Budget Thursday: Slim City Pant
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Reader K wrote in to give us a review of the Slim City Pant from Gap Factory! She noted, “I’ve really struggled with finding a pair of ankle pants in size long that are affordable, and these are terrific. I also have curves and the back doesn’t gap as much as most straight-body pants do. The navy is a shade brighter, so they will never be mistaken for black. I bought a pair in both navy and black, and I imagine that most of my summer work days in my business casual office will involve one or the other!” That is awesome to know, K — thank you for sharing! I like the price point too — they’re marked down to $28-$37, available in three size ranges and multiple colors, and with today you can take an additional 20% off with code GFBONUS. Nice. Slim city pant
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?
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my daughter (nearly 2) is attending a Montessori toddler community in the fall and needs indoor shoes/slippers that will be easy for her to take on and off. The school doesn’t do diapers – the kids wear t-shirts and underwear and indoor shoes, so the expectation is that the shoes will get peed on relatively frequently until the potty learning catches.
Her previous school also required indoor slippers but none of our go-tos are wipe-able. I’d like something really low profile/minimalist/flexible, but I’m not finding what I’m looking for. Seems like the options are Natives or Crocs, yeah?
Any tips for surviving my son’s first birthday party while actually having fun and enjoying it? I’m trying to let go of my need to control and realize that his napping/awakeness/pleasantness during the party is largely out of my hands (tried to plan around it, you know how that goes) as is the weather. I tried to keep things simple and not-too-Pinteresty for both my sanity and our bank accounts, but I still am a control freak who has asked my husband about five times what time he is picking up the kebabs. We are grilling at a park shelter (rented from the city, so we know we have it), and I’m planning to confirm that the two grandpas can help keep the grill stuff moving so that people have food. We are picking up all the other sides and drinks at Costco. My MIL is getting the cake – I have no idea what it looks like, because my stepdaughter wanted it to be a surprise, which is actually totally fine with me. My MIL has great taste and I’m sure it will be awesome.
I just want to actually enjoy it and not stress, maybe even remember to take a few pictures, and watch my kid be a maniac which he just is right now.
(After writing this, I am tempted to make myself anonymous because I’m embarrassed about how ridiculous this post is – but I will try to own it.)
Things that are not helpful today – husband googling all the extra risks/adverse outcomes of c-sections and texting them to me because our (not so) little baby girl is measuring over 6 pounds at 33 weeks (i.e., over the 90th percentile), despite the fact that I do not have gestational diabetes (my family just seems to grow big babies). Even less helpful because my husband does not process medical information well. We’re not even sure we’re going to go c-section yet, and they are going to measure her again in 3 weeks (and probably again after that). My anxiety about the possibility of being sliced open while awake is high enough as it is.
Ugh *has* a really bad hammer toe.
My kiddo A really bad hammer toe. She’s recently begun refusing to wear shoes on that foot because the shoes rub on the top of her toe. Any suggestion for brands with tall (?) toe beds?
Please don’t flame me for this but… I need advice on how to break the bottle-before-bed habit with my 16mo and transition to brushing teeth. Current routine is change into PJs, one of us rocks her while she has her bottle, then put her in crib either asleep or drowsy. She’s never taken a pacifier.
I know we need to brush her teeth but I’m not sure how to get that same relaxation for her — if we do bottle first, there’s a risk she falls asleep, and then we’d have to wake her up.
Advice?
Piggybacking off NewMomAnon’s piggyback: over the holiday, my MIL (who was being weirdly aggressive toward me) told me that the reason more moms worked today than did when she was a young mom is because women today are more materialistic and want more things and nicer things.
I decided the correct emotional response was to feel pity that her worldview was so small and that she had somehow missed the entire feminist movement.
Any tips for surviving my son’s first birthday party while actually having fun and enjoying it? I’m trying to let go of my need to control and realize that his napping/awakeness/pleasantness during the party is largely out of my hands (tried to plan around it, you know how that goes) as is the weather. I tried to keep things simple and not-Pinteresty for both my sanity and our bank accounts, but I still am a control freak who has asked my husband about five times what time he is picking up the kebabs. We are grilling at a park shelter (rented from the city, so we know we have it), and I’m planning to confirm that the two grandpas can help keep the grill stuff moving so that people have food. We are picking up all the other sides and drinks at Costco. My MIL is getting the cake – I have no idea what it looks like, because my stepdaughter wanted it to be a surprise, which is actually totally fine with me. My MIL has great taste and I’m sure it will be awesome.
I just want to actually enjoy it and not stress, maybe even remember to take a few pictures, and watch my kid be a maniac which he just is right now.
(After writing this, I am tempted to make myself anonymous because I’m embarrassed about how ridiculous this post is – but I will try to own it.)
Vent alert – I am due with our second in a couple of months and this time around we told my out of state MIL that we would call her when labor started and she would fly out when convenient (she’s used to same-day flights). Instead, she came up with her own plan. She is going to fly out here 3 weeks before my due date and “hang out with friends in the area.” She has not revealed when she will go back. She will have her own housing and a car. So, technically she is minding our wishes, but my senses are heightened because she isn’t always forthcoming with her plans and has a history of not respecting boundaries. She was also the biggest source of stress for my last pregnancy, so I have some history.
Well, piggybacking off the earlier conversations about social class…my mother has gotten quite demanding that I hire a sitter and do “adult things” on weeknights (theater, fancy dinners, spa nights, wine tastings, gala fundraisers, etc). I finally had some words with her because it felt very unsupportive, and her response was that she sees my lifestyle as “low class” and she is pushing me to “pick myself up.” Still kind of reeling today.
Does anyone have experience with pre-due date induction, elective or not?
Logistics around the due date for baby #2 are becoming a nightmare between childcare plans falling apart, DH’s work/travel schedule, and my company switching health insurance providers. I know I will be much more relaxed and able to bond with new baby, establish breastfeeding, etc. if my son is with my mom, DH is with me, and I’m not fielding payment questions constantly. I have no issues with the prospect of pitocin/epidural (had both with my first delivery), but I still feel… guilty?… trying to arrange #2’s arrival so that it is convenient for the rest of the family. Thoughts?
Coming out of the PhD fog and trying to figure out what’s left to do pre-baby.
What do I actually need for nursing / a maternity leave capsule wardrobe? I’m off for five months and realising that I have no idea what I should be wearing.
I wear dresses and the occasional skirt and I don’t own a pair of jeans. I don’t want to be wearing yoga pants all day but I’m guessing dresses are not incredibly practical? Do I order things pre-baby or just count on leggings/nursing tanks/cardigans to get me through the first few weeks? Maybe some casual knit skirts?
Also, do I get a breast pump beforehand or do I wait to see how nursing is going? They aren’t covered on the NHS so it’s a pretty big expense.