$145 faux leather halter top<\/a> from Hudson Jeans made from a suffocating blend of polyurethane fabric, paired with Michael Kors flip-flops, H&M denim shorts that she cut herself and piles of vintage gold bangle bracelets.<\/p>\nHow does the Crown Heights native navigate her cross-borough subway commute without melting like Elphaba on the floor of the 4 train?<\/p>\n
Ashley Ren\u00e9e looked cool and stylish in her summer fit. stefano Giovannini for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cMy secret is taking it slow. I feel like, as New Yorkers, we\u2019re always on the go, on the run. During the heat wave, you have the excuse to slow down,\u201d Ren\u00e9e explained. \u201cDon\u2019t race to get the train. And if you walk in and there\u2019s no air conditioning? Absolutely not. Walk out of that car, even if you have to wait for the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n
The stylist strutting down W Houston Street. stefano Giovannini for NY Post<\/p>\n
As he waited for an express bus on Sixth Avenue, Staten Island resident John Flowers donned a full blue wool suit, along with leather brown loafers, a button-down Oxford shirt and even a jaunty striped bowtie.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this heat, I\u2019m dying right now,\u201d admitted the tech manager, who moonlights as a wedding and event photographer. \u201cBut I\u2019d be dying more if I couldn\u2019t dress like myself. The bowtie, the suit \u2014 it\u2019s part of my whole self,\u201d Flowers told The Post. <\/p>\n
John Flowers smiling in his blue wool suit. stefano Giovannini for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess I could take my jacket off after work, but again, I just love it too much. The weather is kind of secondary to that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Flowers at least made sure to pack a jug of water in his Adidas backpack when going into work, and said the key to trying to stay cool in this brutal heat is \u201cmanifesting\u201d his inner cool. <\/p>\n
\u201cRight before I walk out the door, I imagine I\u2019m in Antarctica. It works, I swear,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Also coming in hot was Lauren Holaday, who perched on a Nolita stoop in a pink lace camisole and wide-leg Aritzia trousers that made her look like a boiling Katherine Hepburn.<\/p>\n
Lauren Holaday cooling off in her chic heatwave fit. stefano Giovannini for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cI work in fashion retail, and it\u2019s my job to show people they can be stylish even when the weather is challenging,\u201d said the Park Slope blonde.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou do a very lightweight top with heavier pants, and then you just hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. I switch between matcha, iced coffee and water. I carry this [a baby pink Stanley Cup chugger that matched her top] everywhere,\u201d she pointed out to The Post.<\/p>\n
The heat never bothered Holaday anyway. stefano Giovannini for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cIt absolutely counts as an accessory.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barbara Sklodowska, a business consultant from Warsaw, wasn\u2019t sweating her decision to wear a long, flower-covered maxi dress to her meetings at Rockefeller Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause it has such a big print, if I sweat, you can\u2019t really see! It covers it up!\u201d Sklodowska said, explaining the science behind her style choice. \u201cFeeling confident in your clothes is more important than the weather. Especially in New York. You want to look amazing here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barbara Sklodowska donned a printed dress, hat and sneakers to beat the NYC heat. stefano Giovannini for NY Post<\/p>\n
James, a finance intern who wore tweed Charles Tyrwhitt pants in the 93-degree sun, agreed. \u201cI feel like I am in the 70th percentile of best-dressed guys in my office. It\u2019s not worth giving that up just because it\u2019s hot out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over in Midtown, 23-year-old Mariah Fede fluttered spider-y false eyelashes that looked like Tim Burton had made them in a special effects lab. <\/p>\n
Mariah Fede looked chic and comfortable in these scorching temps. stefano Giovannini for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m actually sweating like crazy right now, but they\u2019re still on because I used hair glue, like for wigs, instead of eyelash glue. Otherwise, they\u2019d just slide off my face,\u201d she told The Post, wearing an orange and white tie-dyed dress with a matching head scarf. <\/p>\n
Hot New Yorkers could also just wear hot-weather clothes in hot weather. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s what retired fashion executive Karen Segal advised outside the Museum of Modern Art, where she sported an airy cotton sundress from Palm Beach, a black Issey Miyake tote bag, and a pair of black Ancient Greek sandals. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeople say, \u2018Don\u2019t wear open-toed shoes in New York but are you kidding? It\u2019s 100 degrees out! This is the only thing to wear,\u201d she insisted to The Post.<\/p>\n
Instead of heavy fabric, Segal sported heavy metal: piles of fine gold bracelets, along with a blazing Asscher-cut diamond engagement ring.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s never too hot,\u201d she said, \u201cfor jewelry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They\u2019ve got drip, even when they\u2019re dripping in sweat. As temperatures soared into the triple digits this week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3741,78715,232,57,9,24,56,63,65,64,16570,11304],"class_list":["post-285902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-fashion-beauty","tag-heatwave","tag-lifestyle","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-street-style","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}