Dress: Target * Wedges: Bass * Belt: thrifted * Necklace: Noble Town Vintage
The heat has officially broken! After three days of the sweatiest, sweltering-est, stickiest summer weather, Chicago is currently in the midst of a pretty massive thunderstorm. I've been listening to the rolling thunder for hours now. It's that amazing kind of thunder, the kind that just goes on forever. There's hardly any distinction between the beginning and end of each thunderclap, and the deafening, rattling, somehow calming white noise is peppered every so often with a burst of white lightning. I adore storms like this. I would like nothing more than to stay in my living room all morning, sipping my coffee and absorbing the sounds of the storm.
While I actually didn't wear this outfit this week, it is what I wore a couple of weeks ago, during another brief early summer heatwave. This is pretty much my hot-weather uniform. Light, loose dress (confession: I usually take the belt off while I'm outside, because I can't stand having fabric cinched against my body when it's 98 degrees and humid), easy slip-on shoes or sandals, and minimal jewelry. I grew up in an area that never got this hot, and definitely never got this humid, so it's been an adjustment during the past four years to accumulate the right kinds of weather-resistant work appropriate clothes. Dresses like these fit the bill perfectly.
And while I do love me a good sandal in the hot summer months, I definitely wear lots of close-toed shoes as well when it's hot. These platform wedges have proved to be incredibly versatile. I wear them in every season, with almost every type of outfit, and I can easily walk to and from work in them, which is a feat for a three-inch heel. From what I can remember, they were on sale for something like $15 on 6pm a couple of years ago, and they have easily whittled down their cost-per-wear to under $0.50. Done and done.
Enjoy the storm, all you Chicago/Wisconsin/Midwesterners! And for those of you on the east coast getting hit by the brutal heat: stay cool, stay classy.
Title song: Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
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