Summer is coming, and the temperature is rising. Indian summers see people battling out scorching heat and dry winds in the central regions and sweaty humid weather on the coastal fronts. It’s almost absurd to see people walking on the streets wearing full sleeved dark clothing soaked up with sweat. While we don’t have a ‘less clothing’ dressing culture like the Brazilians do with similar climates, we can definitely stick to lighter and breathable materials to beat the heat.
Summers call in for comfortable and light material and colour clothes to be cast out and worn. As you put back your cardigans and sweatshirts back into the deep confines of your wardrobe, you can think over what new pieces of men’s clothing styles that can be bought to face the soon incoming onslaught of heat and fire. You can keep in mind these clothing fabrics that we will be telling you now when you go shopping the next time!
- Linen
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Linen is naturally sturdy and holds a structured look. The fabric has a great texture and is very comfortable to wear, feel and touch. Linen suits and trousers account for perfect office wear pieces during the heat of the summers. Linen is also very easy to layer due to its ability to hold a well-defined structure. It tends to get creased easily so wearing a linen fabric doped with cotton would be a great idea in case you’re not so fond of ironing. Some linen shirts look more charming when they look wrinkled and worn out. You can use such pieces of worn out fibre meshes when you need to run out the door as soon as possible, but look good at the same time. Linen clothing is one of the most essential pieces of apparel that one should have when it comes down to men’s dressing style, as they look good individually as well as when layered!
- Cotton
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Cheers to our best friend in summer, our soft-hearted buddy-cotton. Not much needs to be said about this one as it’s a given, we correlate cotton to comfort and pyjamas. Cotton scores highest on breathability and comfortability indexes! You can find in retail stores, that most of the latest fashion for men in summers tends to be made of cotton. No other apparel can give you as much comfort and ventilation when compared to a light coloured cotton t-shirt. It’s durable and lightweight making it trendy and fully travel-friendly.
- Silk:
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Loose fitting silk fabrics are known to be airy and breathable. Being a natural fabric, it automatically carries the built-in properties of aeration and temperature regulation. This helps it in providing proper ventilation to our body and the cloth adjusts to one’s body temperature. This fabric tends to be more on the expensive side and has been long affiliated to be the fabric of the rich and elite, mostly due to the expensive extraction process required and the luminous glow projected by anything silk. For summer wear, silk blends with cotton turn out to be the best combinations to wear. It’s a delicate material and hence, not good towards harsh sunlight and sweat. Sunlight breaks down silk fibres, so dry it out inside the house on a hanger.
Hence, we can say that, when on the lookout for newer clothes this summer, stick to natural fabrics and run away from synthetic suffocating clothing even though they scream of current trends and fashions!
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