Washable Workwear Wednesday: Striped Button Cuff Wrap Dress
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What I like about this dress from Ann Taylor is that it keeps the wrap dress style but also blends a more tailored aspect. The button cuffed sleeves, the plain colored belt, and the vertical stripes — which usually skew more toward business casual — help to professionalize it. The v-neck of a wrap dress is flattering and makes it faster to take a pump break. I happen to like the color as well, and it would force me out of my black/white/gray work wardrobe instincts. As styled on the site with a black shoe, it looks a little harsh to my eye — I probably would wear it with a nude shoe or even silver or gold. It’s $98 and comes in regular and petite sizes. Striped Button Cuff Wrap Dress
ASOS has a plus-size option (which looks short, but the model is 5’11”.)
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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?
For both my health and superficial reasons, I’ve got to start caring more about what I put in my body. How long has it taken others to adopt healthier eating habits without feeling like you hate it? What was your process? I know what I should do as far as an ideal diet; I’m just lacking motivation. And I seriously love food, so I constantly feel deprived when I transition to eating better, even though I know I’m getting plenty of calories. What has worked for others?
Related, has anyone quit or significantly reduced their intake of added sugar? If I were to do that, what should I expect? Did you feel sick? For how long? Did you stick with it?
We are taking our first flight with our toddler this summer. He will be 23 months, but we bought him his own seat. I’m not sure about what to do with his carseat. Flying with it seems annoying, and I’m reading that some airlines don’t want you to fly with a carseat anyway. We are flying into Savannah but driving to Hilton Head, so we will need a carseat for that trip. I found a place that rents baby equipment and will take it to our rental house but that doesn’t solve the problem of driving from the airport to the house. Is checking a carseat safe? I’m not even sure what my options are here. Would love any advice!
Book recommendations for improving your marriage/relationship? No specific dire problems but generally feeling like we’re not in sync/communicating very well these days.
I found bodyfit by Amy’s exercise videos on YouTube incredibly helpful through my first and second trimesters. She has exercise videos designed for pregnancy challenges.
Any moms who developed gestational diabetes while pregnant on? I am a little over 10 weeks and everything looks great so far. I am borderline pre-diabetic (my A1C has ranged from 5.1 to 5.7 since I was in my early 30s and I am now 39; it was 5.1 when i last checked in September) and have strong family history of diabetes, so it seems inevitable that I will develop GD. My OB wants to do the sugar test earlier than normal to account for this, and I’d like to start exercising (i have fallen off the wagon the past few years) to help moderate my blood sugar (my diet is decent). Any tips for easy, low-impact exercise routines for someone who HATES exercising? OB said as long as my heart rate stays under 140 exercise is a good idea. Any other tips/suggestions welcome.
Raise your hand if your boss is frustrating you and you just want to go home and play with your kid.
Very curious whether others have experienced this. Probably outs me but oh well.
We just moved into a new home a few weeks ago. It is the nicest place either of us has ever lived. The den alone is literally twice the size of our entire living/dining/kitchen before. We had been living in a safe but scruffy neighborhood to save money before, and it’s kind of surreal to go from houses with tarps hanging from the carport and broken down cars out front to one of the nicest zip codes in our large metro area. This has been planned– our kid will now attend a fabulous neighborhood elementary school when she starts. But this is larger and nicer by far than either of our childhood homes, and my husband and I are basically spending our evenings wandering around, saying over and over again, “we live here, holy ****.” It has been more than a week, and it still feels completely surreal. Both of us feel like it’s going to disappear at any minute. And that we will be found out soon as the weirdos that we are. Both of us are stressing over things like what the neighbors will think of the yard (which was an epic disaster when we moved in, and will take major work to fully remediate.)
Has anyone else experienced this? Both of us grew up in the lower end of upper middle class, me with many more privileges than my husband for a variety of reasons. But we’re both gobsmacked and feel like we are faking it. I grew up going to fancy schools amid very wealthy people, and I still feel like I’m having a sleepover at a friend’s mansion– that it’s not really mine.
Sigh. I am so overwhelmed by all the summer scheduling already, and it’s only early May. I’ve got family members demanding that I set aside 3 full weeks for four different trips, and each trip requires coordinating with kiddo’s dad, coordinating with work, coordinating with daycare, and coordinating with several family members. I need to attend 2 conferences for work, which also requires coordinating with kiddo’s dad. And kiddo really, really, really wants to go camping and so do I! Frankly, more than I want to go on 3 weeks of family trips in one summer…
Plus it’s summer! We didn’t make it to the beach last year until September because we were running crazy with family trips, birthday parties, weddings, helping family members move, etc. We didn’t even know that the local playground was completely revamped until late August! Where did the lazy, free-form summers of my childhood go? How do I scale back some of this?
Thought you ladies would get a kick out of this. The room parents at school have suggested giving the teachers scented candles, essential oils (!!) and a Starbucks gift card for teacher appreciation week. Why oh why?? I have pushed back and suggested cash and some flowers.
My mom has an uncanny ability to do something extremely stressful and upsetting immediately after my therapy appointment so I have a full two weeks to worry about it on my own. I do feel like I’m getting enough helpful tips from my sessions that I am not, like, a mess, but I would love some helpful tips on just setting aside something stressful and emotional for a while. I process things by talking them out, but this involves something with my husband – and it’s most assuredly not his fault, therefore I feel bad talking it through with him. I don’t usually talk about problems with my mom with my friends (“Everything is fine! It’s fine!” syndrome I guess) so I find my therapy sessions really helpful with this. Can anyone relate and share some sort of great way to help me not dwell on this for the next week until I feel like I can get my cathartic release? Go back to the old middle school chestnut of writing her a letter and burning it?
I’m 28 and 4 months pregnant with my first. My husband turns 40 in a couple of months. We hope to have 3 kids (maybe 4 depending how it all goes!), and I’ve been feeling a bit of sadness about how he’ll be an older dad. Math like how he’ll be in his 60s when our kids graduate HS, etc. Just curious about positive stories about older partners or dads!
Help! My 2-month old decided this week that she hates her swaddle and wants to be able to have her hands at her face. She was regularly sleeping 5-6 hours at a shot but now the max is 3 because she wakes up and can’t resettle bc she gets angry she can’t move her arms. If I put her down unswaddled, she wakes up in 45 min-1 hr due to startling. Any ideas? I’m continuing swaddling (3hrs is better than 45 min, but I need that occasional 5 hr chunk of sleep!) and hoping she just gets used to it again.
My son is struggling with writing his letters and his pre-K teacher is concerned about his fine motor skills. Basically he has no interest and doesn’t want to practice doodling or anything that involves a writing instrument. While we’re waiting to line up an occupational therapist, do you have any suggestions for fun things to do to make writing fun? Sidewalk chalk has been meh.
We’ve been asked to tie a small toy to our daughter’s lunchbox to help her find it (maybe thermos too? that part was unclear, agh) – have any of you done this? Suggestions for type of toy or item you might tie on there? Even better if it’s the type of thing I can easily identify and order on amazon! (story of my life)