White Daisy Dukes in October??

That's a question my husband needs to answer... Last week, I flew to Orlando to attend a business conference. Before I left, I made arrangements for my mom to pick up my kids at daycare and school, and my older daughter also slept over at my mom's house one night as her school was closed for Columbus Day. I also left my husband with three outfits for each of the kids to wear complete with matching socks and hair accessories. I also instructed him on the fine art of creating pony tails. Now you might laugh at that, but my kids have looked like street urchins in the past when he has been responsible for dressing and grooming them. In any event, as soon as the car service brought me home from the airport, I drove to the daycare to pick up my 2 year old. She was dressed in a short sleeve dress (at least a nice Gymboree dress) and her hair was a mess. Not one of the long sleeved outfits that I had left for her to wear. When I arrived at my parent's house, my dad warned me that my 5 year old was wearing shorts and a short sleeve shirt. By the way, these were not ordinary shorts either, but white Daisy Duke hot pant shorts. I could not believe my eyes, nor could my mom who was the one who picked her up at school for me. LOL, my mom told me that when she saw what Miss E was wearing, she said aloud so the other moms waiting in the hall would hear, "She must have dressed herself." My husband claims in his defense that my daughter wanted to wear a wild flower power short sleeve shirt with an equally wild floral skirt that did not match. He figured that white went with everything, so he found the white shorts for her to wear. White capri pants were hanging in her closet along with many pairs of jeans and khakis, but he apparently felt a short sleeve shirt demanded shorts. Thankfully, he had written the teacher a note saying that I was away and my mom would be picking up my daughter instead. It appears that the teacher chalked my daughter's wardrobe up to a poor choice on my husband's part, as I have not yet heard from the school social worker or anyone affiliated with a child welfare agency. I have no idea what he was thinking, short shorts in mid-October? Now he would never know that wearing white is a faux pas after Labor Day, but he should have known that shorts are not appropriate fall clothing for a crisp fall day in Connecticut! by the way, did I fail to mention that the darling clothing outfits that I laid out were left in the same places that I left them? Go figure! Luckily for my kids, I rarely travel for business.