Are you Still Wearing White?

The Lovely Christina and I were talking earlier on the show today that you  can no longer wear white after Labor Day>

She asked me if I was, and I responded "no". It's just a coincidence really because I haven't even given it a thought. I also told her that "I'm lucky I'm even wearing pants today"

But it got me thinking. What's the deal with not wearing white after labor day??? Who came up with such nonsense??

This is what I found out:

According to Mental Floss.com

The wives of the super-rich ruled high society with an iron fist after the Civil War. As more and more people became millionaires, though, it was difficult to tell the difference between old money, respectable families, and those who only had vulgar new money. By the 1880s, in order to tell who was acceptable and who wasn’t, the women who were already “in” felt it necessary to create dozens of fashion rules that everyone in the know had to follow

 

Emily Post.com says:

The nineteen 00s, 10s and 20s—the summer season was bracketed by Memorial Day and Labor Day. Society flocked en masse from town house to seaside "cottage" or mountain "cabin" to escape the heat. City clothes were left behind in exchange for lighter, whiter, summer costumes. Come fall and the return to the city, summer clothes were put away and more formal city clothes donned once more. It was an age when there was a dress code for practically every occasion, and the signal to mark the change between summer resort clothes and clothing worn for the rest of the year was encapsulated in the dictum "No white after Labor Day." And it stuck

 

I also read that it has something to do with working with coal. When the temperatures would get cold, men would have to put coal in the furnace to heat things up.Obviously if they were wearing white while dealing with coal they would be a complete mess. Hence....don't wear white white in the winter...White clothes get dirty.

Who knows what the real answer is, so I say "Do whatever you want to do"!!! Wear white all year round if you want!

By the way...Just 264 days til Memorial Day!!!