![]() ![]() Every tropical outfit is not complete without a hat, sunglasses and a tropical drink in your hand. When my dad passed away over 20 years ago I inherited it and take care of it in honor of him. It stands almost 7 feet tall in the pot and it has managed to stay alive in my unheated garage during subzero weather. I decided to make it the focus for this blog not only because it is a tropical plant but because it is 30 years old. I think I showed you one garden picture that contained my dad’s hibiscus plant. Most of us can relate to Crabby Maxine who says, “To me summer is just one long hot flash”. I always find it funny when I hear men complain to women about the heat. With the current heat, I feel like I am on a tropical island. Mission women designed the Hawaiian muumuu to accommodate native women of all sizes, and the muumuu continues to be popular today in richly decorated native floral patterns. Backing up a little farther in history, the Christian missionaries, who arrived in 1820 to set up operations in Maui and Oahu, preferred the native women fully clothed instead of half naked. All were made with tropical print fabrics. swing dresses), and the very narrow pencil shaped dresses associated with the Pin-up Girl that is still popular today. To dress for these occasions, women wore tropical print dresses called tiki dresses. Women of the 1940s through the 1960s hosted Tiki parties as did restaurants and dance halls. After WWII ended in the 1940s Hawaiian print shirts, sarong dresses and tropical flowers have been popular clothing in summer. A little history on tropical attire for women which evolved from those service personnel of the South Pacific I was referring to earlier. It is hot, hot, hot! It makes me think of Crabby Maxine who says “If hell’s gonna be this hot, I gotta start being nicer.” It seems like the perfect time to wear those tropical outfits. We are in the midst of one of the hottest Julys in history. I once read something on a poster that makes me worry “Getting older is just one body part after another saying, ‘HaHa, you think that’s bad? Watch this!” UGH! There are days I think it is giving me the silent treatment. I was listening to the song “Kokomo” by The Beach Boys which made me think of tropical islands which made me think of the movie “South Pacific” (that I recently watched) which made me think of soldiers in the South Pacific (my father was one of them) which made me think of Betty Grable as a pin-up girl which made me think “Wouldn’t it be fun to recreate a pin-up picture for my blog” since it is about tropical outfits and VOILA! I guess I should be thankful that my mind works at all. That is how I ended up with my intro picture. However, I am astounded by the majority of them because I start with one thought related to something in my immediate environment and somehow that one thought takes me to far away places. A few of these wanderings make sense because they are related to something important like solving a problem. Lately I seem to have a lot of wandering thoughts. I want to explain how I ended up with the picture above. ![]()
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