Walmart Pajama Style Take 3: Same Nightgown, Different Print

I really prefer my fashion to be a tad bit slower than the one season throw-away products offered by fast fashion retailers. But Walmart is being cute and enticing me to break my own code of style ethics!

When I buy fast fashion items, I try to counteract the long term effects of such purchases by wearing those pieces for many years instead of discarding them in favor of the next new trend. Since I am not much of a fad follower anyway, it’s fairly easy to accomplish this goal. Until my closet gets too overwhelmed with new additions. Then some closet weeding is needed…which I just did this weekend. I filled ten 30 gallon trash bags with things that no longer fit my body or my current style aesthetic. Six bags will be donated, three bags will go to consignment, and one bag has been added to my upcycling pile. With a little bit of closet weeding and organization completed, I can now view my wardrobe with a fresh perspective.

New perspectives and new styling ideas combined with a recently reorganized closet create an interesting sartorial shift that helps keep your outfits looking fresh and fun. Add the cuteness of Walmart’s recent offerings and my summer style aesthetic found its way into the realm of pajama dressing, which is perfect for the hot and humid days of midsummer.

Two weeks ago, I shared two outfits incorporating Walmart sleepwear. My first Walmart pajama outfit featured a brightly colored floral caftan layered over a pink floral nightgown. My second Walmart pajama outfit included a slip style nightgown in the same print as the first caftan layered over white swim suit coverup pants. For this third iteration of Walmart pajama dressing, I combined the same slip style nightgown in a black and white leaf print with the same swim suit coverup pants in black. The same two pieces, but in different colors and prints, combined in the same exact way create the same easy pairing but with completely different vibes.

With many of us experiencing the hottest summer in recorded history, these long light pajama layers are perfect for combatting the heat and humidity while still feeling put together. As a result of the heat waves that just keep coming, air conditioners have been cranked up to their coldest settings, making layering a necessity when you spend most of your time indoors like I do. My shoulders are the first to get chilled so I added a thrifted white shirt dress with a black ditsy floral print as a duster.

When the humidity reaches the most uncomfortable levels, I have to ditch my trademark necklace piles for something lighter and cooler around my neck. As much as I love a good black and white outfit, the heat seemed to call for a punch of bright color so I accessorized with vibrant pink, adding my pink fedora adorned with a black scarf as the hat band, my fuschia pink feather earrings, my recently thrifted pink medallion necklace, and a newly thrifted skinny pink scarf in a lightweight chiffon fabric. Since I don’t currently have any bright pink sandals, I opted for my handy Saltwater Sandals in black.

I had worn various iterations of this outfit a few times before taking photographs of it. But for each of those previous stylings I omitted the pink and kept everything strictly in a black and white color palette. A completely black and white outfit can also deliver a dramatic sartorial punch so perhaps I will restyle this look and photograph it with that in mind. But for this day, I was feeling as bright as my pink accessories and one should never counteract your own good mood! But if your mood is bad, you should definitely oppose it by adding some joyful colors to your outfit that day.

The day I wore this outfit, we ended up taking the kids out for a sushi dinner. As the temperature was dropping in the later hours, I made a few changes to this outfit for the evening which I will share with you on Thursday. I am having so much fun lately playing around with different versions of the same outfit combinations. As long as I keep wearing what I purchase, it takes some of the guilt out of my fast fashion buys. Now if Walmart could just stop being so darn cute!

What types of purchases can cause you to stray from your own shopping ethics?

Keeping it on the edge,

Shelbee