Washable Workwear Wednesday: Wonderstretch Pants
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Readers love Nic + Zoe Wonderstretch pants, and for good reason — and we even included them in our Corporette roundup of the best pants for work.
These pants are super lightweight, they’re stretchy, and they’re very comfortable. (Many of them are pull-on styles.) They’re also very easy-care — they’re machine washable.
They’re available in regular and plus sizes in a ton of different colors and cuts, and a few colors are in the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale for as low as $79. Full price, they range from $134–$148, but they do go on sale sometimes (outside of the NAS) and occasionally have interesting prints. Wonderstretch Pants
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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 love that someone has taken the time to detail their objections to Blippi
One of the most unsettling voids in the Blippi videos is the emotional one. Perhaps the first thing I noticed about Blippi was how obviously insincere he was. Much like Weird Al as Uncle Nutzy, Stevin John’s wackiness feels contrived and fake. He seems like the prototypical example of the kids’ show host who, the moment the camera stops rolling, grabs a cigarette, lapses into a foul-mouthed rasp, and goes “that ought to hold the little bastards.” I don’t know if he actually does that, but he seems like he does it. I don’t feel like I have any idea what Stevin John is actually like, because Blippi is so obviously a put-on.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-dead-world-of-blippi
Parenting moments: I am going to my Primary to check and see if the baby managed to scratch my cornea when baby poked me in the eye.
(And no, it can’t just happen via telemedicine. I asked.)
Can Canadian moms recommend any websites similar to Care.com that are free? I’m happy to use Care.com but I’m concerned that because seekers and carers both have to pay for a subscription in order to communicate with each other on the site (yes, you now both have to pay) I might be missing out on potential carers who aren’t up for paying the fee.
Just ugh. My five-year-old is set to start Kindergarten tomorrow. She’s been looking forward to it for ages; she loved preschool, her older brother loves school (he’s already started, but they stagger the Kindergartners); she’s been asking daily how many days are left. This morning, she wakes up and says “I feel dizzy.” 101.7 degree temperature. Ugh.
(We’re not really worried about Covid – no reason to think she’s been exposed and she’s not coughing or anything – but obviously, she can’t start school with a recent fever in the current environment. This stinks.)
Our private school has announced their return plan. All students are being divided into two groups who will alternate attending over four weeks (starting in a month). Then they will return to fill in person depending on the numbers.
What’s driving me nuts is that the plan is the same for all students k-12. Every other private school in our city has prioritized getting kindergarten to in person and put older (teens!) on the back burner. Is anyone else’s school taking a similar approach? I’m very frustrated, although clearly from this rant I do have a kindergartner.
What is the solution for overtaxed internet at home? I am on a webinar, my DH is on a zoom meeting (and soon we will have a kid on google classrooms) and one of us keeps freezing or getting booted. Do we need a new router? Extender? I know nothing about how this works.
My toddler went back to daycare this week and I’m having a hard time with the covid restrictions (I know they’re necessary, it’s just a hard adjustment.) The biggest issue is communication – we are not being able to go into the center so I’ve never met his teacher and can’t see what he’s doing at pickup or drop off, etc. The person who takes him in and out hasn’t been with him all day so basically knows nothing.
I don’t know whether he ate his lunch, for example, or what he did all day. They have an app but the teachers have not been putting much information in it other than his nap. I called on his first day back at lunchtime to make sure he was doing okay – but the director seemed very annoyed and honestly didn’t tell me much, so I hesitate to call again. I’ve tried asking the pickup person to ask his teacher if he did okay that day, but have gotten very vague answers (“he is adjusting”).
Am I being overbearing here? We previously loved his daycare but he’s in a new room and everything is obviously very different now.
Ughh.
My daughter started a new private school today, at an on-site “camp” from which she’ll watch her teacher live stream class from a room down the hall. It’s a crazy world we live in that I’m happily paying out the nose for this arrangement. In separate news, my 3 yr old’s daycare is shut down for a couple weeks due to virus exposure (he tested negative, thankfully). The day I get both kids out of the house so I have some peace and quiet, and ya know, time to work, will be a good day!
hi all! i asked yesterday (and thank you to the anonymous commenter’s response!)
any advice on a 3 year old who is grinding his teeth constantly? (i’m actually asking for my best friend, not my kid….)
Do your daycare teachers say “I love you” to your kids? For the first time, we have one that does and it’s a little jarring to me although I can’t really put my finger on why. I know that more people loving my kid is a good thing, and that it’s good for kids to hear adults express affection. Maybe part of it is that I feel like actual “love” (as opposed to just caring or affection) should be more permanent, and we’ll likely never see this teacher again after this year? Anyway, I’m curious about people’s thoughts on this.