{"id":3028,"date":"2012-08-01T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2016-09-27T12:44:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T17:44:17","slug":"dress-that-mama-its-hot-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3028","title":{"rendered":"Dress That Mama: It&#8217;s Hot Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8292\/7679223764_f02866fbb1_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still summer. I&#8217;m coming to terms with that and not complaining again until it is the end of August, at which time I will complain one more time.<\/p>\n<p>It has been really hot and humid. And we still leave the house every day because\u00a0<em>hello\u00a0<\/em>it&#8217;s summer and I have three very active little boys to engage every day with no preschool until mid-September. So we continue our weekly morning jaunts to the zoo, the playground, the Botanical Gardens, etc. And I must admit that not every day is a dress\/skirt day. But when I throw on my trusty cut-off jean shorts, that&#8217;s still no excuse to completely slack off. Add more denim (!) with a vest, sunglasses, and a feather necklace, and I guess I can still look semi-put-together.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8144\/7679221012_810d278301_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0003\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Sunglasses &amp; necklace: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthropologie.com\/anthro\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropologie<\/a>\u00a0(they no longer have either, but check their accessories&#8211; they are pretty amazing, I think)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tank: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcrew.com\/AST\/Navigation\/Sale\/AllProducts\/PRDOVR~35601\/99102631533\/ENE~1+2+3+22+4294967294+20~~~20+17+4294967119~15~~~~~~~\/35601.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">JCrew<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Denim vest: Banana Republic&#8211; last summer&#8211; find similar color <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanoutfitters.com\/urban\/catalog\/productdetail.jsp?id=23930886&amp;parentid=W_OUTERWEAR&amp;color=106\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cut-off jean shorts: Homemade from thrifted 7 jeans<\/p>\n<p>Also, forget make-up. The only thing I wear in the summer is moisturizer and lip gloss (but usually just chapstick). Occasionally I&#8217;ll throw on some mascara, but only if I&#8217;m meeting up with a friend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8163\/7679221772_23a43d2761_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0007\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Sandals: A steal at $15 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevemadden.com\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Madden<\/a>!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Next week I shall attempt another Dress That Kid, but only as long as all three are willing to participate! Those boys are a real hoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still summer. I&#8217;m coming to terms with that and not complaining again until it is the end of August, at which time I will complain one more time. It has been really hot and humid. And we still leave the house every day because\u00a0hello\u00a0it&#8217;s summer and I have three very active little boys to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=3028\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dress That Mama: It&#8217;s Hot Outside&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[76,95],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-style","tag-costuming","tag-lauren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12461,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions\/12461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}