What to Wear To A Football Game When It's Still Hot

Tina, here.

Football season is here again! Tailgates (lovely), nachos (yuk), and pom-poms (love them). But what to wear? In the South, it's still pretty hot on game days, so dress accordingly. You don't want to look like a summer picnic, but neither do you want to dress in flannel for s'mores by a bonfire. It's already hot. You're outside. Possibly in the sun.

What To Wear To An Early Fall Football Game

Layers are your friend this time of year. A sleeveless top with a pashmina for when the sun goes down are my go-to's for early fall football games.

Here's what to wear to a football game when it's still hot.

1. Keep your white jeans in rotation, but trade your cool citrus hues on top for warm earth tones and neutrals.

What to Wear to an Early Fall Football Game

You'll be hearing this tip from me a lot this fall. Earth tones + white jeans = late summer appropriateness.

What to Wear to an Early Fall Football Game

I just carry my pashmina over my arm when not in use, and then wrap it casually around my shoulders when the sun goes down if it gets a bit cool. Shop my fave fall pashminas in the August Style Vault, Style Notes.

What to Wear to an Early Fall Football Game

Look for pashminas in a lightweight cashmere or a linen/cashmere blend. I found one with these colors and the same great feel for you, in the August Style Vault.

2. Pop your white jeans with some animal print.

What To Wear To An Early Fall Football Game

Just that little bit of animal print says fall while the rest says, it's still stinkin' hot out here.

What To Wear To An Early Fall Football Game

Neutrals play well together. I've got on white jeans (all my faves are in the Style Vault, skinny, bootcut, petite, tall, curvy), a dark grey and ivory animal print blouse, ivory pashmina, and a camel clutch. I call it blending or tone-on-tone. I am featuring my fave new clutch in the August Style Vault - it's cognac, too! Perhaps the best of all neutrals. Besides white obvi.

What To Wear To An Early Fall Football Game: White Jeans With Boots

My cowboy boots start coming out to play in late August because I just miss them so much all summer. These Fryes are a soft grey shade which pair well with whites and other soft neutrals. I just added a beautiful soft grey boot, low heel, to the August Style Vault's Style Notes - and it comes in both wide and medium widths!

3. Switch out your white jeans for a faded rinse or mid-rinse pair of jeans.

What To Wear To An Early Fall Football Game

A mid-rinse jean or faded rinse jean is the sensible transition piece. It's not stark summer white, and it's not dark winter blue. I, for one, have been collecting and wearing faded rinse jeans for years. When my 14 pairs of white jeans are dirty.

What To Wear To An Early Fall Football Game

Did you know that linen is considered year-round now? Along with anything suede and our trusty white jeans. The key to wearing linen in late summer/early fall is to wear the right tones and shades, like this ivory and brown stripe blazer. And you'll see how I wore it over a cognac top to ground it a little.

What To Wear To An Early Fall Football Game

Carry the jacket until you need it, when the sun goes down. Whoopsie! VBL showing - make sure your bra straps are tucked nicely under your tank tops.

What To Wear To An Early Fall Football Game

As I said, I have been buying up faded rinse blue jeans for years now. They were hard to find when I first started hunting them down, and now finding just the right shade of faded is hard still. These are from Zara (bought about 4 years ago) but I got you dolls. My new fave pairs of faded rinse jeans just got added to the August Style Vault. Skinny and bootcut, both under $75!

What To Wear To An Early Fall Football Game

Flats or a wedge make walking the bleachers easier. I'll switch over to my brown wedges which feel a bit more seasonal. Suede is year-round. So are peep-toes. But because these wedges have a rope heel, they will hibernate once cool weather hits. There are some great wedges and flats in the August Style Vault.

4. Too hot for jeans? Wear a faded rinse denim skirt.

What To Wear To An Early Fall Football Game: Denim Skirt and Cowboy Boots

I might alternate my white jeans and white denim skirt with a faded rinse denim skirt. Same rules apply: wear with neutrals and earth tones.

What To Wear To An Early Fall Football Game: Denim Skirt

This is that t-shirt I got at Target that everyone wanted. Looks like over 300 people ordered it from the Vault and we sold it out for Target online! 

5. Leave your large handbag at home and carry a clutch instead.

What To Wear To A Late Summer Football Game: Swap out your handbag for a small clutch.

Surely you've heard about the no-handbag rule at football games in large stadiums? So you'll need a little clutch. Can't be any bigger than the size of your hand, or they'll confiscate it. Seriously. Shop this cognac clutch inside the August Style Vault.

If you remember no handbags, bring a jacket or pashmina, and wear comfy shoes, you'll be all set for a season of football.

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Thanks for reading and all the best,

Tina

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