<\/span><\/h2>\nThe next rule is that you cannot wear white after Labor Day.<\/p>\n
Everything about this goes back to the early 1900s. Because the majority of people at that time worked manual labor jobs and their garments would get very dirty, wearing white was a statement of wealth.<\/p>\n
Therefore, if you wore white, it indicated that you belonged to a higher social level and that you were exempt from manual labor. Therefore, there was no need for you to stress about the possibility of getting your clothes dirty.<\/p>\n
Additionally, it implied that you had sufficient financial resources to take winter and fall vacations in warmer places after Labor Day.<\/p>\n
After some point in history, people realized that displaying off their wealth by continuing to wear white into the fall season was inappropriate, and thus the practice was abandoned.<\/p>\n
After Labor Day, members of the upper class were expected to refrain from wearing white as a gesture of good manners because it had become an established rule.<\/p>\n
Because wearing white after Labor Day was considered to be a fashion faux pas, at least among the wealthy, and indicated that one was not genuinely in the know of current fashion trends. And that meant you were not a member of the upper class.<\/p>\n
Therefore, from the very beginning, the entire thing was marked by arrogance and poor judgment.<\/p>\n
That rule is no longer valid today.<\/p>\n