Thursday, April 15, 2010

perhaps I'm old fashioned...

...but as we continue with another unprecedented (this calendar year at least) sublime day of warm air and partly cloudy skies, I can’t help but wish that we all dressed in prettier summer fabrics.

The switch on campus to shorts (very short shorts for young women this year, it seems) is instantaneous. None of the pretty cottons that are showing up elsewhere in the country. We like denim.

And that’s a shame.


But that’s the extent of my complaining. It is splendid to be in Wisconsin today. Absolutely splendid.

The morning ride is for me, for the first time, outright warm.


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And the ride back is extravagantly beautiful.


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Gorgeous colors, don’t you think? Now, can we scrap the denim and see some skirts with maybe tulip prints on them? Or pansies? Or peonies?

4 comments:

  1. I'm with you on the pretty skirts and dresses. Must be our "mature" youth!

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  2. I was a little disappointed in Chicago a week ago. The fashion was not good. What happened to pulling a cute outfit together when going to the big city?

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  3. So, then, what happened to all those pretty frocks you were contemplating in Mexico?

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  4. george h: Oh, I'm all up on my flowered frocks. Though it's still too cold for me. But then, I'm not in shorts either.

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