Earth to Fashion Industry: It’s Still Really Hot Outside

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sweater%20coat.jpgThe fashion industry has always been out of sync with normal women’s shopping cycles. Stores routinely trot out the latest in fall fashions–corduroy Peter Pan jackets, knee-high boots-when most of us are still in dire need of a new swim suit for the beach. But global warming is making these practices seem even more ridiculous.

Here in DC, for instance, this month may go down on record as the hottest October in 137 years. The average normal high temperature for DC in October is 67 degrees. This month, it’s been well over 80 almost every day (we even had a day in the 90s), and yet, just try to find something decent to wear that doesn’t involve wool! Eventually, the fashion folks are going to have to come to grips with the fact that D.C. is now basically California, not New York, when it comes to the weather. At this rate, all those cute cord jackets in store windows are going to be obsolete long before the the temperature drops below 70.

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