My Summer Style Formula Over 50: Easy White Outfit Ideas
Have you ever heard of a style formula? Or better yet, do you have one?
A style formula is one of those little wardrobe tricks that makes getting dressed so much easier, especially in the summer when it’s hot, humid, and the last thing you want to do is stand in front of your closet overthinking things. It’s basically a go-to outfit formula you know works for your body, your lifestyle, and the season you’re in.
Today, I’m teaming up with my friends Jennifer from A Well Styled Life and Kay from Dressed for My Day to share our go-to style formula for the season. We each have a different take on summer style, and I know you’ll find something inspiring from each of us!
Let Me Introduce Myself:
If you are new to my blog, I’m Tania (pronounced like Tanya Tucker), and I want to welcome you to my blog. I’m married to Joe, and you’ll hear a lot about his crazy antics on my blog. I have 3 children, 5 grandchildren, and a pooch name Lucy Lu who you will often see in the background of my photos. For size reference, I’m 5’6″ tall and weigh between 150-155 (depends on the day), and wear a size 8 in most clothing. If you see a “🙂” in the comments, that’s because I play a game with my email subscribers. I hide a smiley face in one of my photos, and they say found it, or leave me a 🙂 when they find it. That enters them into my weekly $50 Amazon card giveaway.
White Outfit Ideas for Women Over 50
For me, my summer formula almost always starts with white. It’s crisp, clean, and keeps me feeling cool and confident, even when the temperature says otherwise. I’ve found a few foolproof ways to wear it that I go back to every single year: white on white, white with stripes, and white with neutrals.
Monochromatic – White on White
If you haven’t tried wearing white on white, what are you waiting for?
I know it can feel a little intimidating at first, maybe you’re worried about spills or thinking it’s too much, but trust me, it’s one of the easiest summer style uniforms you can create to look fresh and put together!
Don’t stress about matching your whites perfectly. Mixing shades and textures, like denim with linen or cotton with lace, actually makes the outfit feel more intentional. It adds interest without any extra effort.
I started with this Cotton Modal V-Neck Tee, and y’all, it’s one of those basics that just works. It’s lightweight but not see-through, and the V-neck is super flattering. I’m wearing a size large for a relaxed fit, and it’s got just the right amount of stretch to keep it comfy without looking sloppy.
I topped the tee with this gorgeous 100% Linen Structured Blazer. I think you gurls will be seeing me wear this one a lot because I love how it pulls an outfit together. It’s not too boxy, and the linen keeps it breathable, even when the summer humidity is doing the most. You can throw this blazer over just about anything and instantly look polished!
For bottoms, I went with these Galway Wide Leg Jeans in a size 29. These have a nice high rise that holds everything in, and the wide leg is great for balancing out your shape. I love how they skim the body without clinging, and the fabric is thick enough that you don’t have to worry about showing off your panty lines like you sometimes do in white jeans (you know what I mean!).
And for shoes, I slipped on my go-to Clear Strap Wedges. These babies are surprisingly comfortable, and the clear straps make your legs look a mile long. Plus, they go with everything! You can just as easily wear them with a sundress as you can with denim shorts.
Monochromatic – Navy on Navy with White Jeans
Don’t sleep on a monochromatic outfit, it’s one of the easiest ways to look instantly polished without trying too hard. Wearing one color creates a long, lean line, and when you stick with darker shades like navy, it’s extra slimming (yes, please!).
Now, I’ll admit this isn’t a true monochromatic outfit since I kept my white jeans on, but it still gives you that same streamlined effect. If you wanted to take it all the way with a total monochromatic style uniform, you could easily swap in a pair of dark wash jeans (find my favorite ones here!) or navy chino shorts!
For this look, I kept the same great blazer and jeans from the first outfit, but swapped out my white tee for a navy crewneck one. The tone-on-tone look feels classic and pulled together, but still super wearable for everyday.
I finished it off with a pair of my favorite wedge heels and my Brahmin Adrian Satchel for a little structure and polish. It’s the kind of outfit you can wear to lunch with the girls, church on Sunday, or even casual Friday at work.
Wearing White with Stripes
There’s just something about stripes that screams summer, don’t y’all think? They feel fresh, playful, and a little nautical without being over the top. And when you pair them with white? Instant outfit magic.
Whether you go bold or subtle, horizontal or vertical, stripes are a summer wardrobe staple I reach for again and again. Here are two stripe + white style uniforms I’ve been loving lately:
This Frank & Eileen Perfect Polo in the navy French stripe is just that, perfect. It’s got that lived-in softness I love, and the collar adds a sporty little twist. I’m wearing a medium for a relaxed fit, and it looks so cute half-tucked into these Wide-Leg Pants. The button-fly detail gives them a little extra interest, and they’re super comfortable!
I finished the look with my Brahmin Satchel, which adds structure and polish, and my go-to Sam Edelman platform slides. These sandals are comfy, true to size, and give me a little lift without sacrificing comfort. This look is one I’d wear to lunch with friends, out shopping, or even on a casual date night with my husband, Joe!
This next outfit is a little more colorful! This button-up is such a fun take on classic stripes. It’s got a breezy linen feel that’s perfect for those hot summer days, and I love the mix of soft colors.
I paired it with the same white wide-leg pants (see? They go with everything!) and added a raffia handbag for a touch of texture. The bag just sold out, my here is a similar one.
This outfit feels like something I’d wear on vacation, at a weekend farmer’s market, or just when I want to feel cool and pulled together without any effort!
White with Neutrals
Gurls, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, white goes with everything. But if you want a look that feels soft, elevated, and perfect for just about any occasion, try pairing your white pieces with warm neutrals. This combination is simple, it’s timeless, and it works for women of any age.
Pairing white with shades like beige, taupe, or cream adds depth and a soft contrast that’s easy on the eyes. Plus, neutrals have a way of making your whites look even crisper!
I started with this Organic Cotton Sweater Vest, which is lightweight, breathable, and perfect for those warm summer days. I’m wearing a medium, and it’s roomy enough to drape nicely without clinging.
Then I added the matching Organic Cotton Cardigan for a little extra coverage. It’s got just the right amount of texture to keep things interesting, and it’s a great option if you don’t love baring your arms. The whole look feels soft and polished without being heavy or fussy.
I love how the bright white pants anchor the whole outfit and make those warm neutrals pop. This is a look I’d wear on repeat all summer long, it’s put together but relaxed, stylish but comfortable. And the best part? Every piece can mix and match with the rest of your closet. That’s what I call a smart wardrobe, gurls!
On my feet, I’m wearing my Italian Leather Soft Loafers; they’re simple, polished, and easy to walk in. And I finished it off with a bag in a creamy ivory that ties everything together without being too matchy-matchy.
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Hi Tania, I enjoy reading your posts. What is the beautiful green stone that is in the ring that you wear on your right hand? Green is one of my favorite colors too.
Karen, it is black opals. Joe bought it for me for our 10th anniversary.
Found it! Combinations of blue and white take me through the summer.
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Love the polo top.
The outfits you show are amazing. Nice styling. Something I would definitely wear. Some of the tops or pants are sold out. Would be great if you had alternatives that look similar.
Started the day with a white tank, white pants, and light pink linen button up. All by myself….and then I see your blog. 🙂
Enjoy your blog everyday.
Hi Tanya
These outfits scream “ me”! Thanks for all the ways to style white denim(my favorite). I already know Kay, and thanks for introducing Jennifer. I’m now subscribing to her. Glad you had a Happy Birthday🙂
Love the white and blue combo. So crisp
Found it 😁
Goofy clown clothing get a life
😀found it. White pants (and a blazer) are great staple! All outfits are great!
😊 found it
Your outfits are perfect for my lifestyle.
Found it. Love the striped tops!
Thanks for the great content. Came by from Kay Harm’s blog.
Welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed your the blog.
😀 found it! Loved the neutrals with white.
Love the easy white summer looks! Found it 🙂
😊 so funny about the antique plate. My husband just restored a car. One of his favorite things is the antique plate. I shared your story with him. 😊 Nice to be introduced to your blogger friends! Love the sweater set. So versatile.
I hope he thought that was funny!
Yes, he did!
🙂 I like the navy and white striped top with white pants!
Found it 🙂 The sweater set is very nice.
😊 I don’t care for the fringed hem
Love the neutrals with white! Now I know what I’m wearing this weekend. Always thanks for the great ideas.
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I love every one of these ‘white’ oufits!
😊 really like the organic cotton vest/cardigan set. So nice!
Love the green top. ☺️
Cute outfits.
Very nice go to outfits. I love knowing why you chose s particular purse to go with an outfit.
I didn’t see anything from Jennifer and Kay – are they coming up on future blogs?
Michele, you have to click on their names. It will take you to the post they did today on their blog.
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I enjoyed your summer style formulary. Everything looks so cool and stylish.
🙂 found it! Always enjoy your comments and outfits!!
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Nice ideas. Love the neutral with whites!
☺ This is a great post, thank you! I love that navy blazer and it’s so versatile. You look great in every outfit! I’m glad you had a super birthday!
😊 Very cute outfits and accessories. thanks for all the good ideas. You’ve influenced me to like white pants better.
😊 Found It..
Happy Belated Birthday !! 🎉🎈🎁🎂. My birthday is on May 19th.
🙂 Now I will follow Kay, I like her easy style
FOUND IT!
I have been following Kay for awhile and so enjoy her and her posts as I do you and Jennifer!
How nice to see you all working together -just makes sense
You look good in all the above outfits as usual
Very fun and fresh. Kay sent me. I’ll be back.
It’s fun to see how the same pair of white pants can go from casual to dressy with the change of a top.:)
🙂 Love the shoes
Hello Tania, and it’s nice to meet you. Kay promised I would like your blog and I do. I look forward to your emails.
Welcome, I’m so glad that you liked the blog.
Found it!
Happy Belated Birthday to you Tania! I didn’t see the smiley face on this post but I liked everything you modeled. Loved the Quince linen blazer the most! I also read the blogs from your friends, enjoying what they had to say. I even bought a pair of Athleta warm up pants after seeing them on your friend Kay. Thanks so much and I hope you have a wonderful day today!
🙂 I like the column of white with the blazer!
😀 Did not find it I’m glad you enjoyed your birthday. Nice white outfits.
Love your posts! Your hair is looking pretty in these pics—your hair looks nice tucked behind your ears as it shows off your face and doesn’t drag it down ( I have a similar issue!). The volume on the sides also flatters your face rather than having height on top which elongates. I’m trying not to be insulting as I have been a faithful reader for many years.
🙂 Navy on navy is my favorite. But I love the navy blazer with anything!!
🙂 White tops I can do. LoL not sure of the bottoms for me. Thanks for inviting you’re friends along today.
😊 found it.
Found it 🙂
Neutrals, white and Navy blue and easy staple to mix and match- you can’t go wrong.
Loving all the outfits! 😊
🙂 Found it! Always love navy and white together!! Classy!!
🙂white 💖
☺️ Love the collaboration!
Love white & navy!
Found it! 🙂
🙂 I liked every one of the outfits you showed, it was too hard to pick a favorite!
😃 I find white pants to be very versatile since you can wear just about any color with them. I still need to try wearing beige and white together. Have a blessed day!
Sounds like a wonderful birthday!! God bless you for another wonderful year! White and stripes are my kryptonite for sure😁
Nice summer outfits ☺️
🙂 Happy belated birthday!!
🙂 I like the green top and navy is always a go to for me.
🙂 White with beige is beautiful!
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Beautiful neutral choices. Thanks for the ideas!
😊Found it…enjoyed your blog with my morning coffee on my 75th birthday…Kay sent me to your site and I subscribed 🤩
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🙂 love the shoes in the last outfit.
🙂 Love Navy with white pants. So classic!
🙂. I just can’t get use to the raw hem look! My Mama was a seamstress and she would have hung her head in shame if she had allowed me to wear a piece of clothing unhemmed!!
🙂 That pizza looks delicious!
🙂 Love the navy blazer! I have followed Kay with Dressed for my Day for years.
I will check out the other fellow blogger.
White, beige, and navy are my favs! You are singing my color song for summer. Tania, you look fabulous in all these outfits. I’m so impressed you can wear these adorable shoes. A girl can dream but I know my feet would scream if I tried. Xo
lol! I’m wearing them as long as I can. 🤣
Great tips. I think it’s fun you did a collab with Kay. She sent me over to you. Fun to read new bloggers.
Kay is a sweetheart! I love talking with her almost daily.
🙂 Happy Birthday! I love white on white pants or skort. Yesterday I wore a white pants navy shell(Talbots) and a navy double breasted sweater coat. Topped the out fit off with gold jewelry and for fun pink ballet flats. I was at a ladies luncheon and everyone was dressed in their Spring best. I felt like I fit in and looked great. I’ll be traveling next week and my white on white outfits are coming with me!
White pants, skirt or shorts always ads a touch of class to an outfit.
Love your style! How do I subscribe? Can’t seem to get the subscribe button on your website page to work.
If you would like for me to do it for you, let me know.
😊I’m with you all the way on the white pants! I wear mine constantly in the summer. I’ve been learning from Kay and you for years! Will check out Jennifer’s blog.
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🙂 found it. I love wearing navy and white in the summer time.
Found it😊 Love the white on white with navy blazer!
Found it.😁😁😁😁
🙂 Love the white and navy!
😊 Love white pants with….so many options!! The neutral top(s) are a great choice I haven’t tried yet, but hope to try soon!
😊 Happy birthday!
🙂 Love the beige and white.
Hello Tania, greetings from England. I have come via Kay and love your post today. I have subscribed to you and am looking forward to seeing more of what you do.
Welcome, Jane! It is wonderful to have you here, all the way from England. 🥰
🙂 Love those clear sandals.
I wear them all the time!
🙂 Great post, Tania!
Love the blue blazer. Very versatile. 😃
😊 I love these outfits! I follow both Kay & Jennifer. All of you created such great outfit combinations! 💕
Found it 😀loved all the white outfit ideas! Enjoyed seeing Jennifer and Kay’s style also!
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🙂 Found it
I have the pieces to copy your styling. Love the outfits on you. I didn’t know you knew Kay. I follow her blog too. I love her devotional message every day and she’s such a sweet lady. I bet you make her laugh a lot.
Kay and I have never met in person, but I’ve linked with her before, many years ago.
😊 Looks like you had a nice birthday….the pizza looks delicious! I really like the green stripe button up and the organic sweater set.
Tania, love you and Joe’s humor!! Love the white on white with black or navy. Pinned those outfits for sure! Thank you for a great post!
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😊 I love navy and white! Always a classic.
😊 Glad you had a great birthday! Those pizzas sure look good!
I like all the outfits, the green striped linen shirt is really cute. Also like the cream and white outfit. The Quince blazer looks really nice. I noticed they have other colors too, and not a bad price.
Love the white on White! You look amazing!
😀always looking forward ways to wear white!
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😊 I like the soft beige and white. A striped polo is always good.
Loved the white with navy. Looks so polished.
😀found it – I find I wear white almost year round with my two fav stores stocking lots of “winter” white. I still cannot do sleeveless tho but admire my friends who do. Have a great girlfriend lunch!
Great blog today! My birthday cake was really good! How about yours!
It was a birthday slice of cheesecake, and it was delicious.
🙂 Great post with the ladies! My style formula for summer generally starts with white denim or blue denim!
Found it! I do like the white and beige combo look. I have a light beige plain dress that I wear with a white shirt jacket. It’s become my favorite summer combo color.
Love the white! Found it 😊
🙂 Found it!!! Thanks for modeling tops that cover the upper arm and also that are tunic length. I really like the “Frank and Eileen perfect polo”.
Good morning, Tania. I love the look of white clothing in the spring and summer (and sometimes in the fall). 🙂
It took me many years to feel comfortable in white, though, because when I began working (many years ago) in the medical field, we wore white (dresses, hose, shoes, pants, tops). Wearing white made me feel like I was dressed for “work”. 🙂
BTW, I love Jennifer and Kay!
Aren’t they fabulous? 🥰
HI! Kay sent me. Love your blog.
Welcome, Lisa! I hope you enjoyed your visit.
😀 I really like the green linen shirt.
😊 I am loving your choices with white! I am a navy and white girl all the way!
FOUND IT! 🙂 Such cute clothes and you model them all so well! Love the green stripe blouse and white and blue stripe shirt!
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Great styling ideas! Navy and white is my favorite.
Belated Happy Birthday! 🎉🤩
🙂 I really like natural and white combinations. Looking forward to visiting your other Gurls on their sites! I’ll tell them you said “hey”☺️
I know you’ll love their blogs.
☺️Happy Belated Birthday 🎉🎉Today is my birthday and I might just treat myself to that Quince navy blazer….so pretty and I’ve been wanting to try something from them…do they run pretty true to size?
Happy Birthday. The blazer runs true to size. They also have a relaxed blazer, and I wear a medium in that one.
😀 I love seeing how you styled the Frank and Eileen polo and linen shirt with the white pants.
😀. Really like the navy and white. So classic!
🙂 I would not have thought of beige and white. Thanks for opening my eyes to that possibility!
😉 Great choices
😊great outfits as always
Looking good, Tania! That green striped shirt is gorgeous on you. Thanks for teaming up with me today!
It is always so much fun every time we get to talk with each other.
😊 I haven’t tried the white with a neutral like beige but love the look! Thank you for all of the options with white pants! You look so pretty in everything.
😊Glad you had a great birthday. The cream sweater set is my favorite.
Pizza is always my birthday dinner! Hope yours was delicious. Found it! 😊
😀 Love the wide leg pants from Nordstrom! love the look!
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found it!
ohhhhh those pizzas look delish!! Great way to celebrate your birthday! I really like that green gauze shirt, light and breezy.
😊Tania, I am a little vintage too😜….especially now with my silver platinum hair. The navy and white is my fave….so classy
~Lisa~
🙂 Love the sweater set and also like the Frank & Eileen, but always shocked at their prices!
FOUND IT🙂! Tania it looks like you had a great birthday. I have never done white on white but you have certainly pulled it off & got me thinking about how I can do it.
I love wearing white on white, it is so easy to create, and looks like you spent hours creating the look.
😊 Navy and white is always a great combo!
It is such a classic combo!
😊 Love the navy and white stripe tshirt and the green blouse.
Glad you had a wonderfull birthday.
Thanks, Carole!
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Love the navy and white and neutral and white.
Also love the shoes!
🙂 Love the white on white!
🙂beautiful clothes! I think you have a bot problem.
🙂 Happy Belated Birthday! Love all the ideas in today’s posts.
😀! Love the linen blazer I have it and it’s a keeper. However it does wrinkle
🙂 Loved the sweater set with the white pants!
😀 that sweater set is stunning
Thanks! I love it, and it is so cool in the heat of the summer.
Found it 🙂 Love them all!
🙂 Nice ideas for white pants!
Thanks, I am glad you liked it.
😊 love the look of the white pants with the beige top!
That is one of my favorite ways to style white.