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anne

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Following Angie's blog posts encouraging wearing white bottoms, I now have a white pair of clams (3ys old?) and a white skirt (1yr old) as well as a white high summer dress.

But I am not wearing them as much as I expected. Reason 1 is that I am too worried to wear them during that TOM - so that automatically cuts out a quarter of the time.

Until recently I have also not worn them to BBQs because I was scared I'd stain them and that cuts out a fair proportion of summer social events. But I have decided to risk it now!

And of course as a MOTG with young kids, I take them off the minute I get home!

These garments were not expensive - none more than $20 but I don't feel they are getting that much wear.

I am feeling very daring right now. Decided to put them on at 12pm, and wear them before I pick the kids up AT HOME by myself (as well as for the pickup)

Do any of you self restrict your wearing of white?

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Latest reply was from Lisa

Caro in Oz

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If I worried about ruining things I'd never wear anything - I like white because I can use Napisan to fix the stains. I can't do that with a lot of coloured items:)

cheryl

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I don't wear a lot of white. Dogs and i'm messy lol but Angie said that's what washing machines are for lol.

CocoLion

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I got 3 pairs of white bottoms a few years ago but last year decided white was not for me.
But I still have 2 of the 3 bottoms, trying to get the courage to wear them again!

Anne I commented on your dress in Shannon's thread; you look so pretty in that color and style of dress.

anne

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Thanks Denise! I am enjoying that dress, although it does always garner lots of attention

Why are you not wearing your white bottoms? I didn't for ages since I am a bottom heavy, but Angie encouraged me to anyway.

Caro - I went and put Napisan on the shopping list. You're right, you can just bleach them. I still worry about embarrasing stains during TOM though - even if they come out there could embarrasment before I could get home.

Cheryl - I am messy too, though don't have dogs. And I am now wearing an apron over the white clams!

Mo

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funny story - the first restaurant uniform I had to wear was a white tee and white jeans, with a southwestern style bandana around the neck. This was a Mexican restaurant in Las Vegas, in winter. Not easy to find the uniform, a lot less easy to keep it clean of salsa, beans, etc. Their thought, you can bleach anything out. Hunh. No likey.

TraceyLiz65

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I don't wear them around the house, but anywhere else is fair game!

Aziraphale

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I have a drinking problem. Not the normal kind. I mean the kind that involves coffee all down my front, or in my lap. And I like, but don't love, white pants, so I've always just given them a miss. Seems sensible.

But I deeply love white shirts, and have recently begun wearing them despite my extreme clumsiness. So far so good. And after nearly a decade of being a mother, I'm really, really good at getting stains out of clothes. I say: buy yourself a bottle of Oxyclean and wear your white pants!

anne

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Thanks Denise! I am enjoying that dress, although it does always garner lots of attention

Why are you not wearing your white bottoms? I didn't for ages since I am bottom heavy, but Angie encouraged me to anyway.

Caro - I went and put Napisan on the shopping list. You're right, you can just bleach them. I still worry about embarrasing stains during TOM though - even if they come out there could embarrasment before I could get home.

Cheryl - I am messy too, though don't have dogs. And I am now wearing an apron over the white clams!

anne

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I had a blackout and posted mine before reading Mo, Tracey and Elisabeth's comments.

Mexican and white!! Not a great combination Mo!

Elisabeth - nearly a decade of being a mother here too. But I wish I was better at getting stains out. I was feeling all embarrased for DD3 today, off to school in a stained school uniform (handed down from a very messy DD2) I almost went to her teacher and said "it is CLEAN!"

Tracey - sounds good

Aziraphale

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Here, Anne, if it helps:

Blot, don't rub.

Run water through the stain from the OTHER side of the fabric, so the stain particles don't have to pass through the fabric

Treat ASAP

Oxyclean or Lestoil (industrial stain remover) are best

Agnes

I wear quite a lot of white clothes, and like Angie said, you just have to be a little aware, not really worried. and the best thing about white is that stain remover works really well on it.

anya

Please do wear white. In the summer it's really my go to color and I wear a lot of white bottoms and black /navy/red tops , feels very nautical/fresh to my eyes. Regarding the TOM problem, i overcome my fear, because really i never stained my jeans or black pants, and I'm mostly prepared. So why bother? I have a pair of white denim shorts I wear ALL THE TIME in summer and had no problems with them. Generally i put oxygen based cleaner with most loads of whites, just to keep them bright. My mother, ( a mother of two) wore white very often when we were kids and she still does. I remember she had tons of white tops. She just sewed herself last summer a white skirt with floral piping. Wears it all the time. Why not?
Myself I just looked over my clothes inventory and apparently i am a white junkie : have white jeans, white denim shorts, white wideleg cotton dress pants, white linen pants ( for the beach), cream skinny pants
white denim skirt,
white cotton dress, 1 lined winter white dress , white flowy cocktail dress, , 1 winter sweater dress
2 white tops , 3 identical white v-neck t-shirts,1 white bolero , 4 white button downs shirts
white cotton blazer, 1 white dressy short sleeve cropped blazer,
1 white winter coat
After you realize your clothes don't wear you, and you own them and whatever you feel freer to wear white. After all my high school uniform had a mandatory white button down i wore as a teen.

Sarah A

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I vote yay for mums wearing white. My little ones are 2, 4 yrs old and since joining YLF last year I have become unfearful of white, yes they would have been 1 and 3 last spring when i decided to give it a whirl. I have two pair of white jeans, white shorts, a white twill jacket and a white leather jacket. None of these items were partcularly expensive although I love them and would be bummed to have to find replacements that fit just so again I just figure that it is only clothes and nearly every stain we have encountered so far (except for two on the back pocket of one of the jeans) i just stain treat and wash out. I do hang dry (not tumble dry)these items so I have a second chance at treating any stains that dont come out the first time. I remember seeing my cousin's wife eyes get huge as she wanted to say something about my 1 yrs olds muddy shoes were about to stain the whole side of my jacket as i picker her up at the park last year but it washed out just fine too

Anonymous

Oh Anne, please wear your white! As it is, it's almost like you are serving your clothes instead of them serving you. I have found myself doing that too over the years, but I've tried to break myself of it.

I wore white bottoms all last summer, but I did choose dark bottoms for the first few days of TOM. After that, I was back to wearing white again. Of course your kids are much younger than mine; maybe they are still wiping their hands on you, but I hope you can at least get *some* wear from your lovely white things.

Angie

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I vote stop the restrictions, Anne! Wear the white and wash as needed. Wardrobe items are always there for you, and not the other way round. You look great in white!!

Thistle

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I don't wear white, or any light colored bottoms. I am very pear shaped and the light colors only seem to amplify that.

However, you should definately wear what you have! If you do stain it and can't get the stain out, at least the article of clothing got worn. "Saving" clothes for later really doesn't work, and they are taking up valuable real estate in your closet!

Lisa

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I always make sure my white bottoms are machine washable because those are usually the white pieces I tend to dirty the fastest.