Washable Workwear Wednesday: Mesh-Lined H2OFF Raincoat
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To me, the hardest type of weather to dress for is when it is raining but still warm out. You want to wear a jacket to keep your outfit dry, but you don’t want to sweat inside the coat. Another complication is that I often have to wear a blazer because I am going to court, and adding a raincoat on top makes me feel like I am boiling inside. This jacket from L.L.Bean is mesh lined, so it seems to be only a light waterproof layer that keeps the rain out but does not keep heat in. I also like that for a waterproof layer, it can pass for more professional looking, unlike most raincoats that make people look like they’re walking around base camp at Mount Everest. This jacket is $179, comes in black, navy blue, and khaki, has many positive reviews, and is machine washable and dryer friendly. Mesh-Lined H2OFF Raincoat
For plus sizes, L.L.Bean has a similar option.
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Sales of note for 5/14/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty Deals up to 25% off (ends 5/17)
- Ann Taylor – Suit Yourself! 30% off suiting (ends 5/16) + 25% off your full price purchase (ends 5/18) + extra 60% off sale (ends 5/14)
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Up to 60% off everything + extra 60% off sale + $1 shipping on all orders
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off long-weekend styles + 50% off select swim and coverups
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100+ + extra 20% off $125+
- M.M.LaFleur – Lots of twill suiting on sale! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off all markdowns (ends 5/18) + 30% off dresses, skirts, accessories, and shoes
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?
If you are looking for a raincoat, Costco has really nice little trench coats for $30 that are perfect. With the collar unsnapped the top looks a lot like the featured one here, only a lot smoother and more tailored looking.
https://www.costco.com/Kirkland-Signature-Ladies-Trench-Rain-Jacket.product.100289441.html
(Costco is my unsung hero for work clothes – check the catalog not just the stores.)
Does anyone have a good strategy for organizing their digital photos? Now that we have kids, I feel a huge sense of anxiety about the fact that our digital photos are a mess — most are on my phone, some are on my husband’s phone, and some (from vacations and other big events) are on a memory card on my husband’s nice camera.
Husband and I both use iCloud for backup, so I know they are safely backed up, but they are not organized in any way across these three sources. All of the pics that have me in the photo are taken by my husband, and I often never see them again, so I feel like I need a system for transferring the “keepers” from his phone or the digital camera that would allow us to merge the photos from all three sources and make albums.
I also feel a little overwhelmed by the sheer number of photos we take. I’ve been trying to delete the less good shots and just keep 1 or 2 that capture the moment, soon after taking them, because once too much time passes and they are buried in my camera roll, I am less likely to deal with it.
Would love to hear about how other families manage this, because it is really starting to stress me out. Thanks!
Someone sound the airhorns – I’m going to start the weaning process. DS is about 10 months and some change.
Thinking to drop my before bed (~11 PM) pumping session after next week, and then shorten and eventually drop the two at-work others across after that month, and eventually just stop the morning/before bed feeds and give cow’s milk once he’s ready. Don’t really have any desire to go beyond his first birthday around Thanksgiving but open for extending a 1-2 weeks if needed. I figure by the time my girl’s weekend comes around in early December, he’ll be fully weaned/there will be no milk left by the time I come back.
Anyone have any tips or things to watch out for?
For those of you in two parent working homes who send your kid to Montessori, what do you do when they have days off that you do not? Like such as Columbus Day? I know I should have planned better but here we are so I could use some advice/tips.
We started potty training my second a couple weeks ago and she’s done so, so great. She’s 100% trained for pee. Every once in a while she’ll not quite make it to the toilet in time (majority still makes it in), but she’s otherwise really on the ball.
She will not/cannot/does not (not sure which) poop in the toilet. When we first started, she was equally successful/not successful with pee and poop. But then, she just seemed to forget what “having to poop” feels like and never, ever goes in the toilet.
I have tried sitting her on the toilet when I know she has to go. She’s done it watching AN HOUR of tv. She got off, and in 2 minutes pooped in her underwear. We can’t seem to make the poop feeling = the pee feeling in terms of “mom I need to go potty!” This is falling to us as a home problem because she tends to have one BM a day, in the evenings. I suspect it’s the squatting that helps- when she goes, it’s always crouched down. We keep an eagle-eye on her but to no avail. She’ll be playing a game crouched down then all of a sudden poop and we can’t get her to the toilet in time.
Ideas? We had the exact opposite issue with my older one– she had one poop accident EVER but it took her months to get to the toilet in time to pee.
Sorry for a super gross question, but how solid should an 8 month old’s poop be? She’s eating some solids but still mostly breastmilk. I’ve seen conflicting things online – some people say it’s only constipation if it’s dry and pellet-like (which it’s not) but some other things say it’s too solid if it’s formed enough that you could pick it up off the diaper (which I could). She eats prunes every single day (to take a vitamin supplement) and has water with most meals, and we avoid constipating foods so it seems hard to believe that she’s constipated, but maybe she is.
Building on the princess question above, I’m making a specific effort to educate my (preschool/kindergarten) kids about advertising and marketing and the effects. So far, that just involves things like commenting on commercials during Team Umizoomi. We’ve talked about how ads are designed to make you want to buy something, so they only show the good things and none of the bad things. We demonstrated it by buying one of those awful “Wubble Bubbles” and talking explicitly about how it wasn’t that fun after about 10 minutes of playing, and how it popped the next day, but the commercial made it look so much more fun than that.
What else can we do? Are there resources that we could use? We’re just starting with toy ads to try to set a foundation, and as they get older I’d love to expand into body image and gender roles and whatever else, but I’m kind of winging it based on what I remember from marketing classes in college. Any tips?
Our nanny is starting next month – her salary plus all the taxes we have to pay is more than my post-tax salary. When you factor in my benefits like health insurance, I probably break even, but I’m not taking anything home. I know rationally this is the right decision for our family and this is a temporary thing – we are planning to use the nanny for only 12-18 months and then move our daughter into daycare (which will be 1/3 the cost!), but it’s so hard to feel like I’m working for free. Anyone been here and can offer reassurance that this is worth it?
Family-friendly (2 adults + 10 month old) resort in Bahamas that is not Atlantis and preferably not Nassau in February/March?
We just went through this. We ended up getting the Citi mini kickboard so we have the option for a sit-and-stand. we also got the Zoe XL2 as our double stroller. I don’t think you can use it right when the baby is born, because it doesn’t recline all the way, but when the baby was really little, we mostly used a carrier for him anyway. If you think you can wait a little bit to have them in the double, I really recommend the Zoe. I did a ton of research and this was by far the best in terms of weight, maneuverability, cost, etc. And we also use our strollers a ton (NYC).
Good luck and congrats!
Halloween help! My 4 year daughter wants to be a princess for Halloween. She is deep into a princess phase. I don’t love it bc it reinforces gender norms, impossible beauty standards, etc, so my stance is to not encourage or discourage and wait till it passes. So, how do I handle Halloween?! I would be ok with getting her a princess costume, but I know that she’s going to want to wear it every day till it falls apart.
Hopefully fun thread: What should I dress my 19-month-old as for Halloween? Open to buying a costume or “assembling” one out of separately-ordered stuff, but am not open to spending more than 20 minutes creating anything :)
Moms – help me figure out what do do about a stroller for kid #2. Kid #1 will be 2 1/2 when the baby comes. We live in DC and drive very rarely so the stroller is used all the time. Right now our everyday stroller is a summer infant 3d lite and we have a citi mini for longer walks. We have a chicco keyfit carseat we’d like to reuse if possible. I assume we’ll baby wear a lot but want a way to get around with both kids somehow using the stroller. Do I buy the carseat adapater and standing board for the citimini? Buy a sit and stand stroller (which one?)? Go full on double stroller? Something else?
We moved to a suburban, wealthy neighborhood after years of living in the city. I have not met any other women who work outside of the home. I’m irrationally jealous of my neighbors. They chat amiably at the bus stop, volunteer at the schools, have girls days outs, and just enjoy life with their children. (And I don’t think it’s an act – they really seem happy and lovely.) On the other hand, I’m a GC in a male dominated company. Everyone’s nice, but they are big on face time. I feel a lot of pressure to perform and that other women in the company look to me to break down barriers (and that’s fair given my role has the sole women in leadership). I get no free and easy time. I had to schedule being the ‘special reader’ to my kids’ kindergarten class 2 months in advance. Every minute of my day is scheduled, so I can work, raise kids and keep my house in relative order. It’s all joy and no fun. I’m just overwhelmed, and I feel like I’m missing everything. At the same time…I need to get paid. The kids enjoy eating and having a roof over their heads :)
Parents with experiences with allergies, advice? My 8-month-old just had a reaction at daycare to (we assume) the mixed nut butter the oatmeal I packed for him…he had the same nut butter a month or so ago without issue but I guess things changed? Swollen/red eyes but no other symptoms, no trouble breathing, etc. By the time I got to him about 40 minutes after the incident, he looked completely fine and was happy and smiling. Pediatrician said that given it had been an hour and he was fine, he was ok to leave at daycare.
What are next steps? His checkup is in three weeks, I guess just wait until then to talk to the doctor? I’m also having major guilt about leaving him at daycare…my husband is out of town for work and I have to teach a graduate class at 1. But he seemed fine? Ugh, I don’t know.