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It’s Hot Out & I Hope You Stayed Cooler Than This Startup CEO
- sanswork 15y agoMy neighbour owns a roofing company and in the middle of the summer heat doing our shingling a few years back all of them were wearing heavy winter coats. When asked about it they said it actually made them cooler and also kept the sun off their skin. My cousin not believing this tried it and apparently initially you're a lot hotter but as you start to sweat it cools back down again(as long as there is a breeze). You also keep yourself insulated from the direct sun.
- Mz 15y agoMy dad once told me that someone in the community he grew up in wore long sleeves year-round and said it "keeps the cold off you in winter and keeps the heat off you in summer". This was in Indiana and my dad grew up on a farm where people worked really hard (after WWII was over, he rejoined the army so he could sleep in and work less hard -- he felt it wasn't a bad gig as long as they weren't shooting at you). I am also reminded of how my oldest son wanted to wear a winter coat in June when he was 2 years old because it came in the mail from relatives around the same time I bought him new shoes and the coat and shoes matched. I felt it was not too risky since he was born in Texas and we were living in Germany at the time. So I taught him that half your heat escapes through your head, so just keep the hood off and don't zip it all the way up (so heat could vent from around his neck). He now tells me this lesson stayed with him throughout his childhood and he was better at dealing with cold weather than the other school kids because of it.