Yesterday I mentioned my getting-equipped-for-summer-angst...a seasonal affliction that starts in Spring and builds as the temperatures rise. I am, by nationality and preference, a cold weather girl. But the locale that I currently call home veers wildly between winter wind chills in the negative twenties to summer temperatures closer to the hundred degree mark. In winter I happily frolic in sweaters and coats, hats and scarves, but as the mercury rises I find myself in a quandary...finding things to wear that work in the heat but still let me feel like myself.
According to magazines, summer dressing is supposed to be a breeze (probably the same one that wafts over tropical beaches in suntan oil commercials). But, in reality, you're uncomfortably warm...sweating, even though ladies are supposed to perspire...and trying to make a mad dash for the air-conditioning only to find that, once inside, that flimsy summer dress you're wearing leaves you shivering in the arctic blast.
Hence my angst...and general feeling of having "nothing to wear" or, rather, not the right things to wear...for a good five months of the year (obviously something that is partially in my head, and partially in my closet). For the past few years I've been making a concerted effort to find pieces that are not only "summer" but "me"...not diluting my style because of the heat, merely finding a hebden lite. But, even so, the search continues...
Friday, February 01, 2008
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i remember a post i did last summer, desperate to understand how people could wear jeans in the summer, when i'm dying of heat-stroke in some flimsy dress. my personal conclusion, i don't think they're human.
And agreed, you have to be superhuman to wear jeans in ninety degree heat.
trust me, you find the right summer dress or skirt for yourself, and it will all come together.
keep us posted. ;)