Shoe Codes

When it comes to getting dressed, sometimes it can be so hard to be a girl! I mean, guys have it pretty easy when you think about it! Girls? Well, varying pant lengths or styles of pants will require a different type of shoe. Why, oh why, do we have to be so complicated???

I've been trying to figure out how to teach my teen to wear appropriate shoes with her outfits. She's not really into fashion, and really doesn't care, so a lot of times she comes out with the wrong shoe and I have to send her back to her room to get something a little more appropriate because the wrong shoe can totally throw an outfit off sometimes.  I mean, she wants to look cute {who doesn't?}, she just needs it easy enough to be manageable, so she knows what to do and then she will totally do it.

Then I had a brain spark the other day!  If we created a code we could write on the inside tag of her clothes then she would know what type of shoe to wear with her outfits!  Bingo!  So this is what we came up with:

It is taped to the inside of her closet for reference.   If this works, then I am going to attempt to teach her the art of accessorizing.  Luckily there is a Dressing Your Truth club night for members this Thursday on how to accessorize which I hope will help with that step.

I wouldn't say I'm a fashionista by any means, but I do know the value of presenting yourself well to the world, and the desire that every woman wants to feel beautiful.  I always wished I had had someone to mentor me and teach me some of the finer points of makeup and getting dressed.  I had to learn a lot on my own by trial and error.  Heck, I'm not perfect and I'm still learning even today! But hopefully this will be a good teaching tool for her.  That's my hope anyway!