Dress for Success: Elevate Your Sports Event Attire

When you only attend sporting events once in a while, there’s no reason why you can’t look stylish while showing support for your favorite team or athlete. This guide provides insight on how to dress for sports events fashionably to blend in or stand out of the crowd (your choice). From the right accessories to layering, you can strike the perfect balance between thermal comfort, skin-protection, and not looking totally out of place on one side and style on the other side. See how to incorporate team colors in a chic and subtle way, how to mix and match different pieces from your closet for a unique look. These fashion-forward advices take the stress out of what to wear to a sports event, competition or race-no matter whether it’s indoor or outside and what’s the season.

Contents

How to Dress for a Sports Event
Gather Information about the Location, Weather, Event, and Athlete(s)
Tips to Look Your Best Ever at a Sports Event
- What to Wear to a Sports Event Outside?
- How to Dress for an Indoors Game or Competition?
Lookbook: What to Wear to a Sports Event
References

How to Dress for a Sports Event

When you are a hardcore fan of a team you surely have their “uniform” and hence not to worry about what to wear to a game. Just throw it on and blend in.

However, what if your best female friend got an extra ticket and invites you to a game or your kid, nephew, nice or grand-kid has a game that they want you to attend because you are in town?

fashion blogger over 50 in boxy top with pencil skirt dressed to attend a game — This look works when you decide to show your style, and just don the team’s colors.

Gather Information about the Location, Weather, Event, and Athlete(s)

First find out what kind of event you go to, whether it will be indoors or outside, and what the colors of the team or the favorite athlete are that you are supposed to cheer for. If the game or competition is outside also check the weather forecast.

The answers to the questions and the anticipated weather provide the framework for the right thermal comfort and choice of colors.

Tips to Look Your Best Ever at a Sports Event

No matter whether the venue is indoors or outdoors the following steps remain the same.

Decide whether you want to express your style or just want to blend in with the fans. For blending in, a T-shirt/sweater plus jacket (cold weather) in colors close to those of the team with jeans and sneakers will be a safe bet. To show off your style, make sure you create an outfit that avoids the other team’s colors, but has those of her team.
Riot your closet for casual items in colors close to the team’s colors. For instance, if the team has cardinal red and white, red and off-white will be fine. It’s about the intend, not the exact match.
Go for a natural look with your makeup.
When you have long hair go for a braid as you don’t want that your hair gets tangles and too much friction when the wind plays with it. Who needs split ends?

What to Wear to a Sports Event

In cold weather: sporty fabrics, stripes and prints for the top with a beret, beanie or other wool hats plus jeans, sneakers or wedges with a messenger or other casual bag are good choices. Think of former governor Sarah Palin on February 17, 2007 waving the checked flag at the finish line of the Tesoro Iron Dog snow-machine race on the Chena in Fairbanks when the First Dude and his team mate Davies finished first place.
In warm weather: wear flat sandals, moccasins, or cute old school sneakers; Jeans, Bermuda shorts, cargo pants or not too short cutoffs or denim skirts. On top, go for thin moisture wicking layers.
When you have to attend a dance competition indoors in a ballroom wear semi-formal attire in the team’s/couple’s colors or go for a LBD dressed up festively.
When you have to go thru a security, don a see-thru bag.

How to Prepare for a Venue Outside?

Because you never know whether you will be in the shadow or sun, layer to be a able to adjust your outfit for thermal comfort. Wear sun-protective clothing.
Use sun cream, bring sunglasses, and a flat ivy hat or baseball cap. The hat being flat and brimless on the sides is critical to not block the view for the people behind you. Having a hat handy is critical to not get a sunstroke.
If the event is in the evening have a mosquito repellent.
When you have to attend a dance competition outside go posh casual in the colors or the couple/team you are to cheer for.

Lookbook: What to Wear to a Sports Event

If you have athleisure in colors close to those of the team, style an athleisure outfit for a sporty, fashion-forward look.

Tip: Avoid belts, anything body conscious, heels, a fancy up-do, bags that are not casual, the other team’s colors, and short skirts, short-shorts, or short dresses. Even style icon and designer of very body conscious dresses Victoria Beckham has been going casual when watching her husband’s or kids’ soccer games. And by no means wear mommy jeans!

Outfit ideas what to wear to a sports event outside in summer.