No More White?

It’s Labor Day and traditionally that means it is time to put away your “whites”.  If you are over the age of 30 you have probably grown up hearing the fashion rule that it is a faux pas to wear white after Labor Day.  Where did that idea come from and does it still apply?  Well here is what one historian and journalist from Time magazine has to say on the subject:

We just like knowing what the rules are so, if we break them, it is on purpose and not out of ignorance.  While we don’t want to ever be stiff or stuffy about social etiquette, we think the “rules” about fashion and other topics are there to give us guidelines to live more gracious lives.  One can certainly choose for good reason to break any social “rule” at any time, and over time some rules, as this one has, naturally change.

Still you probably won’t catch either of your Two Chums wearing white shoes after Labor Day….some things just die hard 🙂