Seasonal Attire [NOT 1/9/23]

Is This The Weekend Where You Go From White to Brown?

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Shoe and insect
In the Toe of That Old Shoe / Oliver Herford / ca. 1900 / source: https://www.loc.gov/item/2010716782/

Changing Seasons, Changing Clothes?

According to old rules, Labor Day is the last day of the year that white shoes may be worn. Or maybe it’s white clothes in general? I’m not too sure about these things. Definitely something about white only between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

At any rate, do you carefully follow the seasons for your wardrobe? I think another one of those rules was straw hats were for summer only.

Do you only wear baseball caps during baseball season, and put them away after the World Series?

Adrian “Cap” Anson / 1887 / Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/2007678541

Or do you strictly follow the weather, and if it’s 90 F in October, then you’re rocking the Speedos and fishnet tank top on the front porch, never mind what Emily Post may say?

Do you have an ugly Christmas sweater you break out every December? Dress up in red, white and blue every July? Wear a team sweater to honor the Stanley Cup playoffs?

From today’s DOT is this post, which obviously is seasonal attire — is this you?

Shoutout to the 13-year-old on a skateboard who called me a “candy corn bitch”
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  3. I go from short sleeve beer shirts to long sleeve beer shirts when it gets cold & beer hoodies & fleece when it gets really cold.  Won’t get out of my shorts & flip flops until it drops below 40.

  4. I’m totally a seasonal person, when I’m not *just* wearing clothes which could be called “sensory friendly”

     

    Basically, I have “uniforms” for all my work–jeans (may be capri-length, or rolled upto capri length in warm temps), a tank top, and a V-neck t-shirt (the tank, is because *most*plain cotton women’s t’s are now too sheer to wear by themselves).

    (ETA-literal Uniform at the Grocery store–black pants & hideous store-brand polyester polo shirt that i wear a white Men’s Hanes V-neck under, to prevent infections in my armpits–they happen to *most* of the women I’ve known at work who try to wear the uniform shirt w/o an undershirt!😳😟😱 )

    Cooler weather means a sweater or my work-hoodie *over* the top.

    My work shirts & work hoodieare the *only* “logo” items i wear (because printing makes the fabric “pull funny” which bothers me at *some* point during the day!), and the “logo” is that of my Early Childhood Sped program… otherwise I *do* have logoed hoodies (ratty, old, znd for bumming around the house only!) from the Tech schools I’ve attended.

    Shoes are Keens year-round, unless I’m in my Sorel Boots during winter outside times.

    I am incredibly boring, clothing-wise, but comfy😉

  6. I have summer clothing, winter clothing, and transitional clothing. Mostly transitional clothing, comprised if layers, because winter weather is short-lived any more and not all that cold or snowy, while summer is very hot and lasts into October these days. PA weather is reflecting climate change. Now wait and see . . . I will have tempted fate and we’ll have a frigid, blizzardy winter season.

    In the olden days of my youth, patent leather shoes were also subject to the Memorial Day-Labor Day rule.

    The fashion rules against the unseasonal wearing of white loosened due to southern weather. I remember voting on color ways for import packs of fashion tops, and white was always included because a really large store (250 units) was in the buying group and their locations ranged across the south. Even for November through January deliveries.

    I read an interesting article that made a point that wearing white in the summer was class demarcation, as poorer folks could not afford seasonal clothing, and did too much labor to keep it clean.

    Although the color was used in the middle ages, white wedding dresses were not a thing until the 1840’s, when people began copying Queen Victoria’s wedding attire.

    My usless knowledge of white in fashion has now ended.

    • St Louis is similar. Like we might not have truly cold weather for most of winter, or we might have a week in December where it’s single digits. And then a week later the gulf stream brings temps in the 40s.

      I don’t even own a winter coat anymore. A Northface fleece does good enough because I can layer if needed.

    • I think the class thing is right. In the old days guys only had one suit for weddings and funerals, unless they were rich and needed different ones for going on Atlantic cruises and flights and benefits at the Met.

      Of course the pendulum has swung back and that’s true now too.

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