Wishing I could be wearing tights and long sleeved turtle necks!!
I was walking to school today, as I am wont to do most days, and I was thinking about how it was mighty warm for October 28th! Actually, it is often warm all through October and into November, but we always say things like, "Whoa, it's so hot - where is fall??"
But it was 80 degrees at 10 a.m. - and 98 degrees at 3:10 when school got out. And it was only 95 at 5 when I started walking home!! (I have figured out a shady route home - as long as I go around 5 - before that it's still pretty toasty and not too shady.)But I digress - as I am also wont to do - and need to get back to the topic at hand.
Namely, why we don't like warm autumn days - and what the fashion industry could do about it!
It occurred to me that what we don't like is the fact that we have to keep on wearing our warm weather clothes - good heavens, we've probably been wearing them since April and we are mighty tired of them!
But you can't really go get a new wardrobe - because it's all sweaters and layers and wool and the like. That's a real treat on a 98 degree day! Even boots are too sweaty.
So someone needs to design a California Fall Line of Fashion Essentials - and then we could at least wear some different warm weather clothes.
If you think about this, you will undoubtedly agree with me - the hot weather is a fact of life in SoCal - and we don't totally hate it - the rest of the world is watching us frolic at the beach at Thanksgiving and Christmas. And when Dad and I got married in LA in December, it was so nice after leaving a blizzard in Provo! In fact, Dad said, "Tell me again why we are going back to the ice and snow!!"
But we do want to make a wardrobe change - and someone needs to facilitate that change.
Where is Madison Avenue when you need it??
(The photos are top - Bonny in 1976 and me with my roommates Marlene, Joy, Marcia - I'm at the end in the background in 1963 - the most "fallish" photos I could find.)
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Those leaves? They're in my backyard. Fall is here in our neck of the woods. The early mornings and late evenings inspire fall attire, however, the afternoons find me wishing I chose shorts!
I love fall as well but we are in spring now. The temperature mostly remains the same but you can tell that it is spring. The garden is really growing and the sun is shining. I just wish that I were out more in the daytime instead of in the basement.
It's been fall here for awhile here too. The long sleeves are out and it's been mighty cold a couple of nights already. I'm ready to switch for your weather right now.
Mom, maybe you should quit your day job and start designing clothes! I'd bet you and Alice could come up with some great ideas.
Phoebe is always trying to get me to retire!!
Sounds like a plan - want to bankroll us??
That last comment was me - not Dad. He uses my computer a lot and I forget to switch users.
love that 60's pic - straight out of a magazine.
and i think the reason i don't like the warm weather in the fall is we have to go to school/soccer/homework etc. instead of just swim and go to the beach.
homeschooling is looking better and better.
Love the "Fall" photo from 1963! I remember, well, the olive suit and blue "bow" blouse I'm wearing. I saved money all year long from my two jobs to be able to buy some College Clothes for BYU in the fall.
The suit came from The Broadway and the blouse from Bullocks Wilshire! My two jobs were at Kresge's and then Brunswig Drug Co. My office window looked out at Anhouser-Busch(sp?) (Beer) headquarters and bottling plant in Van Nuys.
One day bulldozers began tearing up the parking lot and an adjoining farmer's field. That was the beginning of "Busch Gardens" in California!
The number one song that summer was Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe." Cher was a year younger than me and wore bell bottom pants and had crooked teeth...just like me! I'd eat my lunch in the car so I could listen to the radio and watch the Bulldozers at work!
I always wanted hair like yours, Barb. It was a lovely color and also, thick and manageable. Your kids and Grandkids have the "Clayton Hair Gene." However, I must say, Harry's side of the family has good hair, too. So maybe it was a double helping of the good stuff.
Ah, Joy, I think we are all never satisfied with our hair.
I'm always wishing mine was straight.
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