SUMMER CLOTHING

Wairarapa Age, 23 March 1920, Page 2

SUMMER CLOTHING

To aid nature the skin must be permitted io act freely; but,, whilst allowing it to do so, we must take care care not to have moisture laden .garments in contact with the body:; so to do is to encourage the conditions i likely to bring about a chill.. Under-, clothing of porous texture is necessary, so-that the constant stream of perspiration shall be first quickly absorbed/and then passed on readily enough for evaporation into the outer air. Wo are wearing the right clothing when, in spite of, the heat, we suffer no discomfort from, a sense of damp and clinging, garments. , This means, in effect, that to conduct one's daily life and/business with the thermometer at 90deg. in the shade one should appear in raiment much lighter than is ever the case except as regards a few bold pioneers. The neatest approach the average man gets to proper heat wave clothing is a ilannel suit and a straw hat, whereas , the proper, wear would have been fine silk or linen, with the straw hat replaced by some such headgear as the white •helmets worn in the East. After all, protection of the head is one of the most important considerations when the direct rays of the sun are penetratingly hot. It is, of course, com.monly thought that the ladies have an advantage in the much lighter clothing they habitually wear, but wo must not forget that it is far more to the point, both as regards health and . comfort,' to protect the neck and shoulders from the fierce action of direot sunshine than to expose them. ~