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To stay cool on a hot day is it better to wear light colored clothing or dark colored clothing?
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#81709. Asked by star_gazer. (Jun 08 07 9:57 PM)
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McGruff
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See Question #69926.
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vader1000
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To stay cool on a hot day. You should wear white or light clored clothing since it reflects the light, dark colors absorve light and make you hotter.
Vader 1000
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sanchscrew
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Color doesn't matter as long as the clothes you are wearing are thin and not made of cotton, because cotton absorbs absorbs and compressed the heat with your body.
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verovero
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It's better to wear light colored clothing, because the dark ones attract warm
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MonkeyOnALeash
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No color "attracts" light or heat. Colors will either reflect or absorb heat and light.
Rule One: stay out of the light!
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Arpeggionist
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The Bedouin people of the southern Mid-East generally cover themselves in black clothing. The dark clothes sheild them best from the sun's heat.
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star_gazer
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Any links please?
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trevor1968
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Black clothing absorbs sunlight and the heat radiating from your body, but if it is loose-fitting, and there is wind, the wind convects the heat away faster than it is absorbed. White clothing reflects sunlight, but also reflects internal heat back towards your body, so the net effect under identical conditions is less cooling than if you wore black.
Desert-dwelling nomadic people such as the Tuaregs wear loose-fitting black clothing, and have been doing so for a very, very long time. If there were an advantage to wearing white clothes, you'd certainly expect they'd have figured that out by now.
 http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-65287.html
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