Have you ever wondered why you can’t wear white after Labor Day? Well, have you ever heard of it or talked about it? So now you can, and here are some answers to your questions. A lot of people say you can’t wear white after Labor Day, but a lot of people wonder where that came from. Many people think it’s just an old wives ‘ tale, but there are many other reasons why this rumor has occurred. Nobody knows who started this rumor. There are a lot of people who say that it was between the 19th and the 20th century that it was just an old wives’ Tale, but I’m here to get to the bottom of it.
Let’s start at the beginning. Between the 19th and the 20th century, a rumor started that you cannot wear white after Labor Day. During this time period, the color white was considered a very rich color because it was associated with wealth and was often worn by wealthy individuals, including those who also wore purple. These two colors were just very well-known among the wealthy.
When you think about it, there was a very rich person named Julius Caesar: Although not an emperor, he famously wore an all-purple toga to signify his importance and set a precedent for future emperors. acording to voge To wear white was a subtle way of showing you weren’t doing the landscaping, cooking, or cleaning—or, well, manual labor at all
There were a lot of people in the 19th and 20th centuries who said this was considered a sin, and many modern fashion experts and publications advise that white can be worn year-round. To be able to wear silk, white, or to where rich purple was for the rich. In that time, it was also considered that purple was for royalty. But even the people who worked every day and worked every night would barely make enough money to buy maybe a little square of silk, and none of the purple. The purple was so expensive because of how it was made; they would take snails and sea cucumber, but not any type of snails were called murex snails, which helped get to that rich purple color. Now let’s talk to someone else about this.
According to Tiffany Cabrara, a 7th-grade teacher here at Rio Norte Junior High, white is a seasonal color, so it is retired after summer. She says, white represents “ lightness, and then you just move on to more kind of darker jewel tone colors.”
So there are many reasons that you can’t wear white after Labor Day, so know as I leave you, here is something to think about, a long time ago, you had to be rich or royalty to where white and purple, but now, over time, that has faded, but why do you think that this rule has faded?
Thank you for reading! 