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it feels like the summer's winding down, though we still have a good month of heat, corn, peaches & tomatoes.
i'm itching to get back to a schedule, to poetry workshop and live college teaching, to kids in school all day, to sweaters and tights.
(do you remember, julie, the seventeen back to school issue? i was always sad that we wore shorts to school in az. for months, and it was almost never cold enough for a preppy wool sweater.)
so, although i'm starting to look forward to fall, my favorite season, and i'm loving the back-to-school outfit videos cecily has been working on, i'm also trying to embrace summer and not end it before it's over, if you know what i mean. trying to fit in the outdoor movies and theatre, a little more pool time, a picnic and a hike or two.
tonight we took the sundance moonlight chair lift ride for our date night. it's only held a couple of nights a month in the summer when the moon is full. sundance is so beautiful. i think it's the most beautiful of the utah resorts.
(i had to close my eyes going down on the lift on the super steep part, & also, to block out the envy, when i saw the sundance screenwriting lab residents with their lanyards allowing them entrance into certain areas "not open to the public"--why was i not one of them? what was going on in those off-limits areas?)
i'm also trying to plan my own first day of school outfit. it's a little trickier than it once was.
what's everyone wearing this year?
i have no idea!
julie turley, what will the trends be in nyc?
I was utterly consumed by the thick, juicy back to school issue. I would memorize it. I can still recall very specific pictures and copy. Also, I loved the feature where they would have like seven essential pieces and show how to combine them into many amazing outfits.
ReplyDeleteI loved that Seventeen issue, too, but was sad because those clothes were just a fantasy for me. I'd still spend hours going through it page by page.
ReplyDeleteYes--I should have said: seven unattainable pieces. twenty-seven impossible outfits.
ReplyDeletewell-said, marni. for better or for worse, you couldn't get cheap fashionable clothes back then like you can now, and thrifting was not yet a thing.
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