What colors do people wear in the tropics, by choice?

When I was in Hawaii in December I couldn't find anybody selling shorts at the mall (except in the super beachy tourist stores...and those shorts were too tiny for me). The Old Navy and the Gap, for example, were selling the same things they were selling in Baltimore for the fall. You know--sweaters. I asked a Gap employee if they had any shorts in stock and he looked at me like he'd never heard of such a thing. I said, "You know SHORTS like you wear when it's 80 degrees out...like it is here right now!"

It was baffling and annoying. The best my friend who lives there and I could guess was that they were selling to foreign tourists. But I would have thought they have Old Navies in Japan and Australia or whatever. Maybe not though. Or maybe it's much more expensive there?

eta -- I know that doesn't have anything to do with seasonal colors...it just has been bugging me.

And neutrals -- let me not forget the colours I don't wear -- linens and cotton weaves in whites and beiges.

"People who ARE beige shouldn't WEAR beige". My lifelong mantra when clothes shopping.

Cindy and Aims have new tags.

I wear beige from time to time, but usually for the effect. Not something I just throw on with a pair of jeans.

What colors do people wear in the tropics, by choice? Is there a winter season and a summer season?

Lots of white. And colors that make you feel silly and out of place when you travel. Not that it is really the tropics here, but we do wear some wonderful colors.

I found myself out and about yesterday in white cutoff jeans, white sandals and a sweatshirt. It was cold.

Teal is back? Oh, cool! I actually look good in teal. Or is it a bad teal?

It's mostly been a bad teal, much like the lime has been a bad lime. More turquoise than teal, I suppose.

YTealMV, and you may luck into some good teal.

Teal teal teal. The word has lost all meaning.

By the way, Sierra Trading Post has a sale on some very gothy boots. Makes me wish I could buy shoes by mail. (My feet are apparently oddly shaped enough that some lasts just won't fit. Pointy shoes are especially risky.)

ION, I have hit a new personal low for absentmindedness. I forgot to wake up and take my son to school this morning. I got up at 6:30 as usual, did the car pool with Bobby and his friends and got back home at 8AM, which is when I usually wake up Brendon.

I don't know where I got off track. I was sitting in the office I share with DH and mentioned to him that I forgot to give Brendon lunch money this morning. That didn't make me remember. Then I decided to make myself a pot of tea about 10:30 and on my way to the kitchen I thought about the fact that I had washed a load of #1's shirts last night and wasn't it odd that he hadn't retrieved one from the dryer.

Then it hits me that I never got him out of bed! I ran to his room and woke him. No time for the kid to shower. He grabs his clothes and we get him to school at 11:00 when he starts at 9:30. I wrote him a note for an excused tardy that he had a doctor's appointment because it sounded too lame that his mother forgot to wake him up.

He has free rein to mock me for a month now.

Also, as a side-note, on the way out we noticed that the bees were hopping about in the blossoms on our Florida cherry bushes and I told him this was a perfect time for us to discuss the birds and the bees on the way to school. He enjoyed that comment almost as much as the mocking rights.

Lo! Those are boots I need!