It’s the holidays and you know what that means, time to meet the parents. You know, when your boyfriends parents invite you to come to church with them or your girlfriends parents invite you to Thanksgiving dinner. You’re already nervous enough as it is, the last thing you need to worry about is what to wear. You don’t want to offend them, but at the same time you don’t want to seem boring and not show your personality. Two friends of mine actually approached me today with these problems. The first one had these things to work with.
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- Dark skinny jeans
She was going to attend church with her boyfriend and her family. She herself doesn’t regularly attend church but wanted to make sure she didn’t look like a heathen. She wanted to be covered up but still feel comfortable. This was a fairly easy problem to solve since we were already working with a very good statement piece and a great staple piece. Now of course I would ordinarily have told her to just skip anything under the blazer, but church is hardly the place to have all your cleavage hanging out so the quick decision was to go with a simple camisole underneath. The reason we didn’t go for anything more interesting was the simple reason that she was meeting the family and personality in your outfit is good but you want to make a good impression you a person and not have your clothes doing all the talking for you. The next question was what color. Instinct told me that she should wear white, however as soon as we began to discuss footwear that immediately became out of the question. When I asked her what she owned in the way of a simple pump she told me black and brown. Neither of those shoes would have done her justice with just a white cami underneath. I immediately gravitated towards the brown shoes just because black seems a little too work wear for that occasion. Then back to the question of what colored camisole came back. We decided against anything with a print on it as being too much and instead settled for a middle tan color. Nothing she was wearing was distracting from the most important thing (her) and everything was beautifully simple and chic.
The second friend came to me with a lower pressure situation. She was just going to be meeting the parents briefly, but she was still concerned with her appearance. She was at a loss and had nothing to work with. I told her that she had no need to over think it, in fact she really didn’t need to do any thinking at all. I told her to wear jeans, flats a tee shirt and some cute light feminine jewelry. Nothing complicated or too fashion-y, just dress as you usually would.
Overall the best advice I can give is that when meeting the parents, don’t try too hard. The best thing is to just be you (unless you are a slob). Make sure you’re clean and neat looking, don’t do a whole lot of layers or big statement jewelry. You are the one that is going to impress, not your clothes so try not to say too much with your look and let your sparkling personality shine!
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