You're going to the gala. Now what?

What to wear while raising money and mingling with fellow parents

Feb 16, 2025

Every school does some kind of fundraising event, usually in the spring. As they should! Anything for our kids and teachers, am-I-right? They range from costume parties to full blown black tie balls. So what’s a parent to wear??

This may contain: four women in black and orange dresses are posing for a photo with their hands on their hips

It’s a theme. FML.

Sometimes a theme is great, sometimes it’s a burden. If you’re not out here trying to source the perfect mustache for your Charlie Chaplin costume, then you need to take the ‘nod’ approach. As in ‘I saw there was a theme. My outfit is a ‘nod’ to said theme’.

Decades:

Buying something new to fit a decade costume? Please let it be something you’re actually excited to own, and will wear again (as my eyes go straight to the Gucci bag in slide 1):

‘70s