Mom's Fashion Rules

I don't know about you, but my mother taught me the rules of fashion.  Here they are:

• Don't wear horizontal stripes.  They make you look fat.  Solids are good.
• Shoes should match your pants.
• Matching is good.  As in "wear matching separates."
• Never, and I mean NEVER, wear white before Memorial Day or after Labor Day.

I never said I was a good listener.

#1- As I type this post I am wearing a horizonally striped dress.  Oh well.  It is comfortable and stylish and I am fat, so what the heck?

Here's me today.

 

  Here's Mom with Senator Margaret Chase Smith.  I bet she was wearing maroon shoes.


#2-  I only wear Birkenstocks because of my Plantar Fasciitis, so in the winter I have black and brown and a wierd shade of grayish-green.  Basically my shoes never match my pants.  Honestly, I think this rule ws so that Mom could buy green shoes whenever she saw them.

My collection of Birkenstocks.  Smiley shoes.  Not fashionable, but comfortable.

 

Check out those matching blue shoes. 

#3- Matching is no longer in.  Heck, you can buy mismatched socks on QVC!  My mom would be horrified.

Socks from Little Missmatched at QVC

On occasion I do match.  And on occasion I wear real shoes- for no more than 3-4 hours, once or twice a week.  Like today I was wearing cute matchy shoes with my dress, but despite repeated instructions to Reed, he still cut off my feet in the above photo.  So. . . here's what they looked like.

#4-  I bet you all think I break this one, huh?  But no.  This is an inviolable law of fashion.  My mother would haunt me if I wore white today- even though it is 90 degree out.  The day after Labor Day I packed away my white skirts, capris, and sandals.   (I dug the sandals out for the shoe photo.  Notice that they are two years old and the least worn.)

I thought this was a universal law, but apparenly not.  At Church today there were many women wearing white skirts (*gasp*) and even more wearing white sandals (*horrors*)!  As for me and my daughters (Non-Existent Category) we will follow the rule. 

And you thought I was dis-obedient.  Hah.

Fashion Sense?

Although I love watching the pomp and ceremony of anything that the Royal Family of Britain does, I was not really planning to watch William and Catherine's wedding yesterday. But it is not unusual for me to wake up in the middle of the night, so it worked out that I tuned in just in time to see two horribly dressed young women getting out of a car and entering the church. Turns out that they were Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. I know the Brits are crazy about head gear, but these were unfortunate choices in my opinion!

Luckily, Catherine had MUCH better taste and looked beautiful. She probably would have looked good in anything, but I am glad that she didn't go with some slinky, "Hollywood-looking" dress. Not that she cares what I think. . .

So, back to fashion. Apparently I have none. I look at fashion magazines and designer collections and mostly I just want to laugh. I think about The Devil Wears Prada and I wonder how much of what I wear is actually affected by these horrific trends. I have a few "trendy" items in my closet, but mostly it boils down to jeans with a loose bottom hem, straight easy-to-wear skirts, round neck t-shirts, turtleneck sweaters, and lots of cardigans and jackets. So. . . maybe the colors are affected season to season, but truthfully, not much else!

And that's ok by me. . .