Washable Workwear Wednesday: Venice Heathered Blazer

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After months of sweats and sweaters, I’ve been on the hunt for washable blazers to step up my work-from-home game. Although easier to find than even a few years ago, they are still the unicorn of washable workwear.

My workout wardrobe is full of Athleta, and lately I’ve been exploring their options for workwear. The Venice Heathered Blazer looks promising — it’s made from stretchy ponte fabric and has a flattering double vent and sharp stand-up collar. Note that multiple commenters have found it runs tight, so finding the right size may take some trial and error.

The blazer is $198 and comes in charcoal gray or dark brown, sizes 0–16. The matching Pintuck Pants are $119. Athleta has another washable blazer, the Interstellar, on sale for $79.99, in black and in lucky sizes only.

Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):

(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)

  • Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
  • Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
  • Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
  • Boden – 15% off new season styles
  • Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
  • J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
  • J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
  • Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
  • Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
  • Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)

And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interestworking mom questions asked by the commenters!

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Any recommendations for learning about toddler mental development and the leaps they’re making in terms of understanding and comprehension? It’s hard to know what parenting content out there is scientifically supported. (And I have an allergy to Janet Lansbury.)

I realize this is a very privileged question. My contract job ends in March. I had planned to take some unpaid time off, but another job has potentially landed in my lap. It’s a niche accounting job (my background is accounting; I’m currently doing IT support for accounting). Here’s the kicker: the hiring manager said: “You will need to share an office with current accountant as we are out of space. We can discuss WFH as many people are doing that currently.” I’m not super concerned about Covid, but is this a red flag? I find it more weird that he mentioned WFH due to office space than Covid. I should still interview and get the details though right?

Hopefully, a low-stakes questions re: virtual baby showers. We are due with our first in the spring. We are transplants, and in normal times, would have had several small showers in the city we live in and the cities we are from for different groups of friends/family. We are obviously not doing that and are instead having one virtual shower pre-baby. For those of you that have gone to virtual baby showers– who tends to be invited? Is it family, friends, a lot of people that don’t know each other, etc.? I feel weird inviting so many people but also why not? I haven’t been to any so I don’t know what to expect, and most of my pregnant friends were either able to fit in in-person events in the fall when Covid was not so bad or are due in the summer and haven’t decided what to do yet.

I have a $50 gift card to sephora. What would you buy? Can be more than $50.

About me: Mom of a 4 year and 5 month old. Working from home for the foreseeable future. Almost a year into quarantine and I’ve lost any semblance of a beauty routine. Dry skin, post-partum hair, overgrown eyebrows.

Oh my gosh, friends. Thought things couldn’t get worse but they can! My mother-in-law, who struggles with various health / mental health issues that led to her having to live with us a year ago for six months, has finally sold the house that she hoarded in and just had an offer accepted down the street from us. This is in another town about two and a half hours from where she lived her whole life. Unfortunately that area has gotten very expensive and she ran out of options so has decided our town makes sense because we have the grandchildren. Which is great for her but less help for us given that I don’t really trust her to be on her own with my kids. well maybe the 8-year-old for limited periods of time but that’s mostly because I trust the 8-year-old. And I know she’ll want to spend a lot of time with the baby but it’s pandemic and I’m used to the baby only being with us, although she does have to start daycare next month. And I know on paper it makes sense for her to live closer to us so we can help manage things (I’ve handled her finances for the last two years) but I’m right at the end of my maternity leave this month and I still have a kid who is distance learning and when I go back to work (from home) in addition to my regular work I’m also starting as a supervisor because for some reason when I was pregnant I thought applying for that job made sense. Also I love my neighborhood and I just don’t want her there. Feeling anxious and a little angry, working through stuff. Thanks for listening.

Is there some trick I’m missing to keep my 6 month old from yanking my hair out? Even when I have it pulled back into a bun, he grabs onto it and pulls it out.
I’ve been telling him no and trying to pull his hands away from it. Ouch.

Oh yay, today I started the summer camp registration rigamarole for our older kid. I truly miss the days when I could send him to the school-age summer camp at his sister’s daycare. It was one registration, one dropoff, one thing to keep track of. He’s at that borderline age (incoming 6th grader) where he doesn’t need constant supervision but needs to do more than being stuck at home all the time, which was the story last summer. We tried a few virtual camps, and they were not great from a parental standpoint. Lots of supply purchases during a time when it was hard to get to the store, and some of the activities required a second person to assist, which royally screwed up our workflow.

This group is always so informed about the scientific evidence around covid that I wanted to ask a question about risk. Despite our best efforts, our whole family had covid in January (essential worker husband exposed at work). We have fully recovered and presumably have immunity. I would like to see my parents who have just received their first vaccinations. My parents live a plane ride away and are not able to travel to us. To me, it seems like the overall risk is lower to travel in the spring while the family still has immunity and my parents have received their second vaccine. We would fly and then stay at their house and not see anyone else. Anecdotally, I have heard it is possible to transmit the virus even if you’ve already had it but I am having a hard time finding a study that shows this. Of course, we could wait until the summer, but I am unsure of how much will have changed at that point. Thank you for your thoughts.

Tomorrow is notification day for private kindergarten in my city (i.e. we get our admissions decision). It’s kindergarten so I feel ridiculous being as nervous as I am about it. We only applied to very few schools and they are very competitive so I am already making plans assuming we won’t get in anywhere, but, I can’t deny I will feel sad/disappointed. Luckily, since it’s kindergarten, my kid has no clue.

Looking for gift ideas for my niece who is turning 3. Her mom reports that she has the “Carry Around Animal Town” from Lakeshore (link to follow) and would enjoy another toy like this one. Any ideas?

Any recs for leakproof cups to send to school with milk for a 1yo? Looking for something easy to clean, of course.

Low stakes question. Talk to me about trampolines.
We’re considering getting one for our backyard. Everyone in our area seems to have one. They seem safer than when we grew up, now that they all have the enclosed netting, yes? Do they just kill the grass underneath them? Any features you would recommend? Or specific ones? Anyone regret getting one or get a particularly bad one?
(We live in CA so this is a seasonally appropriate question for us : ) ).

Let’s have a fun thread. What little things (not necessarily things to buy, can be things you are doing) are improving your quality of life these days?

Mine sounds ridiculous. I bought a package of Swedish dishcloths after seeing them mentioned on the main page. I had been using regular dishcloths or paper towels to wipe up after cooking and to clean up the giant mess produced by making lattes, and these things are just so much better. They clean more effectively, dry more quickly, and take up less space while drying than a dishcloth. They can be sanitized in the dishwasher and are compostable when they wear out. I never knew a cleaning implement could make me so happy.

What little things are making you happy these days?

Thanks everyone for recommending meds for “morning” sickness yesterday! The unisom came this morning and I can’t wait to see if rolling it with B6 helps. It’s so nice to feel optimistic.

I’m stuck in mod so trying again with less detail. What do y’all do for life insurance? Amount, term vs through your work or whole life, etc.?