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Is it time to re-name "summer?" Plus, prom fashion is all grown up

Is it time to re-name "summer?" Plus, prom fashion is all grown up

It's Been a Minute vor 2 Jahren

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Summer is supposed to be for vacation and more relaxation, right?
Well, for climate watchers, this season goes by a more sinister
name. Brittany and NPR climate correspondents Lauren Sommer and
Nate Rott get into what changes in summer weather mean for how and
where we live.

Then, it's prom season and high schoolers are showing out! But
styles have changed since the days of poofy dresses and bedazzled
purses: prom fashion has reportedly become more adult. For many
young people, prom reflects their ideas of glamour, so does this
shift say something new about the fantasies of girlhood? Brittany
sits down with writer Hilary George-Parkin who wrote about the
blurring of age in fashion.

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