summer envy

[na§tee]

yeah, i know, summer is meant to be a fantastic time where young couples kiss under snow white parasols, baby kittens chase butterflies in the local botanic garden, cocktails are supped in the sun, babies are made.. but for some people, summer is sort of shit.

i'm talking about summer envy.

i'm envious of all the bronzed skinny women my age with perfect skin and a perfect summer wardrobe. if i expose my legs to the general public y'all better watch out! i just look like a plucked chicken. not even if i wax and wax and wax, is still looks as if i have little open pores of woe. all over my yacky pale legs.

their wardrobes with the perfect big sunglasses and delightful little summer dresses and buffed and moisturised feet [no way are these little pinkies gonna be aired in sandals in the coming months!]. perfect summer accessories of maybe little pieces of plastic fruit or glittery flowers. here i am in my totally inappropriate wardrobe of mostly black and dark colours and fishnets and big ugly boots and a body which at the slightest hint of sun wants to immediately wrinkle up and frown and get in the shade with its un-toned ass.

people who talk about their holidays and all the festivals they are going to with their horribly cosmopolitan friends while i'm stuck in glasgow all year. the worst are the people whose parents fund their round the world trips and 21st birthday binges and boast about it. that's just great if you're getting the money and doing lots of inspiring travelling but please keep it quiet and not remind me i have NO JOB, NO MONEY and NO PROSPECTS apart from paying off my ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED POUND OVERDRAFT. travelling is such a great, great priviledge and i am really, really bitter that i have never had the finances to do what thousands of other young people like myself should be encouraged to do.

people with gardens they can have bbqs in and waft that delicious summer smell of, ehm, bbqd meat products all up in my flat-abiding face.

i have been having sort of a shit-been-rejected-for-a-job-because-i'm-not-an-ethnic-minority-in-television sort of week. (hey! that wasn't a diss at the ethnic minorities it was just a scheme i applied for and was specifically told i was too white for it's aims so i guess it sorta turns the tables on other people who aren't so blessed with day to day "equal opportunities". so at least some people of colour who don't get a break as regularly as my caucasian ass does will be able to get that job. which is a good thing. but i would really like a job. if i'm so blessed with all the "majority" vital stats why can't i get one? that i want, that is. yeah. end rant) so i thought i would complain about some crap things about summer.

surely some of you strongly dislike certain summer elements, too? come on, bring it!

[enree erzweglle]

i'm envious of all the bronzed skinny women my age with perfect skin and a perfect summer wardrobe. if i expose my legs to the general public y'all better watch out! i just look like a plucked chicken. not even if i wax and wax and wax, is still looks as if i have little open pores of woe. all over my yacky pale legs.Oh trust me, don't envy those bronzed women their tans. The vast, vast majority of the ones who sunbathe, when they get to even 30, will look like shit. Some of the lucky ones hold that off until they're like 40, but that leathered look catches up sooner or later.

What do I dislike about the summer other than it's only ~four months long? I have sun sensitivity--I'll get a bad rash if I'm in the sun for >30 minutes and only prescriptions take the rash away. I still go outside, I just avoid being out in the middle of the day if I can and if I can't, I'll wear lightweight long-sleeved shirts.

[Ace42X]

I dislike wasps. And the heat. And the extended periods of daylight.

[voltanapricot]

I know what you mean. I love wearing skirts all year round but it's a little more difficult to carry off in the summertime. I'm so pale my legs and feet reflect the light. Arrrgh, some girls!

[voltanapricot]

I dislike wasps. And the heat. And the extended periods of daylight.
People drink more beer around summer. People leave glasses after they drink beer.

WASP TRAPS!

[P of R]

Natural is beautiful!

GIRL POWER!

[beastiegirrl101]

flip flops are hands down the best part of summer.

[DipDipDive]

flip flops are hands down the best part of summer.

I agree whole heartedly. (y)

[mickill]

I like the smell of suntan oil, fresh cut lawn and bbq.

[marsdaddy]

Seasons are overrated. It's 70 and sunny here again. The fog rolled out about 9 and will be back around 6. It's LA Story without the tanning salons.

[enree erzweglle]

flip-flops and sandals [on well-maintained feet]: (y)

I love this about summer: hanging laundry to dry in open air.

In the summer, I can wash a gym outfit, hang it out to dry, and it'll be ready to wear again in a few hours. In the winter, it takes a few days to air dry stuff and I have to hang it on racks all the hell all over the house. In the summer: one rack on the porch--I do a small load every day and voila. I LOVE that about summer!

A thing I don't like about summer: more bugs crawling around and possibly crawling on me. The other day, I had a thing crawling on me and after that, I was oogled because I thought something was crawling on the back of my elbow and it turns out that it was just my hair in the wind. :)

[na§tee]

no! this is a thread for summer hatin', not summer lovin'!
or at least summer slightly dislikin'!

i guess some of the girlies are all fake baked and gross. when we're all 40 i'll be the one with less wrinkles and, uh, skin cancer.. i guess! that's a positive! thanks enree. hehe.

yeah, wasps are a bit of an arse too. and there's so much more rubbish is public places attracting them. because everyone is picnic-ing.

i also hate the extended hours of sunlight. when it's pass 7 o'clock, it should be dark. period. so i don't have to close the blinds in my flat constantly.

[Nuzzolese]

Some of the girls above who posted are skinny and tan, I seen 'em. Get a rope!

I know what you mean about feeling self conscious like you don't fit in with the summer crowd but the older I get the less I care about my skin and soft spots, because if I don't show it now I never will and it could be worse and it's all basically down hill from here anyway so what the hell.

I was raised in the myth-laden superstitious tradition of the holy summer. All other seasons get short-changed because we are meant to believe that nice days are numbered and those who enjoy them are morally superior - by "enjoy" I mean you go outside and get sunburned, dirty, sweaty, and tired from squinting a lot. Actually all you have to do is simply walk outside the door and heave a sigh of relief that you are outside on a nice day and therefore living life correctly and fully the way summer intended. You get pummeled by demands and declarations like "oh but it's such a nice day!" and I get bitter when people denounce other weather conditions like "it is awful outside!" whenever there's precipitation or cloud cover. Such single mindedness towards the variations of the days! Summer is the dolphin of the weather. It's pretty to most and people love it and it supposedly heals sick people and everyone likes to claim it as the best most adorable most worth sacrifice of any kind delight, but it's a jerk I tell you. It's just as abusive and aggressive as any other sea mammal, err, weather...often times worse. Don't believe the hype. Summer is just the same bitch as fall and spring and winter, don't let people make you feel bad about yourself just because they want an excuse to be naked and lazy and they try to glorify that excuse into some kind of cult of behavioral value standards.

When I was 16 I was shopping with my friend, Dave, who was really funny and down to earth and I was obsessing over trying to find summer clothes that wouldn't make me feel like an anatomy picture of the circulatory system, or a wad of raw salami packed into moist dough, when he just looked around the junior's department, shrugged and said 'If I was a girl I'd just get a sun dress and say "fuck it"' and I really try to think of those wise words every summer.

[Waus]

All the girls leave college for the summer, leaving me to my lonely student office job.


:(

[na§tee]

Summer is the dolphin of the weather. It's pretty to most and people love it and it supposedly heals sick people and everyone likes to claim it as the best most adorable most worth sacrifice of any kind delight, but it's a jerk I tell you.
!!! this - this is fucking great! i love it! hah, what a great wee post you did there. very funny. how wise and philosophical. i hate that pressure of "it's a nice day! we have to go to the park! the park! because everyone else in the city is doing the same thing! we can burn and sweat and be too hot with people! out-freaking-side!"

everything you said was spot on. and hilarious. you're joining the de-promoting of summer group.

[Nuzzolese]

The thing about summer fashion these days is it doesn't look good on fair skinned curvy girls...in my opinion. I like fair skinned curvy girls best in structured or sleek looking designs like 50s dresses and skirts, solid simple colors like bright red or blue, chocolate brown, or ashy pastels.

This whole bohemian look of tiered hippie skirts, earth tones and tunics and stuff, to me, seems just made for suntanned natural granola types who look like they go hiking and rowing a lot. I find it better suited to them than to people like me.

While I'm not "curvy" I do have curves, and having fair skin makes you look heavier anyway.

[Nuzzolese]

!!! this - this is fucking great! i love it! hah, what a great wee post you did there. very funny. how wise and philosophical. i hate that pressure of "it's a nice day! we have to go to the park! the park! because everyone else in the city is doing the same thing! we can burn and sweat and be too hot with people! out-freaking-side!"

everything you said was spot on. and hilarious. you're joining the de-promoting of summer group.

I am so glad you are with me on this. I loled at " to the park! the park!"


But lately I've been that person shouting about the park and wanting to go outside. It all changed when I caved and started not caring about how I looked in summer clothes and about all my freckles. I started to, whenever anyone said anything to me about my fair skin or freckles or about needing a tan or their advise, I'd just stare at them blankly and blink and it just let it go. And I used self tanning lotion which was great. I guess that makes me a sellout. Goddamn you summer, you win this round.

[paul jones]

Summer = dumb bees

thwy fly into the house and the window is open but they just keep bopping the window.

Dumb bees!

[TAL]

The people in here who complain about extended hours of daylight know nothing about extended hours of daylight.

The month and a half of no darkness has started here. And I like it.

[Nuzzolese]

I will punch every bee in the face.

[na§tee]

nuzz - yeah, although i am having a bit of an "off" day i did leave the house with a "fuckit" attitude and put on a dress [although it's not technically a summer dress or revealing at all and actually part of my normal wardrobe] but didn't put on my boots - instead i have let my calves breathe the sweet sweet smell of glasgow. i know up there ^ i said there was no way my pasty legs would be exposed but i put "natural tan" tights on. sandal tights. they remove some of the nastyness. but it is still nasty even wearing tights in the summer. tights in general just aren't very sexy.

lolz @ punching bees in "the face (http://www.eyedesignbook.com/ch3/fig3-13dbeefaceBG.jpg)".

[paul jones]

I will punch every bee in the face.
(y)

[Randetica]

i'm envious of all the bronzed skinny women my age with perfect skin and a perfect summer wardrobe. if i expose my legs to the general public y'all better watch out! i just look like a plucked chicken. not even if i wax and wax and wax, is still looks as if i have little open pores of woe. all over my yacky pale legs.

im super pale and i love it
but i have the pore problems too, sucks shaving/waxing/lotioning (or whatever) your legs and they still look ugly (n)
atleast many other women have the same problem!

[paul jones]

Ice cream trucks/vans and their fucking annoying chimes!

When I was in New York there was this truck tha played his chime non stop for about 30 mins

[beastiegirrl101]

summer hates
bees
bikini waxing (although I love the end results) oh the pain.
humidity
leaving a 105 degree room to go outside where its 105 degrees to get into a 105 degree car.
having to work 9-5 and miss all the good sun hours (yea Im one of those tan skinny biotches Nuzz mentioned)
Chicago beaches...yuk. (dirty diapers, bandaids, syringes..and god knows what else is floating around in there)

[na§tee]

ooooh hot cars. that's a good one, bgirl. dogs die in them.
i hate it when you go to put the seatbelt on and the metal part if super duper hot! in fact all the metal parts of your clothes - buttons on jackets etc get so horrifically hot. it burns! IT BURNS!

rands: i do like being pale, just not in the 100% sunshine where everyone can see all it's imperfections and general, uh, paleness. being a pale winter goddess is where it's at.

[paul jones]

festivals

what a pile of wank!

seeing bands in small ratholes is the best!

[enree erzweglle]

The thing about summer fashion these days is it doesn't look good on fair skinned curvy girls...in my opinion. I like fair skinned curvy girls best in structured or sleek looking designs like 50s dresses and skirts, solid simple colors like bright red or blue, chocolate brown, or ashy pastels.

This whole bohemian look of tiered hippie skirts, earth tones and tunics and stuff, to me, seems just made for suntanned natural granola types who look like they go hiking and rowing a lot. I find it better suited to them than to people like me.

While I'm not "curvy" I do have curves, and having fair skin makes you look heavier anyway.That bohemian look. FUCK because I have had those skirts and earrings for years and years and now they're all the hell all over the place.

I was at an amusement park last week. It was unseasonably cold and rainy and the person that I was meeting was late, so I had maybe 30 minutes to sit and watch people flow into the park. Mostly they were high school girls. You could tell that they'd planned their Amusement Park Outfits like weeks before, anticipating an 80-degree and sunny day.

Instead, they got a damp 60-degrees but they still wore those 80-degree outfits. None of which looked like anything even halfway decent even on a perfect day.

There is a trend out right now and it seems like a lot of these girls picked up on it. A sort of flowy kind of gauzy blousey shirt that ties into a kind of disco-looking halter top or it pulls into a circle in the front. I can't explain it. Sorry. But it looks crap on just about everyone. On curvier/heftier girls, it makes them look pregnant; on thin girls, it accentuates their thinness somehow. It's an evil shirt. Same with those tunics with slow-slung belts--awful for heavier girls AND thinner ones. It's evil just like the disco-y blousey shirt.

And these shoes--wedged heels with ribbons attached and you wind the ribbon up your ankles and calves and tie a bow in the back. Maybe on the perfect leg, it could work and maybe just in a photo shoot. But again, it was just evil because on thin legs, it accentuated the stickiness and on hefty legs, it just sort of dug in and made fat bulge and it looked painful.

For guys, isn't that droopy-pants look gone? Like isn't a guy supposed to go back to covering up his boxers and ass? Because I still saw guys who were trying hard to keep the crotch of their jeans at like knee level. Not that I'm advocating any of them doing a Fred Mertz, but most of these guys don't even HAVE an ass so I don't know what they think anyone's thinking about the view.

[Nuzzolese]

like this? (http://www.giannascloset.com/prod_images_large/PMTT1297_Green_WM_1221.jpg)

[enree erzweglle]

like this? (http://www.giannascloset.com/prod_images_large/PMTT1297_Green_WM_1221.jpg)

No, but that's close. I'll google around and see if I can find it...

[enree erzweglle]

I can't find it exactly, but what I saw was a combination of these things:

This (http://iserv-cache.demostores.com/is/servlet/izoom/DemoProducts/2311777_01?$popupLarger_product$) is the closest to it that I could find. I saw that circle-neck lots, but usually, the tie-back wasn't a string--it tied back with thick strips of gauzy material to match the shirt. Usually in a loud pattern. Combine this with all of the styles below and you'll have a good idea of it.

This (http://slimages.macys.com/is/image/MCY/products/1/optimized/210471_fpx.tif?bgc=255,255,255&wid=273&qlt=90,0&layer=comp&op_sharpen=0&resMode=bicub&op_usm=0.7,1.0,0.5,0&fmt=jpeg") is the gauzy look--the way it looks tattered/pointed at the bottom.

This (http://iserv-cache.demostores.com/is/servlet/izoom/DemoProducts/2587293_01?$popupLarger_product$) too, except it would have a tie at the top.

This (http://iserv-cache.demostores.com/is/servlet/izoom/DemoProducts/2307494_01?$popupLarger_product$) neckline.

All of that combined.

I am wondering if it was Particular School Day at this amusement park and maybe someone sewed those blouses for all of those girls? Because I cannot find that damn style online. :mad:

[Nuzzolese]

Haha! I think I get the picture.

[na§tee]

that gauzy isht does nothing for anyone's torso.

[Justin]

I love the summer, (except for the burning and bugs part)

I'll never wear a yellow shirt again 100 yards close to any grass

[fucktopgirl]

i hate mosquitoes and heat waves where you have to put you head in the fan!

BUt personally i see more positifs points to summer ,i could complain more about winter butr that is not relevant here!:D