r squared: Style Perspectives 9: Plaid

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Style Perspectives 9: Plaid

This week the style prompt for the style series is plaid. I struggled with this one for spring. All my plaid comes in the form of big warm scarves. While I hope to NOT have to wear one of these until the fall, Mother Nature let us down this past weekend. On the bright side, it meant I got to pull out one of my blanket scarves purchases from late in the season.

I'm going to let you in on a little secret, I cut my blanket scarf in half. The first time I wore it I had to take it off I was so hot. So I decided to cut it and reduce the bulk and hopefully the heat factor as well. I really had nothing to lose since I couldn't wear it again at its current thickness, it was just too much scarf. The bonus was I got to gift the other half to a friend. Win-Win.

This particular day I was headed to spring soccer and the forecast was calling for rain, hence the rain boots. I picked up a new rain jacket on clearance at the end of last season and I couldn't wait to pull it out to head to the soccer field. And wouldn't you know it, it is plaid. Or close enough.

.How do you think I felt about wearing my rain jacket, rain boots, scarf and tuque to soccer in late April. This picture sums it up.

At least I had hot chocolate to make the hour more bearable. Thankfully, we know a few families that have soccer at the same time so we chatted, did a few laps around the field to warm up and get our steps in while the older kids played soccer on the side. All in all it was a good start to the soccer season despite the wet weather. It can only get better from here, right?

Now, let's take a look the ladies at the blended blog and what their graphic tee says about them. I must say this was one of my favorite weeks with so much variation!