Stargazers and weather-watchers can debate celestial positioning versus average temperatures. However, the fashion police are far more stringent. The wearing of white shoes ends on Labor Day.
Why? It's been said that white shoes reflect the sun and as the temperature drops, darker shoes are needed to maintain the foot's warmth. This is simply blatant rationalization. You don't wear white shoes after Labor Day because it is a rule. Without this rule, we would have podiatric anarchy. Those who flaunt such rules should be considered archenemies, sole-less heels in step with Mephistopheles. As ever - BB
"The goodness of a true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability." - Edgar Allen Poe
2 comments:
My smelly scuffed white shoes were ready for a rest. They look forward to Labor Day every year.
J
In the late 19th century as more people were entering the middle classes, these newly rich were often unaware of the standards of high society, so they were given specific codified rules to follow in order to fit in–possibly the origin of the tenet not to wear white after Labor Day.
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