The main thing I got from my mom’s style was things I knew I didn’t want to wear. Like gym socks and dress shoes. Anything with ruffles. White socks and black pants. Mom was a fashion don’t. She’s better now, we’ve gotten her help.

Hmmm… no wonder I have no sense of style!

I don’t try to influence my daughter’s style at all other than to say no way to anything revealing or to let her know when a skirt has gotten too short. She has way more style than I ever have, so mostly I let her go with what she wants. She is one of those girls who can pull off a hat too! I wish I could do that.

The only thing I’m concerned about with my daughters is modesty. When my girls are teens, I’ll tell them if they would be embarrassed if I wore it, they can’t.

My mom dressed in a pretty contemporary style when I was growing up, and my parents are both very sensible and frugal. Now, however, if the three of us (MOM, Beth & I) went out together, it wouldn’t look like anybody was copying anybody. Some day MOM can write a guest post about how her life changed when styles changed at the end of the 70s.

I tread lightly around areas that may be my daughter’s signature styles, and some times feel a little restricted by it. But it’s more important to me for them to be able to grow up freely in their personalities than it is for me to look young or stylish or any other such thing.

But about the Mother looking like a teenager thing. It bothers me! It really bothers me when I see a pair like the one you saw with blonde hair. What bothers me about it is I’m sick of women trying to always look younger. As I am getting older (@ 27) I find it harder to accept it because most older women I see aren’t accepting it. I could go on, and on, and on, but baby needs mama.

Now she is back to her (original) casual cowgirl look, which is what she wore before the LHOTP stage.

And my wardrobe basically has none of her influence, since I had a fashion epiphany. I’m still trying to figure all this style stuff out, but probably the only thing that she remotely influenced me on is that I’m still very comfortable in dresses and skirts, although I don’t wear them exclusively. However, they are up-to-date, not LHOTP style. They don’t look anything like what she/we wore while I was growing up. And my style has absolutely no casual cowgirl influence whatsoever!!!

My mom had no personal style. She couldn’t have cared less about anything that had to do with presentation or fashion. I guess that is a “style” but I wouldn’t know how to classify it. She did have a hatred of mini-skirts and red lipstick and nail polish. That may be why I loved them.