of work.

On the home front, DH couldn’t really work full time anymore, nor would he need to as salary-wise, I’d be making the same or more than the two of us do right now. His role/skill set doesn’t naturally lend itself to part time/contracting type work like mine does. He’s willing to be a SAHD, or take a part time board seat or something for a few years.

I just….am not mentally ready to take this job. I really like my cushy consultant lifestyle where I get to breeze in and out of companies and tell them how to fix their problems.

We don’t have a work-life balance issue right now (current endless quarantining aside).

Am I being lazy in turning it down? Will I regret not taking this big (but not particularly needed) opportunity in 10-15 years? My current consulting gig allows me to stay plugged in and relevant to the industry, so in the doomsday scenarios (death, divorce) I could get a better paying job with benefits- probably not one like the one being offered, but close enough.

My youngest will be in full day prek next year and so it’s time for me to figure out my childcare arrangements. My husband and I both work more-than-full time jobs, and we’ve had a full time nanny since I went back to work after my son was born. In the fall I’ll have a 6 year old and a 4 year old both in school from 9-2, so a full time nanny seems unnecessary (and while I haven’t asked her I somewhat doubt she’d be interested in transitioning to a housekeeper type role; that’s been kind of a bone of contention in our relationship from the beginning, i.e. she’s not really willing to do housekeeping tasks –though she’s a great nanny). If you’ve moved to a part time childcare set up, how have you handled summers, holidays, sick days? How did you find your part time sitter? I’m in NYC where I’m told finding a part time sitter is hard. Oh and my son I think will have access to some after school programming at his new school next year (covid depending) but not my daughter. Any advice appreciated!

Any experiences with transverse babies/ECV? I just had my 36-week ultrasound and she’s transverse oblique. Going back for another scan in a week and then they’ll schedule an ECV if she’s still sideways. If that doesn’t work, then they’ll schedule a C-section for 39 weeks.

This is my third…my second was transverse at 34 weeks and did manage to turn. But they seem more concerned about it this time for whatever reason. Is the spinning babies thing worth trying?

Yes dropoff is to the director for all kids in the main office/reception area. How do you know about the utensils and getting dressed skills – is it from a daily report kind of thing? This is really helpful to hear about what I should/should not expect, thanks! And I agree about the room! It’s not even clear which teachers are in which rooms!

How much communication are you having with your daycare? I’ve posted before about it but my son is older now – 14 months – and it still feels like an issue. For example, it just came up after a covid exposure that he’s in the infant room, which is supposedly for nonwalkers. Maybe there is some delay because of closures etc but he shouldn’t be in that room anymore. I’ve seen pictures online of him in the toddler room so I know he’s there sometimes? I feel like there should be discussion of this with me. I also just feel like I barely know what they do all day, and am hoping there’s more structured activities of some sort – is this an unreasonable expectation? I don’t feel all that confident that these things are going to improve because it’s been a long-standing issue, they are trying to hire more teachers, and I know that the staff is loving and nurturing. Last thing – I hear from other people that their daycares are the catalyst for getting off bottles, and other growth type things whereas all of that comes from me! What’s your experience with that? Look obviously right now my hope is just for childcare, period, but we’re reevaluating what we want in the future given this inflection point and seeing how well I feel like he does at home (obviously).

Has anyone found Bluey twin sheet sets for sale in the US? This is all my almost 4 year old wants for her birthday and it’s surprisingly hard to find – maybe a licensing issue? I checked Etsy and there a bunch of blankets and some crib/bassinet bedding, but no twin sheets. I’m at the point where I’m ready to take a trip to Australia with an empty suitcase…except Americans can’t enter!

One of my dearest coworkers gave notice yesterday. I really looked up to her as someone with older children who made it through the tough years and thrived, and then this whole sh*tstorm finally got to her after almost two years. I’m just sad. I’m sad no one noticed how much she was struggling, and that they didn’t even try to keep her.

If you have a chore chart for your kids, how long do you give it to work before deciding to pull the plug and try something else? I instituted a chore chart with my 4 and 6 year old about a month ago and compliance is erratic, at best. I bought a Tiny Tots Reward Chart, mentioned here, with pictures and words and each kid was excited at first, but we haven’t gone a full week yet where they have done each of their 4 chores. One week of full chores earns a book, 2 weeks a sweet bakery treat, and 4 weeks is a toy. Should I keep going with it? Or recognize the chosen rewards don’t motivate them? Am I doomed to have a messy house and lazy, slobby children? (Only kind of kidding.)

I need help with managing feelings around homework: mine. It gets ugly quickly when I ask my 1st grader to do her homework. Her homework this week is practice 5 spelling words and when I ask her to spell them, she leaves the room, pretends she doesn’t hear me, starts talking about something else, etc. And if she spells it incorrectly, she absolutely will not try again or move on to the next word. It drives me crazy and I end up sulking, stalking around, etc. (a real good look.) DH is in charge of homework because of this but I really would like to get to a better place with her. (The homework is a reasonable amount and of reasonable difficulty for her grade level.)