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Cream-and-Cognac Look for Mom’s First Week Back to School

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Cream blazer, white tank, ivory trousers, cognac belt and tote

Cream-and-Cognac Look for Mom’s First Week Back to School

An easy blazer-and-wide-leg-trouser formula for the first week back: polished enough for drop-off, lunch, or a meeting—and comfortable enough for the rest of the day.

Back-to-school night is one of those first-week events where I need to look presentable to the high school, middle school, and elementary school parent communities. Three campuses. One outfit.

The assignment: polished, covered up, and still summery enough because it will absolutely be 86 degrees at 6pm.

So: a lightweight cream blazer, white tank, wide-leg trousers, cognac belt and tote. Put together enough to suggest I know where all the forms are. I do not. But the outfit has a plan.

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