Washable Workwear Wednesday: The Zhou Culotte
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One fashion “rule” I’ve always adhered to was that petites could not wear wide-leg pants. Well, thanks to an equally petite coworker who regularly rocked wide-leg pants, I took the plunge and bought my first pair of Zhou Culottes in Galaxy Blue. Since then, I’ve purchased another pair (Faded Stripe, which is black with a light pinstripe), wowed by their versatility. The high waist and side seams keep the volume from overwhelming my frame.
If they weren’t perfect enough, they’re also machine washable and wrinkle resistant — perfect for when we travel again. Throughout the fall, I’ve been pairing them with cropped, relaxed sweaters for a stepped-up, yet cozy, work-from-home look.
The Zhou is currently available for $195 at M.M.LaFleur in a dozen colors, and most are on sale (starting at $115)! The Pippa, the cropped cousin of the Zhou, is available in extended sizes (and a few other lucky sizes) and is also on sale. The Zhou Culotte
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
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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?
So apparently the first big vaccine priority group (after healthcare workers and nursing home residents) is going to be essential workers, which will likely include childcare workers and teachers. The essential workers group, which, as currently defined, is huge – almost 90 million people – will come even before the elderly and people with high risk health conditions. I favor anything that gets kids back to school ASAP, but I’m not sure how much impact vaccinating just school staff will have, given that kids can’t be vaccinated so there will still be lots of positive cases in schools and teachers will likely still have to quarantine after any potential exposure. At least in my district, the staffing issues all arise from people being exposed (mostly through social gatherings or a household member, not school) and having to quarantine for 14 days and I don’t really see a vaccine changing that. I guess potentially they could waive quarantine requirements for anyone who’s been vaccinated, but I foresee a big backlash to that given that the data we have about vaccines is only about how well they prevent symptomatic illness not how well they prevent infection or spread and a vaccinated teacher could potentially infect others without becoming symptomatic themselves. I’m curious what other people think.
Asking for a family member… How do you get a newborn (only four days old) to sleep if he only wants to sleep while being held? His parents transfer him to a crib when he’s asleep, but he wakes up crying within five minutes. They’ve been taking turns holding him throughout the night, but this is not sustainable. Any suggestions are most appreciated!
My 18 month old and 3.5 year old have very little overlap in what we can do together. I know it’ll get easier but when? If they’re in the same room, the 18 Month old is hitting her, knocking Down whatever she’s working on etc. How do we survive this winter.. Thanks in advance
Talk to me about photos and movies. I have 3 young kids and have managed to do nothing with them over the years. I feel like if I don’t buckle down and organize/make something now, I never will.
Those of you with multiple kids over age 2-3, what do you do? One slideshow/album per kid per year? One family slideshow/album per year?
For the first two years I printed out photos I took and stuck them in an old school album. Then I had kid #2 and it all fell to pieces.
And what about it videos? There are some amazing ones I don’t want to lose to the dusty cloud archive but how do you store them so you can watch them in a few years? My kids love watching themselves as babies :-).
Can someone with better search skills find the discussion about non-scary movies we had a few months ago? My child was traumatised by “that chocolate movie!” (thanks DH, stellar parenting there) but desperately wants to watch a “movie” rather than TV shows. He likes the 70s Winnie the Pooh and the live action Charlotte’s Web “I like that cute pink big, and the friendly spider!”
Hey, thanks for listening when I was just… frustrated yesterday.
As an update – husband is still self isolating but his cold symptoms are almost totally gone. Also, yesterday I did in fact have him deep clean the basement and today he’s going through all the bins of kid stuff and folding/organizing and prepping stuff to give away. So… yes, I’m solo parenting, but I’m gonna have a super organized basement and attic.
One of the things somebody (maybe a therapist?) got me to do was to think ‘is there something you can ask for from your spouse that will stop any feelings of resentment? Well, this was it for me. And it was VERY effective.
Is anyone else’s daycare not even quarantining rooms when someone tests positive? I understand not closing the whole center, but we recently had our first positive cases in our center and they aren’t even quarantining any rooms. They said that if there’s “additional spread” within the center, then they would consider quarantining certain rooms…and that seems so sketchy. Our public schools move classrooms to virtual learning for 2 weeks if anyone in the classroom tests positive and I don’t really understand why our daycare is using a different standard.
My parents have both had COVID. My in-laws have both had COVID. All four are recovering well. One had a “bad head cold,” two had a “really nasty flu” and one lost taste and smell. Feeling very, very grateful that they are all on the mend. And very glad we didn’t see any of them in November when all were ill. (My mom was a poll worker on election day in one of the’worst’ counties in the country. Dad went to an indoor church service where someone collapsed and then tested positive. Wearing your mask at the grocery store is not enough.)
So now the question becomes, what do we do about Christmas? I know longer have the potential guilt/fear that we are going to infect them. Seems unlikely that they are going to infect us. I’m not comfortable seeing my 97 yr-old grandma, I’m not comfortable seeing some siblings whose careers mean they interact with the public all day every day. But are we safe to see my parents? Am I thinking about this wrong?
This has probably been discussed before, but searching online gave me a couple short posts. Talk to me about elf on the shelf. My kids are 3 and 5. I’ve never done it and they’ve never asked about it. It seems like it could be fun and be a way to add some magic to a tough year. We’re not into the “watching for bad behavior” angle, so I think it would be just a cute activity of finding the elf every morning. I do like the “kindness elf” idea. Am I delusional in considering adding this to my to-do list?
My 3 year old loves drawing but she just scribbles all over the paper. It seems like most other kids her age are drawing simple shapes and lines and things that at least vaguely resemble what they’re supposed to be. Is it normal to still be just scribbling at this age? Are there ways we can gently encourage her to draw actual shapes without squashing her creativity? I see Outschool has some guided drawing classes but I don’t really love the message that drawing is only worth doing if she draws in the way someone else suggests. I kind of love that she thinks her blue scribbles are a pumpkin or whatever.