Thursday’s Workwear Report: Short-Sleeve Rib Polo Sweater Dress
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The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale is still going strong, and this polo dress from Julia Jordan is one of my favorite workwear pieces I’ve come across. The olive green color is lovely, and I really like the contrast trim detailing to make it feel a little extra special.
Add some flats, and this would be a great option for a business casual setting where the other folks are wearing chinos and polo shirts.
The dress is $84.99, marked down from $139, at Nordstrom and comes in sizes XS-XL. It also comes in black.
Sales of note for 7/19:
- Nordstrom – The Anniversary Sale has started! Here's our big roundup of the best workwear, as well as everything we've selected thus far. Don't forget to check to see if their daily beauty deal is a good one for you – e.g., 7/23 Lancome; 7/24 YSL; 7/29 up to 40% off select lip products; 7/31 Bobbi Brown; 8/1 Jo Malone
- Ann Taylor – Semi-annual sale, 60% off sale and 40% off everything — readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it's a great separate)
- Banana Republic – Summer sale up to 60% off sale styles + extra 20% off
- The Fold – Up to 50% off, further markdowns
- J.Crew – 50% off select cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 60% off clearance
- Lo & Sons – Summer sale, up to 50% off
- Lululemon – Summer sale!
- Me & Em – Sale! Up to 60% off (new lines just added)
- M.M.LaFleur – 25% off jardigans (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Nordstrom Rack – Clear the rack, extra 25% off clearance! Nice selection of Vince, Veronica Beard, Reiss and Rag & Bone, a ton of affordable work dresses from Calvin Klein, Maggy London, Eliza J, and Donna Morgan
- Talbots – Red Door Sale! Prices start at $15
- Theory – End of season sale is on!
Who exactly does ribbed material flatter?
The very toned
I wore the hell out of stuff like this in my late teens/20s. It’s a no-go for me now (especially at this price point) for full body pieces. I am liking open weave knits for tops/sweaters and they’re flattering as long as the sizing is more generous or the weave is thicker.
Something like this works much better in my 40s:
https://www.varley.com/products/mindy-contrast-stitch-knit-dress?variant=44540294987949&Color=Cilantro&Size=L
Fortunately for me most everything I loved there was sold out in my size 😂
I think it’s more of a subtle “if you got it, flaunt it” sort of thing since it makes the most of curves.
I get that, but it doesn’t do wonders for this model either.
I think she’s too thin for it.
You have to be incredibly thin and have curves for it to be flattering. And most people who have curves are not incredible thin … which makes sense, since you need a little fat for those curves.
Disagree on the thin with curves, I think thin, long torso and want the illusion of curves could work, though.
I have had lots of curves as a previously unhealthily superskinny hourglass – F-cups on bones – and ribbing still looked so bad.
I’m lean and hourglassy, so me.
Ribbed works for a lot of people when it is a really thick material. Think the weight of a Herve Leger dress from 2009. Oddly enough, at the right thickness it can smooth over rather than highlight. I have a few sweaters like that and they are work horses. This dress just doesn’t have enough heft.
This is a long shot, but can anyone recommend (or warn me off of) a Boston moving company for a small apartment move?
And yes, of course this is Sept. 1 and in Allston.
Boston to suburbs, we liked Michael’s Moving. A couple other friends also had positive experiences using them for the same type of move, can’t speak specifically on the within the city situation since we always used a uhaul and did it ourselves for those.
Stairhoppers worked great for my around town moves. I liked their website interface and quote process and they were very responsive.
Yes you’re going to encounter shenanigans of some flavor, deep breath and roll with it. more cash than you wanted, more delay than you needed.
We had a great experience with Gentle Giant for a small apartment move, but that was years ago.
Are we still calling them geriatric pregnancies? My teen daughter used that term yesterday and I was really surprised. I had her at 39 and that wasn’t remarkable for my part of my city at the time. I gave her my non-medical take that it’s mainly an increased risk of chromosomal abnormalities in the baby + how health generally declines with age in all respects, but these pregnancies are generally fine if your health is fine, which is also true for when younger women get pregnant.
I wonder if social media starts skewing trad-wifey even in teens because I can’t really figure out how she even came across this term.
For better or worse, it’s a medical term that has been adopted by the mainstream. It’ll be up to ACOG if they end up changing it as it’s been increasingly common for patients to have 35+ pregnancies.
ACOG has switched to advanced maternal age. But I don’t think all providers have changed their language, especially those in areas where pregnancies at 35 or later are uncommon.
It’s the technical medical term for it and I think because it’s such a harsh-sounding way to describe a 35+ pregnancy, it’s more widely known than you’d think!
A lot of providers use the phrase “advanced maternal age” now, which I think sounds a bit better.
I’ve had two pregnancies after 35, and my doctors always used advanced maternal age. That’s what was in my medical file and paperwork, so I think the AMA switched to that term.
I think it varies by provider. I was labeled geriatric in the 2020s.
Yes; I had my first at 38 and the nurse asked me if I knew what AMA was and I said “American Medical Association?” and she said Advanced Maternal Age.
Yes, this is the correct term nowadays. I had a baby a year ago at 41 and was doing IVF for 5 years before that. I’ve been through so many providers. All of them have used the term advanced maternal age. No one used geriatric pregnancy.
I think they’re shifting to “advanced maternal age.”
It’s bad when women who want to start families at younger ages are hindered by the timelines of educational and career paths originally designed solely around the needs of men. It’s not trad-wifey to want to change that. I get that it could be trad-wifey to react by simply opting out.
That and “habitual aborter” are two phrases that I feel like people should be prepared to duck and run after saying to me.
Oooof. That’s horrifying.
It’s a widely known medical term and used all over the place. Maybe your daughter is reading high quality writing on reproductive health issues and that’s how she learned it. I was when I was a teen.
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Or she saw a dumb take on TikTok subtly promoting a tradwife lifestyle.
When we were kids, we pretty much only had writing (at least somewhat) vetted by editors in order to access medical information. Not to say that kooky stuff wasn’t out there, but we weren’t inundated by it the way teens are now. I similarly spent loads of time perusing the encyclopedia and my dad’s technical manuals for his engineering job when I was bored.
Yeah, maybe, which OP already suggested and neither of us know for sure. But I maintain that you don’t need to be consuming tradwife content (intentionally or otherwise) to come across this term.
Apparently it’s an old / outdated term. But good to show a teen that women’s feelings about how they are talked about is of no importance to your medical providers or the medical establishment.
As others said, some providers are shifting to “advanced maternal age” but “geriatric pregnancy” was the standard medical term for a 35+ pregnancy for decades and the term originates with medical providers, not social media. It’s used in plenty of books and TV/movies, so it’s possible she came across it that way? I think you’re overthinking this.
+1 to way overthinking.
IDK
Lots of kids are getting the message from social media that you “should” marry and have kids younger. Implying that ambition, life goals, grad school are bad. Clip your wings. Make your life convenient for your husband.
The tennis guy with the doctor fiancé who had to work while he won is my new hero.
Why do ambition, life goals, and grad school have to be so much more convenient for men? Why should having kids younger have such severe repercussions for women and not for men? Why should women take on extra risk to make life convenient for their professors and bosses?
I think you’re conflating a few things: the social aspects of having a child later in life versus the medical ones, and whether or not “usually fine” is a way of negating the statistically increased risks.
As I recall, research done on women just over the age of 35 (who get extra monitoring and testing) compared to women just under 35 (who don’t) indicates a drop in negative outcomes. That tells us that the extra monitoring and interventions given to AMA pregnancies are in fact helpful.
The risks get weird as you get older: placental abruption risks increase, stillbirths increase, preeclampsia is more common, all of that.
Many of those things are frightening because you’re fine right up until something goes catastrophically wrong.
Yes and it’s also like Down Syndrome in that because there are more babies born to younger women, the actual incidence of complications is not in the AMA group. Many younger women have complications as a maternal health follow-on and now that more women are less healthy than prior generations and many women get no care or ignore science, it’s just a hot mess all around. Sadly.
IDK what trad influencers say about all this but I feel that we are going backwards in obstetrics and outcomes. But let’s start with not using pejorative terms to describe patients if we want to help them.
Yes. Of course it’s better to be healthy at any age! A lot of people are not, at any age. And the odds of developing an elevated risk condition just keep going up as time passes for anyone.
I’m the Anon at 10:20 am, and this exactly.
Risk factors you can control: your diet and fitness. Risk factor that doesn’t respond to your willpower or choices: your age.
I would also factor in the infertility risks (not everyone who delays starting family ends up with a child at all; there are risks to all of the available workarounds).
The post was about pregnancies after age 35, and I confined my comments to that.
That’s fair. But a young woman deciding how long to delay having children should definitely think about all of this!
There’s a lot of survivor bias out there. I know my generation thought that (a) we’d enjoy the good health of our mothers and grandmothers, or (b) we’d evade the poor health of our mothers and grandmothers thanks to better lifestyle and healthcare.
During labor, my sister vomited on the nurse who had handwritten “geriatric pregnancy” in sharpie on her chart and I consider it one of my greatest real life karmic victories.
Am I the only one who doesn’t find this term to be some kind insult? I was geriatric/AMA for a pregnancy, and I wasn’t offended. It just means “over 35,” which is factual, not some kind of commentary on feminism, trad wives, or reproductive choices. Are women so conditioned to think they are worthless past a certain age, that anything acknowledging their age is a grave offense?
It just makes it sound like a 60+ year old is pregnant. Geriatric doesn’t ordinarily mean “over 35” in other contexts, right?
I think it just sounds funnier to a teen and something I would have for sure said to my mother.
My android phone fell in a pool yesterday. It was fished out quickly and seemed to be okay but I have discovered that there’s a problem with the sound – videos are all silent, and phone calls only work on speaker. If you’ve had something similar, did the phone eventually dry out and return to normal?
You could buy some dessicant packets and seal your phone up in a plastic bag to see if that dries things out more.
Put it in a Tupperware box filled with rice, and snap the lid on. It overnight or for a day or two and it will help dry out remaining moisture.
Yes, and be sure to remove the case first.
Hi all, I am hosting a party and I would rather not have giant amazon ads on the page. It seems that Paperless Post and Evite are a bit pricey to remove that feature for 50+ guests (50 to 70 dollars). I don’t need tons of information but track RSVPs. Any other option besides Partiful (not a fan of Palantir). Thanks
you could build it yourself on Google sites w/embedded form for rsvps
I like HiNote
What? I have sent and received Paperless Post invites for years and have never seen any ads?
my hair is fine and while not curly has a sort of frizzy wave about it. I blow it and mostly it’s fine but has anyone had any luck with a permanent or semi permanent process that takes out the frizz without making it super flat and straight? does that exist? i went to my college reunion and an event at my jewish sororority and all these women who had had beautiful curls when we were kids now wear their hair like cher in 1973 and, honestly, it’s not so flattering on an aging face. I don’t want to loose the fullness and body, just the frizz.
I thought a keratin treatment was supposed to do that. They iron it straight when the apply the treatment, but once it’s fully set, if you don’t straighten it, the natural wave is still there.
+1 to some sort of smoothing treatment. Do you use any products in your hair before you style it? I’d start there before jumping to a salon treatment.
I’d add a lightweight heat protectant, and colorwow or some sort of smoothing/frizz product. I’ve got thicker, wavy/curly jewish hair and the Olaplex oil is great to tame the frizziness, I bet the oil mist would be good for finer hair.
Fully agree on the Cher look being not so flattering as you age, my aunt who had thick curly hair my entire life starting doing keratin about 15 years ago and it’s wrecked her roots/curl pattern which she regrets.
Keratin treatment is extremely toxic.
Keratin itself is fine, but you can get it from product; Paul Mitchell Awapuhi is a popular line.
I think the salon treatments are relying on toxic stuff and then calling it keratin to make it sound better.
Yes, it’s not the keratin itself that’s toxic but the formaldehyde that’s in the salon treatments.
Check out the products of Innersense and CurlyWorld and/or consult a curly salon.
This sounds more like a product question to me.
I also wonder about the blow drying. Would using the fine hair version of the old Bumble & Bumble “don’t blow it” and letting it air dry still result in a lot of frizz?
Magic Sleek. It defrizzed my hair, and I told the stylist I didn’t want it super straight. She adjusted accordingly when she got to the appropriate step.
I have similar hair, and my hair is actually wavy without the frizz using the right products. Innersense daily shampoo + Jessicurl Confident Curls and Gelebration Spray are what I use.
Looking for recommendations on a favorite Michigan hotel, closer to a beach is better. thanks!