Finally Friday: Kiltie Oxford
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I haven’t really subscribed to the oxford trend before, but if you’re on the hunt for a flat shoe with laces that you can wear to work, these are very highly rated and they’re only $88.95 at Nordstrom. (Amazon has a few lucky sizes as low as $70.) Reviewers are talking about wearing them with cropped pants and cropped jeans, and I think it would be a cute look for the right woman. They’re available in the pictured black suede and also a two-tone natural suede, both in sizes 5.5–11. TOMS Kiltie Oxford
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Sales of note for 11.25.24 (Great Black Friday Sales!!)
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Early Black Friday, up to 60% off — great deals on Natori, Vince, Theory, Boss, Cole Haan, Tory Burch, Rothy’s, and Weitzman, as well as gift ideas like Barefoot Dreams and Parachute — Dyson isn’t marked down at all but you do get 3x points on beauty purchases.
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your purchase, plus extra 15% off full price styles
- Anine Bing – Shop more, save more (spend $200-$300, get an extra 15-25% off)
- A.P.C. – Shop 40% off
- ba&sh – Up to 40% off Fall/Winter styles, including select colors of reader favorite Gaspard & Guspa cardigans (also included in Tuckernuck’s sale)
- Banana Republic Factory – 60% off everything + extra 20% off (or extra 30% off with your Gap Inc credit card) ends 11/26
- Bloomingdales – Take $25 off every $100 you spend on items labeled BLACK FRIDAY; ends 11/24
- Boden – 30% off on 1000s of styles, including reader favorites like this blazer and these dresses
- Cuyana – Free shipping over $95 (and 10% off your first order over $150)
- Demellier – 20% off with code, free worldwide shipping & returns
- Design Within Reach – 25% off sitewide (including reader-favorite office chairs Herman Miller Aeron and Sayl!)
- The Fold – Black Friday, up to 30% off everything
- Eloquii – 50% off everything + extra 10% off $125 or more
- Everlane – Up to 50% off everything
- Furla – Up to 50% off select styles
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off almost everything – LOTS of winter coats 40% off, down to $204-$230
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything, plus extra 25% off orders $125+
- Kule – 30% off sitewide
- Kohl’s – Earn $10 Kohl’s Cash for every $50 Spent – includes Travelpro luggage!
- LaLigne – 30% off in their ONLY sale of the year
- Lo & Sons – Up to 70% off – reader favorite laptop tote is under $200
- Macy’s – 20-50% off beauty brands like Clinique and Armani, 50% off designer handbags, 50-75% off sparkly jewelry, and 40-50% off women’s boots
- Mansur Gavriel – Winter sale, up to 60% off
- M.M.LaFleur – “20% off everything” (but exclusions apply)
- Ministry of Supply – 30% off sitewide
- Mulberry – Up to 40% off, including Bayswater, Islington, and more
- Neiman Marcus – Earn a $50-$1250 gift card, including on beauty and fragrance purchases
- Rothy’s – Everything up to 30% off (some also on sale at Nordstrom)
- Shopbop – 25% off storewide with code, including great blazers from Rag & Bone, IRO, Smythe, and select L’Agence (also lots of nice Black Halo dresses)
- Soma – Early Black Friday $29 bra event (up to 50% off)
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Sue Sartor – Week of Joy sale, 30% off sitewide
- Steelcase – 25% off sitewide, including reader-favorite office chairs Leap and Gesture
- Strathberry – Pre-black Friday, enjoy up to 30% off select styles!
- Stuart Weitzman – Extra 25% off full-price and sale styles
- Talbots – 40% off your entire purchase + daily deals
- Theory – 25% off sitewide + up to 40% off select outerwear
- Tory Burch – 30% off $250+
- Tuckernuck – 20% off sitewide
- Universal Standard – At least 30% off sitewide, up to 70% off all styles
- Victoria’s Secret – 30% off everything, and 7/$35 panties
- White House Black Market – 60% off clearance, 30% off sitewide for WHBM members
- 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
- BabyJogger – 30% off sitewide
- BestBuy – Lots of deals on gaming consoles, including PS5, XBox Series X, and more
- Carter’s – 50-60% off entire site and store
- ErgoBaby – 25% off bouncers
- Graco – Up to 30% off sitewide
- Hanna Andersson – 50% off sitewide
- J.Crew Crewcuts – 50% off almost everything, prices marked
- Nordstrom – Lots of deals on Stokke, Maxi-Cosi, BabyJoger, Posh Baby, Silver Cross, and more
- Old Navy – Everything on sale
- SNOO / Happiest Baby – 30% off Snoo, up to 50% off sitewide
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?
Another Threenager commiseration post, seriously, what it is with 3 year olds?? Our daycare has cameras and I just wached my son hit his classmate with a train track, get a warning, hit her again, then go to sit in a time-out. His teacher had to physically remove his ragey three year old self and then hold him in the chair, where my son then SMACKED HIM IN THE FACE. His teacher was totally calm cool and collected; let him calm himself down, then sent him off to play.
He’s been showing these behaviors at home too (ragey tantrums, hitting).
This is totally normal right? Or should we look into it further?
For those of you whose husbands have had a vasectomy, how long does that whole process take? This is what I’m imagining in my mind– he goes to some kind of initial appointment, schedules the actual procedure. The procedure is done at some point, and then after that there are several months where I still have to be on birth control. So from the initial appointment to the point where I get to stop taking birth control is going to be several months?
I’m going off one form of birth control next week, and have an appointment to discuss what to do between now and whenever I no longer need contraception. Could we just do c*ndoms? Or is that dumb? I’m really over hormonal birth control. Everything I’ve taken during the last two years has had some kind of awful side effect and I’m counting down the days til I don’t have to be on anything.
So I had thought that 2015 would be the end of me getting prints of photos and putting them in albums, and instead we’d start doing an annual photobook with all the best pictures since all of ours are online somewhere. But making a book for 2016 just seems daunting, and so I’m tempted to just order all the pictures anyway and put them in albums. Anyone else struggling? I made a book for the grandparents for Baby HSAL’s first year and it was such a pain, even with Mixbook.
On the list for mental/emotional/logistical labor –
I asked my husband to make a follow up appointment for our son with a specialist and follow up on it all including taking the kid (because *he* flaked on the last appointment and *I* had to cancel at the last minute).
So he did. I put it in my calendar and reminded him, but he had still already remembered – so far so good.
*However*, 2 months ago I gave him our new health insurance cards and told him to throw out the old one in his wallet. 1 month ago I reminded him that the new one was still sitting on his dresser.
This morning I remembered that he probably didn’t have the new insurance card, and sure enough, he doesn’t and they are already on their way to the appointment. So I’m emailing it to him now, and if there are any problems with getting it paid, *HE* is going to deal with it. Except he probably can’t, because it’s my name on the insurance, and we all know how easy insurance companies are to deal with.
Giant sighs. Baby steps. My husband is great about so much of the day to day, but is so not detail oriented about this kind of thing.
Talk to me about professional baby/family photos. This was not a thing in my family growing up, and I don’t really know how to do it. I see all kinds of things – staged/posed photos of kids in buckets/wagons/trees; families wearing matching clothes frolicking on a beach; and what look like really expensive candid family photos. What do you all do? Where do I start? LO is turning one soon and I feel like this is Something We Should Do.
Also, any great non-Pinterest-y ideas for celebrating the one year mark would be appreciated. We’re not doing a big party – just moved and don’t have our village yet – but I am looking for nice ways to mark the milestone.
Anyone have experience with acupuncture during pregnancy? I’m 32 weeks and the baby is transverse (and has been for a few weeks). I’ve been seeing a chiropractor, but I’d like to feel like I’m doing everything I can to get this baby into the correct position. My doula has suggested looking into acupuncture as well. I’d really appreciate any advice you ladies might have. Thanks!!!
Please tell me that the second winter of daycare/preschool is better than the first wrt sickness. My twins started preschool two mornings per week this fall and I swear there have been maybe ten days total since then when they’ve both been well. We’re doing double stomach bug + croup at the moment. Which last night involved asking the nighttime on-call nurse to “hang on for a second” when she called back (1) just after A had barfed in his crib, again; (2) while B was wailing at the top of his lungs because I think he had gas pain,; and (3) I had just backed into and knocked over the humidifier. Then I took the call while wiping down A, trying to hear the nurse over B’s screams, and trying to keep A from smashing his face into his barfed-on but much beloved blanket (he was screaming “bwanket bwanket” by the end , like I was just being evil keeping it from him). It was as awesome as you’d expect. Oh did I mention husband is on travel? Yeah.
Any suggestions for helping a parent through a hip replacement?
My mother is a particularly terrible patient. She has zero trust for doctors and often does too much too soon and reinjures herself. She also has a tendency towards depression and lives a very solitary life in the middle of nowhere. There won’t be anyone to check on her in person so I will have to trust what she tells me, which isn’t always accurate. I could probably go down for a few days to help, but I’m not sure if I’d be more help or trouble with a baby and preschooler in tow. I’m particularly concerned about her pain management since doctors are being weird about pain meds in view of the opioid epidemic.