Wednesday’s Workwear Report: Elbow-Sleeve Cardigan
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Our daily workwear reports suggest one piece of work-appropriate attire in a range of prices.
I love the shape of this short-sleeved cardigan from Nordstrom’s in-house line. The slightly-puffed, elbow-length sleeves make it feel just a touch more special than your typical back-of-the-chair sweater. I would wear this olive green color with just about everything in my wardrobe this summer, but I think it would look especially lovely with the brown Modern Citizen dress we posted yesterday.
The sweater is $129 at Nordstrom and comes in sizes XXS-XXL. It also comes in black and “pink wisp.”
Sales of note for 5/1:
- Ann Taylor – Friends of Ann Event, 40% off your purchase PLUS $50 off $200! Readers love this popover blouse, and their suiting is also in the sale.
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code
- Brooklinen – 25% off sitewide (ends 5/1) — we have and love these sateen sheets
- Evereve – All tops on sale
- Express – $39+ Summer Styles
- Hatch – $15 off one of our favorite alarm clocks with code LETMOMSLEEP15
- J.Crew – Up to 30% off wear-now styles
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything, and extra 60% off clearance
- Lands' End – 40% off sitewide – lots of ponte dresses come down under $25, and this packable raincoat in gingham is too cute
- Loft – 60% off florals and 50% off your purchase
- M.M.LaFleur – End of season sale. Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off.
- Nordstrom – 1500+ new women's markdowns
- Sephora – Hair deals daily – today 5/1 up to 50% off dae, Verb, PATTERN by Tracee Ellis Ross, and BaBylissPro products
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I went to buy this cardigan and there is no Small option in any of the colors, very odd.
What services does everyone use to send Mother’s Day flowers? Am I going to have trouble finding options for delivery this weekend given how close it is?
I call a local florist
I like Bouqs, have always had a good experience with them.
I use the local florist 1 mile away from my mom. They have an online order form. Its easy, I support a small woman owned business, I don’t care enough to research more.
I haven’t worked in office since before Covid. Back then, my work uniform was a sheath dress and blazer. I understand this is no longer the current style.
I’m about to start a hybrid role as director of legal operations for a firm of about 120 attorneys. I’ll be meeting in person a lot with the partners and firm exec committee.
I don’t want to buy new clothes until I see what others wear and can be guided by that. However, I’ll need some outfits for the initial week or two. Will I look hopelessly out of touch if I wear my 2019 sheath dress and blazer uniform?
FWIW I’m a 36 year old mom of 3, 5’2, size 00. I know pants are the style but I have really never been successful finding work pants that strike the right balance between not overwhelming me and not being skin tight.
what were people wearing when you interviewed? That should give you a clue as to overall level of formality around the office.
your old dresses sound in general fine to wear as you get to know the style. Depending on what the focus of your job is (is it inter-partner relations and possibly more stodgy, or is it being in charge of things like modernizing firm tech and so you want to look ‘current’ for better or for worse) you can then adjust accordingly.
I think what you have is appropriate for the role you describe. Also, everyone dresses a bit off the first few weeks in a new job. It’s expected.
For whatever it’s worth, I’m wearing a sheath dress and blazer today, and I think it’s fine. To be fair, there are no other female attorneys in my office (in-house counsel) and really only a handful of women in my company that I would consider peers in terms of being close to both my age and rank, so I don’t really feel like there’s much to worry about and just wear what I find comfortable, but I think you should be good enough.
I think that sheath dress plus blazer is a standard boring lawyer outfit that was fine in 2019 and fine today. It’s never going to be high fashion. But it’s appropriate, professional, for forgetable in a good way. I’d wear it for the first week or two and, unless the clothes are terribly out of place or you enjoy clothing and shopping, I’d keep wearing those clothes. I
In those conversations lately about husbands and marrying the right person, one word of caution I would give – think very, very carefully before marrying someone with persistent depression, no matter how good their other qualities. It’s like living life on hard mode, even when things should be easy. I’ve never understood how other women in this position have managed to not get too dragged down by it. Maybe it’s me and I’m not working on the right things, but it’s damn hard to not get suffocated by his heavy blanket.
I’m this person and my husband is a saint. He tells me that he knows it’s harder for me than it is for him. We all have burdens we elect to take on. Nothing is easy.
I was also this person, for the first 16 years of my marriage. I know it was hard on him and I apologized over and over (part of my depression was feeling like I was failing at everything), but I am so glad he stuck with me until I got an accurate diagnosis and things got so much better.
+1 – I have persistent anxiety/depression but am very high functioning. I struggled intensely with a live-in boyfriend who delegated all of his executive function to me when he was in a bad episode. Leaving that relationship was the best thing for both of us – it gave me space to recover and it forced him to get help. I could easily see how we’d have become horribly codependent/resentful if we were married.
+1 – best thing I did for myself was leaving that guy
My SM feeds keep sending me stories about how a neighborhood in Seattle has worked to limit medical helicopter flights into a children’s hospital. I live by (like within a quarter mile and under the flight path) a similar hospital in a a larger city and I cannot imagine morally objecting to flights (but I actually don’t find them bothersome at night or during the day when I WFH). Am I missing something here? The daytime ambulances are more frequent but it’s city living — during the day there are yard crews, so it’s never quiet for long.
wealthy NIMBYs gonna NIMBY.
I truly do not believe that story. I just don’t. It smacks of social media frenzy. As far as I can tell, there is no actual evidence that connects the neighborhood to the decision other than the fact that some people on the hospital’s board live in the neighborhood.
It is crying out for real investigative journalism, because I am confident whatever the story is is much more complex than the inflammatory social media reels make it seem. And if it is that, then investigative journalism will establish that.
But overall? This is the sort of social media content that should make you suspicious and want better sourcing.
If I were the hospital, I’d realize that I maybe need communications and accurate reporting to have people not lose faith in the system. I’m sure the plaintiffs lawyers out there will pick up on this the next time a tragedy happens and people sue (even if wasn’t a factor, it just looks so bad). A lie, repeated enough, becomes true.
The hospital spokesperson is quoted in many of these stories, e.g. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/seattle-children-wants-revisit-policy-021255124.html
I’ve been thinking the same thing. Everything that I’ve seen just has someone hearing something from a neighbor they don’t like. I hope a journalist takes a real look into it. For the record, if it is true, I agree it’s awful (and personally, I’ve lived near hospitals multiple times over the course of about 25 years and have never been bothered by helicopter or ambulance noise, it becomes background extremely quickly), but I would like to know for sure.