Oh For Goodness Sake, Stop Clutching Your Pearls Just Because I Wear White After Labor Day! 😲

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So who died and left ‘who’ in charge of making it a law that you should not wear white after Labor Day? Now, I previously worked in various departments of Beauty and Fashion for over four decades. When I asked several sources from buyers to models to fashion magazine writers, why it wasn’t okay to wear white after Labor Day, there was no rule authorizing why you could not. So what is this fuss all about? Hmmmm….

It really came down to more of an antiquated societal adaption of color, since most people wore white and light colors during the summer to stay cool. During the fall and winter months, people tended to shift to darker colors believed to help them stay warm. Pretty much, this was strategic marketing. And by golly, it worked! Personally, I think it boils down to the weight, design, and type of fabric your apparel is made of, regardless of color, whether you feel cool or warm.

Ever since high school when I made a lot of my clothes on my mother’s trusty Singer sewing machine, I always walked to the beat of a different sewing needle, with different fabrics, patterns, designs, and colors. I always mixed things up and still do, by constantly defying the law of  “proper fashion” according to someone’s crazy genius rules. Call me a fashion maverick if you want. If you’re familiar with the model and fashion designer Iris Apfel, I’m her alter ego. 

So last week, I went to a doctor’s appointment, boldly and unapologetically wearing my milk-white outfit just to get a gratifying gasp from some proper southern belle! Now perhaps I was waiting for someone to say something so I could give them my talk to the hand, cause the face ain’t hearin’ it attitude. Or perhaps it was me simply being me. Or maybe it’s because I am too doggone old to care. Or perhaps it was a combination of all of those reasons. But guess what, the earth didn’t end, I didn’t get struck by lightning, and the dead did not rise from their graves.

Yeah, I knew I stood out like an Easter Egg on Christmas morning. So, don’t clutch your pearls when you see me wearing white after Labor Day because you might choke yourself. Heck, no one even bothered to make the rule about when to start wearing white again. Yet, if you feel uncomfortable defying a marketing rule that has been circulating for decades now, then don’t wear it. But frankly speaking Scarlet, I don’t give an elephant’s hind parts what others think. I willingly and boldly challenge the fashion police, should they dare try to give me a citation for what they consider a conditional-thinking fashion faux pas, while I’m driving under the influence of wearing milk-white after Labor Day! 

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