Summer looks
May. 13th, 2008 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomus
May is a month of sensuality, a month in which we schlepp around ideally hot, sunny streets in the year's first flip flops (scrubbed of last summer's dust), casually displaying our slightly neglected winter bodies. Later in the summer we'll have tans, and grow accustomed to the tans of others, and be much more casually embodied.But for now there's still a glancing winter whiteness to our bodies -- they've been hidden from the ultraviolet rays for so long. There's a seasonal self-consciousness and a prurient curiosity to our interest in the newly-revealed flesh of others. Girls have bare legs, and sit on the ground cross-legged showing the tops of their panties over the hem of their trousers. Boys sport a visible mokori bulge. Breasts are suddenly massively -- or slightly -- present. Bums are wrapped in saris or hidden in a salwar kameez.
So this is my truth, show me yours. I am wearing a straw hat, chest-revealing shirt, wristbands to match my pink eyepatch, cheap sports pants and flip flops. I am remembering, and connected to, summers past. How are you dressed this season? How are you celebrating the relaxed, stripped-down sensuality of "the May" -- and the return to public scrutiny of your body, cocooned all winter in layers of fibre?
Photographs please.
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Dude's got a Hogleg
Date: 2008-05-13 07:55 am (UTC)I've no photos of my emergence from the Tokyo winter just yet, but I can say that my legs are now freshly shaven for cycling (not for aerodynamics but for making bandage removal less painful after crashes), and I've already developed odd tan lines on my hands from my cycling gloves.
Fletcher
Re: Dude's got a Hogleg
Date: 2008-05-13 08:13 am (UTC)Yes, people don't realize that it takes balls to wear a kiddy-donkey straw hat and a pink eye patch out in public. You have to be well hard, man.
But Hisae kept telling me all day that I looked like a child, very pure. "You should be carrying a butterfly net, to collect butterflies and crickets," she said.
Re: Dude's got a Hogleg
Date: 2008-05-13 08:41 am (UTC)Har! I was referring more to your body language. But diverging from the norm -- even if that means rocking the gay Christopher Robin -- does require a certain ballsiness, if not hardness.
For the record, I quite like your "outfit" in the top photo. It looks very comfy and probably won't make too many people nervous on the train. Sadly, I cave in to conformity more and more these days on the clothing front. At home, I pad around in my loose-fitting, mid-shin PJs wishing I could wear them to the park. I've honestly even thought about taking them to a tailor and saying, "Make me another set please." Hell, I should just ask my wife, she did go to fashion design school, after all.
Fletcher
Re: Dude's got a Hogleg
Date: 2008-05-13 08:46 am (UTC)The best summer clothes of all, of course, are yukatas. Here's a glimpse of the Osaka kabuki actors (http://www.hkw.de/en/div/veranstaltungen/Veranstaltungsdetail_21777.php) currently visiting Berlin. They look so refreshing / refreshed!
Re: Dude's got a Hogleg
Date: 2008-05-14 02:59 am (UTC)I'll try to get a photo of my favorite jammies up tonight once I figure out how to post images here.
Fletcher
Re: Dude's got a Hogleg
Date: 2008-05-14 03:35 am (UTC)Fletcher
Beuys keep swinging
Date: 2008-05-13 09:07 am (UTC)I found all the clothes on the flee market that day. We Dutch celebrating the Queens birthday. the shirt says JAPAN. The woolen scarf for the last day of April. Even the shoes were found. I look like German artist or pornographer.
Re: Beuys keep swinging
Date: 2008-05-13 09:11 am (UTC)You look cool, but chilly!
Re: Beuys keep swinging
Date: 2008-05-13 10:19 am (UTC)summer hopes/dreaming from sacramento ca :)
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Date: 2008-05-13 10:05 am (UTC)anyway, it's my first sunny-hot may. kind of odd.
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Date: 2008-05-13 10:52 am (UTC)top-left one
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Date: 2008-05-13 11:44 am (UTC)this is my truth
Date: 2008-05-13 01:19 pm (UTC)However I'm an instructor in youth detention programs and
I'm afraid T shirts and sweats are ther norm.
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Date: 2008-05-14 03:00 am (UTC)I'm often seen walking through Philly in clogs and straw hat with a bag of peat and sand on my shoulders, going to a friend's courtyard to turn an old bathtub into a bog garden.
Just picked up a pair of army surplus canvas boots that should keep the ticks off me this summer. Better than gaiters.
bare ankles seem to be the theme here
Date: 2008-05-13 01:59 pm (UTC)Re: bare ankles seem to be the theme here
Date: 2008-05-13 02:36 pm (UTC)Re: bare ankles seem to be the theme here
Date: 2008-05-13 02:38 pm (UTC)Saul Bellow: humanist pap?
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Date: 2008-05-15 09:46 am (UTC)lol nobody is brave
Date: 2008-05-13 06:47 pm (UTC)Re: lol nobody is brave
Date: 2008-05-13 06:56 pm (UTC)Re: lol nobody is brave
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Date: 2008-05-13 07:10 pm (UTC)yes, we have no mananas
Date: 2008-05-13 07:23 pm (UTC)lol ayers is gona get reiped
Date: 2008-05-13 07:40 pm (UTC)Note the look of bleak despair on Cale lololol:
Re: lol nobody is brave
Date: 2008-05-14 03:43 pm (UTC)I sometimes wonder
Date: 2008-05-13 06:59 pm (UTC)wewillbecome.com
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Date: 2008-05-13 07:30 pm (UTC)It was the first warm day in Seattle. Everyone felt it. The first large party of the summer occurred. A well known kids birthday. Bands played and played. Here's what our sad little newspaper had to say:
"Sometimes there are just too damn many people at a party. It seems the entire Central District has shown up for Peter's birthday, which is equal parts exhilarating and nerve-racking. The backyard fills to capacity, becoming a veritable human pen, everyone shoulder-to-shoulder, milling and blowing smoke. As there is only one bathroom in the house, which is also packed to the brim, the shrubberies along the perimeter become public toilets. Everywhere I look someone is going to the bathroom. Peter beseeches the crowd: "My neighbors are really nice! Don't pee in their yard! Pee in mine!" Occasionally a drunkard jumps into one of the bushes.
This has been a day of unseasonable warmth—it makes the basement sticky and sweaty while bands are playing. Several people are hardly wearing any clothes at all. Moshing breaks out for Cut Loose: Peter chugs a beer as he is carried across the top of the crowd. Bow + Arrow evoke a wall of fist pumping, though their set unfortunately ends with a fan getting her face bashed with a guitar. The dance party is so wild for LP+BB I only last about three minutes in the thick of it. The band can hardly get through songs because their keyboards keep getting knocked over; the PA narrowly avoids several disasters. Exiting the crowded basement, I am met by an even larger crowd on the lawn, still smoking and peeing everywhere. Peter tells me they're going to have "a dance party all night, then a barbecue at dawn!" This place is a fever dream. I flee."
written by this asshole who makes money by taking pictures of our 'goings on'
look its my thigh in the newspaper!:
thats the host on the ground
I indulged in these threads:
Fluorescent fanny pack("trick or treat")
geo print shorts (they are LOVELY)
feathery earring
no socks with tiger onitsukas, green and grey
blue enrico benetti backpack full of beer and other materials(pen, paper, etc.)
Momus, come to seattle.
The food alone will make it worth your time.
-YWA
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Date: 2008-05-14 01:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-05-14 01:56 am (UTC)Too bad for those Southern minorities! (partially represented in there by "our" poncho)
schlepp
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Date: 2008-05-14 03:26 am (UTC)Took this about an hour ago ~4 u~
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