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While I’d save the model’s crop top/faded jeans combo for after hours, I would style it with a button-down and slim trousers for the office.
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Anonymous says
This blazer is fine (I’m still clinging to my $20 Target blazer) but I really want these jeans.
GCA says
I do too! although I have no idea where I’d wear them. We recently moved from a slightly fashionable East Coast metro context to a sweet Midwestern neighborhood that prioritizes comfort and functionality over trends. Lots of fleeces, flannels and hiking shoes this time of year, and honestly I also prioritize comfort and function most of the time. If I showed up to school pickup in baggy faded jeans I think I’d stick out more than I already do!
Anonymous says
haha so true! I live in DC metro area but grew up in the Midwest and although I would never call myself particularly fashionable (even by DC standards!), my definition of “casual” now makes me feel conspicuously overdressed whenever I go home to visit.
Anon says
On a trip over the weekend, my 5 year old and I discovered Great British Bake-Off and watched a bunch of it together. It was such a fun milestone watching something together that’s not a kid’s show, and I wondered if this group had suggested for other shows that are appropriate for early elementary school kids but interesting for adults.
anon says
The Amazing Race has been fun with our kids.
NOVA Anon says
Our family (5, 9, and two grownups) finds Is It Cake and The Floor Is Lava (both on Netflix) enjoyable for all.
Mary Moo Cow says
I’ve watched a few episodes of The Floor is Lava with my kids (6 and 8) and enjoyed it. This year we’re going to try the Bake Off Holiday episodes together.
Momofthree says
American Ninja warrior :)
Anon says
I don’t know how I didn’t think of this one, since she does a ninja class. Thanks all!
rakma says
Lego Masters has been a hit, as well as America’s Funniest Videos. Bonus for AFV is we get to regale our kids with stories about how it was on when we where kids, explaining what a VHS is etc.
An.On. says
Reading this thread made me realize all the non-fiction shows I watch are shows appropriate for early elementary school kids and I don’t know how I feel about that. How about Nailed It, especially as a counter point to Bake Off?
Anonymous says
The zoo shows on Disney+/Nat Geo. Secrets of the zoo at Tampa, secrets of the zoo Columbus. There are medical/animal mating scenes but my cautious 6yo has been fine with all of these. We have learned a ton!
Anonymous says
There are a lot of National Geographic shows on Disney+ – in third grade watching 7 Toughest Days, but that might not be appropriate yet. Jonathan Bird’s Blue World on YouTube is pretty interesting although made for kids- documentaries about scuba diving. My kindergartener also likes Is It Cake.
Anonie says
Lego Masters!
Anonymous says
This is old but if you can still find it, the Aquarium and the Zoo on Animal Planet were very good. Baby sea otters!
Anonymous says
Navy baritone? Does the person who comes up with the color names have synesthesia?
GCA says
They must have AI naming these colors now. (Only half joking…)
Anon says
i just love the things that come out of the mouths of children. my K daughter had this exhibition at school this morning with these posters and kids had to include the most important thing about themself. Some answers to The Most Important Thing about Me is included: “I can sleep,” “I am good at everything,” and “I demand a lot of attention.”
Spirograph says
Ha! these are great, thank you for sharing!
Anon says
That’s cute, but I feel a little bad for the “I demand a lot of attention” kid. They’re no doubt repeating something they heard a lot at home, and that’s kind of sad.
4snaptime says
Somewhat late in the day, but does anyone have any ideas to pass to my preschool? We go to a well regarded but smaller preschool with one 3s class, one 4s class, and one 5s class. Each class has two teachers. There’s a 2 hour nap time for 3s and 4s, necessary because she says her teachers are required to have a 1 hour lunch break. It’s very difficult for my child to lay quietly and “rest his body” for the first hour and then they get some quiet activities int he 2nd hour. I’ve asked why he cant have quiet activities the whole time and she says that the kids that nap in the 4s class wont nap if activities’ are provided to everyone and she needs to let them sleep. This logic does not make sense to me. Why cant everyone get a quiet activity and decide if they want to sleep or not in the 4s class? Any ideas or thoughts?
anon says
2 hr nap for a 4 year old? No way. Are you connected to other parents? How are they feeling about this requirement? My now 5.5 year old stopped napping early and this would have been so problematic for us. I have to think others feel the same way?
Also, do they not have swing teachers to cover things like lunch breaks? Someone still needs to be “on” with the kids during nap time so I’m not sure how that qualifies as a “break”.
Anon says
Check your state licensing regulations. In our state, children who are still awake after some period of time (I think 30 minutes?) have to be given quiet, independent activities (at our daycare, it was books). I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect 4 year olds to try to nap (and I have a kid who gave up naps early) but I would be annoyed about a two hour nap time with no quiet activities.
Anon says
Oh I misread and didn’t realize he gets activities for the second hour. That’s less unreasonable then, although still on the long side for the attempted nap portion. Fwiw, our public K has a 1 hour rest time and the kids don’t get any activities. I think it’s a minority opinion, but I feel like the quiet rest time is good, even for my kid who hasn’t napped in years. Her switch to K was a breeze, and I think having a quiet hour mid-day was a big factor in that.
Anonymous says
A quiet hour reading or coloring is great. A quiet hour lying awake in the dark absolutely quiet and motionless is torture.
Anon says
I think that’s dramatic. It might be boring, but it isn’t torture. At least, my non-napper does not seem to be tortured by her K rest time with no activities. I think it’s good to have some quiet, meditative time alone with your thoughts, even (maybe especially?) for high-energy kids.
Anon says
I agree to checking your state licensing. My state requires 20-30 minutes of quiet time with no activities and then activities have to be provided. They also aren’t allowed to wake up a sleeping kid even if it goes for 2+ hours. The providers have to figure out creative ways to avoid the wake up (open blinds, start a loud activity, etc.). If the state allows quiet activities at any time, I’d ask that my kid be allowed to have them from the very beginning. I’d also inquire about what everyone’s definition of “quiet activities” is because my idea would be things like books because they required the kids to stay laying on the nap mats for the first hour and then things like coloring or puzzles there or at a table.
Anon says
I find it weird to have 4 year olds take a 2 hour nap. It kind of sounds like they need to hire a floater? Are they normally short staffed?
anon says
Are they willing to work with kids on an individual basis? Like not provide activities to all the kids, but since your kid doesn’t nap he could bring in 2 books from home to look at during the first hour while lying on his cot.
I know my kids are unusual, but they were both still napping until we forced them to drop their nap to go to full-day preK at 4.5.
Anonymous says
Theyre saying if they provide any quiet activities in the first hour, then the minority of nappers wouldnt nap if they had an activity and they need to protect the nappers.. I just dont see how some books and coloring supplies is distracting for the entirety of quiet time.
Anon says
I don’t think it’s that unusual. Several of my 5.5 year old’s friends still nap! I think it gets to be more unusual in kindergarten especially since many Ks don’t have a nap time, but napping at age 4 in pre-K is pretty normal IMO. In daycare, I would say at least 75% of the class was napping in the 3s room (which included some kids who turned 4 during the year) and probably half or close to half were napping in the 4s room.
Anonymous says
Bonkers. None of my kids napped at age 3.5!
Anon318 says
Can anyone with elementary-aged kids participating in activities resulting in later return-home time share your evening routines for those nights? In our case, DS usually goes to bed at 8, but gets home from Activity around 7:15/30 twice a week. I dislike rushing through the dinner/shower/bedtime routine and am looking for the most effective dials to turn. We are going to experiment with dinner pre-activity (5-ish) and a post-activity snack, as well as just accepting a later bedtime those nights and setting an earlier bedtime the other nights of the week. Any other ideas?
Anonymous says
Once a week the shower happens the next morning rather than at night. It’s a cluster that night, and also because in addition to activities, homework has ramped up for my 6th grader. Dinner that day is leftovers from a couple days earlier so a heat-and-eat and no real prep work to eat up time.
Anon2 says
When the activity starts at 6pm or later I feed the kids beforehand. My husband and I will eat dinner after and the kids often will have a snack with us. Still, bedtime definitely gets pushed later those nights (eg, on the nights we have soccer 6:30-7:30, we are home at 7:45 at best, snack and winding down goes til 8:15 at best, and lights out is 9pm or later). Kids are 8, 6 and 2 and the older boys have practice on different nights.
It’s a trade off to consider. I’ve decided we can make it work during fall and spring — when the siblings can get nice outside time playing during practice, so the evenings don’t feel wasted — but we are choosing a low-key basketball program that is only one hour on Saturday mornings so we can have our weeknights back this winter.
Anon says
I will add, sometimes we skip bath but on these late nights they are dirty and sweaty from sports so they are always bath nights. I guess I don’t really have tips, other than to say you are not alone and not everything is hackable
Boston Legal Eagle says
Same here on the fall/spring v winter distinction. Our 2nd grader currently has 3 weeknights of activities this fall, which will drop to 1 during winter, and other activities only on weekends.
Late nights are rushed and we all feel stressed, even though I think the actual sport and activity are good for him.
Anon says
My K-er usually goes to bed at 8 pm, but gets home from an activity at 7:30 once a week. We do dinner pre-activity and don’t do bath that day, so that helps a lot. We’re also not rigid about bedtime, but she’s usually in bed shortly after 8 even on the activity nights.
govtattymom says
My daughter and I got back from gymnastics at 7:15 last night. My husband had dinner on the table; we finished eating around 7:30. She watched about 15 minutes of tv and took a very quick shower. She was in bed by 8:30 which is only slightly later than typical. I tried dinner before gymnastics/cheerleading but she still asked for dinner after the activity lol. Best of luck- it does feel like a bit of a rush.
Spirograph says
I do not have this solved either. Three days a week, at least one kid gets home ~7:30/45. Lights-out is supposed to be 8:30. My oldest is 10.5 and he’s fine if he goes to bed at 9 or even 9:30, but the 7 year old he shares a room with needs more sleep.
We’ve been doing a heavy snack pre-activity and family-ish light dinner afterward, and just accepting later bedtime. There’s no way to have dinner ready at 5, and shower is absolutely required before bed on activity days because of sweaty gross-ness. What I’m trying to solve around the edges is getting the non-activity kid(s) in bed on time, without being totally disrupted by the late one(s). One experiment is those of us who are home eat dinner and just hang out at the table in jammies to chat when the latecomers are eating. I’ve realized I can’t give up on family-ish dinner entirely because omg my kids have so much to say to me and DH and to each other, and if they don’t have dinner as an outlet, it boils over into bedtime anyway.
Anonymous says
How old is your kid? My kid that doesn’t late activities is in 4th so she has down time. She’s home from bball around 7:45, gets right in the shower, and then reads/watches TV. She’s in bed by 9. She eats dinner early on these nights but if still hungry has cereal before bed.
Anon says
We’ve got an early school start (7:30) but activities that sometimes run until 8 or 8:30.
A couple things that work for us:
– If we can split up, we do. We got each kid a bare bones cell phone so they can call when we drop off at a practice or a carpool doesn’t show up or anything changes. We try to keep most everyone on a normal schedule if they’re not the one with the late activity.
– Late activity kid (and parent if no drop off) will eat dinner early, get homework done, and get everything ready for school the next day before leaving. Showers are almost always skipped that night in favor of a post-activity filling snack like ants on a log or a fruit, cheese, and nuts plate. The next morning, that kid gets extra help from parents to get ready (like we’ll make sure lunch is packed, water bottle is filled, jackets and shoes are by the front door). Breakfast is usually in the car like a cereal bar or poptart, with a snack or bigger lunch packed.
– As they’re getting older, we’re cutting back on early morning weekend activities so they get a chance to sleep in. Depending on schedules, usually half the family sleeps late on Saturday and half on Sunday. We get delivery from a co-op rather than go to the farmers market, keep a running shared Notes App List of family needs from the store so the awake parent can go alone, etc.
– Also we switched to parent drop off at school in the mornings rather than taking the bus. It’s a little more driving for us parents, but saved about a half hour of kid sleep based on bus pickup times.
Anon says
+1 to the last point. We have to leave home at 7:30 to get to school on time, but if they went on the bus they’d have to be picked up at 6:50. That 40 minutes is huge.
GCA says
we try for early dinner and late snack – sometimes dinner is leftovers and the snack is a waffle with peanut butter and an apple. with some activities the shower can happen before activity (scouts), at the activity location (swim class), or after (soccer). Bedtime has flexed to 8:30-9pm, but ours is a late start school and they don’t really have to be up till 7:30 or 8am.
AwayEmily says
I would be stressed by this too. So far we’ve managed by saying no to all activities that start after 5pm, though I know this can’t last forever (kids are 2nd and K). Reading all these responses has been helpful in letting me see it can be done!
Fallen says
Most nights return home at 6:30-7:30. Dinner is usually cooked and needs to be reheated or lightly cooked (I often prep it during lunchtime since I work from home… like I will make pancake batter but then make fresh pancakes for dinner type thing), they eat dinner in 30 mins (husband and I eat after bedtime). Then we do PJ/bedtime/stories/teeth and pack backpacks for next day. Can get them in bed by 8:30 if I want (youngest usually goes down then; older one will stay up hanging or watching a movie with us if we are all in the mood or reading in bed if I have other stuff to do)
Anon says
We RSVP’d to a birthday party for this weekend. The invite didn’t say not to bring a gift, so I assumed we would bring a gift and I’m totally fine with that. Mom texts me today and said “BTW don’t worry about a gift.” So should I bring a gift?
Scilady says
I’m of the opinion that if they directly state “don’t worry about a gift” I don’t worry about it. Since she explicitly reached out to you, I definitely would not. Have your child make a card for their child if you want to, but no gift!
Anon says
To me, there’s a difference between “no gifts, please” and “don’t worry about a gift.” The former is an instruction that you have to follow, the latter is just telling you a gift isn’t necessary. In this situation, I would probably bring something physically small and consumable like stickers or art supplies depending on the age of the child. Definitely bring a card.
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