Washable Wednesday: JNY Suiting
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Jones New York has steep discounts on their entire suiting collection, including the washable wool pieces — so if you’ve been on the hunt for a washable suit or separates, today may be the day to strike. They come in regular and plus sizes, and there are pants, skirts, and blazers. Just for an example, this washable wool jacket was $159, but is now marked to $59. You can create any two-piece suit for $99. Nice. Jones New York Washable Suiting
Sales of note for 4/24/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 7,710 new markdowns for women!
- Ann Taylor – Friends of Ann Event: 30% off your entire purchase, including 100s of new arrivals
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Spring Clearance: Up to 75% off + extra 50-60% off sale
- J.Crew – Mid-Season Sale: Up to 60% off sale styles + up to 50% off summer-ready styles
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100 + extra 20% off $125
- M.M.LaFleur – 3 pieces for $198. Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Friends & Family Event: 30% off entire purchase, includes markdowns
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?
Stop-gap newborn care question:
I think I will be able to get into my daycare of choice (daycare A) about 2-3 months after I need to return from leave. There will very likely be an opening in a fine, but unremarkable, daycare right when we need it (daycare B). Is it okay to do daycare B until we get into daycare A? Are there other options I should be looking into? I think a nanny would be significantly more expensive than daycare (A and B are around $1400/mo) and probably out of our acceptable price range. Are there usually temporary daycare places that cater to these sorts of situations?
**Meant to be a reply to NewMomAnon* My almost three year old has a small kindle fire with kid-proof case that she really likes. It has held up well so far, and I like that it’s sized for little hands (she always had trouble with the size of the ipad). She’s not SUPER destructive, though, so YMMV
Brainstorming request – when I was a kid, my parents recorded themselves reading stories and singing songs, and we had a sturdy little tape player that we could use semi-independently from a young age (I think I got mine when I was 1).
I’d like to do the same thing for my kiddo with today’s technology, but it looks like there isn’t a current corrolary – how would you go about this? I’ve thought about putting the recordings on an old iPod or iPad, but my kiddo would break it within minutes. I see that there are child-specific tablets but I’m hesitant to buy a dedicated tablet for a 1 year old. If I buy a used one off e-bay, can I even load my own recordings onto a Leapster pad or something like it? Or is there a good child-proof case for iPods/iPads? We have some old ones that could be repurposed.
Question on sleep training: Can you train you child to sleep until your desired wakeup time? Do you let your kid CIO in the morning?
My 12 month old goes down for the night in her crib super easily at 7pm, but still wakes up earlier than I’d like (around 5am), nurses in the bed, then sometimes falls back to sleep (still in bed) until around 7am. I would really like for her to sleep in her crib until 7, but have not had luck with leaving her to put herself back to sleep. Admittedly, I’ve only waited as long as 20 minutes or so until going to get her. She’s not ravenous when she nurses in the morning, but sometimes she is just AWAKE and ready for the day such that leaving her in her crib seems like it wouldn’t work. I’ve mostly heard of sleep training as a way to get kids to go to sleep at night (or for naps) but what about staying asleep after a full night? Is this just a pipe dream? We did try to put her down slightly later at night, but she is so tired and ready to sleep at 7pm, that we didn’t press it.
I did a bunch of suit shopping recently and ended up with the pieces from JNY. Nordstrom’s Sejour line, which has been reliable for me in the past, didn’t work this time around – the fabrics looked terrible and the cuts were frumpy on me. I’ve almost given up on Talbots (and I am a card-carrying lifetime member of the fan club!) for suiting because it just never works on my body.
The Calvin Klein suiting that they carry at Macy’s is pretty great for the price. It didn’t quite work on me this time around, but my favorite gray suit was from there. I think they carry it online.
You might also look at Dress Barn – they carry a JNY line that has worked for me in the past. And I think their collection of shells and tops can be really great.
And thanks Kat for today’s post – I’m in need of a new interview suit that comes in plus sizes, and didn’t have much luck with anything I liked in the MLK day sales. If anyone has any other recommendations for places for me to try other than JNY, please let me know. My local Macy’s had lots of sales, but was very picked over so very few pieces that went together.
My ideal suit would be a longer jacket, 2 or more buttons and available somewhere in the 16W-20W, in charcoal, light grey or black (not navy or brown). I probably won’t have need for it outside interviews, so it doesn’t need to be the best/nicest suit in the world. Any suggestions?
Follow up question – has anyone used the uppa baby bassinet?
For those of you that have more than one young child needing care, what arrangement do you have, and why? We are thinking about starting to try for #2, and while our daughter is in daycare now, having a second baby changes our options a bit.
Daughter would be somewhere between 2.5-3.5 when the next one is born, so we could put both in daycare, or get a nanny and put the older on in part time preschool. I like the idea of having the little one with a nanny, but our daughter was in daycare from 11 weeks and is now a super happy 15 month old. she was a daycare poster child and gets bored when she stays home with me all day :) On balance, though, I like the idea that the siblings could spend more time together (vs separate classrooms) with a nanny, and a nanny seems like it would be useful to have with two nuggets running around. We live in MA, where daycare costs about the same as college tuition (not even kidding), so a nanny for two would be more, but not not that much more expensive than daycare for two. I’d have to pay for preschool on top, but again, it’s nominal in the grand scheme of childcare costs.
I work from home, in a segregated home office, most days. I like the idea of taking a lunch and getting to see the kids, but also am hesitant that the work/home boundaries would get fuzzy (despite my clearly segregated home office, that our child doesn’t ever go into now, even on weekends).
Good morning ladies! For you current moms, I need some pack N play recommendations. My husband and I are expecting our first in April. We live in a 3 bedroom (all one floor) condo in Chicago. We’re considering the Nuna Sena Travel Crib and also the Graco pack n play with reversible napper. Links posted below. We are getting the 2015 uppa baby vista and the bassinet stand, so I guess baby can sleep in there for the first few months, but I also like the graco pack N play option for her to sleep in as well. That’s the main reason I lean to the Graco one. As for the Nuna one, I just like the sleek design! No real reason other than that.
Any recommendations for or against either of these, or any other recommendations? Thanks ladies!
Ladies, I need laundry help. Two problems:
1) Ring around the collar. I had been doing a good job with tackling this problem on my husband’s work shirts, but the stains are getting harder and harder to remove. I’ve been doing a pretreatment spray (like Zout) or a paste with OxiClean powder that I would rub in with a toothbrush. Sometimes the OxiClean fades the colors, so that’s not great. Other ideas?
2) Baby threw up all over a new shirt last night – a Loft utility blouse. It’s 100% polyester. I immediately washed it off and then threw it in the delicate cycle on cold (per instructions). Stain is still there. Ideas? (Besides changing out of work clothes before putting her down for bed….)
TIA!