Thursday’s Workwear Report: Keira Waisted Tuxedo-Front Blouse
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Anthropologie has had a few versions of this tuxedo-front blouse over the last few seasons. I finally tried it on recently and was pleasantly surprised. I had thought it would be a bit too casual for the office, but I really like the way it looked with trousers or under a blazer. I have a long torso, and it felt maybe half an inch shorter than what I would prefer, which means that it’s going to be the perfect length for most people.
This blue floral print would be beautiful for spring, but it also comes in five other colorways.
The top is $98 at Anthropologie and comes in sizes XS-XL.
Sales of note for 4/17:
- Nordstrom – Beauty savings event, up to 25% off – nice price on Black Honey
- Ann Taylor – Cyber Spring! 50% off everything + free shipping
- Boden – 25% off everything (thru Sun, then 15% off)
- Brooklinen – 25% off sitewide — we have and love these sateen sheets
- Evereve – 1000+ items on sale, including lots from Alex Mill, Michael Stars, Sanctuary, Rails, Xirena, and Z-Supply
- Express – $29 dresses
- J.Crew – 30% off all dresses
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything, and extra 50% off clearance
- Lands' End – 50% off full price styles and 60% off all clearance and sale – lots of ponte dresses come down under $25, and this packable raincoat in gingham is too cute
- Loft – Friends & Family event, 50% off entire purchase + free shipping
- Macy's – 25% off already reduced prices + 15% off beauty & fragrance
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If you were a teen girl who is a bit girly and extra but don’t like LoveShackFancy and are tired of AltardState, where would you shop? Our very fancy mall is too $$$ but we have a lot of strip malls with stores like Anthro and EverEve. I have no idea and have a miserable teen who needs items for some events (sweet16s) and the warmer weather. 5-4, S or XS. I wear a lot of black and tailored office wear, so I am no help. She thinks she can just thrift it all but is getting very frustrated in our city and had an expensive disaster trying to get a fancy dress by mail that needed so much in the way of alterations as to be double what it would have cost in a store.
Depending on budget, anything from H&M to Modcloth to Anthro and Hill House (purveyors of the nap dress) come to mind.
If she’s on a budget and has good taste of her own, I wouldn’t 100% overlook places like Old Navy and Walmart for warmer weather clothes. A size XS/S teen can look fabulous in clothes that aren’t forgiving enough for a size M or for an adult, and trends filter down a lot faster than they used to. And returns are easy.
Don’t thrift. Consignment shop.
If you are in an urban enough area to have a fancy $$$ mall, is there any type of fancy dress exchange program for teens? My mid-sized city has several for different audiences. One focuses on under-resourced inner city schools, another on special needs schools, and several are basically just school-based exchanges where the senior class donates their attire and their younger peers can shop for minimal cost. Like $20 a dress, $10 for shoes, etc. The proceeds usually go toward a local food bank or the school’s prom.
+1 – I just mailed two large bags of clothing to my 16 year old niece containing a bunch of Kate Spade heels, clutches, cocktail dresses and costume jewelry. I’ve previously done big donations to our local college which hosts a dress for success chapter and has a room full of interview clothes/accessories to borrow.
what is your actual budget for this? like, for a party dress, under $200? $100? I wouldn’t assume Anthro is less expensive because it’s not in the fancy mall…
Right? Anthro feels expensive to me!
I’d look at Anthro, Lilly Pulitzer, Jcrew/H&M (in store only for both to make sure fit/fabric isn’t weird), Charlotte Russe (this is prom dress central in my area), Vineyard Vines (the derby collection is very cute), Lulus, and Reformation.
My girly teen loves Anthropologie, Free People, and South Moon Under. Evereve is for trendy moms.
Those would be where I’d go, plus Lulus and Reformation online.
is urban outfitters still cool for this age?
Yes, but most of its offerings have a vibe that’s either grungy or clubbing, not cute and girly.
I would say that’s more college/very early 20s.
Free People
Don’t overlook Nordstrom, Nordstrom Rack, Macy’s, and/or Dillards. If she likes to thrift then she may have the patience to sift through and find the right things. If there’s a Zara near you, that also might work for her.
+1
J Crew Factory.
Dry Goods is also popular with my teen daughter and her friends, if you have one of those around.
This looks super cute for teens.
For formal events, check out nuuly. She is not going to repeat these outfits, so renting a set of clothes that month makes sense. I did that for holiday parties and weddings this year, and it worked great!
I’m a mom to a teenager now, but back when I was going to sweet 16s my friends and I would swap dresses to have more options.
Working moms who have hung in there until your kids made it through to college, tell me your secrets pls. I thought I had a working mom, but I’m realizing that because my mom was a teacher, her schedule always overlapped with the kid schedule and she was able to take time off until my younger sibling was in kindergarten. None of this applies to my work life, which is more like my dad’s (which was only feasible because my mom either stayed home or was able to do all of the kid stuff and he never had to sign us up for summer or school break day care or fill out medical forms or pack a lunch). [And to be fair to my mom, she picked teaching because it was that, secretary, or nurse and she knew at the time that teaching could allow her to have a career and be a parent, so no one would ever tell her that her education was wasted, which I think was a big issue for women going to college back when she went.]
“Secrets”
– summer camp & babysitters
– free range parenting/latch key kids past like age 12
– not keeping up with the Joneses
– cellphones
Such a good list, spot on
I am a full-time lawyer and have always worked. My kids are 17 and 15. My husband has a much less flexible job (but better paying so we can throw some money at the logistics). I have purposefully chosen a lawyer job that give me some flexibility. I still work full-time and always have, but my practice doesn’t have too many emergencies that require last-minute late nights. I can take off when I need to and work from home regularly. When my kids were little, they went to daycare. As they got into school, they went to the after-school program. (Then Covid came and everything was a mess for a few years.) During the summers, they would go to day camps or one summer we did a nanny share with my friend’s family who had kids the same age. Now my oldest works as a lifeguard during the summer and my younger one will do the same this year. It was a game-changer when my oldest started driving.
how old are your kids now? Maybe ask this on the moms page. FWIW my kids are still elementary age, but my DH only works 4 days a week and takes 6+ weeks of vacation, and we live in the Midwest where we can be anywhere in 20 minutes or less, and summer latchkey is $150 a week. That’s how we plan to make it work.
I don’t have any secrets but also eager to hear responses! I am feeling the same way – completely overwhelmed by my work and feeling like I am not fully there for my kids, balanced with a big year of eldercare responsibilities. My spouse works but he is taking on a huge amount of the load at home and it still feels like we’re barely hanging on. Financially, I am making the majority of our income so it doesn’t make sense to step back yet when we’re still 5-8 years from college for our kids.
I posted below about working FT with a 7th/9th grader and I honestly feel like eldercare responsibilities PLUS having kids is going to be what breaks me. This is horrible (and I would NEVER say it to colleagues) but having a parent die quietly/quickly like my grandparents did (heart attacks x2, stroke, and DNR after a surgery) is how I wish I could go.
Same. Palliative care is underrated. Please don’t try to let me live at home if I can’t walk and am not eating. Don’t send me to the ER and then to subacute rehab if what I really need is more palliative care and hospice.
Palliative care and hospice do send people home to be cared for by relatives.
I’m sure this is not what you meant, but the phrasing of “I thought I had a working mom” devalues your mother’s career and the worthwhile work that all of our K-12 educators are doing. I am in education, my husband and his sister are teachers, my mother and mother in law were both teachers, and many more of my friends are teachers. It is hard, hard work that is increasingly thankless and difficult.
Yeah, I am not a teacher, but that comment rubbed me the wrong way too.
No doubt, but when your child’s schedule and your sync up, the household doesn’t have the friction it does when nothing syncs up, ever. When all you’ve ever seen is things working seamlessly, you don’t know what you don’t know about working moms.
Yeah I see both sides of this on this comment but this is where I land. My mom is a retired nurse and when we were little, she worked very hard–ER shifts! But she also worked 3 10s or 12s a week and we had a full-time live-in housekeeper/nanny. So . . . . . she was absolutely a working mom and did not have it easy, but she absolutely did have it easier than I do as a working mom in my career. I also had one more kid than her. These are valid choices both of us made.
I think “I thought I had a working mom like me” is what was meant, as I have had the same thought–when I was in the trenches of early working motherhood and it was nothing like I expected, it took ages for me to “remember” that the reason my mom could also play in a tennis league and exercise every day and have lunch with her friends and go on frequent fun dates with my dad while also being a working mom is because her experience was fundamentally different from mine.
For sure. But that’s how you say it, not how OP did.
It’s also not as seamless in reality as it is in practice. Kids still get sick and need someone to stay home with them, or to take them to the dentist at 2pm on a Tuesday. If you work in a different district than where your kid goes to school, breaks might not line up. Etc.
There’s definitely flexibility and availability in teaching, but teachers certainly experience working parent frustrations. My mom taught, but in a different district where the calendars didn’t always line up. We always had a different spring break week and I think our summers were off by two weeks. I went to before and aftercare because you’ll need it unless you’re in the same building as your kid. She also had grading in the evenings and weekends.
teachers also do SO MUCH work outside of the classroom. i would also be SO overstimulated if i was a teacher, i would probably not have patience to deal with my own kids afterwards
YMCA camps during the summer, during weird school breaks, and they ran before/after school program in the school as well
Parents took turns for the random holidays and sick days
Vacations as a family on some of the breaks
I was the primary admin for all the paperwork (with somewhat of resentment)
I know a kid who thinks her mom works. Her mom has a trust fund and an art studio and paints huge expressionist works that she is always donating to school fundraisers. AFAIK, there is no viable business, but she is always going off for a “residency” somewhere nice. I’m glad I’m not her CPA. A vanity project does not make you a “founder.”
How would you prefer artists live?
right? I would love to set my daughter up for this life!
We all have hobbies. But I don’t pretend that that is also a vocation. Once an artist becomes self-employed as an artist, it’s 100% a sales job. I like my hobbies. That’s why I have a job at something that lets it be a fun hobby. I don’t try to dress it up as more than it is.
This is really dismissive of people who actually do make their living in the arts.
“Once an artist becomes self-employed as an artist, it’s 100% a sales job.”
Huh? No. The artist still has to make art, which is not “sales.” Being an artist can absolutely be a vocation. You seem weirdly offended by this woman’s choices, more specifically, how they are perceived by *her child.*
How do you know she’s not selling her work?
I know self-employed, breadwinner artists without trust funds. They definitely had to put the work in to build a name for themselves, but I wouldn’t describe that work as 100% sales. Unless her art is also just lazy and bad, I would assume she is putting in a lot of work, and that it’s just helpful that she doesn’t have to work a day job or a side job to get in all the practice needed.
Maybe you dislike her art too though!
I managed to hold on by the skin of my teeth, but I made a lot of little decisions along the way that cost me dearly in terms of career progression. In particular, I really wish I had been able to convince my husband to hire a driving nanny for afternoons and summers. Juggling partial days in the office/partial WFH interrupted by pickup and dropoff runs made it hard to do deep work at a time when more publications would have leveled up my career. I was so exhausted that I did a lot of strategic picking and choosing of opportunities, and I didn’t really lean in at the times when that would have been advantageous. Now that my kid is in college, the window of career opportunity has already closed.
Same — our driving nanny got married and had a kid and my life has been wrecked since; now adding eldercare into the mix.
I work in consulting and the ‘dirty secret’ of all the dual working families is money and/or local family. We have no local family so we pay an insane amount of our take home pay towards help.
To break it down with 2 kids – 6mos paid leave, 6mos-3yrs – daycare, PreK-7th – full time school, paid school break camps, paid summer camp, and au pairs to do all of the driving. 7th-9th grade – Au pair was phased out after my youngest hit 7th grade. We now have them both on AM/PM bus and trade off afternoon driving to sports practices with other families. My 9th grader is going to be a CIT this year at the same camp my 7th grader is at and I only have to pay for the 7th grader’s camp fees. It legitimately feels like found money not having to spend that extra tuition.
To quote the meme – I don’t know how I did it, I just did it, it was hard.
Yes, I’m not quite as far along because my kids are still in (older) elementary grades, but basically…paying people to help me. And being 100% there when I’m there, and being okay with the fact that I am not always going to be there.
It gets even harder once they get to the point where paid help is not sufficient. You can pay a nanny to drive your kids to practice and a tutor to help with homework and a college counselor to supervise applications, but only you can take off half the Fridays during show choir season to go to their competitions or stay up for the deep conversations they only seem to want to have after midnight.
I’m the mom with teens above and, yes, this, it’s harder now. My teenagers need ME in a way my littler kids did not. And my kids had serious health issues/allergies/surgeries/ongoing hospital stays when they were small so I didn’t have it ‘easy’ then either.
I have a kindergartener, so no real advice on the older years. The thing that saves us is that the county has a big municipal complex and runs camps almost any time school is not in session: fall break, winter break, spring break, summer. That leaves the occasional holiday that schools get off that private sector does not.
My parents could make it work because I went to the YMCA for after school when I was younger. In high school, track and cross country always met right after school and got out at 5 pm or 5:30 pm, and I could walk home.
I just stopped scheduling stuff for the kids. They’re latchkey kids, but seem happy overall and we have a tight knit little family. I’m a divorced CLO with 2 boys, 13 and 11.
They are pretty free range in the summer. Maybe they do 2-4 hours of various sports camps per week, but other than that they stay home while I am at work. I told them to work out, do chores, make their own lunches, and walk to the pool, etc. They are fairly responsible so I’m not worried about 12 hours of gaming while I’m gone.
It is hard to get them to all the doctor, dentist and orthodontist appointments, but we just make it work. Those are important, so they always get prioritized.
During the school year, they barely play sports and no other extracurricular activities. They pack their own lunches, but I shop on weekends so they have everything they need. We have dinner together every night, which I do cook while they study, and sometimes that’s a slog, but it’s important.
I guess my strategy is just to do less.
I just can’t handle more than that, and frankly my ability to provide and keep a roof over our heads is more important than sailing lessons or whatever. Are they disadvantaged in some aspects? Sure. But we travel together, their colleges funds are full, they are loved and supported beyond measure. We are the neighborhood weirdos, but it’s ok.
First of all, you had a working mom.
My kids are not in college yet. But I’m still in it. In the baby/toddler years, I mostly had a nanny. (I did daycare for a year post covid because my covid kid needed to know that other children existed). I have aftercare during the school year, camps during the summer.
I am a lawyer at a firm. I reduce the stress by putting their school calendars in my work calendar. I avoid scheduling trials or hearings when they don’t have school. I am comfortable requesting extensions instead of killing myself to meet deadlines like I used to. When a kid is home sick, my husband and I take shifts (he covers the morning, I cover the afternoon, or vice versa).
We don’t sign the kids up for weekday activities. As they get older that will change, and I will happily ramp down. My husband plans to work less too. We saved very aggressively early on so we could be more present as the kids got older.
I’m a working mom, though mine is quite young. I was raised by a single mom with a corporate job in the 80s and 90s when work was much less flexible and everything still happened. Not to be all “parents put too much pressure on themselves”, but remember that tons of moms work long hours in less flexible jobs (think restaurants, stores, manual labor) and still have kids. I think some big differences between how I was raised / how I think working class folks handle it and how many upper middle class moms handle it is:
– Cheap child care for the longest hours possible, then being home alone once feasible. I went to YWCA camp every summer because it was the cheapest and close to my mom’s office. I was usually there by 7:30 and picked up a minute before 6. I also had weeks at my grandparents. There was no discussion of fun or enrichment or what I wanted to do, it was made very clear this is child care and this is where I needed to go when school was out.
– No extracurriculars. No money and no time to shuttle me places. Period.
– Go to school when you’re sick. On the rare occasion I threw up at school or I bled through my clothes (happened a lot in middle school), the nurse would negotiate with my mom to see if I should be picked up.
– Minimal doctor’s appointments and often not on the regular follow up schedule. My brother did see some specialists but the inconvenience of taking us places and paying for these appointments was made very clear.
– Simple dinners. Most nights were scrambled eggs, tuna fish, grilled cheese, or something similar. Maybe an elaborate meal (pork chops, fish) cooked 1x a week and eaten for a few nights.
Again, it’s not great, but you asked how moms do it and there’s always a bare minimum.
Can anyone recommend a professional stylist? I don’t have a Nordstrom or anything like that near me so need to do all my shopping online. I’m getting tired of the endless returns and still feeling like I have no good outfits when I need them so I would like to throw money at this problem. I don’t know where to find one that actually knows how to dress an executive.
I have Outlook at work and can use my personal iPhone to have Work outlook on my iPhone. Somehow my phone and laptop aren’t synching all appointments (especially Teams meetings) on my Calendar. I’m not sure if the fix is work IT or going in to the Apple store or what, but it’s just a this year thing, maybe when work went to a web-hosted outlook. It seems to matter where I make an appointment (phone vs computer).
TLDR: I’m trying to find a calendaring system that works for me, my work life, my home life, two teens, and a husband. All of us have iPhones on the same plan. One kid can’t seem to get calendar invites to work at all but the other can; both are pretty tech savvy.
Resorting to paper on the kitchen counter. Ugh.
We just put personal reminders and meetings on each others’ work calendars. Mark as private and whoever the person is who’s actually going to the thing has it shown as busy; others have it shown as free.
Commiseration. Ever since the last iOS updated, the synching has just been really buggy for me for outlook/teams.
I have bad seasonal allergies and I’m taking OTC medicine but my facial skin is still super itchy. I’ve been slathering on the moisturizer day and night but I still feel itchy and splotchy all day. Any tips or tricks to alleviate the itch? I have used hydrocortisone when its unbearable but I know you aren’t supposed to use that often.
I mean, see an allergist, get on prescription medication. Your allergies are clearly not controlled on OTC.
Are you possibly reacting to something in your moisturizer? My skin seems to get overreactive during allergy season every year; I’m not sure if I go into “allergic reaction mode” or what.
I feel like this is a question for a dermatologist. Whenever I ask my PCP questions like this, I get very generic advice that is hard to follow (hydrocortisone but not too often!) or doesn’t actually work. But when I ask my derm, she has specific recs that actually work and she seems delighted to solve this problem for me.
Here’s what helps for me: do an oatmeal wash and then back off all other products for at least a few days. Blender up a handful of dried quick oats, mix the powder into a paste with water, then blot it on your face. Let it sit for a few minutes, rinse off, pat dry (don’t rub or scrub). Use comfortably cool water, nothing very hot or extra cold.
Time to go to an allergist or dermatologist. There are lots more options than OTC products, and OTC products can be used at different frequencies than on the package. If you need a dermatologist in a pinch, look for ones at plastic surgery offices – they still have medical appointments that can be billed to insurance.
Talk to a dermatologist in case it is not allergies.
On the allergy front, get prescription meds. I have a prescription nasal spray (azelastine?) and pill (singular?) that make a massive difference when paired with my OTC meds. I look and feel like a normal person.
Regular poster/follower on the moms page, but first post here in a long time (please go easy!). Cross posting here.
I’m staring my own law firm. My plan is to be extremely part time until my kids are all in school in a few years (one in elementary now), so I won’t have employees and am limiting the number and type of clients. My goal is to at least break even with costs and keep my skills up so that I can expand if/when I want/need to. The clients I’m carrying over are institutional, so I know them well. I’ve handled a lot of logistics for my current firm so I have an idea of what I want to do for most venders/subscriptions. For anyone with their own small firm, any advice? Things you wish you’d known? What you would have done differently?
Do you have a favorite garment you wear under lightweight shell tanks? I’d like something that is more substantial than a thin cami but not restrictive shapewear.
I am a panelist at a symposium that is kind of a Big Deal. The other panelists will mostly be law school faculty, which I am not; the audience will be mixed. I am pretty senior and need to project both gravitas and individuality. I can’t pull off the giant blazer + wide pants look that seems to be most current because it makes me look like a little kid playing dress-up with one of Grandpa’s old suits. Most of my closet consists of pre-pandemic sheath dresses, jardigans, and fitted blazers. I am long-waisted so I can’t wear anything with a peplum, and anything I buy will require tailoring. The only places to shop in person for workwear within a 3-hour drive are Talbots and Ann Taylor, but I am looking for something with more style and higher quality. What should I order on line that will not involve international shipping?
On a related note, how do you pull off the “column of color” look with coordinating pants and top that are not black? I can hardly find any pants in colors that aren’t black but will coordinate with blazers (olive, navy, charcoal, or white). I have some navy pants, but it is impossible to find a top in a close enough shade of navy. I’ve also tried to find a matching jacket and top with contrasting pants, but the color issues are similar.
I believe for column of color, you want a top and pants in the same color; the blazer would be a contrast. You’d probably want to buy the top and pants at the same place, and if I were trying to do that, I’d solve for buying from a place with pants that fit me well and then trying to get a shell or similar from there in the same color.
What hairspray do you find to be genuinely unscented/least smelly? I’ve become nose-blind to most of them.
Pantene’s Air Spray has a super mild scent, and I am sensitive enough to hair product scent that I BYO shampoo and conditioner to hotels because otherwise my hair smelling of an unusual-to-me product distracts me during the day.
Ellenet by L’Oréal. Used by all fashion shows.
Soliciting any and all advice. Sorry for the novel.
My mom is wonderful to my husband and children, an excellent cleaner, and terrible with money. She spends 100% of her income, no matter what she earns. She has ardently refused to save her retirement. She also has trouble staying put in one place, and randomly moves around. She has champagne tastes. She also does not like to ask for help when a problem is small, but then needs it when things spiral out of control.
The inevitable happened. She was laid off at 67 years old with no savings. She could not afford her luxury apartment in Florida. She compulsively gave away all of her furniture because she could not afford to store it. She invited herself to live with her brother / my uncle in Texas, even though he did not have a spare room. She stayed there for several months trying to find a job, but did not get hired anywhere.
Now she is staying with me, my husband, and our elementary school aged kids in the Midwest. Short term, this is fine. My kids are happy to see her, we have a great relationship, etc. But I also don’t want to live with my mother indefinitely.
In the past, we offered to buy her condo in our city but it was not fancy enough for her tastes and she does not like the winters. If we thought she would stay put we would buy her a condo now, but she could randomly leave for somewhere warm the moment she could.
Anyway, that’s it. I just don’t know what next steps are. She is actively applying to jobs in warm cities, but I don’t like the chances for a senior citizen with no history of living is the area of getting the job over local young people in a down economy.
No advice. I am kind of jealous of your mom though, I hoard money like a dragon. It seems fun to just be a chaos monster and trust others will save you.
If you’re up for buying her a place locally, are you up for buying her a place in a warm climate? Or is the issue that she may not stay put there either, or that it wouldn’t be fancy enough either?
no suggestions, but i would be having a heart attack. i love our parents, but living with them would put our mental health over the edge. actually, i could live with my mom, but she unfortunately passed away at 66.
Hang in there. Parents are in a similar boat with zero savings and dad was able to find a job (that he loves) after a layoff at 66. It’s not impossible.
Advice from being there. Short of winning the lottery, there is not a scenario where she is going to work and have enough money saved for retirement. Sure, she could get a place that is $200 cheaper each month, but that $2,400 per year is not solving the bigger problem. As long as she is not spending more than she earns, every year she can find a job is another year you and your siblings do not have to support her. Also, changing her spending habits is a lost cause. My sister has spent the better part of the last five years trying to and you have to remember she is an adult. Instead, focus on harm reduction – not spending more than she has – and avoiding any scams.
Where should I propose to meet a friend for a girls’ weekend this summer? Just 2 of us, one coming from Chicago and one from DC. We like good food, nature but not too adventurous, and art/music/theater. Not into spa or shopping.
Charleston. Maybe Asheville if it’s not a bitch to get to.
What socks would you wear with leather loafers if you’re also going to wear a casual midi dress?
Or is this a situation for shoe liners?
I kid you not, when I was young in the mid/late 1970s, this print (or one very similar) was EVERYWHERE! If you need me, I’ll just be tripping down Memory Lane…
yesterday our synagogue and the associated preschool (which my kids attended) and elementary school (where we still have many friends) was closed after a credible threat was made by someone to “k*ll as many Jews as possible.” my kids’ public school was also briefly locked down due to potential gunshots nearby (fortunately was not that). the state of the world is just so sad.
Recommendations for a new flat iron? I have an old CHI from high school that needs to be replaced. What brand do people use now? Does it matter? And yes, I know it’s terrible for my hair but I have no patience.