"We really needed to just relax today."

[Mrs_Sally]

So true! I often get overwhelmed thinking about putting on a dress, heels, makeup, styling my hair - only to come home and put my hair in a pony, wash off my face and slip into oversized sweats! But for everyone who suggests a neat ponytail, clean jeans, flats and a t-shirt for busy moms, there is someone else bemoaning how people don’t dress up for Mass anymore! I once read something to the effect of “You are going to meet your king - so dress like you are meeting a king!” I would feel so much better just going in basic, clean clothes that I could do the grocery shopping in later on.

It is better to go in your “neat ponytail, clean jeans, flats and a t-shirt” than not go at all! Perhaps put together a sort of dressier but easy “uniform” for Mass. The ponytail and flats, but with chino type pants and a sweater? Easy and still comfortable enough for the rest of the day.

 

[LilyM]

It is better to go in your “neat ponytail, clean jeans, flats and a t-shirt” than not go at all! Perhaps put together a sort of dressier but easy “uniform” for Mass. The ponytail and flats, but with chino type pants and a sweater? Easy and still comfortable enough for the rest of the day.

Second this. I know the feeling. I naturally dress down - way down - but somehow landed in a profession where corporate dress is the norm.

So I conform, but in a really really pared down minimal fuss way. 3 suits (jacket/skirt/trousers) in similar styles but different colours that can mix and match, and enough shirts/tops for about two weeks, again things that can mix and match with all the suit pieces.

Get as much ready by way of washing and ironing during the weekend as possible to be preprepared. Then simply wake up, throw on whatever is clean and ironed and hasn’t been worn during about the previous week.

You may be able to develop a similar sort of system for Sunday clothes. 4 changes of outfit should do it - and you’d only need to wash/iron once a month (or even better, have knit fabric tops that don’t require ironing).