WAIT, ARE YOU STILL WEARING WHITE?

WAIT, ARE YOU STILL WEARING WHITE?

Don't you know it's well past labor day. You're not suppose to be wearing it anymore. Hell, Disneyland already started up their Halloween decorations. So I have to ask, why the fuck are you still wearing white?

I'll tell you why society has deemed it unacceptable of a thing to wear in this modern day and age - past labor day, that is. How that came to be? Well, dear readers, put your peepers on this here article and I'll run down why you're so afraid of just wearing your white clothing now that fall has come around.

White has been something you can socially be accepted to wear between Memorial Day and Labor day. Once that passes, you throw those clothing into the closet and you pull out the warmer stuff. For, of course those of us in Southern California know that you're not dealing with warm weather now, are you? HA! Anyhow, how did this happen?  A few reasons to be true to form.

When you're dealing with fall and winter, you're not going to be dealing with white clothing because, well, back in the olden times you were using a coal burning system to keep warm. So if you're going to be handling the blackest of the black in coal, you probably wouldn't want to wear something white. I know that when I wear a white shirt to do any sort of task, within 20 minutes of putting it on, I already have some sort of ketchup or other object stain right on it. So white was kept for the times when you didn't have to use coal to warm yourself and just depended on the sun to keep you nice and warm.

Another reason was peer pressure in terms of the fashion scene. Back when you were told how you should dress through smaller options in outlets, you sort of had fewer options to choose your look. Taste-makers back then basically pushed you to not wear it. Though Coco Chanel was famous for trying to push white as a staple in her style all year round.  And it's really worth noting that the whole white rule just doesn't hold mustard these days and it's pretty okay to wear it, if you can pull it off... those white pants are just never going to really be able to happen, though. You just have to know how to pull it off because it is a look that doesn't always go well with everyone.

The last bit of reasoning was classic classism. You see, the origins of etiquette can be tracked to French royal courts of the 1600s and 1700s, but back then they would refer to those who are suitable of breeding to be able to use only three fingers, extending both the ring and pinkie finger to denote status. So it's just flat out saying that there was a clear distinction towards who was someone from class and who was a dirty mud fucker.  So dictating that you are of lower rank than I because you couldn't afford different clothing for summer time than winter or some such thing like that was just perfect example of how to distance yourself from the lowly peasants.

So there you have it. And let me again repeat, those white jeans... not pulling it off no matter what season it is.