In the United States, fall brings football, which you can spend your entire weekend (as well as some weeknights)‎ watching depending on your level of passion.  Friday night is high school football (and if you haven’t watched the TV show “Friday Night Lights” with their clear eyes and full hearts, you should check it out); Saturday is college football; and Sunday is professional football.

Since I’m from Texas, one of the hard-core football states, you’d think I’d have every weekend planned from now to the Super Bowl.   But that is not the case.  I may be a total traitor to my upbringing, but I’m just not a big football fan.  There’s too much setting up involved, especially with teams that don’t do much passing and kind of inch the ball down the field a few yard lines at a time.

That’s not to say I don’t keep up with it, however.  I work in finance, after all, which is a very male-dominated industry, and a lot of non-work talk during this time of year is about football (and fantasy football, but that’s a whole separate topic).   So I pick my team and follow them enough to fake it and try to supplement with snippets I picked up from my ex-husband or dad (like what a spread offense or two-point conversion is).

My team is the Longhorns from the  University of Texas, where I went to law school.  A lot of people support the teams from their undergrads, but my undergrad isn’t really known for football, and UT is.  The only problem (besides the fact that every year since Colt McCoy seems to have been a rebuilding year) is that the team color is burnt orange.  What?!?!  Who looks good in that?!?!

But I’ve discovered not to be scared of orange.  I think there’s a right shade for everyone, and when you find it, it can be amazing.   Mine is a true orange or a little lighter, like with the Dion Lee dress I got from Farfetch (www.farfetch.com), shown above.  It’s an orange that complements, rather than washes out, my skin tone, and the white lining helps too.

So rather than stay away from orange except for Halloween, try a few pieces until you find your right shade.  I think it will be a winning play … just like what Vince Young did for UT at the National Championsh‎ip at the Rose Bowl in 2006 (which is still totally exciting to watch … even for me, a non-football fan).