Fashion Review from the Gold Coast Art Fair

All right, stop laughing.  The same lady who is still wearing button -down collars, madras shorts and Keds is going to give a review of fashion?  Well I am.  After walking around the Gold Coast Art Fair - and you need both days to cover it properly- I decided to rest.  I sat down, deliciously cooling Sangria in hand and pulled out my camera. 

I was  expecting the usual hot weather attire - too much skin and flab and strappy sandals.  What a surprise.  The whole rest of the world may already know this.  Skirts are back.  I'd estimate that 2 out of 3 women who came down my private runway wore one.

 I positioned myself across from the frozen yogurt stand so I could get shots without showing faces.  I'm so jealous of the women young and old and every color of the rainbow who looked cool and comfortable in their skirts and dresses.  It brought back the memories of dresses I owned when I could still wear spaghetti straps and cool skirts flowing out from a tiny waist.   They were a good defense in the New Jersey humidity and later in the Arizona dry heat.

This is one of my favorites from the "show".

The Art Fair itself was wonderful, in spite of the heat.  The Grant Park venue keeps it contained and there is no need to close streets to traffic.  I hope they will continue to have it there - even though it is technically not in the Gold Coast neighborhood.

In addition to the skirts and dresses, I saw lots of feminine lacy stuff that looked equally cool in both senses of the word.  A word to the men- what's with all the pockets?