Washable Workwear Wednesday: Way-High Drape Pant
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There’s something elegant about a drapey, wide-leg pant like this one from Everlane.
This high-rise pant has practical side pockets and flattering pleats. It’s also made from a washable, lightweight, and breathable fabric. It comes in both short and regular lengths in three office-friendly colors (slate gray, sandstone, black).
Just add a tucked-in blouse or shell and you’re ready to ring in another year at the office!
Everlane’s Way-High Drape Pant is $98.
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 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?
My husband took today off to wrangle kiddo (STILL waiting for post-travel PCR to be cleared, we’re getting low on food) and got a sarky message from his boss about how we should be splitting things equally, especially as I’m away so much. Erm…not sure it’s your job to comment on our division of labour, dude. We find it easier to alternate full days and I took the December sick day. This poor husband routine is getitng old, people act like he’s widowed or I’m deployed, I’m home for 9 weeks straight and only gone for 3 nights a week during term time.
These trousers are a great idea, poorly executed. They look like they were home-sewn out of fabric that’s too stiff and heavy, and the seams and pleats weren’t pressed properly during the process of construction. Yet another miss for Everlane.
I’ve developed some wheezing in my lungs, along with a slight cough, over the last week. I got two negative rapid COVID tests, plus I don’t think wheezing is a major symptom of COVID, so I don’t think it’s that. But the urgent care facility near me won’t accept walk-in patients with any respiratory symptoms, and directs everyone with respiratory symptoms to the COVID clinic. Should I do that? I have an appointment with my allergist (who has advised me in the past about asthma symptoms, though I don’t have an asthma diagnosis) for next Wednesday, but I’d like to get seen sooner if possible. Any suggestions appreciated.
has anyone found k94 masks for their kids that are legit and work well? there are so many counterfeit ones out there, i find it hard to make sure that what i am ordering is reliable.
For those looking for reading recs for 6ish year olds, my daughter LOVES Dragon Masters! We are reading them at night, and I think one day soon she’ll be able to read them herself. I actually like these way better than pretty much all other first chapter book series–including Zooey and Sassafras, Ivy and Bean, and Mia Mayhem. The story is pretty good and not as repetitive. We’ve only read two but I’m hoping they continue to be as good as we progress through the series.
Suggestions on potty training resistance from a tired and boundary testing toddler pre- and post-daycare? We went through Oh Crap over the break and it seemed to work beautifully. Of course it was a little too good to be true. Now, getting back to our normal routine and LO is resisting sitting on the potty at all (we don’t ask but tell it’s time and try to work it into transitions).
My dumb question to start off the new year: when potty training boys, do they sit down to pee? My husband and I are baffled by this! What do we do?! :)
Annnd my son’s daycare class had a positive COVID case, so there goes childcare for the week.
I’ve never turned to internet strangers for big life advice before, but I know this group is wise and thoughtful and smart and I need help. I’m a biglaw partner miserable at work and considering quitting. I have two young kids (ages 3 & 6) and I feel like am missing the best/most fun years of their lives. My husband also has a very demanding job and the unpredictability of our work lives is really taking a toll on our family; I am at my breaking point and have been for awhile.
I already have a reduced hours / “part time” schedule, but it’s still a lot of hours and I can’t control them. There is nothing more I can do to make my work schedule better at my firm. An in-house opportunity came along recently, and while it seems like a great job on paper, the prospect of pursuing it filled me with dread. That made me feel like maybe I just don’t want to work at all, or at least not as a lawyer? I know plenty of in-house lawyers with very demanding jobs, so I am not convinced that going in-house is the solution.
I am at a point where I feel like I want to just quit my job and work not at all, or, if such a job existed, work 20-25 hours a week just to have something to do outside of my house. I don’t care about prestige and I don’t care about money. We could live comfortably on my husband’s salary. I just want to have a nice life and I am fantasizing about what it would be like to not work — I’m imagining volunteering at my kids’ school, helping out at an organization that means a lot to me, working in my garden, creative pursuits that I have long neglected and feel bitter about. Am I losing my mind? I am coming off of a rough December work-wise, plus pandemic-driven logistical chaos, and maybe my gut can’t be trusted right now.
Basically I am sick of grinding it out and making life harder than it needs to be. I keep feeling like I am going to look back on my life as an old lady and wonder why I didn’t quit sooner and have more fun.
I am so very over the Chicago Teachers’ Union. I assumed we would have closures and periods of quarantine, but I was hoping it would not be because of political antics by the Union. This is the third year in a row that kids’ school is disrupted by this Union.
OP- we have already paid for better ventilation and masking has been required 100% of the time. Very frustrating.
Question on pay: my small law firm is now just me and the boss, who I think will fully retire within a few years. My boss expects things to slow considerably and wants to meet to discuss our arrangement (currently FT salsary). The field is fairly niche, but less pay than you would get for it on the “other side” of the table (similar to plaintiffs’ side vs defense employment law). We share a very part-time secretary, no paralegals. I work from home, and our office was downsized. While I realize this is not very conventional nor likely the best career-wise, but due to a lot of personal factors (including young kids, covid, DH travels for work, burn out, etc.) I’m ok with it if I get the flexibility I need.
He has always been fair to me, so I want to propose something reasonable. Is there any go-to formula for an hourly rate for professions like lawyers? My thought is that I’ll be available M-F, 9-4, and work as needed at this rate. If we have no work, no pay. If I work 40 hours, paid and bill 40 hours. So, I’m thinking of a rate just under half what I know I’m billed at, but would like some support/benchmark for this. (Vs an hourly rate or salary for a set 30 hours a week). So, if billed at $300/hr to the client, getting $130/hr. Advice? Other things I should make sure to address?
In the last few days, my 8 year old has developed a fear of choking and won’t/can’t swallow solid food—like even the tiniest bite of a soft, chewed-to-mush food. She is eating tomato soup (no chunks), ice cream, and drinking smoothies so at least is getting some (but not enough) calories. She hasn’t had any near-choking experience that Im aware of that might have provoked this. Im reaching out to the pediatrician today, but has anybody experienced this with their kid? I’m pretty worried, not only about the lack of eating and whatever is going on psychologically, but also that whatever intervention they do will cause more anxiety/issues around food down the road. Hoping for anecdata for anyone who has been through this.
I have a one year old in daycare. I am not sure how to deal with comments from well meaning folks (colleagues, boss, HR), that “at least omicron seems pretty mild if you’re vaccinated,” and/or “kids don’t seem to get it too bad.” It may be true but comes across tone deaf. This statement has come up multiple times when I have voiced concerns about possible daycare closures and getting covid.
Am I just making a big deal out of nothing? Perhaps I just want my colleagues to recognize I’m working under very difficult circumstances.
How much screen time is too much screen time? I’m running out of ideas and energy over here to occupy 3.5 year olds (this is being typed as i stand in line for a Covid test)