No White After Labor Day?
Hello and welcome to "No White After Labor Day," a blog devoted solely to fashion advice. I am your Friendly Adviser here to do what I can to save the female (and sometimes male) population from humiliation. I currently live and work in Washington, DC, which could perhaps be the worst fashion offender since Downtown Julie Brown, who by the way I still can't believe is not the same person as Scary Spice. I therefore feel more qualified than the average person to give fashion advice. Feel free to disagree at ANY time. I welcome it!
So let's get the first argument out of the way: Is it okay to wear white after Labor Day? My answer is actually yes, but with a few caveats:
1) Please don't wear a white pantsuit (see photo, above). I believe whoever came up with the original Labor Day rule had something like this in mind. The only people who are allowed to do this year-round are Diddy and the Pope.
2) Use white as a funky accent and not the main attraction of your ensemble. For example, pair a black mini-skirt with black fishnets and white pumps. H-O-T!
3) Adapt to what is called "winter white." We see enough white in the winter when a) it snows and b) we catch a glimpse of our bare ass in the bathroom mirror. Strive to wear things that are more of a cream color to offset such blinding visions.
That said, I'll let you mull this over for tomorrow's ensemble and I'll turn it over to my partner in crime. Stay tuned for the latest on Gaucho Pants, shoes you should kick to the curb and much much more from the No White After Labor Day team!
posted by Friendly Adviser @ 2:02 PM
7 Comments:
I'm going to LOVE this site.
This is the word of The Superficial Plaza Chick
While I have never been a fan of white pants (unless they're linen and I'm in the Hamptons), I do agree that a little bit of white after labor day can be as sexy as black if you do it right.
love, ag
Boo to the Gaucho pants! Can't wait. This will be so hot!
I thought it was *no white SHOES after Labor Day* but I was brought up in the South. Maybe the rules are different there.
SuSuBelle
yikes, I hope y'all don't go around wearing white pants suits after Labor Day down there! But seriously, it's true, the rules vary by region.
1) I don't live in the South anymore, but 2) after Labor Day, we wore what's called "winter white," which looks like something that's been lying around in a dirty snowdrift for about a month. In other words, dingy, yellowish white. Almost no one looked good in it. And of course it's impossible to find shoes to match, even if you were brave enough to wear them after Labor Day.
SuSuBelle
I will wear whatver I feel like wearing, when I feel like wearing it. It seems stupid to think after a certain holiday that certain colors are not permissable. Next we shouldn't wear blue after memorial day. Kick rocks.
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