One time I saw my grandmother looking at a woman who was wearing a beautiful white hijab. With beautiful bead work. I looked because I loved how beautiful it was. My grandmother looked like she was mad. I asked her what was wrong? Praying she wasn't going to go the old people racist route.
She turned to me and said "Doesn't she know not to wear white after labor day?"
I tried to explain no one goes by the rule anymore but she was upset the whole day lol. I was just glad it had nothing to do with who she was I just couldn't hold myself together at the fact my grandmother was mad that she was wearing white after labor day lol.
It is an old fashioned silly clothes rule where you don't wear white after labor day.
Here is what I found:
White was for weddings and resort wear, not dinner parties in the fall. Of course it could get extremely hot in September, and wearing white might make the most sense, but if you wanted to be appropriately attired you just did not do it. Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, and society eventually adopted it as the natural endpoint for summer fashion.
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So in other words it was a summer color and day after labor day was for fall colors only unless you were getting married.
She turned to me and said "Doesn't she know not to wear white after labor day?"
I tried to explain no one goes by the rule anymore but she was upset the whole day lol. I was just glad it had nothing to do with who she was I just couldn't hold myself together at the fact my grandmother was mad that she was wearing white after labor day lol.
Here is what I found:
White was for weddings and resort wear, not dinner parties in the fall. Of course it could get extremely hot in September, and wearing white might make the most sense, but if you wanted to be appropriately attired you just did not do it. Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, and society eventually adopted it as the natural endpoint for summer fashion.
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So in other words it was a summer color and day after labor day was for fall colors only unless you were getting married.