Loose, light- to medium-colored, long linen clothes, long sleeves shirts, trousers and long skirts or dresses, actually keep one cooler than going bare. The skin absorbs a lot of infrared heat, in addition to the damaging solar radiation causing premature aging and skin cancer. If I get a lot of the sun’s heat absorbed into my skin for hours, I feel unpleasantly feverish, even if wearing high-SPF (70) sunscreen, which I do every day. I’m a geologist who has to work in every climate and I know that white or beige linen pants and shirts and a good broad-brimmed hat really keeps the body cooler. An airy sunhat is essential for preventing heat-related illness, I’ve had it from working on a 115F day on a drilling rig, and it’s not fun!
@@kimberlyperrotis8962 indeed, it seems counterintuitive but longer sleeves are so much better. Something else I refused to believe as a teenager and now I have to agree with my grandma. A sun illness sound awful, I'm sorry
I wear silk every day, three seasons a year (under cashmere or Merino in winter), but not in summer, it’s just too hot. I wear only linen in summer, it’s usually about 30-40C and up where I live, even cotton is too hot for a typical summer day here. Today it’s very cool, about 22C, so I’m wearing a cotton-knit dress, but in normal summer weather I wouldn’t. I finally got an entire summer wardrobe in linen for the first time this summer, including blazers and a few sweaters and have been super-comfy and have lots of choices, at last. You don’t know what hot really is until menopause brings on the hot flashes! Wearing any synthetic, plastic fabric or material on my torso, at any time of year, is just unthinkable for me. I still have some polyester pleated midi skirts I love, but I wear those only in cold weather, over a silk slip or petticoat. I’m allergic to plastics, so have to prevent direct skin contact with them, even on my less-sensitive legs. I hope more brands start offering natural-fibers, virtually no one here in California will wear any synthetics. I have to shop mostly French brands.
@@kimberlyperrotis8962 an entire linen wardrobe is my ultimate goal. I am slowly working towards it., but loving I belgium I will always need some cotton knits because it can be quite chilly here. I try to avoid polyester at all costs but in summer is just unthinkable. Too hot and smelly!
Viscose/rayon/lyocell, the “manmade cellulosic fibers” are ok for linings because they’re breathable, they’re made from plant fibers, not petrochemical plastics. But so many brands use polyester. It only costs a penny more per garment to use rayon, why don’t they just charge more? I don’t get it: I’ll pay a lot more to get breathable linings. I think Banana Republic and Theory are the only US brands that use breathable rayon or cotton lining fabrics, so that’s where I shop, among US brands.
@@MiaHessMusic I tend not to wear any but I am small chested. I would recommend something in cotton so it's more breathable and ideally in your skin color so you don't worry that it shows under whites or light colors. I take mine from intimissimi. I find they have a good price-quality balance although they don't have all skin colors sadly.
