Now that we are having some true summer weather, I have joined those of you who have been musing about shorts and other elements of summer style.

Shorts are a perennial challenge for me, i.e., how to look grown-up and put-together while wearing them. I know some would say grown-up and shorts are an oxymoron, and I respect that opinion even though I don't share it. I do get it.

In cool weather, my default style is some combination of jeans and t-shirt and/or sweater. Translated into summer, that would be cutoffs and a t-shirt, and possibly a cardigan that gets discarded after the morning cool burns off. Cutoffs and a t-shirt is generally not an outfit I want to wear out and about. I don't feel quite dressed in it. Hence my attraction to the Wildfang shorts outfit (see Finds) that a lot of you gave me feedback on in an earlier post. The weather is now right for the outfit, but I haven't removed the tags and am on the fence about keeping it. If I don't keep it, I may end up making something similar (though my past attempts at making shorts have not produced wearable results). And the outfit gives me some insight into what I may be after:

1) non-t-shirt tops

2) non-cutoff-jeans shorts

I think one or both of these elements could elevate my shorts style enough to make it lean a little more sophisticated.

I just finished a kind of upscale camp shirt that I really like. I tried it on here with white shorts, a combination I also like. I hate the back view, so I'm not going to show it here, and I am going to try to put it out of my mind.

Today's outfit is dark Levis shorts and a striped woven pullover shirt that I made last summer. I think the dark wash on these jeans shorts gives them a little more polish than my light-wash rolled-up pairs (one example in Finds). Maybe I'm kidding myself?

And yes, I got yet another new pair of glasses.