Best Dog Fashion Ideas for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a time for family, and that includes your dog. Including your dog in the festivities can be a challenge since dogs shouldn't beg at the table, and some human food may be bad for them. One way that your dog can join in the festive spirit is by modeling some fun Thanksgiving or fall fashions.

November 3, 2022 • BaxterBoo Team

T-Shirts With Autumn Color Schemes

Dog fashions are not only fun and festive. If you live in a cold climate and your dog was bred for warmer regions, canine clothing can help protect him from the chill. Short-haired or no-haired dogs may benefit from a little extra insulation.

Dog T-shirts come in a wide array of colors. To involve your dog in the holiday spirit, you may want to choose a plain dog T-shirt in a fall-related color, such as orange.

By itself, a yellow T-shirt may not read as a fall color. However, if you have two dogs, and one wears an orange T-shirt while another wears a yellow one, the autumn color scheme will not be lost on your guests.

T-Shirts With Fall-Themed Messages

Like T-shirts for humans, dog T-shirts sometimes have funny messages on them. These are sure to elicit a smile or chuckle from your guests and help get them into a happy mood. Some even relate to autumn, if sometimes obliquely. For example, during the fall squirrels are busy gathering food for winter, and a Squirrel Patrol T-shirt tells your guests that your dog is watching the situation very closely.

T-Shirts With Family-Oriented Messages

You may regard your dog as family, but if you have relatives that you don't see very often, they may not share the feeling, especially if they don't have much experience with dogs. A dog T-shirt can help communicate the family feeling you share with your dog through humor, such as this one that says "I Still Live With My Parents."

Dog T-Shirts can also express sentiment more sincerely. For example, this one says, "I Love My Mommy," with the word "love" represented by 17 pink hearts.

Bandanas

Not all dogs are comfortable wearing clothing. If your dog resists dressing up, she may consent to wear a bandana, which feels more or less like her regular collar and comes in fall colors, such as orange.

There are also bandanas that relate specifically to autumn. For example, this one tells the world that your dog is your "Lil Pumpkin."

Pumpkin Spice Collar Attachments

Collar attachments, such as little flowers or bowties, are another good way to include your dog in the festivities even if he is a little hesitant about wearing clothing or costumes. For example, your dog can look dapper in this little bowtie that attaches right to his collar while celebrating the inexplicable cultural phenomenon that is the seasonal pumpkin spice latte. Just don't give your dog an actual pumpkin spice latte as the ingredients may not be good for him.

Seasonal Themed Dresses

Some dogs enjoy dressing up in fancy clothes, and your little lady can be the belle of the ball in this fall leaves dog dress. The print design of trees with autumn leaves is accentuated with bows in fall colors along the waist. This dress also doubles as a dog harness, so you can parade her in style at your local harvest festival.

Thanksgiving Costumes

Of the fall holidays, Thanksgiving is not as associated with costumes as Halloween is. Nevertheless, dogs are peripheral to the main Thanksgiving celebration, which is the meal. A cute Thanksgiving costume can be a way to involve them in the festivities without exposing them to food that may be dangerous or encouraging behaviors that are unwanted at other times of the year.

The most iconic Thanksgiving dog costume may be the pilgrim costume. This is available in both male and female variations, each of which is equally adorable.

If you're interested in something more colorful, perhaps you could dress up your dog in a turkey costume. Turkeys can have very colorful feathers, but this one is enhanced to also invoke autumn leaves. The cartoonish turkey seems to have a startled look in its eyes, as though it knows that it is in danger of becoming an entrée.

If the turkey costume is the "before" picture, there is another Thanksgiving dog costume that is like the corresponding "after" picture, with two turkey legs sticking out from your dog's head. It makes your precious puppy look cute enough to eat.

Pumpkins are known as winter squashes because they ripen just as the weather is becoming colder. They have a strong association with both autumn holidays. People carve them into jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween and then make pies out of them for Thanksgiving. Therefore, a dog pumpkin costume would be appropriate for Thanksgiving if you can find one that is just a pumpkin and not a jack-o'-lantern.