I don’t take my engagement ring and wedding band off to exercise/run, but I generally don’t wear any other jewelry. Occasionally I might forget to remove a small necklace, but rarely. Of course, my arms are loaded up with my Garmin GPS watch, my RoadID (safety and identification info), my Garmin Vivofit and my Mio wrist heart rate sensor.
@Periwinkle
Assuming you are taking about wardrobe for a girl, buy and pack something like this:
Can be worn to any kind of restaurant, any club at night, daytime to sight-see, or as a beach cover-up. Add this in with any kind of gym shorts, etc. and you’re set. Can be worn with sneakers, flip flops, flat or high heeled sandals, ballet flats.
We tend to run “cold” in this family and nearly always pack at least a hoodie or light jacket, in addition to the simple packing list that was set forth above. I always like having at least one pair of long pants that I COULD use as appropriate and our kids tend to prefer that as well. Usually we fly in jeans or some form of long pants. I rarely pack shorts because I mainly only wear them in HI. Cold temps give me hives (literally), so I prefer to be a bit warmer and not risk them.
I have to say that I love clothes, and I like to dress up. Not even that dressed up but what people would maybe call smart casual. I like having an occasion to look nice, everything is so casual these days, I miss those days where I went places that people looked nice. Now I feel self conscious and over dressed much of the time. Sometimes I dress more casual than I want because I know everyone will be very casual.
I’m going to a house walk tomorrow and one of the ladies I am going with suggested we dress up. Not that dressed up but more than jeans and shirts. Not that you couldn’t wear jeans but it’s nice not to. One of the ladies was a bit nervous about what to wear. I told her, be comfortable and there would be lots of walking but that I was wearing a very casual skirt.
I think it’s sad that most of the time, in my town, I’m dressed up in a skirt that I could wear flip flops with.
People can wear whatever they want and it’s really ok. But I do miss those days where you put on nice clothes to shop or go to a restaurant. Now most everyone looks like they just came from their yoga class.
I like to match the “dressiness” or “casualness” of my attire with H, so that we look in synch, no matter what the other folks at the gathering may choose to wear. It makes life less complicated for him and me and keeps us happy.
Every single day. My H wears khakis, a polo shirt and a fleece jacket. Winter and summer. Every single day.
Well exercise wear or shorts to golf in when its hot. When it’s cold, he put an under armor turtleneck on under the polo shirt but only to golf in.
I do not try to match his dress. Ugh! The fleece jacket. It’s like his security blanket.
I flatly refuse to match my attire to my husband’s. he has no sense of what to wear, and luckily will take cues from me.
Now…about trips…my DD just left on a trip. She showed me what she packed…a huge variety of things. I think she could go to eat anywhere in CA from In and out (where I’m betting she has dinner to ought) to,a swanky place. She is traveling in yoga pants (long), a tank top, and is carrying a cotton sweater to wear on the plane.
And yes, she took cute black flats 
H takes cues from me as well and we jointly decide how dress/casual we want to be. Our kids are great about bringing enough separates that can be combined to wear to whatever they may encounter when travel while taking up very little luggage space. D is lucky that she can fit my clothing, so that if she doesn’t bring enough warm clothing she can borrow some of mine. 
She still isn’t as organized as she could be about bringing sufficient warm clothing (which she DOES possess).
I feel your pain. I try so desperately to convince my Ds to dress appropriate. I don’t think I’m winning. Sometimes the shorts are just so short! I’m doing my best to make sure they look decent when they’re off at school, but it’s not easy!
I sort of understand the security of the fleece - in the winter - it just makes you feel warm and finished!!!
I do not dress jointly with H. Like, this is just not something we’d do! I get dressed. He gets dressed. Don’t think he’d ever second guess what I’m wearing. If he doesn’t match I will tell him and/or make a suggestion. He might take it, he might not.
I think Himom meant matching each other’s level, not outfits.
Not like the old folks walking the mall, both in blue shirts and white pants.
We don’t match outfits…ever. But sometimes I’m less or more dresses up than DH…and I know I have it right!
"Sometimes the shorts are just so short! I’m doing my best to make sure they look decent when they’re off at school, but it’s not easy! "
^^^Interesting comment. See, to me, these are two separate issues - being appropriately covered and wearing something athletic. I am not a fan of people not being appropriate covered, and for myself I wouldn’t go to a restaurant (or anywhere else) without proper coverage. Wearing athletic-wear is a separate issue to me - that I don’t care about either for myself or others.
I lean toward casual for myself. Usually I don’t get bent out of shape when others choose to go more casual. Or more dressy.
Sometimes “too short” (athletic short, dressy shorts, or mini skirt) do bother me. Yesterday I saw a teen at a breakfast restuarant with cut off shorts (fine with me in general). But the pockets were hanging a few inches lower than the denim.
I hear about husband and wife dressing alike and I think of Don Featherstone and HIS wife (he’s the guy who invented lawn flamingos).
DH will actually change if he discovers we’re wearing matching colors and we’re about to go out. Sometimes he is the more casual one, sometimes it’s me-we don’t coordinate or keep track. I’m sure that’s a shock to all, lol.
D and I just got back from a run to Goodwill so she could replace some of the clothes she’s outgrown or that has worn down (not Old Navy stuff). She was also looking for something more businesslike for a program she is running over the next two weekend. She’s more on top of trends than most-I’m sure whichever things she decides to wear will be fine.
What I reallllly hated about those old folks at the mall is how He carries Her purse.
I once bought a man’s shirt on sale and DH liked it enough that he bought an identical one, too. But he took over both, in no time flat. Whew, spared.
Regarding Thai…my dad died and was cremated in Thailand. The dress code at the temple was strictly black only. Suits, black dresses, a few white shirts in the crowd, including the children playing Bach in a string ensemble. It felt solemn, moving, befitting the occasion.
A young man in our neighborhood died when I was in Asia. On return, I attended the memorial service at a community center in the area. Typical to our town, people dressed casually, if neatly. Many of us were heartbroken about this death. I missed, so much, the formality of that Asian scene, and my heart longed for the sense of respect showed by appropriate dress.
On a lighter note, S when living in China, said the fashion was for couples to dress alike. His GF at the time thought this might be fun. Him-no way.
Yes, thanks, I did mean the level of dressiness. We don’t own any matching outfits and mainly consult one another if we another are wavering about how dressy we think the event may be.
In HI men can go nearly everywhere in long pants or dark jeans and a Hawaiian print aloha shirt. Women not so much.
The matching-degree-of-formality thing used to be more important around here than it is now because men so rarely wear ties at social events except in the most formal settings (weddings, funerals). In the old days, if I wanted to get dressed up for a dinner party, say, I’d persuade my spouse to wear a suit and tie to match formality levels. But nowadays you will almost never ever see a man in a tie at a dinner party, even if the women are wearing (short) cocktail dresses. Same thing at museum openings or other events where the women tend to get dressed up. The men may be wearing suits or sports coats with open-necked shirts but no ties.
(The only places where men regularly wear ties for non-formal, private social events are at city clubs (like the California Club or Jonathan Club, which won’t mean anything to out of towners). At those events, men will often be dressier than the women because there is no equivalent dress code for women).
I understand youth fashion and try not to be “one of those old people”, but the other day a co-worker and I were at lunch at a casual restaurant (Newk’s- for anyone who knows it) and a group of high school girls were at a table near us. 4 of them had the shortest denim shorts I have ever seen. They were just slightly more fabric than underwear. The other girl had on a loose fitting dress that was so short that, as we say in the South, we could just about see her hoo-ha. It was NOT a good look. One of the girls in the cutoffs was built like a straw and could get away with the tiny shorts- the others, not so much. I guess this is what all the cool kids are wearing. I will pass on this trend.