the pool bag

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If you are a woman in your 30s or 40s* and you are going to the snoburbia neighborhood swim club, you must wear ribbon flip-flops that match your pool bag. The must-have pool bag this year is clear-coated, patterned vinyl. You must buy it at a tiny store with a cute name like Two Coconuts. (The bag is capacious, to carry those luxuriously-thick beach towels that never dry.)

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* People in their 20s would rather die than be seen at the swim club.

Comments

[Ann]

Oh this is so true, even here in snoburbia, FL. Our store is Parchment, and they have the totes, the ribbon flipflops, pandora bracelets and all sorts of other cute, cute stuff. They do not, however, like hippie mamas very much - from the icy stares I get when I venture inside.

[Kathy J, Washington Gardener Mag]

I had to admit I looked at MANY of these bangs at the St Alban's Azalea Fest and the Cathedral Flower Mart - booth after vendor booth filled with them. VERY tempting as were the tunics in bright Lily Pulitzer colors. I managed to pry myself away though. Being on a tight budget helps, but also not having a nearby swim club to use them at puts it in perspective.

[A.]

Oh noes, in Seattle, you buy them on Amazon, delivered overnight in bright sophisticated colored tubs with all your organic groceries. Because we're too busy enjoying our lives to bother going to stores.