Summer ends officially on different days in different places, or at least that is what I am told. It seems to have ended in Ireland on the first of September, for example, though it continues until the 21st here in the United States. That makes a certain amount of sense given that it was over a hundred degrees F (38C) in Nashville this past weekend but barely reached the low sixties (16C) in London.
Summer is of course the principal time for cream colored trousers in linen, gabardine and lightweight flannel if you can find it. Dr. Keith Churchwell is wearing a pair in the photograph, and looking good in the process if I may say so. His tan jacket has just enough cream in the pattern to soften the contrast with his trousers and pull the look together while its blue overcheck is complemented by his necktie.
Oh, and by the way, publication of ASW may be a little spotty this coming week as I am travelling to visit family in Florida, where it is still unquestionably summer for at least a little while longer.
Photo: Andre Churchwell
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There seems to be a difference between the astronomical and the meteorological summer. The astronomical summer ends on the autumnal equinox. The meteorological (climate-related) summer is generally assumed to end on Aug. 31 in temperate regions of the Northern hemisphere.
But in sub-tropical SoCal, you can't count on summer being over until the second or third week of October. October first is normal but there are years when some damned High sits over the Four Corners and cooks us clear up to nearly Halloween. Then comes November first and usually the first rain. We have no winter, just Wet and Dry . . . along with Fire, Flood and Quake, of course.
The season will be over Sarj even though the temperatures don't fall. The palette that you wear should change with it.
Will, can I wear a dark dupioni silk suit for the next week or so? I live in New York.
Thanks.
Isnt it still too warm for dupiono? I think of that as a fall and spring material.
Will, I find silk very, very comfortable, light, and cool. I find it cooler than seersucker and cotton gabardine. Silk is my preferred summer suiting. (I have three.)
I have read that some men feel that it is too hot for the summer, but that has not been my experience.
However, getting back to my question, do you feel that a dark silk suit can be worn post-Labor Day and pre-Memorial Day? Such as the two week window? Or is it too summer?
Thanks.
I find myself coming back to this photo of Mr Churchwell, thinking each time that this is as close to perfection as I can imagine. I really admire the combination of the bold tie with the jacket and the fact that the whole, refined as it is, still manages to make it look effortless. There are pictures of the Churchwell gentlemen scattered on your blog that could really qualify as picture perfect and could be mistaken, at first sight, for an esquire drawing. Anyway I really would like to find out which cloth was used to make that wonderful jacket. Is it the Lamlana W. Bill that you wrote about a few days earlier ?
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