Accessory Tuesday: Le Willoughby Mule
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I think of mules as sandals for the office.
This structured, almond-toe mule from Frame is made from a rich brown leather with an eye-catching crisscross detail. In addition to being office-friendly, its low one-inch heel makes it perfect for commuters. Wear it with a flowy midi skirt or airy wide-leg pants for an outfit that will take you right into air-conditioner season.
These mules are $275 at Nordstrom and available in most sizes 5.5–11 (quantities are limited for some sizes).
A more affordable option for a brown almond-toe mule is from Sam Edelman; it’s $140 at SamEdelman.com and also comes in sizes 5–11.
Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
What makes you feel chic?
Here are my things:
Applying Dior nail glow to my toenails.
Putting lotion on all over before leaving the house (I know, this should be a daily thing, but… it just isn’t).
Wearing a matching bra and underwear set (another thing that maybe should be basic, but is a rarity in my world).
Putting on jewelry (beginning to see a pattern here…).
A fresh haircut that I actually like.
What makes you feel chic? Thanks in advance!
Coming over from the main site, my 12 year old niece asked me to read a book that she has read because the ending confused her. I’ve read it and agree that the ending is disjointed but I understood what the author was going for. I’m seeing her again in a few weeks, what is the right balance of explaining versus asking her to take the lead? I would love to keep reading books with her so I don’t want to mess it up.
We spent some time with another family this weekend and I am really concerned about their older son. This 8 year old alternated between being an outright bully to the other kids around and completely melting down at the slightest rejection (when the other kids politely decided to play a different game than one he suggested, he sat in a corner crying and hitting himself saying “nobody likes me, I’m bad”). This was ignored by his mother as normal behavior that he would grow out of. He also spent some time pulling wings off flies and tearing worms in half for fun. When he asked his parents for something to do, they handed him a phone and he played video games for hours while the other kids ran around outside. We haven’t seen this family much since the pandemic and the kid’s behavior has really changed since then — he previously was a really sweet, if hypersensitive, kid. He’s not in any sort of therapy and it was clear that his parents are not concerned about his behavior at all. If you observed this, would you do anything? I feel like my spidey sense was going off that this kid is on a tough path, but I don’t know what resources might exist. I’m close enough to my friend to have a tough conversation if need be.
My daughter is going through puberty and is feeling all the feelings. A major source of friction has been that her friends’ parents are more permissive than our family, and we do not allow daughter to do all the things her friends do. Any tips for how to navigate? There are a few things we’ve compromised on but we’ve reached our limit (until she gets older/more mature).
yesterday i told my 4 year old she could accompany me to run some errands, and she didn’t understand why were getting in the car and not running…love how literally she took it. i also then took her into a clothing store to return something with me, maybe for the first time in 3+ years, and she kept saying “wow. this is interesting” and we rode an escalator, which she found petrifying. this is one of the things I find fun about having kids – seeing the world through their eyes
I know this has been discussed before but now that I’m at this place, what the heck: how and when did you decide you were done having kids?
I’m pretty/definitely/maybe sure we’re done with two but I also keep playing through the “what ifs”. My husband is #3, my sister who I’m so close to is #3 etc etc.
I’m 20 weeks pregnant w/ my third kid. We just found out the sex and it’s the same as our other 2 kids. How do we deal w/ the comments of “how sad, didn’t you want a XX/XY instead?” I’ve been replying that we love our 2 kids and can’t wait to have another to add to our family. The complication here for me is that this pregnancy was so different from my first two that I had basically convinced myself that it must be the other sex. So, I’m still kind of processing that while dealing with the obnoxious comments. And this pregnancy has been so physically tough on me that I know I’m totally done after this. To be clear – I am super happy to be pregnant and adding a third kid to our family and none of these comments are coming from my husband. He’s awesome.
We’re considering becoming a one car family. We live in a suburban area with nothing within walking distance of our house except a park/playground, so this isn’t something we would have thought of before the pandemic, but I now work 100% from home and my husband works from home three days a week in the school year and all summer so it seems like we could manage it. Has anyone done this? The biggest issue I foresee is when my husband or I travel solo we’ll either need to take a shuttle to the airport or have the other person drop us off, but I don’t think that will be a huge deal because it doesn’t happen very frequently.
I am 35 years old and my mother packed my lunch for me (and is keeping my kid for the week!) since I was going straight to the office after a weekend away at her house, and she slipped some surprise cookies in there for me. Best day ever. I hope to be such an awesome adult-mom/grandmother in 30 years too. Kiddo is going to have such a blast this week.
tips for when you are so tired you feel like you could fall asleep standing up? whole family had covid last week and since then, our 4 year old has been waking every hour or two. i’d not attend to her each time, except she shares a room with her sister and is quite loud and i dont want to keep the whole house up all night.
For those with kids in full time daycare: do you buy bigger toys like water tables, play kitchens, etc? If so, which specific ones have you bought? A lot of my friends who have nannies or stay at home with the kids have lots of these toys and I understand why.
I don’t think we need all of them since he gets to play with them everyday at school, but maybe would like to buy one or two things that would get a lot of mileage. I.e., My son loves his little tikes indoor slide—he rides it multiple times before and after school. Thoughts on whether play kitchen or similarly big toys are worth it if in daycare?
Ugggggggggggh. My daycare just informed me they’re changing their hours in 2 weeks and opening half an hour later. I get why they need to do it but, ugh, this is going to screw over our carefully balanced schedules so much. Ugh ugh ugh.