White clothes: For those who love laundry

Published 11:09 pm Sunday, July 27, 2008

Not just for brides: A few fashion-conscious people offer tips for choosing and accessorizing the perfect white dress for summer, assuming the temperature squeaks past 70 again before Labor Day (Page E1).

While you’re choosing accessories, don’t forget the most important one — the plastic bubble you’ll need to compensate for your dress’s power to attract anything within 20 feet that might get it dirty.

Tough love: Fuel costs, criticism and jokes haven’t diminished Hummer owners’ love for their Godzillalike vehicles.

Maybe they get their thick skins from forebears who drove tricked-out buggies pulled by Clydesdales and equipped with retractable ladders so passengers could get inside.

As though flooding from Hurricane Dolly weren’t enough of a pain already, the floodwaters in south Texas are hiding some nasty surprises: fire ants, tarantulas and snakes (Page A4).

Upon learning that the squishy sensation under their shoes might not be mud, a number of Texans were seized with a sudden desire to close their eyes, stick their fingers in their ears and shout, “I can’t heeeear you!”