Washable Workwear Wednesday: The Smith Straight Trouser
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These icy blue pants are the warm-weather update my wardrobe needs.
These versatile, straight trousers have a generous hem allowance so you can tailor them to your preferred length. Add the matching blazer or cardigan for a cool and coordinated ensemble.
If ice blue isn’t your color, these well-reviewed pants come in eight other colors (some on sale and lucky sizes only).
The Smith Trouser in ice blue is $329 and comes in sizes 00-20.
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 5/8:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – Mother’s Day Event: 40% off your purchase. Readers love this popover blouse, and their suiting is also in the sale.
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Dress & sport shirts, 2 for $149
- Express – $39+ summer styles + 25% off everything else
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 70% off clearance + 40%-50% off the Weekend Shop
- Lo & Sons – Mother’s Day Sale: Up to 40% off — reader favorites include this laptop tote, this backpack, and this crossbody
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Nordstrom – Up to 25% off
- Talbots – 50% off wear-now styles and all markdowns + 30% off tops, pants, jeans, and shorts
I’m in the market for a new bag. My son is 5 so I don’t need to carry much kid stuff any more, but I want a bag that can carry all my things and a handful of his (if needed). What’s your go-to?
My daughter is wrapping up her first year of middle school and just crushed it academically (and socially but that’s not what I’m asking about). She got all A+s in her classes all year long, save for the A she’s gotten in English all year but bumped it to an A+ at the end of the year. She has had above a 99% in math all year long and a 100% in spanish. She even has an A+ in gym. Like, who could ask for a better report card??
The school does nothing at all to recognize academics. No honor roll, no team level awards, etc.
I want to be like GIRL THIS REPORT CARD IS SO GOOD YOU CRUSHED IT ALL YEAR LONG. I got tickets to a summer concert and sort of said it would be our celebration of her hard work. I don’t want to overdo it here but do want to encourage her. She has no real frame of reference that this strong a report card is very much not average and she should be proud of it!
My parents are getting older, and I would like to find a way to memorialize some of their memories for my kids. I think my mom would really like a book that had prompts that you respond to. Does anybody know of such a book? Or have other ideas on how to do this?
Where do you buy stickers (besides Amazon, which I try to avoid)? Does it annoy you if parents bring a card with stickers to a no gift party?
We have started to get no gift birthday party invites, and i was thinking about putting a page of stickers in with a birthday card. And this made me realize that I don’t know where to buy stickers or if that would annoy people.
We’re thinking of letting our kids (8 and 10) have some computer time a few days a week. They usually play at the playground after school for an hour, then walk home and have a snack/read, so it would be during the ~20 minutes between reading and dinner). The 8yo has expressed an interest in doing something involving math (he has been in a big math-loving phase at school) and the 10yo wants to practice her music reading (she started violin this year).
Does anyone have specific app/website recommendations for either of these? Happy to pay for a month or so to see how it goes. We don’t currently have a tablet but could potentially get one.
I feel like this is a recurring topic but I can’t find old threads.
I have a newly minted 8 year old. We don’t have any structured chores. She’ll make her bed if we ask her, but with a small dose of whining and only on demand as opposed to it being a daily routine. She’ll help us clean up, she knows to take dishes to the sink, etc, but I think she’d benefit from a little more structure and firm expectations around some baseline, age-appropriate chores.
Separately (I think) we would like to introduce the concept of an allowance for the benefit of fostering good money habits, something DH and I both lacked. His dad filed BK a few times. My parents fought about money constantly (despite being pretty well off) and any money I made as a kid (and I cleaned upppp babysitting) was hoarded in to some mystery “college account”, which I’m certain helped fund college but it made me both anxious about money to this day and didn’t really teach me anything about what things cost, what’s worth spending vs saving, etc. Right now she has like $70 crumpled in a wallet and I don’t think she realizes it’s a good chunk and that she can spend it! Or save it for something… she really just forgets about it, which has pluses and minuses.
What say you? How would you approach introducing chores for an 8 year old? What would they be? How are they tracked and what are consequences for missing them? We have a house cleaner and I don’t want her to expect someone else will clean her messes for the rest of her life. Chore chart? Other ideas?
And allowances – how much? I’m thinking maybe $5/week in cold hard cash and take her to a local credit union where DH happens to work with good “kids” accounts, and keep the “savings” there. We’d have to get in the habit of reminding her she can spend it, and/or start refusing to pay for certain things out of our own pockets so that she feels compelled to spend her own money on the ask (or not! But she has to decide)…
TIA.
Gizmo watch or Apple Watch? Kiddo is going to be 11 and we’re allowing more freedom this summer. Kid can independently bike places, practices are drop off, etc. I also am pretty over being a kid’s texting secretary.
Verizon will be the provider, want mostly for tracking and basic texting, no apps but if he could listen to music or podcasts he’d like that. Any preference as to one or the other? I’m an Apple person so am leaning towards that one…