Jan 3, 2012 3:33 PM
The Polar Bear Plunge at East Hampton’s Main Beach on New Year’s Day was outstanding from a fashion standpoint alone. The mixture of flip-flops and Uggs, bikinis and parkas, bathrobes and one suit-tie-and-briefcase affair all reflected a cheery disconnect between Sunday’s sunny, 50-plus weather and typically dreary associations with “January,” “polar,” even “plunge.”
An open red convertible bore one contingent of bathers in colorful ski hats; smiling East Hampton Village police in reflector vests ushered that and other cars into an overflow parking lot that helped accommodate what their department later estimated to be 1,000 spectators and plungers.
“Who’s getting cold and scared?” said one member of one mixed-age family party to another as they walked toward the beach.
“This is going to be mind over matter,” said another, mustering courage.
Vicki Littman, a... more
An open red convertible bore one contingent of bathers in colorful ski hats; smiling East Hampton Village police in reflector vests ushered that and other cars into an overflow parking lot that helped accommodate what their department later estimated to be 1,000 spectators and plungers.
“Who’s getting cold and scared?” said one member of one mixed-age family party to another as they walked toward the beach.
“This is going to be mind over matter,” said another, mustering courage.
Vicki Littman, a... more
