Thursday Outfit: Hunting Reindeer

I don't wear much plaid, but it always makes me think of Logger's Day when I was on crew at Cedar Campus in northern Michigan.  We hunted down as much plaid as we could find and outfitted the entire crew to look like a bunch of loggers. 

 Channeling our inner Yoopers

The reason for this was that the camp itself was built on the location of an old saw mill, and in fact if you looked all the way down to the bottom of the lake, you could see logs that had fallen to the bottom of the bay 100 years ago.  We all thought it was pretty neat.  Sadly, they don't celebrate Logger's Day anymore, but plaid is also always in style during hunting season.

Blue and purple plaid shirt - Suzy Shier

Purple tank top - Old Navy

Denim jacket - Gap

Khaki pants - Spoon Jeans

Brown Sandals - Birkenstock

I know the plaid look is somehow 'in' right now, but I was wearing it long before it was fashionable because plaid flannel shirts are seriously warm.  I wouldn't call my twelve year old self "fashion forward" now, but if I could go back in time to visit my younger self, I just might tell her to screw the haters because they'd all be dressing in plaid in 10 years.  Unlike my old flannel shirts, this is just a simple woven top and isn't actually that warm.  Which is fine, I'm not living where I need it anymore.  But it does mean that when it's 45 degrees in the morning, I have to layer. 

Of course, I would pick a casual outfit for the day we had our weekly review, on a week when I was in charge of setting it up.  Not that anyone cares how I dress, but one day, I wear a gorgeous dress in our cave of a room, and barely anyone sees.  Outside of my teammates, of course.  Then I go to weeklies with the producer, the supervisors, and as many artists as we can cram into the corner theater... and I look like I'm ready to go out hunting the reindeer we're animating.  My timing is possibly a little off.  But today really wasn't warm at all, so I was just as happy to be in pants.  I was questioning the sandals, but I love my Birks too much to deny them.  And, as far as I'm concerned, as long as there isn't snow on the ground, I can still wear sandals (and slide on shoes are okay in up to three inches of snow).  Yes, my footwear rules are strange, but they are the result of many years in snowy climates.

Perhaps I'll do a little classier tomorrow, though really, it's Friday and I'm sure no one cares.  I will definitely not look like a logger, though.