Washable Workwear Wednesday: Long-Sleeve Ruffle Shirt in Floral Eyelet

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I love this top from J. Crew’s new spring arrivals. I love how it is doing a few things at once, but all of the elements are subdued enough that they work together well. The ruffles are small and well placed; I like how they’re around the neck too. The eyelet is small, and I like the sleeves and the length. The fun color options are the icing on the cake. I absolutely love the pink, but the light blue is fun too! The top is on sale for $75.50 and is available in sizes XXS–3X. Long-Sleeve Ruffle Shirt in Floral Eyelet

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Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):

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

  • Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
  • Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
  • Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
  • Boden – 15% off new season styles
  • Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
  • J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
  • J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
  • Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
  • Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
  • Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)

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

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WWYD – 5 year old complaining intermittently (like once a day for a couple days) that he has a tooth ache… in the sense of stating it as a mildly annoying fact, not like in a lot of pain. If it were normal times, I would have called to make an appointment with the dentist by now. I imagine they must be closed.

I rescheduled my 3 y/o’s well check today. It was scheduled for April 6 (that’s already a month after his birthday but that was the first available). I requested an appointment for May or June. Just need some reassurance that I’m not totally overreacting?

My morning sickness has returned at 26 weeks, yay!

Just in case I’m not the only one looking for something my kid can climb on since we can’t go to the playground, Zulily has outdoor toys today.

Does anyone know of any push toys that have rubber wheels instead of those noisy plastic wheels? Trying to find options that aren’t so loud and obnoxious.

Any advice on working from home in BigLaw when most of your colleagues have a stay-at-home spouse so they don’t have to juggle childcare? So far folks are being understanding but I am generally expected to be available all day and I don’t think I can keep it up much longer! Husband is also working from home but can watch our baby between calls more easily than I can.

Just got an e-mail from the school district, to this effect: “We have just learned that [major ISP] has been blocking our e-mail communications. If you have a [major ISP] e-mail address, please be aware that we are working to resolve the situation.”

Facepalm. This whole e-learning thing is not going to go smoothly.

Oof…. Scottish FM just announced school and nursery closures from Friday, with no guarantee they’ll reopen before the summer holidays…I know they are carefully following scientific advise and I totally understand that but I’m crying. I’m an academic on a limited contract – this year was supposed to be focused on publications and getting my book out, so I could get a job once this contract ended. Instead I’ll be at home.
My husband is currently essential but suspect that might change when his whole govt building closes.

Welp, about to join the ranks of working-with-toddler: our in-home has decided to close for the time being. She seems really torn but wants to be safe. Not totally unexpected, but still bummed. I really don’t want to call in the grandparents, partly for their safety and partly because my mom refuses to self-isolate (still going to all her volunteer events, eating out as recently as two days ago). My husband is looking in to backup care through care dot com & his employer (so have a pre-screened nanny come to our house) but that doesn’t sit great with me either.

Just bummed that this is going to hit me harder as a working mom than all my male colleagues for whom it’s business as usual because their wives are watching the kids like normal.

I keep seeing articles and advertisements for things to do during this time – shows to binge, books to read, etc. For adults. And I’m like WTH?!?! I am still working 8 hours a day from home at sporadic times and have additional childcare responsibilities. Add in meals, sleep, and a workout, and that’s like 26 hours. I get it…season of life…folks without kids and retired people might be bored. But I just hang my head in defeat.

With these new reports that we will be self-isolating for 18 months, I have to admit I’m freaking out a little. 1.5 years of no interaction with anyone outside immediate family seems like something that’s going to do permanent damage to an entire generation of kids, especially the youngest ones who can’t meaningfully learn or interact with friends virtually. And I know my family has it better off than most – even ignoring the economic impacts (which are huge) there are millions of kids who won’t be getting any kind of education at all if they’re not in public school, and quite a few who won’t even be safe.
I love my parents, I don’t want them to die and I know everyone has loved ones who are 70+, but I’m not sure why we’ve all mutually agreed that it’s worth wrecking our economy, the next generation’s future and basically society as we know it to prolong the lifespans of people who likely don’t have a terribly long life expectancy to begin with. Fwiw, my 70 year old dad totally agrees with me. He said to me the other day that he probably has at most 5-10 good years left (which I agree with, based on family history and his overall health) and he really doesn’t want to lose 1.5 of them to isolation. He wants to travel and see the world before his time is up, which I completely understand.
I don’t know – I don’t want to sound heartless, but I feel like there has been way too much focus on simply keeping people alive, and not enough focus on quality of life and the future impacts of this extreme isolation, especially for children, who have the longest life expectancy of anyone.

So our neighborhood list serve is blowing up with 2 things:
1) asking families not to go to playground. Which I’m ok with, mostly because little kids are not good at understanding social distancing.
2) asking families with kids not to walk around the hood and restrict kids to their own yards (unless they are in strollers). I’m not ok with this. We are taking 1 walk a day. When I see people coming by, we step to the side and leave room. I think that is enough. But everyday I re-evaluate what I think is “enough”. I’m now doing things I would have scoffed at last week. Is grid the coming norm?

This top is gorgeous on her and would not look so great on me.
I forgot there was a pandemic for a bit when I woke up today.
Petty pandemic concern of the day: I’m high risk (immunocompromised) so I switched to eating only food from home and drinking coffee from home a little over a week ago. I miss coffee made by other people!!!!!

We have been home for a week (except I went to Trader Joe’s this weekend). Our 3.5 year old is starting to miss school (and he’s a kid that wakes up every day with a hopeful “No school today?”) and he asked to go to the children’s museum yesterday (which is closed),
On the upside, he and his brother (1,5) are getting closer, which is nice to see.
I am hoping warm weather helps slow this down and buys us some time for preparing and developing a vaccine.