Style

What's my style?

Such a simple question yet hard to for me to answer. I've never been that good to following the trends. I've always tried to look good. I've gotten a compliment here and there and no one's ever really said I look bad.

So how does a stay-at-home mom of a teenager and two preschoolers get or stay stylish? The first problem that comes to mind is my budget. As any parent of a teenager knows, their clothes cost a lot and go out of favour quickly resulting in more money spent on their clothes than the rest of the family's put together! When I do go shopping for myself, half the time I don't even know my own size.

The most important thing about anything I wear has to be comfort. I need to be warm enough, be able to bend over without embarrassing parts of my body being revealed and I need to be washable. My mainstay is jeans, though sometimes I opt for cotton pants if I'm going somewhere other than playgroup or the grocery store. Sweaters in the winter. T-shirts in the summer. I also have a few blouses to change things up a bit when I'm bored of everything else. When I want to get dressed-up, I have a very limited selection from my working days that is probably way out of date. These occasions happen so infrequently that it doesn't seem worth it to buy new clothes.

Every once in a while I wonder what the point is. Why even change out of my pajamas? Who's going to see me? We all need jammy days, but what I've noticed is that at the end of the day, I don't feel great. I feel much more ready to greet the day when I'm showered, coiffed and dressed- even if it's only jeans and a sweater.

I guess my style is mommy-comfort with a little clueless-about-fashion on the side.