I don’t know why I never thought of this before.
The day after our conversation about length-balancing with skirt outfits, it was a 60-something and sunny day here in the Great Northwest. It was shorts, sandals, and sunscreen! Pulling out a pair of tangerine bermudas, I wondered, “now which is longer – the shorts or the t-shirt?”, which question was immediately followed by, “and what shoes do I wear?”
So I laid the shorts on the bed with the t-shirt on top of them. Voila! A quick and easy way to tell which piece is bigger! In this case, the top was slightly longer than the shorts. That works, because when I leave the shirt untucked it subtracts a little more from the shorts. Then I added flip-flops the color of the shirt.
This has little or nothing to do with the 60/30/10 rule. How do you add an accent color to a pair of shorts? (It would have to be a print or color-blocking or something.) In this outfit, the accent was built into the big piece in the form of a retro design on the front of the t-shirt, promoting a relative’s record store.
I’ve said before:
If you do wear a message tee do it purposefully, and for a fun reason.
Otherwise, I never advise wearing message tees.
Hee hee… I had on one of my favorite message t’s yesterday. If only it were a flattering, feminine cut – I’d wear it in public! It has a knight with a rabbit at his throat and it says “Killer Rabbit!! Run Away! Run Away!!” I also have one of a knight with no legs that says “It’s only a flesh wound” Because I am COOL like that.
But then, if you don’t recognize those phrases…
Your mom wears Monty Python t-shirts! LOL
For me, the only message tee I’ve ever owned and kept is the one that says: I (heart) SUSHI. And it’s because I do. 😉 I wear it on my All-You-Can-Eat Sushi Buffet nights, or when I’m entertaining and making sushi with friends.
I rarely wear it outside, only because people make some weird comments…
I may end up reinventing that t-shirt if it shrinks too small!