I took my youngest children to the pool the other day. I was wearing the bathing suit I had purchased new last year, and I was also wearing my newer, cute, matching sleeveless cover-up. The suit is brown (’the new black’, I had been told by the salesgirl) and white patterned on top. The bottom is a cute, coordinating, brown skirt, with a white and brown criss-cross tie. Last year, while the other ladies sitting by the pool watching kids were still in black (so passé!), I was decked out in the new cool color. I even had large, brown sunglasses, brown and white sandals, and a matching beach bag. I was set! Imagine my horror upon entering the fenced in pool area today, in my suit, which had been ultra cool last year, when I saw not one but five brown suit skirts in the exact color I was wearing! My first reaction was to want to crawl under the nearest pool chair and my first thought, I’m sorry to say was, 'I’ve got to get out of here! I need to get a new suit! I wonder if I have the checkbook to stop at Kohls on the way home? Turquoise…turquoise might be a nice color…'”