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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Away - Clothing for Hot Climates



Clothing in hot climates: according to my experience, the best leisure clothing is a thin cotton shirt with long sleeves (you can wrap them up), and long light trousers. I'm not saying "pant" because the English are different and even more so are their pants, not to speak of the Americans, which would make things even more complicated.
Basically, what we want is to protect our hides from the intense sunrays, thus avoiding getting a sunburn. So our clothing should be bright and as light as possible.
Cotton appears to be the most suitable tissue. No socks please, or just cotton sneakers socks, underwear is also not necessary during the day, apart from pants (British butt-protection type). A pair of flipflops are very comfortable for your feet. If you don't want to go with bare feet in them: I've learned there are socks with distinct compartment for each tootsie ;-)
If you're doing business under these climate conditions (lucky you), the general rule to wear light cotton clothing still applies, together with a pair of light leather or cotton shoes.
Please don't forget to protect your head with a broadly brimmed hat or some other piece of protection. If you see a person walking along donning a parasol): well, then you can be sure that it's somebody who's obeying my advice to be brave, let people giggle, and carry such a useful thing as a protection against sunrays. You know what sunrays can do to you, don't you.
Remember: to many of them and they become your enemies.

Okay, now you go and enjoy the paradise.