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Which colour is best to wear in this heat? Black or White, dark or light? It seems that it makes no difference at all according to a study discussed in <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v2 ... 373a0.html" target="_blank">'Nature'.</a>

Whatever the colour, (and psychosomatics doesn't count) the best thing to wear is loose fitting clothing.
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Light colours..... you want to try wearing a dark blue boiler suit for a full shift in this weather even with nout on underneath bar under crackers it still gets peeled off due to the sweat lol
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Without looking I already typed out what that study found, basically white clothes reflect heat better, where as darker clothes radiate the heat away better. What does make a difference is how loose the clothing is.

Basically looser the better, so get your summer dress on.
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D3s3rt_F0x wrote: Without looking I already typed out what that study found, basically white clothes reflect heat better, where as darker clothes radiate the heat away better. What does make a difference is how loose the clothing is.

Basically looser the better, so get your summer dress on.
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so that's white stuff if you're in the sun, and black if you're in the shade.....
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Dangerous Bob wrote: so that's white stuff if you're in the sun, and black if you're in the shade.....
They're saying that it makes no difference. Seems they grabbed a Bedouin while he was doing whatever Bedouin do in the desert, and did this test on him.

Quote from Nature magazine:
"We report here that the amount of heat gained by a Bedouin exposed to the hot desert is the same whether he wears a black or a white robe. The additional heat absorbed by the black robe was lost before it reached the skin." :ph34r:
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