I’m from Syracuse, NY, the buckle of the snow belt, and though I left there at age 11,  I still prefer the chill of autumn to the melting heat of August.

This morning I took a beautiful 2 hour bike ride.  It’s 95 degrees here in Philly today, and by the time I got back to my beautiful home office my sweat was sweating.  Can you say ‘hot and muggy’?

So I took a tip from the wonderful people we lived with on the Burma border of Thailand.  I took a cold shower (there it would be in the river, but we make do with what we have!), and without toweling off I slipped into my cotton sarong.  AAAAHHHH!  Cool, convenient, and comfortable.

It’s amazing what a difference clothing can make in our productivity.  There has actually been research that shows that at conferences people can concentrate better without their shoes on.  Sitting here in my cool sarong I feel ready to conquer the world.

You, too, can have a Thai sarong.  (Thai men wear these, too).  Simply get a swatch of cotton fabric, large enough to go all the way around you at least once and a half.  Make it a beautiful and colorful fabric.  Fold it in half with the wrong side showing, and sew up one side to make a tube.  Turn it right side out and voila!

That’s it!  To wear it, step into the tube.  then tie the top around your chest, or for men, around your waist.  Or if you get good at it, you can wrap and tuck, or even use a pin.

I’d show you a picture, but the beauty of working on the internet is you can wear whatever you feel like wearing and no one can see!  But trust me.  I’m cool, gorgeous, but most of all comfortable and productive!