Summertime in the garden

We Americans cannot travel abroad this summer because of our abominable COVID numbers, and, in some states, we can't travel unless we quarantine for two weeks. As a result, those of us with gardens have been spending a great deal of time in them. Just a good a place to spend the summer as any, with a good book and a nice variety of flowers and vegetables to tend.

We also have the ability to allow our minds to travel. With the temperatures in the 90s, I put on this Agnès B. dress that I found at Revolution, with a tank top underneath from Muji (the hat is from a local store, I bought it a long time ago to wear to one of my daughters' graduation).

The floral cotton dress paired with the tank top reminded me of light summer dresses from the 90s, the 1990s this time, so I went looking for photo spreads that showed models hanging out in a garden. I still have some old French "Marie Claire" hanging around -- I had a subscription for about a decade, and wrote a chapter about working mothers in French fashion magazines from the 1980s and 90s (the book is titled The Francophone Women's Magazine Inside and Outside of France). I found a few images that corresponded somewhat to that memory of loose floral cotton dresses paired with a body fitting undergarment.

                                    

 I think this look is timeless, and the images evoke that delightful summertime feeling of lounging around on a hot day and doing nothing. 

Okay, actually, in that photo I am picking peas.