How Soon After Labor Day Can You Wear White Again
White jeans hang in my closet, mocking me. I want to wear them, only I can't. Not yet.
I know it seems whiny to shiver through a 60-degree solar day while folks in the Northeast are earthworks out from beneath a catastrophic snow storm. But I don't live in the Northeast, and this wintertime seems like it's lasted forever.
I'm ready for bound.
Which brings me back to those white jeans.
I know, I know. This debate is nil new. And I've gotten to white-before-Easter OK from some of my almost fashion-frontwards friends.
"To me, white means hot," said my pal Connie Harvey of Cocoa. "And information technology's pretty much ever hot in Florida."
She looks put together even while tromping through the muck picking upwardly trash on the riverbank, accessorizing with monogrammed rubber boots and a jaunty red bandanna.
It doesn't seem the to the lowest degree bit strange to come across her wearing a white apparel with black tights and boots in February.
Kim Hone of Merritt Island, another fashionable friend, agrees.
"I absolutely habiliment white earlier Easter," she said. "I wore all white for a Christmas party, considering it was 85 degrees that day."
And this from Susie Wasdin of Cocoa: "I wearable a lot of white all year long," she said. "My favorite is wintertime white."
I'yard not aback of my age, merely I'm not old yet
I've tried to make the switch myself. A couple of times in Nov, I slipped into white denim shorts. My closet didn't implode, and the spirits of my Southern female person relatives didn't haunt my dreams.
Still, information technology didn't feel quite correct.
My friend Rachel Barrial of Rockledge has the same problem.
"I commonly wait until Memorial Day," she said, "which I think is silly, because we alive in Florida. Just I can't seem to break information technology and wear white.
"I might follow your Easter white rule," Rachel said. "I was thinking near my white pants the other day."
Memorial 24-hour interval seems to be the norm in other parts of the country, but in the deep Due south, nosotros always followed the Easter rule. Information technology wouldn't exist Easter Lord's day without white patent leather shoes, lacy socks and maybe a affect of white eyelet.
"I don't wearable white before Easter," said Jo Ellen Gordon, my Alabama-raised cousin who has lived in Georgia for the by few decades. Information technology's not an accented dominion. She'll habiliment white tops or sweaters. But no dresses or pants.
"My girls carry the tradition on," she said.
The start of the rule confronting wearing white after Labor Twenty-four hours or earlier Memorial Twenty-four hours is a bit cryptic, according to various manner sites I found online. The prevailing theory is that wealthy women wore crisp, clean white in the warmer months, while the working course wore night colors.
Does noise disfavor while eating mean I'm old?
It makes sense. It's difficult to work and keep white clean and well-baked. Heck, if yous're as clumsy as I am, information technology's hard to practise anything and proceed white clean.
Simply snobbery has long gone out of manner, and it'south a lot easier to get a stain out of that white blouse now than it was in 1923.
Maybe I should rethink my winter white jitters.
"If style has taught us one thing, it'southward there are no rules," said Rita Moreno of Suntree. "I wear wintertime white in the fall/winter season. There are and then many versions of white these days, it really tin can work all year round if paired correctly.
"Just this morning, Hoda Kotb of the 'Today Evidence' had on a pretty white apparel."
I decided to give terminal say to Louisiana-based fashion blogger Karli Willis (karlialexandra.com).
She'south immature and gorgeous and posts pictures of the most amazing apparel. She's too super Southern, so she understands tradition.
White is "absolutely OK to clothing before Easter," she said.
"Does your grandmother know you say that?" I asked.
"Precious McClung would non approve," she said. "Just fashion rules aren't as strict anymore."
Then there yous have it. I'll go ahead and bust out my white jeans a total 3 weeks before Easter.
And Karli, I promise not to tell your grandmother.
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Source: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/life/style/suzy-leonard/2018/03/09/white-pants-ok-before-easter-memorial-day-have-rules-fashion-changed/409971002/
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