It’s Award Season! Some of my lovely mommy blogger friends and I thought we would have fun combining the #365FeministSelfie with Award Season. The #365FeministSelfie is all about showing women as they are, no filter, no primping, no perfection, and perhaps no makeup. Pretty much the complete opposite of the Award Season Red Carpet drama-rama. So we’re asking you, everyday mama,
Who are YOU wearing?
I’ll go first and answer all the media inquiries about what glamorous blogger-teacher-mother Sarah Rudell Beach is wearing today …
It is …
… Under Armour!
I live in Minnesota, which is actually colder than freaking MARS right now, so I’ve been living in Under Armour and made-only-for-mommies velour sweatsuits for the last week. Because they keep telling us we can’t leave the house or our skin will freeze in like 4 seconds. And it’s really cold even inside because my house has crappy windows. The kids have been out of school FOR SIX STRAIGHT DAYS. Fashion in this house has been sucked up into a polar fleece vortex.
But, I hear you asking, “Under Armour? Velour? How does a teacher afford such glamorous loungewear?”
Well, in the above image on the left, I am wearing a lovely Old Navy charcoal sweatsuit, purchased with a combination of SUPER CASH, Christmas gift cards, and coupon codes. On the right, the lovely pink hoodie comes from my uncle’s sporting goods store in world-famous Mitchell, South Dakota {yes, the home of the Corn Palace!}. Every Christmas gift from him in the last five years has been Under Armour.
I’m cold. I’m a mom. And I can’t stand the Red Carpet – especially the “morning after,” when the tabloids run the “Worst Dressed” and “Fashion Disaster” spreads that make me cringe. Enough with the judging. Enough with the crazyridiculous standards for female beauty and fashion. What happened to compassion, people? So we wanna know…
What is your everyday mama outfit? #WhoAreYOUWearingMom?
Here’s another one of mine:
Sweatshirt: Under Armour.
Sweatpants: Under Armour.
Scarf: Target.
{Scarf due to needing to get a haircut but having to cancel said haircut because we can’t leave the house}.
Don’t get me wrong ~ I like fashion and makeup and dressing up all fancy. Like when I get to dress up for dance performances:
Talk about polar fleece!
And I’m actually really excited to wear professional clothes like this outfit below to go back to work {finally!} tomorrow:
Face looks like: cranky teacher
Face actually: mom watching kids dance while holding indeterminate balloon animal
But even “dressing all fancy for work” means Old Navy and Target and JC Penney {sources of entire outfit above}. And as soon as I get home, it’s sweatpants and hoodies!
Blogging in my Under Armour.
And the damn scarf.
On weekends, this is often the look:
Cranky #365FeministSelfie.
Running errands on Saturday morning with no time to shower.
Sweater: Under Armour.
Vest: Old Navy.
Scarf: You know.
I like my clothes comfy, but I do like to add some bling, like sparkly blue nail polish!
Nail Polish: From the $.99 bin at Rainbow Foods.
And I almost always wear makeup. Even on a day when I’m not going to leave the house. Because it’s fun. And BECAUSE IT’S SERIOUSLY -23 FREAKIN’ DEGREES OUT and I want to pretend I actually LIVE NEAR CIVILIZATION.
Makeup: Estee Lauder.
Earrings: Kohl’s clearance rack.
Scarf: Preventing brain freeze.
And I think it makes the scarf look better.
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We really wanna know, #WhoAreYOUWearingMom? Tweet it, share it on Instagram, or, if you’re a blogger, link up your own post – feel free to copy the graphic at the top of this post. The linkup will be open until Sunday night. This Award Season, let’s celebrate real mom fashion!
Be sure to click around and check out who my co-hostess mamas are wearing!
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