Wintry weather challenges our Florida wardrobes
Post by (ugg boots schweiz) Dec 2010
People come to Florida with visions of gauzy linen pants, halter tops and toes thonged by a thin strip of leather. The soundtrack is steel drums, and the scent is coconut and beer.
But in the deep end of the dream pool are rude, chlorine truths. Palm trees turn brown. The beach smells like fish. And for a few weeks each year, our tropical existence turns cold.
It sets in motion a ritual in which we scour our closets to dress for warmth.
The New York types have this down. They have expensive wool coats, tweed pants and boots proofed for inclement weather.
They have pretty scarves and gloves and waffley long underwear and a general air of, “Pfft, I got this.”
In Florida, we don’t waste money on L.L. Bean puffer jackets that we might possibly wear maybe someday. The last time we wore a hat, it was because we accidentally dyed our hair orange in the bathroom sink. We remove our flip-flops only at gunpoint.
It’s up to what we own. To be precise, that’s one teal Cosby sweater from 1996, a flimsy windbreaker we bought for the pirate cruise out of Clearwater Beach and three pairs of threadbare socks.
We adapt.
Augie Mauser, for instance, spends his mornings selling cigars across from the Tampa Police Department on Franklin Street.
When temperatures hovered around 50 degrees recently, Mauser wore a T-shirt, a turtleneck, a sweatshirt and a jacket. He topped his “rich chestnut hair,” as he calls it, with a fedora. And he donned the most uncharacteristic thing in his wardrobe.
Pants.
“I usually wear shorts because I have such beautiful legs,” said Mauser, 73.
The fashion experts talk about layering, which is well-meant advice that can lead to disaster: Ugg boots, miniskirt, fingerless gloves, 12 tank tops.
If you have money or bargain shopping skills, it’s possible to look nice in the Florida winter.
The other option is to give up entirely. To accept that the laundry monster ate our dignity. To band together in weirdness.
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