Washable Workwear Wednesday: New Gwyneth Skirt
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Does leopard even count as a trend anymore?
This lined skirt is made from a light chiffon fabric with a grosgrain ribbon-trimmed waist. Wear this A-line skirt with just about anything — add snuggly cashmere sweater for brunch or a structured wool jacket for the office.
J.Crew’s New Gwyneth Skirt is $128. It also comes in three solid colors starting at $46.50 on sale. It’s available in sizes XXS-3X.
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 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
Sharing this feedback in case it’s another glitch with the update — it seems to take a very long time to get out of mod when posts are “awaiting approval”. My post today has been waiting five hours so far (and I’m not sure what triggered the mod…)
I’d like to do a San Diego and Disneyland trip in March for Spring break with 6 and 4 year old boys. We’ll have a week. Suggestions on how to organize the trip? How many days in each location and suggestions for hotels? I think Zoo, Legoland and maybe Sea World would be of interest to my kids as well. Which city would you suggest flying in and out of? (There are no direct flights from my local airport to either LA/San Diego). Rent car or take that train in between? Thanks.
If your school circulates a “teachers favorite things” list, how closely do you adhere to it? I was thinking of getting our classroom teacher a gift card to her favorite local restaurant and her favorite candies, but just doing generic Target cards for the special teachers and lunch supervisors. I don’t really feel like running all over town tracking down individual gift cards for everyone at this hectic time of year. Does that seem reasonable? Fwiw, only doing $10 each for everyone other than the classroom teacher because there are a lot of them, so I’d be hesitant to do a restaurant gift card anyway, since $10 doesn’t cover a meal even for one person except at fast food places.
And what if anything do you give the principal? I LOVE our principal (she truly is everyone’s “pal”!) but somehow giving her money feels weird, like giving the boss money. Should we bake her favorite dessert or just give her a Target card like everyone else?
Does anyone have a recommendation for a digital address book? I need to get our holiday card list in better shape. Ideally looking for something that’s easy to upload to sites that sell holiday cards. Thank you!
What do your elementary ages boys use for shampoo and bath/shower soap? My 8 year old has very thick hair, straight, that sticks up in all sorts of ways when it starts to grow out from a very short cut. And for soap, what do we use that’s good for sensitive skin but also handles active boy stinkiness?
The baby shampoo/soap we are still using isn’t cutting it! Not sure how I haven’t figured this out yet.
Regular poster, anon for this
Just requesting some positive thoughts my way. I’ve had a persistent cough for months (and had a few bad respiratory illnesses over the past year, including Covid in July). It’s been keeping me up at night despite meds so I went to the doctor yesterday and my chest xray looks frightening. They booked me in to see the pulmonologist for a CT scan on Friday. Apart from the cough, I have no symptoms to suggest anything terrible in my lungs or elsewhere in my body that could have moved to my lungs, but I’m pretty terrified nonetheless. Two very little kids.
Night time “training” question: DD is fully day trained and wears underwear during the day. At night she wears night pull-ups. For the past 12 nights or so she has woken up dry. I don’t think she would wake up if she did need to pee in the night and I don’t think she’s physically or emotionally ready to get herself out of bed and go alone (she pees independently during the day but that’s new). I’m wondering when people have made the transition to underwear at night? Would it be now or some other potty milestone? We’d be fine with leaving her in the night pull-ups longer but just don’t want them to become some sort of crutch. She’s expressed interest in wearing underwear at night. Ages for all this stuff are not important to me but, if it matters, she turned 4 in August.
This question makes me feel very old, but does anyone have a rec for slip on cold weather boots with decent arch support? I can no longer wear my beloved Uggs because the lack of arch support is causing intense pain radiating up to my hips. I have nice Cole Haan sneaker-style snow boots I wear when there’s a lot of snow on the ground or I plan to do any serious amount of walking, but they take a couple minutes to lace up and I would love something I can just slip on for walking the dog or running to school dropoff when it’s cold but not that snowy.
Does anyone have recommendations for really, really good princess costumes?
Any recommendations for stuffed animal storage for an almost 5-yo? There’s not a lot of usable floor space in the bedroom due to the radiator and closet placement, so something that’s vertical is much better than horizontal storage. Kiddo isn’t enthusiastic about a tall basket, because then the stuffies won’t be visible. I just remember those ceiling nets of my childhood becoming a magnet for spider webs.
I think my 7-year-old is not getting quality sleep. Her bedtime is 7:30pm, though when my husband does bedtime, it tends to be closer to 8pm. (But that’s another post…) Her school starts pretty late so we never have to wake her up, and she wakes up naturally her own around 6:30am.
I think it is taking her a while to fall asleep after lights out, and/or she isn’t getting quality sleep. My best guess is that her mind takes a while to settle down. Her teachers flagged it as a concern during the parent/teacher conference, saying she seems sleepy and will say that she is tired when asked.
We’ve been trying a kids sleep meditation book before bed but I’m not sure what else to try. Anything that has worked for your kids?
With the holidays coming, the school emails have reached a fever pitch. And apparently, I can’t read my emails because I’ve had one kid’s holiday concert written ON THE WRONG DAY on the calendar. For months. It’s tomorrow, not Friday.
I’m bowing out of all teacher cookie exchanges and extras. I feel bad, but I just cannot this year. My mind is full, and I feel like I’m losing my marbles because I can’t remember anything, not even the things I’ve written down.
My tween son is experiencing age-and-stage-appropriate BO. He is doing very well with hygiene so that it isn’t noticeable unless he’s coming off a full day of sweaty sports or when he wakes up in the morning if he didn’t shower before bed. However, his bedroom smells like sweaty teen boy. All sweaty or stinky laundry for the whole family goes straight to the laundry room instead of the bedroom, so that’s not the issue. It would probably help if I washed his sheets more often and I’m working on it, but it only takes a few nights for some smell to start building up. Beyond that, I’m not sure where the stink is coming from. Any other ideas to freshen up the room? Advice for prevention? Or should I just be grateful he hasn’t discovered Axe body spray yet??
A small happy thing — my 8yo started skiing two years ago (just on our dinky upstate NY “mountain”), much to my husband’s delight (he adores skiing). For the first year we kept asking her little brother if he wanted to try, but he was a hard no (he’s VERY nervous about new things in general), so we completely stopped asking. And then, a few weeks ago, out of nowhere, he said “I want to try skiing.” My husband took him last weekend and they had a blast. A good reminder to me that sometimes it just takes a lot of time for kids to come around to things (and of course even if he hadn’t come around, that would be fine too!).