Tonight Hubby Tony and I went to church and dinner. In honor of the end of the summer season I wore a pair of white cotton pants and a coral linen shirt. Those lightweight materials were perfect, since the hot weather we didn't get in July and early August has come back with a vengeance. For the last week we've had a heat advisory. The normal high temperature is 86°. Yesterday and today it was over 103°, tying the record.
After dinner we stopped for frozen custard at an outside stand. It was so hot the custard melted and dripped all over my pants. Instead of waiting until Labor Day to wash them, they went into the laundry when I got home. Their season's over.
Five years ago today: New Thing #233--The Stroll
I dress according to the weather, but I did just receive a gorgeous bouquet of purple flowers from a dinner guest which put me in a 'fall' frame of mind!
ReplyDeleteLate August usually has me in that same fall frame of mind, but the temperature's tipped the scale back towards summer!
DeleteMy mom taught me that rule, too! I have relaxed it over the years...no white shoes or purses, but the white slacks remain while the weather is still summery.
ReplyDeleteI have a selection of early fall clothes that are lightweight without being white. They'll come out when the white pants go into storage :-)
DeleteI did follow that no white after Labor Day rule in Illinois, but in Hawaii most people haven't heard of it or care actually. I guess when you don't have clear cut seasons, it doesn't make sense.
ReplyDeleteYes, in an area with no seasons there's no clear sense of when to change from one type of clothes to another.
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