Be warned: This is an awfully frivolous topic. So if you’re reading this blog for the serious, earnest stuff about how to be a good little associate or how to develop business at your college reunion, you might as well tune out. Right now.

But from my observations, I think this is a timely, maybe even urgent, issue. I’m talking about how far we ladies push the fashion envelope in August—when the temperature is steamy and we let down our satorial guards.