It's this blog's first summer! And because it's 38.4C outside (according to the news, that's the hottest this year yet) AND it's a Saturday, I decided I can afford to daydream about the beach.
Last year, I asked a bunch of parents where they love to go with their family in the summertime. While everyone said the beach, none of them chose Boracay. Why? Because it's not exactly family-friendly. Sure the water is blue, and the sand is fine, but the activities in Boracay cater more to the gimik-crowd: the ones who want to go partying and staying up all night.
Besides that, there's the beach fashion. Not family-friendly at all!
So...
High temperatures are no excuse to dress indecently. The truth is, you can stay cool without having to lounge about in your underwear (or their wearable-in-public fashionable cousin, the bikini). Just take a cue from the Polyvore set I made above. The trick to staying cool lies not in the amount of fabric (if it did, maxi dresses would be toasty) but in the kind of fabric, the fit of the clothes, and the color.
Some notes:
Cool fabrics
Cotton, linen, rayon let the most air in, making the clothes "breathable."
Cool fit
Loose clothing like big shirts and flowy dresses are cooler for summer because they don't cause chafing.
Cool colors
Anything that is not very dark or black is cool. You know that light is made up of different color waves. All objects reflect some light and absorb all the rest. For example, if a shirt is yellow, it means it reflects the yellow waves but absorbs all the other color waves. A red shirt reflects only red waves. But the black shirt reflects no waves, and that's why we see black. That means black shirts are the best shirts for trapping heat fast. And that's why more people like wearing white in summer.
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| If you really like dark colors, there's always stripes! Image from themavenpost.com: Vogue Girl Korea, May 2011. |
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
-Emily Dickinson
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