The Gates of Summer

[dawn_felagund]

I think this weekend can be said to finally usher in summer, for reals yo (as my students would say), at least in the House of Felagund. We had the first day of cultural summer (Memorial Day) and the first day of meteorological summer (June 1), but the chilliness lingered back home, and it just didn't feel like summer yet

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[heartofoshun]

You made me laugh so hard that Alex heard me three rooms away with his earphones on!

It was black with pink flowers and looked like a grandmother's old couch. I told Bobby that if they smelled of mothballs and Basic cigarettes, it would be the complete package.

If I ever need a reminder of why you are one of my favorite writers, this would do it.

I was lucky. When I was young enough to wear strapless or cutout shirts I did not need a bra. Laura is always fighting the battle of looking for the right bra. But you can trust me she would never offend your sartorial finickiness!

[dawn_felagund]

My grandmother's house always smelled of mothballs. It was enough that smelling mothballs for many years after triggered nostalgia for me!

I think she went more expensive than the Basics, though, until she had bypass surgery and quit altogether.

But you can trust me she would never offend your sartorial finickiness!

Laura seems to me to have way too much a sense of style to do that! :D And in my and her day (at least, this was true of where I lived in wannabe-rural Maryland), there weren't as many options as today; it was pretty much the basic bra or the horrible strapless bra. I spent more than one formal dance in high school trying to haul the latter up through a gown from where it had fallen around my waist. (I was not particularly busty then.) Skating show season was an annual battle; I remember wishing out loud to my classmates on more than one occasion that we could, for just one year, have a costume that allowed us to wear a normal bra! But now there are a lot more options.

[klose]

Out of curiosity, did other people at the open air concert also lay out blankets? I went to a free concert festival in Paris in a huuuuge park, and I wanted to sit & chill at the back, but it seemed like most people just wanted to stand around.

[brookeoflorien]

I think in some cases the whole 'non-proper underwear' is just not knowing they exist or where to get them. I can even go to the Dollar Store and get clothes with low cut, lace, or cut out backs (and have), but other things? I'm lucky that my chest is small enough that just bandaids don't look bad (though they can be painful in the heat) *shrug* I honestly think that's a lot of it. In spite of the popularity of such clothes, I'm not seeing - at least out here - at lot of matching popularity in selling suitable underwear...which kind of pisses me off, since I love those types of clothes (the above mentioned, strapless, lace see through portions, crop tops (though I don't own one yet), etc).

Yeah, the black with flowers is popular this year, for some reason. My sister got me a shirt with little pink ones and a lace back, for a combo popularity thing. :D

[marta_bee]

I go down to the less touristy parts of Coney Island just for the people watching in the summer. Last summer there was an honest-to-goodness man with obviously tanning bed-induced tan, box dye job blond hair, and... lederhosen. I called him the Viking. I saw him several times in different pairs of lederhosen, so if it was a goof, it was the oddest of goofs I can imagine.