No excuses. The computer and I have been riding out the heat wave, taking lots of siestas, but mostly I've just been doing other things than link hunting. Or checking e-mail, in case anyone's tried to send me any actual hand-typed e-mail that's been lost behind the bombardment of automatically generated "bacon." I've opened Outlook a few times, had a look, thought "Lot of bacon," and closed the tab. It's always possible that I'm missing a message from a human being when I just don't feel like fighting the obnoxious ads to get a closer look at the bacon...
Fashion
A wedding guest should do all in her power to avoid looking sexier than the bride. I'm guessing Kim Kardashian's choice of an outfit for Jeff Bezos' party was based on overestimating how much prettier than the bride she is, and trying to make herself look like a hideous old hag who comes on strong enough to redirect a nineteen-year-old boy's mind toward his computer science homework. Nevertheless: tacky. A 44-year-old woman should revel in this kind of outfit if she enjoys it...with her husband...at home.
No link to the site whence I ganked the photos. Their criticisms of the Kimster went too far. Men saying an outfit is tacky is okay; leaping from there to remarks about a woman's whole life and character is, well, tacky.
June should be Modesty Month, anyway, for those whose employers don't demand that they celebrate a Deadly Sin. So here are some summer party styles that appeal to me...at least if they're made of real cotton or real silk. Even for tights, nylon is always deeply tacky. And don't insult me by displaying anything that's even seen polyester--sustainable clothes should last thirty years, yes, but we want to enjoy wearing them all those years. No shopping links; this is a photo essay only, though if someone Out There just has to have a dress Google Lens will probably locate a store.
Actually marketed as the "mother of the bride or groom" dress.
Generally for the fair-skinned and blue-eyed, though a few of the rest of us can wear these pale colors...
For the rest of us.
I think these pale blues are so pretty...I wasted a lot of time and money, in college, trying to wear them and not look sickly. On one of my sisters they look perfect.
For those who look summery, not grimy, in white.
It'd be nice if there'd been a deep rose or sapphire blue for those of us who look sickly in pastels, and not only greens, but I like the greens.
Pretty enough for the bride. Actually the store that posted the photo was marketing it for the bride.
Meh. Maybe the print is on the chintzy side. I'd wear it, anyway. I like the colors.
I'd wear this one.
Or this one.
I like this one.
On about ten percent of womankind this shade of green looks good. They know who they are. I had a sage green dress once--sage, not celadon as shown. I acquired it when I had mono and looked ghastly in any case. After I started looking healthier I noticed that I still looked ill in the sage green dress, and donated it to a charity store. But it was cotton, with a proper, swishy skirt, not unlike the dress shown except at the waistline, and fun to wear.
Music
I'm not sure why the tune is called "Close Your Eyes"--it sounds more like a reference to praying than to sleeping--but everything about this music video is lovely, especially the girls with their faces as clean as the boys'.
This is definitely not church music, but when I discovered The Kinks' web site I was surprised by how many of these "rebellious rockers'" songs have Christian themes...this one seems to be expressing a Christian viewpoint in contrast to a transhumanist one. Lovely. The sound most of my elders used to hate and a message they might have liked if they'd heard the words, which, at the time, with those monaural transistor radios with their dying batteries, or monaural car radios bouncing over the potholes, it's hard to believe anyone did. So, now they have a web site. You can look up the words, though in some cases even the Kinks seem uncertain exactly what they were singing or whether both brothers were singing the same words, and see what serious, public-spirited, even religious lads they were underneath. It would have ruined their image in the States if we'd noticed, at the time...
Weather
Heat wave meme:
Ganked from MOTUS. Google says it's a painting by the nineteenth century Spanish artist Ramon Casas i Carbo.
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