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Updated: May 31, 2015    

White Tee Tuesday: Shades of Blue

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Welcome to the inaugural edition of White Tee Tuesday! This is a short summer series that will run through June and July 2015.

I enjoy reading fashion blogs, but so often, they model expensive clothing they received for free, or they put together outfits that would be difficult for most people to replicate at home. By doing an entire series centered on white t-shirts, I hope to provide some inspiration for the everyday woman. Most of us are on budgets and need multiple ways to wear the same basic pieces. What’s more basic than a plain white t-shirt?

A cute and easy outfit for a hot summer day. Straw hat, white tee, denim shorts, and sandals.

I bought my white t-shirt from JCPenney. Their petite selection is amazing. I particularly love a.n.a. petites, which is the specific brand of my white tee.

This is what I wore when Dan and I spent the afternoon in downtown Duluth for an arts festival. That day was hot and sunny, but my hat kept the sun off my face. I also bought this hat at JCPenney about a million years ago, on clearance at the end of summer. Originally about $30, it was a steal for around $4. Buying straw hats in August or September is the trick behind my large hat collection.

Wide-brimmed hats are a must for southern summers. They protect my fair skin from the sun!

I own a ridiculous number of bracelets, and I have fun putting them together in new combinations. While I did wear my silver ID bracelet and my silver Pandora bracelet, the eclectic mix of hemp and stretch bracelets kept my accessories casual.

The bright blue one is for Crohn’s and Colitis. It says Got Guts? The gray bracelet supports my mom in her fight against brain cancer. It says Prayers Healing Lee Long.

My brother Jeremy gave me the black bracelet and the white bracelet after visiting Haiti. The other hemp bracelet I made 10 years ago–I can’t believe it hasn’t fallen apart yet! I made the blue beaded bracelets when I was a camp counselor many years ago.

Old bracelets gain new life when paired with a ton of other bracelets.

I love the detailing on these shorts. They were a steal from the clearance rack in the juniors’ department at JCPenney. I used to resist shopping in juniors, but after yet another person assumed I was in high school while I worked there (I was 26 at the time), I decided I might as well start buying the clothes of teenagers.

I love denim with a little bling on the back pockets. I bought these shorts in the juniors' department at #JCPenney

These are ridiculously comfortable sandals I bought just this spring. I wear them several times a week. I also bought them in black, but for some weird reason, the center strap on the black ones rub my feet wrong. I’m still trying to wear them in, with hopes they’ll become as comfortable as these white ones.

Comfortable white sandals that go with everything and can be worn anywhere.


 

This is just my first post in White Tee Tuesday, and I’m already having so much fun with it! I hope you enjoy this blog mini-series over the summer.

If you’ve done a fashion post featuring a white t-shirt, leave your link in the comments. I plan on doing a round-up post for The Huffington Post at the end of the summer, and I want to feature other bloggers’ outfits!

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  1. Emily S says

    June 2, 2015 at 11:54 am

    I love those sandals! They do look super comfy.

    • Brita Long says

      June 5, 2015 at 12:58 pm

      Thank you! They are. 🙂

  2. Carolynn says

    June 4, 2015 at 3:33 pm

    cute post. you are adorable. for some reason I never knew you were petite! I am 5 ft 7 inches–not petite at all! Also, I only own 4 bracelets. Yes, four. I never wear them.

    • Brita Long says

      June 5, 2015 at 1:01 pm

      Yeah, that’s the funny thing about pictures on the Internet. There’s not really a scale to indicate size! I’m 5’2.

      If you don’t wear bracelets, there’s no need to own them. I basically don’t buy jewelry anymore because I have so much of it. I’ve also gotten rid of even more jewelry! What I have now is a mix of my grandmother’s jewelry, which I will always keep; fine jewelry that I’ve slowly acquired; and casual or costume jewelry that I wear often enough to hold onto for now.

  3. Karren Haller says

    June 4, 2015 at 8:43 pm

    What a cute idea for a post, wish I had a white tee pic, 🙂 your bracelets caught my eye as I have been making them for a long time. Thanks fo stopping y Oh My Heartsie Girl Friday Features this week, be sure to catch my Wordless Wednesday as well.

    Have a great weekend!
    Karren
    xx

    • Brita Long says

      June 5, 2015 at 1:02 pm

      Making bracelets is fun, although I haven’t done it in ages. I know I have plenty of hemp, beads, and fine cord as well if I ever feel like doing it again.

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