the girls in their summer dresses

it's not updike, he was writing about scopes of vanilla ice cream . it's irwin shaw that I thought of when I saw the NYTimes piece with the caption:

The summer dress, in all shapes and styles, is preferred by many women, and by men who like watching them.

Yep.

Shaw's story is great; involving a scopophilic man and his irritated significant other who stomps off because he keeps looking at all the getaway sticks/pins/gams. Ends rather perfectly with him noticing what nice legs she has as she is leaving him.

GREAT short story, which I haven't re-read since probably 6th or 7th grade.

Actually in looking at the whole story Shaw gets a shout out!