“The young lady in today’s post is dressed very simply, and yet I couldn’t help but notice her in the crowded cafe where she was sitting with a friend. She looked so elegant in her simple white summer dress with a colorful floral scarf wrapped high around her shoulders. Not groundbreaking, not earth shattering, but in its own way, a very glamorous way to live a simply nice life.”

The Sartorialist has summed up my general attitude for dressing this summer. I’m trying to dress more appropriately for where I live. I must face the facts: as much as I try to be glamorous in Berkeley, it still is not and will never be San Francisco or any large city for that matter. There is no point. No one here follows high fashion and my efforts fall on deaf ears (or blind eyes?).