Washable Workwear Wednesday: Short Sleeve Dress

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A woman wearing a Short Sleeve Dress.I’ll admit, I don’t know much about the brand Ming Wang — I think of them mostly as specializing in knit sweater/blazer type of things. Still: not only is this dress washable (and tumble dry!) but it also is wrinkle-resistant. I like the sleeves, the high neckline, and the easy care. (If you prefer longer sleeves and a V-neck, here’s a very similar dress from the same brand, also machine wash/tumble dry/wrinkle resistant.) The pictured dress is $210, available in sizes XS-XL. Ming Wang Short Sleeve Dress (L-2)

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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Ugh. I think I”m in a rut. Every day seems the same, wake up – morning rush, and off to work. My work is vaguely fulfilling, but I do a lot of repetitive, mundane tasks. I pick up my kids from school, and usually have an hour or two to play with them, then make dinner, eat dinner, bed time for them(husband usually comes home around this time), stupid Netflix shows, and then bed. I feel so stuck. There is not enough time to meet other friends for a playdate before dinner (and none of my friends leave work until later as well), and my 18 month old is SO CLINGY and it’s starting to make me really frustrated. I do everything with him attached to me – cooking, cleaning up, etc. etc. etc., but even then, he wants to be picked up, then put down, then picked back up again.

When it’s nice out, we go to the park and he’ll happily run around, but with this cold weather we are stuck inside. I’m feeling the angsty same cabin fever I felt in January. It makes me irritable with my kids, my work, and frustrated with my husband.

Any suggestions?! Help!

If you were to buy just a couple of items to ‘freshen up’ your wardrobe for return to work after maternity leave, what would you buy?

Ideally, they’d be pumping friendly and also budget-friendly as all spending now comes with the Ack! I should be saving this for the kid’s college! baggage attached.

Shopping help needed! I am attending a rehearsal dinner and wedding in a few weekends, and expect I will need to pump at some point during the evening. I plan to bring my manual pump and dump any milk I get. My question is what bag can I use to transport my pump? I think it will fit in an extra large clutch. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am wearing royal blue to the rehearsal dinner and navy blue to the wedding, so a bag that goes with both dresses would be easiest. I was thinking black, but am open to other suggestions. Thanks!

Have you considered hiring a doula? Advocating and asking questions is part of what they do, and their support to you and your husband can be absolutely invaluable.

Ugh, sorry for the long story here. My husband and I were discussing labor/delivery plans for our first child. I would really like a natural birth, no c-section, and few interventions, and we were talking about how I would really need him to advocate for me and ask questions at every step of the way, since I’m not sure how capable of that I would be when I’m in a lot of pain. But then I said, maybe I should ask my mom, since she might be more comfortable doing that. He got kind of offended, like why couldn’t I do that? And I pointed out that he hates speaking up at restaurants if they get his order wrong, and at a hospital, he would have to be challenging and questioning someone in a position of authority, while I am very clearly in pain- I just don’t think that would be easy to do, and my mom is more assertive and has more experience in hospitals from when my dad was sick. So then I think I did offend him, but I still kind of think I’m right? Obviously I would prefer if it was just him, but if it came down to it, and I really needed him to intervene and he’s not comfortable with it, that would be really upsetting. Or should I look at this as good practice for him advocating him for our future child? Also totally possible I’m not giving him enough credit- he is great at his job, not really considered a pushover, etc. Or am I totally off base on what labor will be like? Obviously neither of us has experienced a birth before. Advice? Thoughts? Commiseration?

thanks to those who suggested the combination of a wrap-top dress (like the LE fit-and-flare dress) and demi cami for my summer nursing dress (that is *not* a maternity dress) question – I now have three Second Base demi camis and three LE dresses and that is all I am wearing from here on out :-). Since I wear them with Jockey Skimmies I feel like a walking C 0 r p 0 r 3 t t e comment section.