Washable Workwear Wednesday: The Jeannine Dress
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Plaids are usually a pattern associated with colder months, but the new spring collection from M.M.LaFleur highlights some decidedly spring-appropriate plaids like this one.
This dress’s crisp black-and-white plaid is softened with side-seam pleats and a wrapped silhouette. The dress is as elegant as it is practical — it’s made with a machine washable Italian fabric. Add a black jacket and slim belt for a sophisticated outfit that works Monday through Friday.
The Jeannine Dress is $395 and comes in sizes 00–20. It’s also available in a brown-and-navy plaid pattern.
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 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
I missed commenting on the ‘how are you’ post yesterday when I got swamped, but I was the poster from a few weeks back whose husband was recovering from major surgery. Things are SO much better now – he’s able to help now quite a lot, we have his second surgery scheduled so we have a timeline for ‘normal’ life starting again hopefully some time this summer, and we re-onboarded our old nanny to help so I can travel next week for work. I’m still struggling of course, but it did help to read from all of you yesterday who are in different ways struggling and all trying to make it work.
I also like hearing from anyone w/ ADHD/anxiety/2e kiddos. My oldest is finally on a better path after multiple evals and lots of therapy and thank god, the best teacher he could possibly have. We are insanely lucky that he doesn’t have any problems at school (I really credit his teacher with that) and that he finds so much enrichment in chess and his other extra curriculars, but I just want him to be happy, you know?
When did your kid(s) learn to read? My kid is almost 6.5 years old and in her first year of K. She is making progress but I am surprised at the effort we put in. We’ve done about half of 100 lessons book and she’s now reading to me daily for a school fundraiser. She’s making progress and can read level 1 books with supervision.
I learned to read at 3 and it really means nothing except for the fact that I don’t recall learning to read. I honestly thought with a few lessons and some months of kinder she’d just get it. Now I’m seeing it takes solid and consistent effort.
I’m just wondering what everyone else’s experience has been!
I’d love to hear from folks who have experience getting involved in non profits/community organizations. I’d like to get more involved in my community but my options seem to be essentially just donating money, or volunteering that requires me to be available during work hours. I don’t mind donating money but would like to find an opportunity where I can also be involved on more a of a time level rather than just financially and curious fo rideas.
I’m the poster from a few days ago who asked about taking a pregnancy test four days before expected period. I ended up taking two different brands – CVS generic and one of the First Response early detection ones. The First Response was dead negative and the CVS was faint positive. A day later and one additional test (Clearblue), all three are positive. I guess for me, I need to be three days out from expected period – this is the third pregnancy (both priors ended in miscarriage) and all went positive at that marker. Fingers crossed, and for everyone else, maybe don’t waste the money on First Response for “six days early” detection…
I can’t wear plaid because it looks too busy on me, but this dress makes me wish I could. It’s pretty and interesting while still retaining some structure and executive presence.
Just a community poll. What is the most effective way for you to know about events at your kid’s (public, elementary) school? I help out with a few PTO events and I’m shocked at the number of parents that aren’t aware of them. For any given event, we send one-off PTO emails, include info in the principal’s biweekly newsletter, send paper information home with the kids, do posts on Facebook. For some events we even put it on the message board in the school, but there aren’t many parents walking around in there. We have SEO on the emails that go out and they have about a 50% open and 40% engagement rate so *someone* is reading them.
What is most effective for you, a working mom?
Also, the reason it is coming up is we are hearing things like “kiddo was so disappointed he missed the science fair; I found out about it the same day so we had to skip it. I wish you had told me earlier!”
Something is weird with the comments again. I keep seeing different numbers for total comments–higher, then lower, then higher again–without any new comments appearing.
Relevant to the reading discussion above… my son and I started reading comic-style kids books, with each of us playing a part. It was so much fun! We started with Narwhal and Jelly and the Juniper Mae book and are now scouring the shelves for more. It seems really helpful for working on expression when reading out loud.
Is there any way to get your child’s other parent to “do” more things with your kid? I’m the kind of person who likes going places with my toddler – the zoo (we have a membership, so it’s free), the park, the pool, the library, those kid play museums, seasonal stuff like pumpkin patches, easter egg hunts, petting zoos. But my husband does not. He has never gone to any of those places with us, or just by himself with our kid, who is almost 3. He’ll go to the store with DS and then stop by his parents house if he thinks I need a break at home. He plays fine with our son and takes him on rides around our yard on our four wheeler and does chalk and stuff at home. He just won’t go to a place that’s basically just for our kid’s benefit. Am I putting too much importance on this? In his defense, if I’m out with kid, husband’s mowing the lawn, etc; but I would have no problem mowing the lawn if he wanted to go to the park with our kid.
And now the comments about disappearing comments have disappeared.