What to Wear Now, According to Your Fave Summer Jam

While we have yet to crown the song of summer 2016, we've got good feelings about a few contenders. Aside from the fact that they just make us want to get up and dance, there's a little fashion lesson to be learned from every single one. So, we figured why not pick out a few outfits inspired by the pieces we've had on repeat for weeks?

Consider these five looks our take on summer's standout hits, each with their own fashionable tweak. Whether it's a Beyoncé-inspired lemon print or a little something you can wear to work work work á la Rihanna, choose your summer jam and then get to shopping! Also, we included videos of the songs themselves, all for your listening pleasure (you're welcome). Now every time these beats come on, your mind will go right to what you want to wear. 

Check out our picks for summer's big hits—and their companion outfits—below!

Watergate Hotel Is Back and Banking on History, Glamorous or Scandalous

When the police searched the men's rooms, they found electrical equipment, thousands of dollars in fresh $100 bills and a check written by E. Howard Hunt, a former C.I.A. agent who would eventually be exposed as the organizer of the break-in.

Watergate-inspired history is nothing new for the hotel. By 1973, the year before Nixon resigned, the hotel and office building had become such tourist attractions that a travel writer for The New York Times obser ved, not entirely seriously, that the Watergate might have been approaching the Lincoln Memorial for annual visitors. Reports of thousands of dollars' worth of items with logos on them stolen from the hotel's rooms were common in the years that followed.

Such acquisitiveness should come as no surprise, according to Carl Bernstein, who as a young reporter for The Washington Post worked with Bob Woodward to bring the scandal to light.

"We live in an age of the commercialization of everything, so it just seems rather natural to me that in Washington you're going to have tourism around what is one of the great historical events in the life of the city," Mr. Bernstein said.

Still, the Cohens remain far more interested in the glamour of the '60s than the hotel history of the '70s.

After their development firm, Euro Capital Properties, bought the property for $45 million in 2010, they brought on Ron Arad, an Israeli designer, to rework the space and bring the hotel back in line with Mr. Moretti's original curvilinear design. The lobby is now framed with sleek bent-metal fixtures and brightly colored oblong furniture designed by Mr. Arad. Mrs. Co hen also asked Janie Bryant, the costume designer of "Mad Men" fame, to create period-inspired uniforms for bellhops, concierges and other employees.

At the same time, the hotel expanded the number of guest rooms to 336, about 80 more than its earlier incarnation had. Presidential suites, which start at $12,000 a night, have sweeping views of the Potomac and nearby Georgetown. A new rooftop bar opening this summer will have 360-degree views of the city and the surrounding area.

"You feel like you're on your own little island by the water," Mr. Cohen said.

As for accommodating those on the island with an int erest in history, Mr. Bernstein, who wrote "All the President's Men," an account of the scandal, with Mr. Woodward, had a suggestion: "I would hope that if they are really going to do this, instead of putting Gideons Bible in the drawer, they would put our book in there or another respected book of history so that people can know about what really happened."

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