The first harbingers of spring are in stores now: warm-weather clothes meant for trips to southern resorts.

Their customer flies down to an island like St. Bart's for a week or two in winter and wants playful warm-weather clothes with a high fashion quotient.

Soft, not strident, shades of pink, aqua and yellow give a flower-garden freshness to his warm-weather clothes.

They were dressed identically in warm-weather clothes, from their boots to their hats.

And it was before the growth of Sun Belt cities, where winters are short and warm-weather clothes are needed practically year-round.

Richard Tyler, the Australian designer who settled in Los Angeles, understands warm-weather clothes.

In the dresses' defense, it should be noted that they are warm-weather clothes and could look wonderful at the beach.

If you're planning a summer vacation, get organized now or there won't be any warm-weather clothes left in the stores.

It's January, but if you can get past the sales racks in the stores, what you'll see are warm-weather clothes.

So resort clothes are really warm-weather clothes for next summer.