Washable Workwear Wednesday: The Nia Jacket
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Here’s a jacket that’s both fun and professional from M.M. LaFleur’s fall collection.
The double-breasted Nia Jacket is what you get when your trench and suit jacket have a baby. This jacket adds definition to your waist and works with either a pencil skirt or jeans. It’s also made from M.M.’s “origami tech” fabric, a polyester blend that is machine-washable and wrinkle resistant.
The Nia Jacket is $325 and comes in black, olive, and “cool charcoal” (looks like a dark gray with bluish undertones). It’s 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 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+
We got our 3-YO his first Covid vaccine at a Walgreens a few weeks ago, but I wasn’t happy with the provider who gave the shot — he didn’t seem to have any experience with toddlers and it was unpleasant for all of us. I asked our pediatrician’s office if we could get the second shot there, but they are only scheduling vaccines for immunocompromised children right now and told us our best bet is a pharmacy. Do you all have any strategies for making the second shot go better at Walgreens?
Ugh, today I am
1) sick myself with some kind of gross chest cold
2) home with a sick kid who apparently vomited profusely in the night (but at least thankfully is not actively sick now) and
3) trying to work because my work has a huge deadline in two weeks that nobody planned for and now it’s a big all hands on deck crisis. What’s that saying? “Poor planning on your part does not constitute a crisis on my part?” or something like that? I would like that tattooed on my forehead please and thank you.
Has anyone found or created a good home inventory system? We have a chest freezer and extra pantry storage in our basement but I struggle with tracking what’s in there so that we consume it in a timely fashion and avoid buying duplicates. How do you all keep track of this stuff?
Has anyone got a second covid booster at the same time as their flu shot? Did you have side effects? I’m pregnant and my understanding is that it’s recommended to do both, though my doctor seems kinda meh about it. I’m thoroughly confused.
I didn’t have many side effects with my initial shots, fwiw.
I’m pretty sure this has been discussed before, but I can’t find the comments. What do people do when they are tired of litigation? What are some legal and non-legal jobs people shift to when they are burned out on litigating? I can sense I’m reaching that point and because I’ve been in my job for a decade, having trouble seeing other options or what transferrable skills I have.
My kid started preschool this week, but we are keeping our nanny. We have had her for several years, and she is wonderful. Her job has always included a variety of home related tasks (picking up kid areas, kid laundry, dishes, etc.). My child still naps after lunch and school. Her pay is not being docked for the time that my child is in preschool. Is it reasonable to expect her to do extra (kid related) work around the house during preschool hours? Things like sorting out old clothes, organizing kid closets, etc. I ask because I had asked her to start on such a project, but today after drop off she went to the park where several of her friends work. I think this is the norm? That the other nannies go to the park when their kids are in preschool, and then they go pick up the kids? But, candidly, I’m not really okay with paying for that much time where she isn’t working, especially bc they are still napping.
I’m sorry—been there, this is such a rough stage. Maybe try experimenting with food? Like, something that will get blood sugar up quickly, like an applesauce pouch before even leaving the classroom?
Or maybe even more food? At one point, I was bringing basically an entire toddler dinner to daycare pickup even though home was super close.
One other thing—how’s sleep through a 24 hour period? My kids hold it together better when they have a very early bedtime and more sleep (and sometimes they even need an even earlier bedtime for awhile to hold it together).
Restraint collapse…how do you deal with it? My toddler spends 8ish hours at daycare and is a delightful child there. Every few days he will have the world’s worst meltdown on the 10 min drive back home where he’s screaming bloody murder and clawing out of his car seat.
It is really really hard and I have no idea how to deal with it. I’m not very good at ignoring it because I get easily overstimulated (but would assume anyone has difficulty handling his kind of screaming…). Any thoughts?
I come prepared with his favorite snack, water, and songs to keep him content. But it only works on good days. Even snacks cannot stop the screaming.
I signed up for a trial of The Week Junior for my 2nd grader – he is a decent reader and I think he’d enjoy a kids’ news magazine. He used to love Highlights, and while he loves getting things in the mail, he doesn’t read it anymore and thinks it’s babyish.
Any other periodicals that would be good for younger kids? He’s definitely into sports, so maybe SI Kids if that’s still a thing? He is not a huge reader of books as much as I would love him to be, so this is my next brilliant idea – maybe he’d read magazines instead.
Mostly venting. Our office has an imposed a “flexible” three day a week return to office policy, heralded as a gift to employees and working parents. Except it’s not at all flexible and we’re getting beat over the head with it. Have a sick kid? You better be in the office three days. You’re sick? Better be in the office three days. Have a three day meeting at a client site? Better drive to the office just to swipe in so the stats show you were in three days. Planning vacation? It’s unclear if you have to make up those days in the office to keep your stats up. It’s completely ridiculous and so much less flexibility that we had prepandemic. Leadership tells us it has to be this way because some people aren’t complying. What they can’t explain is why they don’t just speak with those people? (Of course the non compliers are likely job shopping as the message has been clear and they evidently have no intention of coming back.) The rest of us are so sick of being threatened and berated with the new policy. We get it. Ugh. Is it like this elsewhere?