Harvard's refashioned Science Center plaza’s food trucks, Tuesday farmers market and Friday art fair might be why you stop by this summer, but the style watching is a good reason to stick around.
Take a seat at one of the many shaded benches or chrome bistro tables, and you’ll see a succession of fashionable passersby, local and international, whose presence calls into question Boston's infamous 2011 ranking as the worst-dressed city in the country.
The trendy twentysomething women hanging out during this year's hottest weeks yet were staying cool in draped or cropped tees and tanks, lightweight dresses and mini shorts, almost all with sun-shielding straw hats and glasses. Their other accessories—leather jackets and backpacks, horsehair sandals and black high-tops—showed that mixing classic hot- and cold-weather materials, and layering, even in the heat, is what's eye catching right now.
