I currently have a baggy brown 1930s bathing suit in my shop in Portland. I wonder if, via the Migration of Vintage Objects Around Multnomah County, the one I have is the one you wore all those years ago. I love that you wore it all summer.
It’s really cute! We have a couple, they work great as a romper or a bodysuit under something else, if your romper days are far in the past like mine are.
I’m going to London and UK for a month (fellowship at the British Library, yay!!) and I’ve been scrambling to assemble outfits for their “summer” (I live in South Carolina). I’m thinking layers?
Definitely! Summer clothes, Autumn clothes, winter clothes, spring clothes 😂. There’s a reason why we’re obsessed with talking about the weather here. Totally unpredictable. But yes actually really quite hot (for us) atm. Congrats on your Fellowship.
For sure- layers and layers. Camisoles (it was 31 delicious here in Oxfordshire last week) long sleeve shirts, to go over camisoles- SOS (Save Our Shoulders!) shorts, jeans, t shirts, jumpers- evenings can get chilly quickly, waterproofs, trainers/sandals/a semi waterproof foot covering too for potential torrential. A cap, a cardigan… oh, T shirts! Skirts. Ok, I am now just listening items of clothing. I suppose this means- bring it all. The weather is mad here- after our week of 30 degrees, we then encountered a teeny snow shower the other morning. For real.
Congratulations on your Fellowship at the BL! That’s so exciting! Xx
It’s very hot and humid in UK in summer. I’d bring one hoody or sweater and one pair of joggers or something. Lots of light pants / dresses / shorts. We don’t tend to have ac anywhere like the US so be prepared for that.
I’ve been feeling so uncreative and middle aged blah in my outfits in recent years, but today I got this sorta puce (puke?) colored summer dress down and am wearing it loose enough that there’s a lotta bare back and a LOT of side boob going if you look for it and I’m feeling good about this!
You singing “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” (but only that line) was exactly what I needed today.
My summer outfit is always some light loose dress with sneakers. I used to live in Paris and every sidewalk sold the same thin, long dress three summers in a row (2018-2020), for 20-30 euros, and I bought a couple every year because I wore it every day all summer long, and I still wear the same dresses years later. They’re kind of like not wearing clothes, but you’re covered neck to ankle (except they’re see-through in sunlight).
I haven’t eaten Agedashi Tofu for a long time but I ate it almost every day in 1999 from Dojo’s on St. Marks. Do u have a place in LA to recommend this dish?
I make these weird silk flowers out of old ties thus I recommend one on a large v neck white tee with white pants as a monochrome outfit with an unusual thing is stand out
my summer outfit is a white mens undershirt tank top & low cut wide levi’s jeans & calvin klein undies w the waistband visible. i bought 2 pairs of the jeans & a 6 pack of the tank top, and 6 pack of the undies. it’s ready at all times. i sub out the pants for the most decrepit jean cut offs that are hand me downs from both of my parents, or a pair of swishy blue drawstring adidas shorts, hand me downs from an aunt. i like it bc when i dress this way butches tell me i am looking quite butch.
shoes are rainbow keens. my pride & joy.
haircut is a buzz @ a guard level 4.
sub outfit options: the frilliest babydollest dresses i could find. 1 yellow linen slip dress i wore for the first time commando after driving home from moving my best friends to vermont from pa. t shirts i cropped myself. cow print pants from the gap. a 3 piece linen suit.
tj maxx has come thru, the gap has come thru, nordstrom rack, levi’s, salvation army, hand me downs
I love this post and your outfit and hearing you describe your process :) My summer outfit is a long dress, actually two. One purchased from Target (currently boycotting), a year or two ago; it's a long white shirt dress with rainbow stripes from their Pride collection. The other one is similar but different, a cotton maxi dress from Anthropologie called the Somerset Maxi. I got it secondhand from a swap group last year.
For years I only wore trousers but in my 70s I'm discovering the pleasure of dresses in warm weather. I tend to wear trousers in winter because I hate wearing tights, but now in the summer I'm wearing maxi T shirt dresses to keep cool and feel the air around my legs, with a kantha jacket on top in the evenings or on cooler days. I have three T shirt maxis and I've just bought another and I have variety of kantha jackets, which I love because they're casual, light and washable.
I love the child collab. My mom and I just sat around watching Wuthering Heights and crying. My current summer outfit for WFH is tight boy shorts actually for boys (the opening in front was my clue) and a loose gray Old Navy tank tied in a knot in front, but I'm going out tonight and I'll do better.
Linen/cotton blend barrel leg pants from Uniqlo and a voile cotton shirt from Dôen. I have them both in black and white. So I mix and match the four pieces. Or ARQ underwear and tanks if just at home.
I also love the company Not Perfect Linen. You can customize their clothes for your body and their designs are timeless and lovely. Hardest part is picking a color and waiting for it to be made for you— but always worth it and definitely part of the hot day rotation.
I swear if I left my house in the big white shirt and little shorts everyone would think my house was on fire! Thanks for the laughs with the 'important documents' I relate to that. I thought recently about what I would save and I still have no idea. I need a shelf labelled 'save this' at the door and yet I think it would be clothes that I would miss the most.
Oh you do make me happy with your stories! There is such a kindness in the way you go about your life. It’s a certain attention you give to things and people and situations.
🐀🐀🐀🫡🫡🫡
I currently have a baggy brown 1930s bathing suit in my shop in Portland. I wonder if, via the Migration of Vintage Objects Around Multnomah County, the one I have is the one you wore all those years ago. I love that you wore it all summer.
OMG how amazing would that be
It’s really cute! We have a couple, they work great as a romper or a bodysuit under something else, if your romper days are far in the past like mine are.
I’m going to London and UK for a month (fellowship at the British Library, yay!!) and I’ve been scrambling to assemble outfits for their “summer” (I live in South Carolina). I’m thinking layers?
Definitely! Summer clothes, Autumn clothes, winter clothes, spring clothes 😂. There’s a reason why we’re obsessed with talking about the weather here. Totally unpredictable. But yes actually really quite hot (for us) atm. Congrats on your Fellowship.
Thanks! Our kids will come for part of it and they’re such Southerners, they’ll probably get chilly :)
I also love that you put ‘summer’ in quotation marks. Heheh. We live in constant disappointment at how beautiful it could be…if only…😂
(my childhood in the PNW...)
So true 😅
For sure- layers and layers. Camisoles (it was 31 delicious here in Oxfordshire last week) long sleeve shirts, to go over camisoles- SOS (Save Our Shoulders!) shorts, jeans, t shirts, jumpers- evenings can get chilly quickly, waterproofs, trainers/sandals/a semi waterproof foot covering too for potential torrential. A cap, a cardigan… oh, T shirts! Skirts. Ok, I am now just listening items of clothing. I suppose this means- bring it all. The weather is mad here- after our week of 30 degrees, we then encountered a teeny snow shower the other morning. For real.
Congratulations on your Fellowship at the BL! That’s so exciting! Xx
Major LOL as I was reading this - ‘OK, I am now just listing items of clothing’…
It’ll be pretty warm, currently pretty hot here so yeah, layers. Key item a very lightweight rain jacket. And I would definitely suggest pants.
Thx for the recs, jacket for sure!
It’s very hot and humid in UK in summer. I’d bring one hoody or sweater and one pair of joggers or something. Lots of light pants / dresses / shorts. We don’t tend to have ac anywhere like the US so be prepared for that.
Ha, yup. I have an Airbnb in Devon and US guests are always politely baffled there's no ac. A month in the British Library. Swoon
I’ve been feeling so uncreative and middle aged blah in my outfits in recent years, but today I got this sorta puce (puke?) colored summer dress down and am wearing it loose enough that there’s a lotta bare back and a LOT of side boob going if you look for it and I’m feeling good about this!
Just took a selfie and realized it’s not that much side boob at all, so maybe I need to take this as a challenge and step it up
I felt this hard, i missed that you said ‘in my outfits’ the first time though so there’s that
Oh don’t get me wrong, it’s wayyyy past just the outfits 😂😭.
You singing “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” (but only that line) was exactly what I needed today.
My summer outfit is always some light loose dress with sneakers. I used to live in Paris and every sidewalk sold the same thin, long dress three summers in a row (2018-2020), for 20-30 euros, and I bought a couple every year because I wore it every day all summer long, and I still wear the same dresses years later. They’re kind of like not wearing clothes, but you’re covered neck to ankle (except they’re see-through in sunlight).
I haven’t eaten Agedashi Tofu for a long time but I ate it almost every day in 1999 from Dojo’s on St. Marks. Do u have a place in LA to recommend this dish?
Dojo’s on St Marks!! Ahh brought back memories. Thank you. Yum, they had something with hijiki that was delish.
I make these weird silk flowers out of old ties thus I recommend one on a large v neck white tee with white pants as a monochrome outfit with an unusual thing is stand out
Wowoow I'd love to see a pic of your weird silk flowers!!
Here is a note with a picture. 💌 https://substack.com/profile/6524159-darcy-lee/note/c-129977775
my summer outfit is a white mens undershirt tank top & low cut wide levi’s jeans & calvin klein undies w the waistband visible. i bought 2 pairs of the jeans & a 6 pack of the tank top, and 6 pack of the undies. it’s ready at all times. i sub out the pants for the most decrepit jean cut offs that are hand me downs from both of my parents, or a pair of swishy blue drawstring adidas shorts, hand me downs from an aunt. i like it bc when i dress this way butches tell me i am looking quite butch.
shoes are rainbow keens. my pride & joy.
haircut is a buzz @ a guard level 4.
sub outfit options: the frilliest babydollest dresses i could find. 1 yellow linen slip dress i wore for the first time commando after driving home from moving my best friends to vermont from pa. t shirts i cropped myself. cow print pants from the gap. a 3 piece linen suit.
tj maxx has come thru, the gap has come thru, nordstrom rack, levi’s, salvation army, hand me downs
Nice photo of house on fire!
I love this post and your outfit and hearing you describe your process :) My summer outfit is a long dress, actually two. One purchased from Target (currently boycotting), a year or two ago; it's a long white shirt dress with rainbow stripes from their Pride collection. The other one is similar but different, a cotton maxi dress from Anthropologie called the Somerset Maxi. I got it secondhand from a swap group last year.
For years I only wore trousers but in my 70s I'm discovering the pleasure of dresses in warm weather. I tend to wear trousers in winter because I hate wearing tights, but now in the summer I'm wearing maxi T shirt dresses to keep cool and feel the air around my legs, with a kantha jacket on top in the evenings or on cooler days. I have three T shirt maxis and I've just bought another and I have variety of kantha jackets, which I love because they're casual, light and washable.
I love the child collab. My mom and I just sat around watching Wuthering Heights and crying. My current summer outfit for WFH is tight boy shorts actually for boys (the opening in front was my clue) and a loose gray Old Navy tank tied in a knot in front, but I'm going out tonight and I'll do better.
Linen/cotton blend barrel leg pants from Uniqlo and a voile cotton shirt from Dôen. I have them both in black and white. So I mix and match the four pieces. Or ARQ underwear and tanks if just at home.
The barrel leg is the leg I’ve always wanted.
A dream of dreams, right!?
I also love the company Not Perfect Linen. You can customize their clothes for your body and their designs are timeless and lovely. Hardest part is picking a color and waiting for it to be made for you— but always worth it and definitely part of the hot day rotation.
Clever to rotate. Reduce required decision making!
Like Miranda said, these decisions are hard. Once made, I’m out!
I swear if I left my house in the big white shirt and little shorts everyone would think my house was on fire! Thanks for the laughs with the 'important documents' I relate to that. I thought recently about what I would save and I still have no idea. I need a shelf labelled 'save this' at the door and yet I think it would be clothes that I would miss the most.
Oh you do make me happy with your stories! There is such a kindness in the way you go about your life. It’s a certain attention you give to things and people and situations.
Your important documents selection makes me verrry happy 😆
Just perfect
Same!!!!!