Washable Workwear Wednesday: Cap Sleeve A-Line Dress
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There’s a lot to like about this dress — it’s machine washable, has sleeves, a work-appropriate hem length, and a high neckline, and hello, it’s under $40! (Also, it looks adorable in the real-life photos women have submitted.) It’s available exclusively online for $36 (from $60); there are also a few versions with prints available in regular, petite, and tall sizes. The Limited Cap Sleeve A-Line Dress
Here’s a plus-size option.
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Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — 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 – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- 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! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
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?
There’s a thread going on the main page about passive husbands and emotional labor. I know this is a common topic here. But I always felt that our relationship was quite equal until we had a kid. Even though my DH is a SAHD, I still feel like I work the second shift…and the weekend shift…doing most of the cleaning, laundry, all emotional labor, doctor’s appts, etc etc. Most of the time, I can count on something NOT getting done if I ask him to do it. Meanwhile he acts like the extremely put-upon one because he takes care of our kid during the week, and I work somewhat long hours (I’m gone 8-7 most days).
This enrages me, it’s slowly killing my attraction to him, and I see it as a huge problem in our marriage. But here’s the rub. We had a kid. So as I know from my divorced friends, I’m stuck with this person either way. He will be in my life for the next seventeen years at least. So what’s worse? Trying to solve this dynamic and staying married, or having to deal with even worse iterations of this dynamic in a divorced, coparenting situation? He’s a great dad and would want lots of time with the kid, and I could lose custody since I’m the frigid mother who works all the time. Honestly, no matter how frustrating this dynamic gets, I still see it as preferable to the alternative. Can anyone relate?
(This is sort of a flattened description of one angle of the bigger picture– there’s a lot more good in our marriage than this reflects, and I’m afraid that if I tried to end things we’d end up having lots of gardening parties anyway– we’re close, really enjoy each other’s company, and have been together for a long time. Outside of this dynamic, daily life is actually pretty great.)
You guys, just want to rant a bit. Why can’t people have a little more humanity in the office sometimes? I’m a biglaw transactional attorney, for context. The other week, seconds after I hung up the phone, promising something to the other side “tonight”, my husband called to tell me that our son was projectile vomiting and I needed to come home. I called the partner up to keep him posted and assure him it would still get out tonight, and his reaction was “Oh, God…” (and not, “Oh, God, I hope your kid is okay”…). Then, earlier this week, my other kid had to be picked up from school because he had a fever. I had a multi-party call that afternoon that needed a lawyer from my firm to be on. I was scrambling to deal with logistics and ended up finding a back-up to help with my kid, but in the meantime, I asked a colleague who was reasonably well versed in the issue if he could cover given my kid situation, and he basically told me he was too busy to get up to speed enough, which IMO was a totally illegitimate excuse. I mean, it would have taken 45 minutes out of his life, but we are working on this together and sometimes things come up. I understand life is tough and biglaw attorneys don’t get paid big bucks for nothing, but what is wrong with showing a little empathy and esprit de corps — it’s not like I’m not getting my work done, and it’s not like I ask for favors all the time! Ugh! Thanks for indulging, internet comrades.
My very verbal 2.5 year old daughter has spent the last several days whining, pointing, crying, grunting, and doing everything short of using words. I think she is still using some words, but I’ve noticed a sharp drop off. In the past, she would sometimes use basic sign language (please, help, food, milk) when she was upset and couldn’t speak, but now I’m not even getting that. Just lots of dissatisfied pseudo-crying.
Is this a phase that I just need to suffer through, or a parenting opportunity to reinforce the use of words, or something else? I am not really concerned about autism…although I guess if it continues I’ll be calling her pediatrician.
Looking for advice or just good vibes. Went to my 34-week appointment yesterday – all along I’ve been told baby is perfect, everything is great. I’ve been a little worried about Zika (not totally crazy, there is a very slim but real chance that I could have contracted it). Unrelatedly, I have also gained a lot of weight…48 lbs already, and I’m under 5ft tall. I’ve been showing big all pregnancy, and I just thought it was because this is my 3rd kid.
Last visit I got a bonus quick ultrasound, I thought to reassure me about Zika (head size), and she offhandedly said as long as she was doing that, she’d check the heart rate too. So I got hooked up to a machine for nearly an hour in what turned to be a non stress test (I figured that out but was never told that). She came in, pronounced the baby to be “super smart” based on the test, and the super quick ultrasound showed a normal head size.
So, yesterday. I go in and everything is fine. They schedule me for a full anatomy scan (which she had told me about several visits back, mentioned as though this is something totally normal she likes to do for everyone around 34-35 weeks). So far ok. Then I look at the lab orders for the scan – they say the order is because of an “EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE BABY”. WTH?
WHY tell me everything is OK and then make me get an U/S because you think my baby is “exceptionally large”? And what is the u/s really going to tell us given how unreliable they are at estimating size? DH says I should try to talk to doc which I realize rationally is the right thing to do. But, I am 34 weeks pregnant and not that rational, and the doc is heading out on vacation, and I don’t like confrontation. So instead I turn to the internet for some words of comfort and also may be suggestions for specific questions to ask, or things to consider, if I do get the courage to actually talk to my doc about this.
Does anyone on here drink while breastfeeding? I’m not talking getting loaded, but have one glass of wine and not pump and dump. I see a lot of comments about people being excited to be able to have wine after they wean and am wondering if they mean they haven’t been drinking the entire time they have been breastfeeding.
We’ve started to tell people that we’re expecting. Like with the first one, I’ve gotten a number of people who have said, I thought so! usually because they noticed I didn’t drink at dinner or something like that. But I really hate the ones who say they thought so because I looked a little… What, I looked bloated? pale and exhausted? Because I was only 6 weeks when you saw me, so I surely didn’t look pregnant! I know they mean it in a light-hearted way, but it really gets to me! Just say congratulations, why comment on my body?
Hi mommas, just wanted to share good news: I was able to negotiate a well above average raise this year, which I’m thrilled at given that I spent nearly this entire year either pregnant, on maternity leave, or in the throes of new parent-returning-to-work syndrome. It wasn’t easy and I had to fight for what I got, but I’m pretty happy with how it has turned out given the reports that come out all the time on the high price new moms pay in the workplace.
I mentioned on social media (like a reply on one of my posts) that my kid was home sick with something (not like whooping cough or pneumonia or something, but something contagious) and I have one or two moms from that same daycare as friends. Apparently they told other people who panicked about the whole thing and the daycare complained that they are having to field questions about their procedures for sick kids and how they sanitize stuff.
Now I know for a fact at least two other kids got sick with the same thing around the same time as mine so this is clearly going around the daycare. Also those kids parents could have told other people too.
Thoughts? Like I am a bit annoyed the daycare is upset with me, if I tell someone my kid is sick, that’s my business. I don’t see how I’m instigating a panic here.
How often is reasonable to expect my childless sibling who lives less than a half hour away to babysit? Once a year? Four times a year?
We have a good relationship, but he and his wife seem completely uninterested in my daughter.
Finally did it- broke up with daycare today. This is a HUGE step because it means I’m actually committing to semi-SAHMdom once baby #2 is born :/. This is what I want, and it’s what is best for our family, but it feels so…final.
Baby is due next week. Toddler will go to daycare on a slightly reduced but pretty close to normal schedule through the summer. I resigned my FT job two months ago and took on full time consulting/contracting, which I will drop to 10-20% over the summer (if that) and ramp back up to part time in the fall, at which point toddler will be in 2 day a week preschool, baby will be home, and i’ll be working 15-20 hours/week with some supplemental childcare (TBD, but part time nanny and/or family help depending on schedules). Plan is to ramp back up to full time consulting (or mainly full time) by end of 2017 and tweak the childcare model to whatever will work best then.
I’m excited, but nervous.
Does anyone have experience pump-weaning? I want to pump-wean during the day but am happy to nurse at night/ on weekends; kid is 13 months, so he doesn’t NEED breastmilk any longer, but definitely demands to nurse for comfort + milk. Can I phase out pumping but still produce enough to satisfy the milk monster baby?