No worries. Hope I wasn’t too harsh. Just want people to realize their personal experiences with only their local climates should probably not be letting that limited set of personal experiences then shape their own understanding of areas of the world of which they are far less familiar…
Imagine someone who’s never been in the desert going “why are they wearing full white robes?”
…and then that same person proclaiming : “Shouldn’t they just wear a t-shirt and that will help keep them cool?”
Not that I’ve lived in any desert before or worn anything like that before, but when wondering that myself, instead of thinking I knew better, I looked up some info… and instead found out that those “full-length white robes” actually not only protect their skin from UV ray damage, but also help insulate them from the heat better than just wearing less would in climates with less brutally hot dry temperatures. Also keeps wind from blasting sand against their skin, and when the temperature drops at night in the desert, that style of clothing also does a better job at keeping them warm.
No worries. Hope I wasn’t too harsh. Just want people to realize their personal experiences with only their local climates should probably not be letting that limited set of personal experiences then shape their own understanding of areas of the world of which they are far less familiar…
Imagine someone who’s never been in the desert going “why are they wearing full white robes?”
…and then that same person proclaiming : “Shouldn’t they just wear a t-shirt and that will help keep them cool?”
Not that I’ve lived in any desert before or worn anything like that before, but when wondering that myself, instead of thinking I knew better, I looked up some info… and instead found out that those “full-length white robes” actually not only protect their skin from UV ray damage, but also help insulate them from the heat better than just wearing less would in climates with less brutally hot dry temperatures. Also keeps wind from blasting sand against their skin, and when the temperature drops at night in the desert, that style of clothing also does a better job at keeping them warm.