Why Is It Bad to Wear White After Labor Day?
The rule against wearing white after Labor Day relates to the designation of Labor Day as the official end of summer. Thus, it is time to put away one’s “summer whites” and prepare for the cold weather. For anyone in the non-working class, the time of frivolity was over. It was time to stop wearing cute summer outfits and to start getting serious again. To continue to wear this obvious sign of summer during the non-summer months showed both rudeness and ignorance.
