Maternity Monday: Christine Fit & Flare Maternity Dress
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Ooh: Seraphine has always been a classy maternity favorite (particularly their knot dress), but they have a ton of cute new dresses out and it’s nice to see the same sophisticated, tailored look being applied to different shapes. I love the three quarter length sleeves, the empire waist, and that flattering scoopneck. It’s $159, available in sizes XS-M, at Nordstrom. Seraphine Christine Fit & Flare Maternity Dress
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Building a maternity wardrobe for work? Check out our page with more suggestions along both classic and trendy/seasonal lines.
Sales of note for 11.25.24 (Great Black Friday Sales!!)
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Early Black Friday, up to 60% off — great deals on Natori, Vince, Theory, Boss, Cole Haan, Tory Burch, Rothy’s, and Weitzman, as well as gift ideas like Barefoot Dreams and Parachute — Dyson isn’t marked down at all but you do get 3x points on beauty purchases.
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your purchase, plus extra 15% off full price styles
- Anine Bing – Shop more, save more (spend $200-$300, get an extra 15-25% off)
- A.P.C. – Shop 40% off
- ba&sh – Up to 40% off Fall/Winter styles, including select colors of reader favorite Gaspard & Guspa cardigans (also included in Tuckernuck’s sale)
- Banana Republic Factory – 60% off everything + extra 20% off (or extra 30% off with your Gap Inc credit card) ends 11/26
- Bloomingdales – Take $25 off every $100 you spend on items labeled BLACK FRIDAY; ends 11/24
- Boden – 30% off on 1000s of styles, including reader favorites like this blazer and these dresses
- Cuyana – Free shipping over $95 (and 10% off your first order over $150)
- Demellier – 20% off with code, free worldwide shipping & returns
- Design Within Reach – 25% off sitewide (including reader-favorite office chairs Herman Miller Aeron and Sayl!)
- The Fold – Black Friday, up to 30% off everything
- Eloquii – 50% off everything + extra 10% off $125 or more
- Everlane – Up to 50% off everything
- Furla – Up to 50% off select styles
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off almost everything – LOTS of winter coats 40% off, down to $204-$230
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything, plus extra 25% off orders $125+
- Kule – 30% off sitewide
- Kohl’s – Earn $10 Kohl’s Cash for every $50 Spent – includes Travelpro luggage!
- LaLigne – 30% off in their ONLY sale of the year
- Lo & Sons – Up to 70% off – reader favorite laptop tote is under $200
- Macy’s – 20-50% off beauty brands like Clinique and Armani, 50% off designer handbags, 50-75% off sparkly jewelry, and 40-50% off women’s boots
- Mansur Gavriel – Winter sale, up to 60% off
- M.M.LaFleur – “20% off everything” (but exclusions apply)
- Ministry of Supply – 30% off sitewide
- Mulberry – Up to 40% off, including Bayswater, Islington, and more
- Neiman Marcus – Earn a $50-$1250 gift card, including on beauty and fragrance purchases
- Rothy’s – Everything up to 30% off (some also on sale at Nordstrom)
- Shopbop – 25% off storewide with code, including great blazers from Rag & Bone, IRO, Smythe, and select L’Agence (also lots of nice Black Halo dresses)
- Soma – Early Black Friday $29 bra event (up to 50% off)
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Sue Sartor – Week of Joy sale, 30% off sitewide
- Steelcase – 25% off sitewide, including reader-favorite office chairs Leap and Gesture
- Strathberry – Pre-black Friday, enjoy up to 30% off select styles!
- Stuart Weitzman – Extra 25% off full-price and sale styles
- Talbots – 40% off your entire purchase + daily deals
- Theory – 25% off sitewide + up to 40% off select outerwear
- Tory Burch – 30% off $250+
- Tuckernuck – 20% off sitewide
- Universal Standard – At least 30% off sitewide, up to 70% off all styles
- Victoria’s Secret – 30% off everything, and 7/$35 panties
- White House Black Market – 60% off clearance, 30% off sitewide for WHBM members
- 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
- BabyJogger – 30% off sitewide
- BestBuy – Lots of deals on gaming consoles, including PS5, XBox Series X, and more
- Carter’s – 50-60% off entire site and store
- ErgoBaby – 25% off bouncers
- Graco – Up to 30% off sitewide
- Hanna Andersson – 50% off sitewide
- J.Crew Crewcuts – 50% off almost everything, prices marked
- Nordstrom – Lots of deals on Stokke, Maxi-Cosi, BabyJoger, Posh Baby, Silver Cross, and more
- Old Navy – Everything on sale
- SNOO / Happiest Baby – 30% off Snoo, up to 50% off sitewide
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?
Any comfortable pumping bras out there?
ok so yay! I passed the bar. Thanks for the advice/encouragement I received here. Now my next question:
I have often been told that if you want any boundaries in your biglaw job, you need to set them right away, or the job will inevitably eat your life. I am eager to start work and excited about my job, but yeah, I want boundaries. There are lots of experienced lawyer moms here, so I’m wondering – what are your limits? What is reasonable? Did you decide what worked for you and try to make that clear right away (e.g. “I am not available from 6:00-7:30pm”), or did you sort of work it out over time? Are there any boundaries you wished you had set and didn’t?
What do you do when you are so exhausted by dealing with a crisis that you feel like you’re failing at everything and a little bit out of control with unhealthy coping mechanisms?
I’ve posted here before about helping a very close friend this summer (sort of a second mother to me). She has been out of town in an intensive rehab program since June and I am her financial POA, Due to a series of annoying/unfortunate events, I became her elderly mother’s medical and financial POA. Her mother received a cancer diagnosis a couple months ago, and ended up dying very quickly. I handled everything, including fending off my friend’s predatory brother, who attempted to rob his dying mother. I arranged 24 hour care, dealt with hospice, lawyers, bankers, planned the funeral, made travel arrangements for my friend to come back for her mother’s funeral, etc. Since the mother died, I have handled all the estate matters that the lawyers needed help with, including splitting up and moving out the personal property, which has been delightful (see: angry predatory brother). There have been four solid months of dealing with daily to weekly crises related to this family. At this point, I’m finally pretty much done with the intensive, hands on stuff, THANK GOD. But my friend will not be back until December. All her bills are on auto-pay, and I’m pretty much on auto-pilot. I am so burned out.
I work full time and have a toddler. Spending time with my husband and child makes me happy, but I’m so tired and burned out from all the additional emotional labor I’ve had to do. I am not as there for my husband as I should be. I’m resentful that he didn’t ever offer to help during this ongoing crisis. He’s resentful that I’ve been not really there for him for the last several months. I can’t handle the thought of “gardening” right now, even though I didn’t go through a dry spell even when our kid was a baby. I am shopping and drinking more than I should. Not so out of control that I think it’s a problem, but just more than I think I should.
How long is it going to take for me to feel better? I feel like I can’t catch my breath.
Ladies, tips for ensuring our sons don’t grow up assuming that all women want to (or should want to) have sex with them, and that consent is either optional or irrelevant?
I’ve been worked up about this since Friday afternoon – that 40% of our electorate is willing to say it’s harmless ‘locker room talk’ with ‘boys being boys’ is so infuriating that I’m having a hard time even concentrating today.
Gift ideas for husbands 36th birthday? We currently have two children under two. Not so into alcohol/accessories. Really running out of ideas this far into our relationship!
I’m in the third trimester of my second pregnancy and have varicose veins popping up in my legs. Any recommendations for support hose? All of the brands on Amazon seems to have very mixed reviews. TIA.