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 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?
I want to be able to buy a bundle of seasonal kid clothes. X pairs of leggings, shirts, dresses etc. Does anyone do this? So tired of shopping.
I missed the convo yesterday, but my husband and I are actually both fully vaccinated so I wanted to weigh in, because it feels a bit different than I imagined.
We do not currently plan to live much differently than we did before. Until we know more about the ability of vaccinated individuals to continue to spread, we don’t want to be a reservoir for a mutation.
We do plan to possibly dine outdoors at a restaurant in the next few weeks, which we have not done since this started. Additionally, our youngest will be going to preschool in about a month, and I’d be lying if I said vaccination status did not play into that decision.
If it weren’t for the variants emerging, I would say we are planning to stay in a hotel in a large city that is driving distance from us this summer for a mini family vacation. We would dnot take public transport and only dine outdoors and do activities within walking distance. However, I think we will need to wait and see what is going on with the variants. While the data on the ability of the vaccine to prevent severe disease is encouraging, neither of us can afford (workload-wise) to be sick any time soon. It’s disappointing, I really hoped things would be calmer by Spring/Summer and our family could actually spend some time together and be out in the world, but I’m losing hope on that front.
tl;dr it’s not as big of a relief as I thought it would be thanks to the variants
My toddler’s sleep is a total mess at the moment (still transitioning to no nap and occasional multiple night wakeups with nightmares) and we have a baby coming in May so it feels crazy to switch to a toddler bed now but here are some reasons I’m considering it:
-I’m on modified bedrest and not supposed to be lifting her very much
-I’ll be having a c-section and won’t be able to get her out of the crib for a while once baby comes
-She’s waking up a lot with nightmares and it would be easier to comfort her in bed without the rail there?
-Grandparents are coming to help with the baby and both moms have A LOT of trouble getting her in and out of the crib
-We do quiet time instead of the nap most of the time and in a toddler bed she’d have more freedom to get the toys she wanted instead of screaming for specific toys
-She turned 3 in December and it has to happen at some point right?
Do we pull the trigger or wait? I’m worried it will make the night sleep so much worse when it is already bad…
Is anyone planning any summer vacations yet? I want to in the worst way but am having a hard time going for it, not knowing what the summer is going to look like. The odds of any of us being vaccinated by then are slim. We are so far down on the priority list. Maybe a socially distanced air b&b situation? Will that even feel different than being at home?
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.?
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.
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?
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 : ) ).
Any recs for leakproof cups to send to school with milk for a 1yo? Looking for something easy to clean, of course.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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 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.