2025
Another year, another impossible garden dream deferred by Florida’s hostile relationship with anything green and growing. While my tomato plants surrender to the heat before they can produce a single fruit worth harvesting, I console myself with Loewe’s utterly ridiculous tomato bag – a luxury leather love letter to the vegetables I’ll never successfully cultivate. It’s absurd, it’s sold out, and it perfectly captures my annual summer solstice ritual of mourning crops that never were.
This year’s ensemble is built around that tomato-shaped talisman, paired with a simple sundress in the neutral shade of dead leaves drying on the vine, an olive cardigan for the aggressive air conditioning that makes Florida summers bearable, and white sneakers adorned with playful peeking hearts that seem to wink at the absurdity of it all. The jewelry leans celestial – gold sunburst earrings to honor the longest day and chunky rings that catch the light. I briefly considered adding the matching tomato bra and panties from Fleur du Mal, but decided that might be taking the theme to an embarrassing extreme – even for me. While I may hide indoors until sunset, I can still dress like someone who appreciates the sun’s theatrical peak performance, even from a safe, climate-controlled distance.
Consider this my sartorial offering to the season – a collection of pieces that celebrate abundance and growth and all the bright, beautiful things that thrive when I’m not directly involved in their cultivation. Here’s to another summer of admiring other people’s tomatoes and wearing mine instead. Usually, I’d just add this year’s ensemble to my old summer solstice collection post and share it across social media, but since I’m taking a 2.5-month break from the digital noise, this tomato-centric vision gets its own dedicated space here on the blog.
Del Corazon Embroidered Linen Midi Dress By Andres Otalora // Lightweight cross front shrug // Isabelle Ouvert lace briefs // COMME des GARCONS PLAY Converse Low Top Canvas Sneakers //Loewe Tomato crossbody bag (sold out) // Verdura rose gold sun cuff // Dinny Hall half sun hoops // Jamie Joseph tourmaline ring // Sun Goddess ring // Chanel 4 Rouges eyeshadow palette // Oddity Delulu perfume // Chanel Rouge Allure Velvet Ardente lipstick
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E says
I've always adored this "How to Wear" series. Just utterly delightful.