This is a jeans and t-shirt event
I’ve gotten a few e-mails now from people wondering what the dress code is for the 1st Annual Kidlitosphere Conference, which (brace yourselves) is next week already. Am I ready for that? Do I have my discussion schedule worked out, the name tags printed, the who’s who cheat sheet all compiled, all the other details in order?
HA HA HA HA HA!!! You’re so funny.
Anyway, I do know what to say about the dress code: relax. We’re a group of authors and bloggers and teachers and librarians. We’re sweat pants people, right? We’re zip-up pants if we have to. I mean, I know some people, like Fuse #8, are comfortable doing the New York chic, but you know what? I was just in New York last week, I’m traveling again tomorrow, I’ll be in Chicago for this conference next week and in Pennsylvania for Teen Read Week the following week, and I’ll have plenty of reasons for putting on makeup and grownup author-presentation clothes throughout this coming month, and maybe I’d just like to relax around all of you, if you don’t mind. So I know this probably sounds selfish, but I really want Chicago to be a jeans and t-shirt event. Bring everything I need in a carry-on bag, and not worry about bringing that extra pair of dressy shoes.
And thanks to Herb, we have these cool t-shirts made just for the conference (although anyone can buy them–and don’t you want to start collecting?). You can order either this one or this one (which says, “I read whatever the bloggers tell me to read”–so true).
Obviously you’re all adults and can make up your own minds about what to pack and what to wear, but I’m just telling you right now the fanciest you’re going to see me is at the dinner Saturday night, when I might just throw on a jacket over my jeans and t-shirt ensemble. It’s an outfit that probably wouldn’t pass muster with Tim Gunn or Stacy and Clinton, but I’d rather kick back and enjoy hanging out with all of you than worry about falling off my shoes.
Anyone want to argue for sequins?
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September 26th, 2007 at 9:49 am
WooHoo! I pretty much only wear jeans anyway, so this means I don’t have to BUY a dress. (Though I’d buy one if Tim were coming. He’s my hero.)
September 26th, 2007 at 10:35 am
See, now, I knew this conference should have taken place in Seattle. In Seattle, almost every event is a jeans and tee-shirt event. However, my husband has noticed that at Microsoft they’ve started eschewing the golf-shirt for a button-down shirt, and in 20 years, they might actually have worked up to a tie…
September 26th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
I think I’ll just start achin’ with envy now and keep up a good solid jealous streak straight through the conference. During which I’ll be planted here at home instead of in Chicago. Waaaah….
September 26th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Hmmm… What about sequined jeans? Just kidding. I think having a casual dress code is a very happy thing. Working from home, one definitely gets a bit spoiled in terms of wearing comfortable clothing.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
My flight leaves at 6:00 Saturday a.m. and I was thinking of coming in my pajamas. Hope that’s cool.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
I’m one of those freaky people who doesn’t like jeans, so I’ll probably wear something along the lines of cords, although it wouldn’t be unlike me to wear my yoga pants. The t-shirt is obvious, as I even wear t-shirts to work most days.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
And WOO HOO, incidentally. I’m going to Chicago a few days early, so I’m leaving a week from today. :)!!!
September 26th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Holy crap, Robin. Do you know how long it took me to HAND SEW thousands of tiny red sequins into the words “Robin Rocks!” on my tee-shirt? Almost as long as it took me to cut them all out of that glittery sheet of metal I ordered from Hong Kong months ago. And let’s not get into how I had to call in Tim Gunn for a thread match consultation…that guy does not fly in for cheap!
I am SO going to Target for a revenge evening bag. And I’ll carry it. Don’t you think I won’t.
September 26th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
You lucky, lucky people who are going to Chicago. I’ll have to live vicariously through all of you, so take lots of pictures and post away when you get back!
Robin–Amazing job in getting this all organized.
September 26th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Perfect dress code for me (and it is all about me, right?)
I have my jeans, I have my Kidlit Conference T shirt, and now I’m just wondering, do I bring my laptop? This will be my first airplane travel with laptop so I’m a tad nervous.
September 26th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Eisha, you take any situation and make it more fun, don’t you? Pajamas it is! (Or jeans if you’re feeling fancy.)
Liz B., it is all about you–obviously. I’m bringing my laptop for sure. This is a bloggers’ paradise! Don’t you think you might need to make the 1 AM post?
Vivian and Liz(3-name Liz), I’m so sorry you can ‘t come! I’m sorry anyone who wants to come can’t come. But if it goes well, someone else will take this over and host it year after year after year. So please, everyone, don’t trash your hotel rooms.
Jen, that’s my thinking, too. I figure bloggers feel their dressed up if they have to put on their bras. (Sorry, Patrick and Barry.)
Sara, you’re a maniac. I wish so much you were telling the truth so I could see that.
Adrienne, I’ll be there early, too! Let’s wear yoga or sweat pants for that part!
Kelly, I’m happy you’re so happy with this! I know I’m among my people.
And Alkelda, I wish you could come! But maybe you’ll get your wish and next year it will be in fabulous Seattle where the coffee flows like rain. I like the dress code there.
September 26th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Bras too? Damn.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Yeah. We’re going to do the pencil test at the door.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Pencil test! LOL.
Now I just have to decide which of my many Threadless.com T-shirts to wear. Maybe “I’m a Noun!” Or the Haiku shirt. Or “Allow Me to Explain Through Interpretive Dance.”
You know what, maybe I’ll just make a MotherReader T-shirt for the occasion. Then I’ll be the one person that people can find.
September 26th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Very cool designs. Kudos.
Mmm, sequins. I love shiny things!
September 27th, 2007 at 9:34 am
I thought of making a watat.com t-shirt, but I think I have now officially Waited Too Long, unless I want to do it with a Sharpie, which I guess I shouldn’t rule out. I like Sharpies.
September 27th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Mother Reader, the interpretive dance one, please.
Little Willow, break another leg with our performance this weekend!
Adrienne, we’ll do Sharpie tattoos. It’ll be classy.
September 27th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Thanks, Robin!
Adrienne, get this one instead:
http://getinvolved.safehorizon.org/site/PageServer?JServSessionIdr010=qn4ve34325.app5b&pagename=mariska_website_PAC_2007_Tattoo_Page