College football is just around the corner and The Collegiate Style is here to make sure you look good while you support your team.  Now, this won’t be a very specific guide because the appropriate dress for a football game changes drastically depending on what part of the US you’re in.  Some teams actually have their own tradition that dictate what you should wear to a football game.  For instance, Alabama fans sport houndstooth in honor of their legendary coach Bear Bryant who wore a houndstooth hat.  Ok, back to the matter at hand, let’s talk football fashion.

1. Be comfortable, physically and/or mentally.  If attending a football game in a t-shirt and jeans makes you feel like you’re bumming it, dress-up.  If a school colored oxford and khakis makes you feel like a tool, go with the t-shirt.  It’s a football game, not a gallery opening.  Wear whatever makes you feel most comfortable.  Unless, of course, what makes you comfortable is incredibly ugly or whatever makes you uncomfortable looks THAT good.  This includes your level of fandom.  If you’re at the game to tailgate and socialize, you don’t need to do anything but look good, but if you’re a die-hard go ahead, paint up, wear a wig.  Again, this isn’t anything fancy, its a sporting event, be comfortable.

2. Dress in colors that are as close to your school’s colors as you can get.  Wearing colors that are just sort-of like your team’s actual colors makes you look lazy, like you don’t care and it makes you look uncreative.  Avoid looking like a asshole and just wear the right colors.  Now, this doesn’t mean that you need to match your outfit’s colors by comparing pantone swatches, but try not to wear a red-orange if your school’s colors include orange, teal does not equal blue.

3.  Dress appropriately for the weather.  Very simple.  You look like a great-big tool if you’re over or under-dressed for weather.  You know what?  If you’re not dressed properly for the weather, you either made a mistake and didn’t check the weather for that day, which is fine, or you think people are going to be impressed or think you’re cool for wearing too much when it’s hot or too little when it’s cold, in which case there’s probably no helping you anyways.  Hopefully this was an obvious point that you didn’t need me to understand.

4.  Alright, I don’t care how humid it is outside or how hard the sun is beating down, for the love of god and your own dignities girls, don’t dress too skimpily.  It’s just not cute.  Plus, when you’re jumping up and down because your team just scored a touchdown, you don’t want any wardrobe malfunctions.  Well, if you’re dressing this way anyways, you may actually want to display yourself for all to see and a nip-slip might not be that bad, which means you are again outside of the realm of helpable people.  In short, try not to look lke the girls in the picture above.  No one is as impressed with those girls like they are with themselves.

Hmm, this article really ended up being a guide on how not to look bad at a football game.  I suppose that’s forward motion (haha, pun definitely intended).  I’m sure our faithful readers didn’t need this article, but If this reaches the eyes of just one lost soul out there, my work is done.  Keep these rules in mind and do yourself a favor LIVE SEXY.