The greatest show on earth!!!!  There is more than one reason the Calgary Stampede has this tag line.  The rides, the rodeo, the chuck wagon races are all a spectacle…..but lets not forget the Stampede styles that come out during these two weeks in July.

Over the years I have tried to avoid pushing throught the hords of people on the midway, the deep fried foods, the beer tents and the sardine can of a train ride home.  This year my avoidance tactics and memorized excuses failed.  I found myself in the exact situation I had successfully bypassed all these years.  The Calgary Stampede midway!!

The energy on the ground, I admit, was exhilarating.  The grease dipped food smelled wonderful.  Even, the guy getting taken out of the beer tent on a stretcher was rather intriguing.  The one thing that I will forever have nightmares about was the attire adorned by all of  the twenty, thirty even forty something women at this affair.

To all the Calgary women out there who wore these barely there, beadazzled get ups ( you know who you are)….what are you thinking! 

Here is a little styling advise: 1.) Bikini tops are made for the beach, not the rodeo on a Tuesday afternoon. 2.) If the pockets of your jean shorts hang out where the shorts end…they are too short. 3.) If you can’t bend over without showing the world your goods…this skirt is a rag, not an item of clothing. 4.) Cutting your jeans to look like chaps and sporting them with pink, cotton, Haynes her ways….is NOT sexy.

Dark wash jeans,  a white tank, and a straw cowboy hat is the way to go!  Any one, any age, any size can pull this look off.  Accessorize with silver jewellery, and a comfortable pair of brown or black cowboy boots.  This style is not only festive, but classy and cute all wrapped up into one little appropriate package. 

Yee Haw all you cow-folk out there!  Hopefully the Calgary Fashion will impress more next year.