Washable Workwear Wednesday: The Darcy Top
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This silk charmeuse blouse looks dry clean only, but it’s completely machine washable!
You will reach for this beautiful blouse from M.M.LaFleur more than you think — you can change its look just by tying (or not tying) the neck tie or by wearing the sleeves flared or tapered depending on how you button the cuffs.
I love both the spring-y wisteria color and the practical pearl one. It’s the perfect underpinning for a suit or a V-neck sweater.
The Darcy Top is $325 and available in sizes XS–XXL.
Looking for other washable workwear? See all of our recent recommendations for washable clothes for work, or check out our roundup of the best brands for washable workwear.
Sales of note for 12/30:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – The Half-Yearly Sale has started — up to 60% off! See our roundup here.
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your purchase; extra 40% off + additional 30% off sale styles
- Banana Republic Factory – The Winter Sale: 50% off everything + extra 60% off clearance
- Boden – Sale, up to 60% — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – Semi-annual clearance, up to 85% off; extra 60% off clearance
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers!
- Hannah Andersson – The Twice-a-Year Big Hanna Sale: Up to 60% off (even new arrivals on sale!)
- J.Crew – 25% off full-price styles; up to 50% off cashmere; 70% off 3+ sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 60% off winter faves; extra 25% off $100+
- L.K. Bennett – All sale half price or less
- M.M.LaFleur – Flash sale, extra 30% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale, extra 40% off markdowns, and daily Red Door Deals starting at $19.50
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?
Does anyone here have a child who was diagnosed with low muscle tone in preschool? We just had an occupational therapy evaluation for my 4 year old and the OT’s immediate observation was that she has very low muscle tone, especially in her core. It was kind of a surprise, because while she walked very late and I would not describe her as a gifted athlete, she’s always seemed fairly average to me physically – she did things like running, catching, kicking balls, jumping, etc. at roughly the expected age and her current challenges are all behavioral. But the OT said her frustration with her body not doing what she wants it to could be causing her to act out, which makes some sense. We’re going to do the weekly recommended OT although due to their scheduling constraints we can’t start for six weeks, but if anyone has ideas for fun, play-based things we could do to strengthen her core at home, I would love to hear.
Sob… my son just screamed at the top of his lungs and threw up on the sitting room floor. He says he feels much better now and is happily bouncing around the room but of course, is now off school.
TLDR: Anyone uses a g*ogle voice account to share with their SO to replicate a “home” line?
I don’t even know if this is a thing, and I’m looking into it now, but trying to replicate what DH and I have done (on the excellent advice probably received here) with a joint email account so that things come to US not just to ME, as I’m doing school enrollment forms for the first time, and seeing that they are asking for a home phone number. Of course I can just use my cell as always (we are the rare ones who still have a landline, but it gets so many junk calls that we only plug it in when my husband is on call, so not a reliable way to reach us). But I can’t decide if I’d rather deal with the junk calls and leave the landline in, or resign myself to being the primary phone call recipient, and hoping there might be another solution.
DS #1 = Walking at 1 year, a good chunk of words by 14 months. Was 100% a toddler after 1 year.
DS #2 – 13 months, not walking (pulling up/standing/cruising), says “mama” and “ba”/”baba” for brother (and likely a few others) and is still a baby (which is fine by me, because he’s my last).
Anyone else have a similar experience with wildly different siblings? :)
Related money question to the above: Those with older kids, do you give your kids a set weekly/monthly allowance and extra money for doing chores, or one or the other? And what age did you start? I’m sure there are many ways to approach this, and our older son is at an age (5.5) where we’re thinking about starting this. He’s already got a piggy bank where’s he’s saved random gift and tooth fairy money so I think whatever we do can go in there.
DS #1 had a fever on Sunday PM, so he stayed home Monday. Was seemingly fine Monday AM, no fever. Seemed a bit out of it Tuesday AM but sent him to school (no fever). Got a call from school that he had a fever. Picked him up, brought him home – he was definitely off. He’s home today as well (24 hour no-fever rule). This AM I had the joy of dropping off DS #2, coming home, and taking DS #1 for a COVID-19 test (pretty sure he doesn’t have it as my FIL who is currently staying with us has a bug). We have plenty of family help, but everyone’s underwater with this damn bug right now.
I expressed my annoyance at the situation to DH who has had in-person breakfast meetings and had to go into the office (please don’t flame me, he is aware of the risks). I just don’t think DH “gets” that even though DS #1 largely can entertain himself and my FIL is here to help, it’s still an interruption and more stuff that I have to manage. In a way it’s easier for me to manage DS #1 at home without DH underfoot working from home because then it’s just too many people (me, FIL, DS #1, DH). I also learned in 2020 the whole multi-tasking with kids around is just…not DH’s forte to put it mildly. His clients DGAF, and he makes 5x what I do (BigLaw, almost partner). Please don’t tell me to divorce him, I’m just venting.
Can someone help me figure out what is normal in a daycare. Admittedly the first drop off we had was bad (reopening after covid closure) and that is where all of my anxiety comes from, where there were multiple children crying on the floor and the women seemed harried and very frustrated. Since then, our son generally seems happy but has been seriously sick twice already. He also had an incident where he got scratched once by another kid (though that seems normal to me). Overall the women who run the day care seem nice every day since then, but that first experience is something I cannot get out of my head. The ratio is 4:1, and I’m wondering maybe I should find another daycare that is 3:1, but those are hard to come by. Am I overthinking this?
We do take the kids shopping with a $20 budget. I love watching how carefully they consider their options: Do I get two small things, or one bigger thing? Oooh! I have $2 left, so I can get candy in the check-out line. I feel like it’s a fun exercise in budgeting and helps develop their sense of what things cost.
We don’t necessarily make a special trip out of it unless the kid wants to go to the comic store or somewhere specific, but next time we’re at Target, we remind them that they can get a gift with the $$ from grandma.
How do you handle small financial gifts for your little kids? We live far away from our families so our parents will send small amounts of money for minor holidays– like a $20 check for Valentine’s day. Up to now I have just been comingling these checks with our regular finances, reasoning that I buy $20 worth of valentine’s day crap and just say it’s from grandma. E.g., let’s go pick out valentines for your classmates, courtesy of grandma! But my older kid (8) is starting to ask more questions, like, what did we do with the rest of the $20 since the valentines were $3.99? I justify it by saying, well the rest was used on the ingredients for the cookies we baked and those red leggings you got to wear to your class party. But that feels weirdly defensive and also sort of nickel and dimey and strange?
I love the sweet and generous sentiment behind the gift since the gparents are not around to treat my kids to a heart-shaped donut before school (or whatever sweet small things I imagine in-town gparents might do), but I don’t want to take on the added burden of shopping for a specific gift with that money, or taking my kid to Target every time a $20 check comes in the mail. But maybe I have to? That is, in fact, what the money is for. I don’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I also don’t want to hand my kid a $20 and take her to Target for every minor holiday.
Is the Stokke Tripp Trapp worth it if my child is already 1.5 years old? I’ve been regretting not getting a better high chair for a long time but I’m just not sure if it’s worth the $$$ at this point. I guess I could probably sell it when my child is done with it (we’re not planning on anymore kids).
Ugh. I’ve been sitting at my desk for an hour (in office, masked and freezing in my cubicle) and I just… I have 0 motivation to do work.
I’ve been busting my butt for the last 2 weeks and all the ‘imminent’ work is done… but I need to do annoying, boring stuff. I know all the tricks and tips and will get it done, but just… I would take a personal day today if I could (I can’t)… and on that personal day I would paint trim in my house and listen to podcasts.
This might be burnout…
I happened to come across this last night and after yesterday’s discussion about when it’s time to eliminate masks etc, I thought I would share. To me it makes sense to have a framework like this based on data to manage the ebbs and flows. Link in comments
Does the Darcy blouse lay smooth or do you need to wear a special camisole under? My quince washable silk tee is unwearable because the tiniest bit of static makes it cling and bunch weird.