Washable Workwear Wednesday: Pima Micro-Rib Scoop-Neck Tee
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Here’s the perfect underpinning for your summer look.
This fitted tee features a flattering scoop neck and elbow length sleeves — perfect for accessorizing with a statement necklace or bracelet. It’s made from soft and stretchy pima cotton that will work under a statement blazer or cardigan. Wear it on its own after work or on the weekends as the weather warms — just add your favorite jeans and sandals.
This tee from Everlane is $40 and comes in six go-with-anything neutral colors. It’s available in XXS–XL.
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 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
My favorite theory tshirts have sleeves that length and they’re perfect for wearing under things for work. It feels a bit more put together when you take off your blazer and have elbow length sleeves than a true t-shirt.
I very gently and kindly ask for no flaming, I know this approach isn’t what others would take but our area is pretty much back to normal, right or wrong, so we’re balancing that reality/expectations with our situation.
Reporting from COVID exposure day #4. DH caught it while at a work retreat. We were all exposed Saturday, he’s been masked/isolating since Sunday, and will re-test again today. So far the rest of us have no symptoms….well the 17-month-old is a bit snotty but not sure if that’s new or not. School requires a negative rapid test from a clinic for return back, so fingers crossed tomorrow we’re back to normal operations; I plan to get the test en route to school and wait in the drugstore parking lot for results. DS #1 is terrified of COVID testing (it was easier when he was 2 than 4), so tips welcome as I’ll likely do a rapid at home and then have to administer at the clinic.
FYI – DH never had a fever, but had loss of appetite, crazy fatigue, night sweats, etc.
Ugh. Baby has a fever so is spending the day with Grandma while we’re at work (Covid negative, low risk grandma). I’m so thankful we have family who can provide back up care like this and also so bummed/annoyed/sad/blah that we’re not the ones who can be there for her.
Quick gut check.
I’m pregnant with #2 after a successful FET. 9 weeks, and will announce at work once I’m out of the first trimester and we have NIPT back (since we’ll find out sex then). Did the same thing with first pregnancy.
I’m mentoring a woman who is also going through IVF, but for different reasons, and she has low odds of it being successful. She’s very upbeat about it all, but I still think that the right thing to do would be to tell her before I tell anyone else, via text, on a weekend, so that she can process solo and before it makes its way to the water cooler. I don’t think telling her on one of our Zoom calls is the right approach here.
Yes? No?
We used a qtip and “practiced” on my 4 year old’s favorite stuffed animal for a while. Then mom and dad both got tested in front of DD (made sure for no negative reactions at all), and then we did 4 year old’s test. It wasn’t perfect, but all the prepping helped. First nostril was easy enough, and I’d recommend going right for nostril number 2 and not having any down time in between. Just get it over with quick. We also always finish with a silly nose wiggle/scratch with our full palm just to make it end on a funny and not traumatic note. Good luck!
I need book recs to learn about introducing food. We’re likely to try baby-led, just because that’s the norm ong relatives and friends, but not strictly committed to any ideology. First time parents with not-perfect eating habits, so we have all the questions–what, when, how, why…TIA
Adoption is pending! Now I need a middle name for first name Benjamin. Last name is two syllables, emphasis on the first syllable. Thanks!
PSA – your kid’s helmet should be replaced after a crash and some of the manufacturers do a discount replacement scheme. My son went down hard on Monday and I contacted GIRO for a replacement.
Hi! I missed you all. We’ve been COVIDing, of course. The 4yo tested positive last Monday and I followed suit the next day. Amazingly, my husband, the 6yo, and the 4mo have all been consistently negative on rapids (plus 3 additional negative PCRs for the baby). Per daycare policy the 4yo was allowed to go back this Monday but we decided to keep him home until he tested negative on rapids, which finally happened this morning. I’m still positive on rapids so still masking/isolating. So excited for this to be over. Between the actual sickness (which was ROUGH) and keeping 3 kids apart for 10 days, it has been deeply horrible.
i probably sound like a broken record, but tips for sleep issues when kids share a room? 4 year olds who share a room and one keeps waking up in the middle of the night and doesn’t get out of bed but sits there and screams/cries until mommy or daddy come in. i almost wish she would get out of bed quietly as to not wake her sister. ideas please? our whole family is a hot mess
I love my husband but some days I think being fulltime officemates is going to lead to the demise of our marriage. He’s a great husband and dad but a terrrrrrible officemate.
Quick gut check – my older two kids have been trying to teach the three year old (turned three in April) her letters and she is just not remembering them. At all. She’s quite clever at social things, but her memory for what the letter A looks like for example is just nonexistent. I’m pretty sure my older two could remember and recognize some letters (not all) at this age. We aren’t trying to teach her letters for academic reasons or anything like that – she just has an alphabet puzzle or we’ll be playing scrabble or something like that. Are we jumping way ahead developmentally?
she knows the alphabet song – she just has trouble with the visual if that makes sense. She’s also not getting frustrated or anything. Just looking for a gut check that this is normalish. Not that there’s anything we would do about it anyways!
Anyone have strategies for setting boundaries around reading books? My 5yo just discovered a new series she loves, which is great in that she’s reading 100 pages a day, but it’s a struggle to get her to put down the book to do anything else (set the table for dinner, eat breakfast, go to bed) without constant pleas for “just one more chapter!”. I love that’s she’s finally figured out reading for pleasure and don’t want to squash that, but she’s never been great at transitions and now it seems like we have multiple power struggles per day about putting aside her book.
Okay, help me prep for upcoming family vacation. I have a very lovely SIL (brother’s wife), who will – at some point during the week we will spend together with our families – tell me that she “doesn’t know how I do it.” She likely will say it when my children are at their absolute worst – whining for food, tired due to messed up bedtimes, etc. I think she honestly means it sincerely, but I find it to be such a transparent way of saying “wow, your family is a hot mess, and I wouldn’t want to deal with it.” For context, she has two young kids, who will also melt down during the week. She might say it when they melt down too.
I honestly think she means it sincerely. I have more kids than she does, and two of mine are under 3. They have been very clear that having one more kid would be extremely hard on their marriage. That said, this statement really bothers me (I like to think I generally have it pretty well together – so this remark always lands when I’m at my most vulnerable), but I can’t ever figure out what to say in response. I’m notoriously bad at making a joking remark in return (my joking always comes out too harsh), but I’d like to have something to say back that isn’t too harsh/too serious. Or, if I should just go into hearing this statement knowing that it is more about her, not about me. Thoughts?
I’m dealing with intense burnout and need advice.
I literally just… don’t even respond to emails sometimes. The simple ones! I’m doing below the bare minimum. I’m ashamed but can’t seem to turn that shame into action.
Part of this is burnout, part is bitterness over some internal happenings at my organization, part is premature short-timers because I’m in the final phase of a recruitment process for a new job.
I took a week off to completely disconnect and it honestly made it worse because it showed me how nice it is not to be working. I just had to use so much will to move my arms to reply to a simple email. It felt like ripping off a wax strip or jumping into the pool in terms of willpower and psyching myself up!
Any advice so I don’t totally tank my amazing reputation at the end (hopefully) of my time here? How do I will myself to do simple tasks?