Today I'm wearing a long brown wooly cardigan and stompy boots over my accidental white and blue. I was going to wear an almost whiteout with stars and a little bit of red and blue for the holiday...We will see! (We will see if there's even any fireworks!)

Rachy .... I have spent a bit of time in the bay area of northern California ..... the climate there is similar to what we have in northwestern Germany that faces the North Sea.

One fun casual style that has popped up here is that some people are wearing summery dresses with a pair of jeans underneath to get that summer feel and yet still not be freezing!

Happy July 4th to you!

Thanks! Too foggy to see any fireworks, but we ate barbecue...indoors.

That's a brilliant fun idea, dresses over pants. How could I forget that one?!

I dress like I would in spring or fall. I don't really differentiate between seasonal clothing, although some items work better across the seasons, of course. I pick my outfit depending on the weather and not anything else. That's why my spring and summer looks are often darker or less "summer like" than others on the forum, but I don't really care.

If I had to recommended one piece of clothing for a cool summer day it would be a wool camisole, I love mine.

Btw, we have central heating and in summer it's turned down almost completely. I have a bit more leeway in the bathroom, but otherwise I have to compensate with my dressing. A few weeks a go I was wearing a tee, shorts and sandals outside and warm socks, long pants and a wool pullover inside (the building is slow to heat up when summer temperatures arrive).

Yes, I agree with layers. The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in SF, as the saying goes. I don't even separate out my wardrobe by season because it's often colder in the summer than in the winter. (And yes, we go from turning on the heat one day to cursing our lack of AC the next). I live up on a hill and it's always foggy and freezing in the morning, then when I go to work, it's sunny and broiling. I like to wear a cardigan over a dress (I have some from Vince and Helmut Lang) and sometimes add leggings and stompy boots. Or you can never go wrong with a leather moto (as long as you can ditch it when the temperature rises). I have a Vince sweatshirt, but then what do you do when it's super hot later in the day?

I go with layers. I'm always in a/c too cold for me. I start with a tank top, add a three quarter sleeve shirt, then put a blazer, cardigan, or poncho on top. And I stick to full length or cropped bottoms. I let the colors not the materials be my nod to the season.

Well, I've definitely been in the stompy boots the last four-five days!

Interesting about tank tops. Arms don't suffer? I wonder if I could get a wool tank here...

Wearing an apple green puffer vest today. . .Got it at Costco years ago and was considering passing it on since I never wear it in F/W. Lightbulb. This is a S/S item.

My mother used to a wool coat to SF in June and July evenings. Especially walking among tall buildings, the wind was cold.

I wore wool coats in college, but I have become a weakling. Even that won't do it...or perhaps more likely, the coats are thinner now. I can't find gabardine anymore, on a tangent.

I miss my F21 puffer vest. It's gone now. It was a bit girly with ruffles at the shoulders and I had one of those horrible city accidents...got some tar or gum on it. Yucky.

After my mother's fall, I went down to see her and I saw several people in down jackets. They were the thin lightweight kind like this. Here's the view from her window. You can see the fog. I loved it because it was over 100F at home.

Lol. The doom rolling in!

All my puffies are really light weight ones. Thing is, I hate drafts. So they're long and look very wintery. I wish I'd wear a shorter one, but I've learned I just won't. I wonder if anyone makes a long puffer vest? And if I'd wear a vest as my outerwear...

Hi Rachylou I end up with the same problem by Sunday it was 30 degrees and today make 11 degree I have put my long-sleeved shirts and put my beige coat I'm like you

Here you go Rachylou, something to warm you up.

Mercy! 101! While I sit literally in a cold, wet fog...

And Bernard - a 20 point swing! *I feel your pain*