Dresccode

This is a theme that seems to be recurring over the last 2 weeks.

First on Friday-night-date-night when my husband, who may I say  scrubs up VERRRY nicely, asked about people who come out to restaurants wearing tracksuits. This is one of personal presentation bug bears, as let’s be honest tracksuits are hardly appropriate dress for dining out.His question was do they have different tracksuits for various occasions and outings i.e. good tracksuits and bad tracksuits? Not to mention what the thought process behind the outfit choice is!

Now, I love my tracksuits for chilling, doing DIY, pretending to work out and running errands, but considering how expensive they can be I had to pause and think. With a simple, decent branded one starting at £65 in JD Sports there might be a case to try and get as much wear out of it as you can! Could it be that nowadays it's not about appropriateness but how much it costs that makes it suitable or not? We saw this a few years ago at a good friends wedding where many guests came tricked out in freak-um dresses, designer trainers and jeans and Lord help me fully tagged, labels hanging off Starter caps! #putasuiton!! 

The second instance where dress-code came to mind was the very next day while running errands on Saturday morning. No doubt wearing my PINK tracksuit, Jordan's and silk head scarf, I found myself in the Post Office queue pleasantly amused as I stood a few bods down from someone who I immediately thought dressed exactly like a work colleague of mine. Floral tea dress, opaque black tights, ankle boots, short black jacket. Understand that out of hours I never expect to see work colleagues, but lo and behold it was her- dressed the same way as she does everyday, same hair, same bag, same everything.

I was further amused thinking "You dirty stop out!!"??? As you can imagine seeing her looking no different at the weekend as from in the week I chuckled at the thought of what her “dressed up” is- I imagine the same dress sans tights and boots with a comfy bejewelled sandal. Talk about 10 ways to wear the same dress?? 
I jest, but perhaps this is where my problem lies as to be fair this is a very good and practical way to dress and keep your "stuff and things" and spending to a minimum. With a little thought and planning you'll never not have anything to wear, simples!! 

The third time round was date night again. Generally, I dress down on Fridays but because we were going out straight after work I dressed up and dressed down on Thursday instead and got the silly comments on both days. On Thursday it was "Going to the gym later?" ... And no, not because I had a tracksuit on at work but because I was wearing trainers

cutely paired with wide leg pants and a jumper. On Friday it was "Ooooh! Big night out tonight?" All I had on was a simple black skater dress and waterfall cardigan and only put my heels on when I was round the corner from the bar  While the thought of a 50 piece capsule wardrobe absolutely horrifies me, I feel with the right picks- which hopefully this NYR will allow me to fine tune, I may slowly, very slowly start considering this phenomenon. For now though I just can't, won't don't want to! In my defense I've only ever really seen smaller size girls doing this, can big girls pull this off? 

Challenge Mrs Q?