Washable Workwear Wednesday: Sweater Blazer
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There are two sweater seasons — when the temps start to drop outdoors in the fall, and when they start to drop indoors in the summer.
I’m always on the lookout for a good desk sweater — it must be not too thick, but not too thin; hold its shape after living for days on the back of my chair; and match everything.
J.Crew Factory’s Sweater Blazer has more than 700 nearly perfect reviews for a reason — it comes in four neutral go-with-anything colors, has a classic and office-friendly profile, and is made from easy-to-care-for cotton.
I could see pairing this with a classic collared shirt during the week and jeans on the weekend.
The sweater blazer is on sale for $46.50. It comes in sizes XXS–3X, and most colors (black, heather cassis, heather quartz, and heather light khaki) are still available in most sizes.
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
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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?
Sigh. I would love to have a place to wear a nice sweater blazer!
Because my life is not crazy enough (update: kiddo is negative and going back to preschool Friday, hallelujah), I am applying for two internal positions that would both support my career progression (very similar roles just in different business segments). For those of you who have successfully interviewed for internal roles, what are your tips? I feel like it’s a fine line between regurgitating the status quo (which you know because you’re internal) and telling the panel you think they suck at running their business currently.
I’d like to take a weeklong vacation in early August, when my toddler’s daycare is closed. He turns 3 in May. I will also have a 15 month old. We’re coming from Ohio. We’ve done a few weekend trips so far with the baby and those went reasonably well. I’m OK driving (8 hours or less) or flying (if direct flight of less than 4 hours). We’d like kid friendly activities, and near the water if possible. We might also take my parents. The only family vacation we’ve done is a week in Florida when the toddler was 1.5. Florida is August is probably not great. Or is it? Any other destination suggestions? Thanks!
We have a (fully refundable) trip to Disney World booked in mid-Sept this year. My kids will be 3 and 5, and we booked it with the knowledge that there was a high likelihood we’d have to cancel it and that it wasn’t great to miss a week of kindergarten just a few weeks. We’re doing IVF now and expect to be pregnant/having a baby in spring 2022, which is why we wanted to try to squeeze this trip in in the fall. I’m nervous about what COVID will look like in Florida by Sept, whether we’ll have a fall mini-surge, and the fact that my kids obviously won’t be vaccinated yet (though we parents already are).
I know this is a personal decision, but here’s my query to this group: do you think it’ll be more stressful to go to Disney at the tail end of COVID or to go a year later with a 6 month old (presumably also not vaccinated, but hopefully rates will be minuscule by then)? The idea of going with a young baby stresses me out, but so does having to police our kids’ mask usage, worrying about other people’s proximity/mask usage, not wanting to eat indoors, etc. Thank you for your thoughts!
Past Clementine: Super proud of herself for being organized. Bought summer keens for the kids on sale last fall! Organized and put away all the hand me downs!
Kids (at some point): started finding things and trying to pull them out.
Me: Put them in a different place. Still Organized! Still together!! Wow, look at the efficiency.
Now… For the life of me I can’t find any of my 18 month jackets/sweatshirts, the keens I put away, or the summer clothes I bought at the end of last summer. I highly suspect they’re all in one bin… But it’s not in the place I store things! Joke’s on me.
Potty training question. I feel like an amateur as this is my second kid, but I’m wondering when I need to potty train? Kiddo is 2.5 and has gone pee and poop on the little potty we have in our bathroom consistently at night (but no other times). Is he ready for potty training? Do we just pick a long weekend and do it? For our first, we followed the Oh Crap timeline and technique to the letter as we were anxious about getting in that window before 30 months and before our second was born, but with kid 2 I’m kind of meh on doing it now and was going to consider waiting. But should we aim to do this now to avoid missing any developmental windows or is that not that big of a deal?
My 21 month old has discovered cookies, and now that is all he asks for. He woke up this morning and yelled “cookie!” I’ve taken the Feeding Littles course, which says that you decide when you’re serving cookies and then give them as many as they ask for (within reason), but what about outside of mealtimes? My son is constantly wandering into the kitchen and saying “cookie”.
Ya’ll, I’m so sad. I work for a very small law firm, and the legal assistant who is our boss’ right-hand-woman, who has worked there forever, passed away unexpectedly and suddenly. She worked so hard and was so smart. I’m just at a loss. It’s a very very strange time with covid on top of the normal work/life mixing that comes at a time of loss. Because of covid, I didn’t see her in person, but we talked several times a day by phone. Anyone else lose a coworker during covid? Anything thoughtful we can do for the family? I’m not sure of my state’s funeral restrictions at this point in covid, but I doubt an associate attorney from work will make any kind of shortlist (understandably). On the other hand, this is someone who spent a lot of time working, so I’m thinking of writing a short letter to her family expressing just how uniquely good she was at her profession.
Where do you buy your elementary-age kids shoes? It’s been so long since we’ve been to a real store, and I honestly am not sure I have my kids sizes right anymore. I’d like to take them somewhere with a few options– a sporting goods store? department store? when I was a kid our shoes came from Payless, but I am looking for something higher quality than that but with similar breadth of options. DSW? Where do you physically take your elementary age kids for shoes that won’t break the bank?
My 8 month old has what I suspect is heat rash behind his knees. It’s not very bumpy but red and warm. Yesterday was the first hot day here this year, and I just noticed it this morning. It doesn’t seem to be bothering him. Any good remedies? Of course if it gets worse I will call the ped.
Any tips for when we grow out of the sleep sack? Newly two year old sleeps GREAT and is still in a sleep sack. We are not close to potty training, and he’s still in a crib for the foreseeable future. He’s too tall now for a sleep sack, but maybe I should be looking for one that is extra length? Or do we transition to a blanket (which I’m certain won’t stay on him/actually keep him warm).
My DD turns 4 next month. She is in the process of giving up her nap (was about an hour), but it was making bedtime miserable and she was calling for us until 8:30-9:00 nightly. SHe sleeps by 7:30 without the nap. She’s always called for me in the MOTN atleast 2-4x week, so miserable, but atleast I got some nights to recover. Now with nap being gone, she wakes up every night and it’s just really wearing me down. Is it going to take a few weeks to adjust? I am so sick of the MOTN wakeups and it’s so depressing to have a 4 year old that’s still doing this.
Even if it doesn’t change, if anyone can help me stay positive, I’d appreciate it.
Another nap question! I have a three year old who still naps regularly including the weekends, at least an hour but usually two. This is great, but the flipside of this is that she doesn’t go to bed until 9:30/10. We usually have her bedtime routine all completed by 9, and she’ll just play in her room until she falls asleep. If she doesn’t nap, she gets extremely crabby by dinner time.
I would love if she could get to bed earlier (I sometimes go to bed before she does!), but does it make sense to try to get her to drop the nap? Or just wait this out until she drops it on her own?
First communion gift ideas? I like the idea of something personalized/commemorative, but I’m also wary of introducing a lot of clutter. Also, not at all religious and I have no idea what’s appropriate. Girl and boy, ages 8 and 10 (they could match or not).
A little over a month ago I wrote here because I was feeling super down in my fertility journey, and so many of you shared your stories and hard-earned wisdom and great yoga links, and gave me hope and perspective and a little bit of a kick in the seat of my pants. Thanks to you, I called a fertility coach the next day, and she was amazing at helping us figure out options and get us over some IVF hurdles which I’d not been able to see around (we just needed to jump country borders!), and we got a plan in motion to do IVF. We also talked more about how we’d make our lives full and meaningful if we don’t get to have kids, which was really good. And then last week we got the most wonderful surprise of all – a positive pregnancy test!!!! I guess that strong presence of a little soul I felt last month wanted to be a Christmas baby! I just wanted to share that happy news with those of you who had been so helpful, and hopefully give a little hope to those who are still waiting for their miracle. (And, so far I’m finding my “newly pregnant” anxiety to be about 1/100th of my “trying to conceive” anxiety. Also, I highly recommend the “Fertility from the Soul” Youtube channel for affirmations for those who are trying – they really helped me).