Washable Workwear Wednesday: Velvet V-Neck Top
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It’s holiday party time! And that means lots of luxe velvet.
Consider Eileen Fisher’s Velvet V-Neck Top for your next get-together. The drapey, boxy silhouette is complemented by slight dolman sleeves. The soft, shimmery velvet will make you glow. Add a statement necklace and black slacks for an understated, elegant ensemble.
This top is $278 at Eileen Fisher and comes in black, nocturne (navy), sweet plum, and deep claret. It’s available in sizes XXS–3X (some sizes/colors sold out). Nordstrom has the sweet plum color on sale for $194.60.
A much more affordable option is at Express; it’s on sale for $34 and available in S–XL.
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+
Secondary infertility sucks. Does anyone else have this experience? DS is almost 2 and it was so easy the first time.
Do you/how do you get your kids to dress warmly enough in winter? My youngest (7) is very picky about her clothes and not wearing anything too stiff, and so hates winter coats. Thus she has been wearing a fleece hoodie most days this winter, but it’s now getting into the 30s and that doesn’t seem adequate.
Part of me is like, well, natural consequences, and being cold doesn’t actually give you a cold, so if she wears a coat that’s too light and is freezing, maybe the next day she’ll wear a warmer one (she never does). But the other part of me wonders if this is neglectful parenting, should I zip her into the heavier coat and put a hat on her head against her will? Should I have her shower at night so her hair isn’t wet in the morning, does that actually make a difference? How do others handle this?
Help! For Christmas, we normally go to my parents’ house in a nearby city. We do Christmas morning at home, get there around 11 or noon, and stay overnight.
The last couple of years, my mom had decided that because everyone “eats cookies all day”, we shouldn’t do a sit down dinner. Instead, she serves breakfast (which we aren’t there for) and then puts out what she describes as “munchies”—pretty much fancy cheese and crackers and baked goods. She sets this all out at lunch time and that is it for the day.
How do I handle this? I’m pregnant so eating nothing but snacks (especially snacks that have been out on the counter for hours) is not going to work well. And my husband is starving by the end of the day. Last year, I made PB&J sandwiches for the kids for dinner.
Any brilliant ideas? I’d love to host at our house, but that will never happen. Bringing food from out of town to cook ourselves for everyone is a lot of work would also offend her. I totally respect her desire not to cook on Christmas, but we are hungry!! Her “everyone is eating snacks all day anyway” theory is not working. Blah.
Our toddler’s best friend is moving out-of-state after the holidays. I have a bunch of pictures of the two of them from daycare over the past couple years. Any ideas for a fun collage plus art project from my kid that we can give to BF?
Best snow boots for kids? I have a 4.5 year old who evidently grew like 4 sizes in the last 12 months. We’re in Boston so get a good amount of snow, so these are going to school for playground use and will be used when we go up skiing, etc. Not sure how I got to nearly 5 years with a kid and can’t identify a good snow boot brand…. oof. TIA.
A couple of the posts yesterday made me wonder how many people here have extended family support and what that looks like for you.
Context: We have family within an hour’s drive, but they aren’t able/willing to watch our kids. We see them socially, and when we moved back to the area, they promised all kinds of help, but that help has never materialized for a variety of reasons.
Meanwhile, I left my firm early last year for a less “demanding” job, and have a lot of feelings/regrets about it if I’m being honest. Recently, though, I realized that every one of the female attorneys with kids either 1) also left during/after covid, or 2) has significant extended family help—ranging from a couple with full time grandparent care to, more commonly, family members who step in on sick days, early outs, during travel, etc. I don’t think that’s the norm elsewhere (and it wasn’t the case pre-covid). But it made me start to consider the extent to which my struggles were the result of a lack of support rather than my own inability to juggle all the balls.
I don’t wish so much for regular child care from family as that’s something we can mostly replace with paid help (albeit at a cost + time investment.) But I do wish I had family as a safety net for situations when we are really in a pinch. And maybe it’s reasonable that certain jobs expect this. Sigh.
Does anyone have a suggestion for what to tell kids about why people who don’t celebrate Christmas don’t get gifts from santa? Kiddo is 4 and, for the first time, realizing that not everyone gets gifts from Santa. She hasn’t asked yet about why Santa doesn’t give gifts to everyone but has talked about hoping certain people do celebrate because she wants them to get gifts, so I’m hoping there’s an explanation that makes it not a sad thing that some of her friends and family (DH’s side is Jewish) don’t get gifts from Santa. My gut reaction was that they get gifts anyway, but was hoping to not turn Santa into someone who only gives gifts to those who hold certain beliefs.
Thanks to everyone who chimed in yesterday about twin stripping and peeing the bed. Kids are so weird. I went in about 15 minutes early and he was lying down clothed but awake. So I got him up, put a fresh diaper on and we snuggled.
Present help! We don’t have a TV, which means my kids don’t ever watch commercials (and neither do we–this is not a value judgement at all, we just don’t have a TV). We recently went on vacation where our kids got their fill of commercial filled TV watching. When i asked my 7 year old what she wanted for xmas, she said she wanted a unicorn that grows when you feed it. She said she saw a commercial for it, most likely on Disney channel or something. What is this thing? I found some unicorns that seem to grow when you put them in water, but that doesn’t sound like what she’s talking about. Any thoughts? TIA!
I seriously wanted to shake my DH this morning. One of his staff members and his wife are having a baby soon, and their office is throwing a small baby shower today. He was so proud of not going shopping for a gift and just giving the (women) staff members money to put together a gift basket for the team. LIKE OF COURSE, IT’S THE WOMEN who are taking time from their schedules to buy the onesies and diapers, while the dudes are going to show up and eat cake and feel “supportive.” Of f*cking course.
I may be a bit testy because I put him in charge of buying his mom’s Christmas gifts because I’m doing literally all of the other gift buying. Great, glad to have it off my plate and should’ve done it years ago. But last night, his question was, where do I buy bath towels? My dude, you have an MBA and are an operations director. Figure it out.
Potty training tip. I probably got the idea here originally, but just sharing in case anyone else could use the tip. DD is about 3, and 99% potty-trained. At night, we have been doing a “dream potty” sort of like a dream feed. Right before we go to bed, we take her out of bed and set her on the potty. It sometimes takes a few minutes but she always does go, and then rarely wets the bed. (When we forget, she usually wets the bed at 4/5am, making me think she’s very close to being able to make it all night, but not there quite yet.) I don’t think I’d heard of this or thought of it for kiddo #1 but wish I had!
Well, 2.5 years in we finally got covid. The whole family. Of course I’m the sickest. We’ll be leaning on lots of screen time for 2 year old. Other than Sesame Street, he doesn’t typically watch much TV. Looking for recommendations for other toddler friendly shows/movies (we have Disney+, HBO and Netflix). Thanks!