Washable Workwear Wednesday: Willa Blazer
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Washable workwear keeps getting better and better! Here’s a lightweight, machine-washable blazer from workwear expert J.Crew.
This “classic fit” chino blazer is made from a comfortable stretchy cotton blend. The partially lined, single-breasted design has a flattering nipped waist, functional button cuffs, and welt flap pockets. Dress it up for the office with the matching pants or down for the weekends with jeans.
The Willa Blazer is $198 and comes in sizes 00–24.
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
I’m an attorney in the Midwest without much of a book of business. I’m considering the possibility of hiring a business development coach to help me grow my business. Thoughts? Recommendations? Referrals? May cross-post to the main site later. Happy to provide more information. Thanks!
1st grader’s last week of school is next week and will be off for a week and a half before summer camp starts. 3 year old has year round daycare, with just a few days of school closure before the official start of summer. Last year the younger one didn’t care or realize that his older sister was staying home while he went to daycare. This year he will definitely notice and throw a fit about it. We don’t want to keep him home because we can keep his older sister entertained and still work from home, but that’s impossible with the 3 year old. Advice on how to approach this? I don’t really want to lie to the 3 year old but I also don’t want to deal with the meltdown every morning if he thinks his sister gets to stay home with us while he goes to daycare.
Anyone have recommendations for athletic (ie with a bit of padding) ankle/no-show socks that stay up, are comfy, and MAYBE EVEN come in cute colors? Willing to spend some money since I wear sneakers for most of the summer (after a long sneaker quest I just got some peachy pink Sauconys that I adore). I don’t need true no-shows — it’s fine if they peek out a little. The staying up is the most important part, I hate when socks fall into my shoes.
Omg someone I work with just became a grandparent at age 36. I had kids in diapers when I was 36!
The recent threads on everyone being able to have family meals made me feel so guilty. It seems like everyone does family meals. We don’t because our 4 year old is so picky/ a hot mess at dinner time, the kids fight, our kids like to eat super early, and husband works late and it feels impossible to pull it together and eat with them without scarfing it down bc the youngest is losing his shit because the food is too hot/cold/burned/undercooked. I still cook as healthy as I can with their pickiness and chat with them while they eat (we have an eat-in kitchen with bar stools type set up). I really enjoy our late night after kids are in bed dinners with my husband where we can eat adult food and actually have a conversation and stay connected. I don’t know what I am looking for but to hear that there are others in this boat or that my kids will be ok and that we are not selfish for doing things this way. I hope we can change it as our oldest gets less picky, can wait until at least 7:30 for dinner, and doesn’t lose his sh*t at dinner time every other day.
Anyone with kids getting speech therapy in public schools who can tell me more about what that looks like? My 5 year old who is starting K in the fall currently gets an hour of weekly speech therapy for articulation issues. Her language is otherwise above grade level. I have to pick her up and drive her to the appointments in the middle of the work day, and we have to pay for them all out of pocket, so it’s expensive and inconvenient. I’ve been talking to her elementary school about speech services for her, and they said they can evaluate her for in-school speech therapy but they won’t do the evaluation until October and even if she qualifies she’ll only get 20 minutes weekly of group speech therapy. The other option is that the local university apparently screens all kindergarteners, also in October. If she qualifies for that she’d get two 15 minute sessions of individual speech therapy each week for the rest of the kindergarten year. It’s at school and free. They were very clear that you can’t do both the school screening and the university screening – you have to pick one or the other.
We’re leaning towards the university evaluation just because it’s more total time – does that seem like the right choice? But it’s still only half of what she’s getting currently. And I’m not sure what we’re supposed to do from August to October. I guess I continue picking her up to go to the private speech therapy and she misses school?
Any advice for day care tours? I’m pregnant with our first (15 weeks) and we’re starting the crazy process of joining waitlists and touring day cares (Capitol Hill, DC). What should we be looking out for on our tours that we might not think of? Any specific questions we need to be sure to ask?
And a frustrating/funny note: my husband has been doing the initial research and setting up tours; every single center he’s spoken with has commented in on how rare/refreshing it is to have a dad be the one contacting them! So surprising, especially in our area which I think of as being much more egalitarian than most. (Our thinking is that I’m growing a human so it’s only fair that he do more than half of the research into how to care for that human!)
Anyone experience a drop in growth curves for your baby’s weight and it turned out to be fine?
We had our 4 month checkup yesterday. Baby grew as expected for height (still 90 something percentile) and head circumference, but only gained about about a half a pound instead of 1+ pounds. Pediatrician wasn’t super concerned but said we should investigate. Lactation consultant doesn’t think it is a supply issue or a latch/transfer issue, so she’s having me add a dream feed and recheck in 2 weeks. (I’m also adding back mother’s milk tea and lactation cookies, but i’ll also use any excuse to eat cookies, so who knows and who cares if they work).
Baby is happy and healthy as far as I can tell – sleeping well, meeting milestones, rolling and cooing and laughing and all the fun 4 month old things. If it wasn’t for the fact that he was on a scale, I wouldn’t be worried – but now, naturally, I’m down a rabbit hole of “what if he has a rare condition that is causing nutritional malabsorption”?
Anyone deal with this?
Just putting this out there (and I hope I don’t jinx myself). I finally have gotten a draft of my resume together, made a short/initial list of folks to talk to, am starting my cover letter, and have scanned a few positions of interest. Just knowing that I’m trying to exit my current work situation is giving distance from my current job, decreasing my stress levels, and…weirdly making me happy? I realize now that my current job has impacted my health in all aspects more than I realized. I hope in the future I’m better at identifying when situations are not working for me, and flagging/asking for help, before letting things get rough. Thank you all for the good advice and vibes.
Now fingers crossed I can actually land something in this economy…
Mom fail: because I didn’t realize how early I needed to sign my daughter up for nursery school for this coming fall, everything is full :(
She’s turning 3 in October and keeps talking about school (we have a nanny). I know it’s not a huge deal to wait until Fall 2024 instead, but I feel like a terrible parent for missing the boat on something she probably would have enjoyed.