I feel old...like, really old. My son is playing football, and I got one of those little buttons to wear with his picture on it. I'm not kidding when I say that it feels like yesterday when my mom was wearing a button with my face on it (not for football). He is huge. He is a 14 year old with an 18 year old body. Must be all that non-organic milk I gave him for years before I knew any better. Anyway, none of this is really the point of this post. The point is this. I don't like t-shirts. I mean, I like t-shirts, but only to sleep in or do yard work in. There was a time (college) when I wore them daily. But this is the real world and it's time to wear big girl clothes. So when you have a kid playing sports for a school or organization, people wear the gear with the team name across the front. This is all fine and dandy, and I'm not judging people for wearing these things...but it's not for me. It really is a deep issue for me, and it's one I'm afraid I've inadvertently passed along to my daughter. See, when I wear a t-shirt (which first of all does nothing for your figure), I would probably put it on with jeans. But that would mean I would have to wear something like tennis shoes with jeans, and that just doesn't work in my mind. The other option would be to wear the t-shirt with maybe yoga pants? But that actually breaks all sorts of rules in my book. One being that you should only wear yoga pants if you are going to yoga (unless you are this guy), and two being that LEGGINGS ARE NOT PANTS. So that idea is out of the question as well.
During basketball season last year, I realized that I needed to increase the navy and gold in my wardrobe. So I picked up a few things here and there (pic #1 bought the tank from Lizard Thicket and pic #2 bought the blazer from Goodwill. pic #3 bought the tunic from Lizard Thicket on the clearance rack). I mixed and matched with things I already had all season, and managed to not wear a t-shirt all season. When it came time to go to the national tournament in Missouri, I had to go out and buy a few things. But I successfully came up with 5 outfits for 5 days of basketball with blue and gold. I know I'm super delayed in this post, but one of the mamas there said I should post about it with pics of all my outfits, so here it is. All of these were worn with jeans and boots or flats...not sneakers.
So now that it's football season (luckily, we are navy, white and gray), I will need to pull together some other outfits. I can use some of my navy digs for football that I wore during basketball season. I will tell you that I ordered myself a Warriors t-shirt for next season (insert cringe here). The reason I did, is because it sounded cute on the order form. It is long-sleeved and "ladies cut." So I'm hoping it's cute-ish and I can wear it and feel decent in it.
Stay tuned for football pictures as the season progresses.
