This NY Times Sunday Styles story hooked me from the start. You can just see this ditzy girl, representing the entire trend of low-key turns party hot spot.
By ALLEN SALKIN
Published: July 6, 2008
Montauk, N.Y.
Lauren Morris’s gold lamé high heels kept getting stuck between the planks of the patio deck.
A male friend who shares her rental house in Southampton had warned her on a recent Saturday night to wear flats to Surf Lodge, the trendy new nightspot for the Hamptons crowd. But she was not the type of woman to have packed party shoes without heels.
Her only alternative were flip-flops, which she only wore “to not touch the floor in my share house,” said Ms. Morris, an account executive in a fashion showroom. “They’re gross.”
Wearing a sun-yellow tube dress, Ms. Morris held a glass of champagne, with a blueberry, a blackberry and a strawberry floating in it, and surveyed the scene. A reggae-influenced band played loudly as young men in pressed oxford shirts and jeans with complicated back-pocket designs were sprawled on ottomans. Eyeing them were tan women in skimpy floral-print sundresses.
“I’ve been coming to the Hamptons for years,” Ms. Morris, 29, shouted. “This is my first time in Montauk.”
That’s right, Montauk, known as “The End.” Not Bridgehampton, East Hampton or Southampton, where the thumping fabulousness on display at the Surf Lodge has long been a mark of summertime. Montauk, the easternmost tip of Long Island, is a town that has for generations been distinctly, and proudly low-key, the un-Hampton, where commercial fishermen live and work, and where middle-class families could afford hotel rooms, miniature golf and soft-serve ice cream.
Read the whole story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/fashion/06hampton.html?scp=1&sq=montauk&st=cse#
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