Tailgating style

I've mentioned before that football season has hit Athens, and with it comes multiple parties and tailgates to attend every weekend. I didn't grow up in college football culture, and certainly haven't picked up the taste or zeal for obsessing over it like a lot of my friends and family, but I have grown fond of one of the more unspoken traditions: dressing up in red and black for game day.

 This year I feel a little bit different in how I want to present myself on these Saturdays, and I think my want for experimentation has to do with blogging. Dressing up for game days usually means wearing casual sundresses. And in years past, I would subdue my sartorial whims and just throw on a Target sundress like many others, and while that's fine and conducive to the messiness of eating barbeque or playing tackle football, it didn't really reflect the way I wanted to dress. I think part of it was a self-consciousness of showing my true self and style to friends and family -- not wanting to appear prissy, or overly-dressed or eccentric. I don't want to be that wallflower anymore who's too shy to wear what she wants.

With this seasonal resolution in mind, I've been taking stock of possible items to remix these fall Saturdays. I'm putting a little scrapbook of all things red, black and white here to jog my creativity:

Are you a sports fan, and are your sartorial decisions important on game day? What do you think of the dressing up tradition at some schools? What combinations would you be interested in seeing?

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