Do you remember being told not to wear white after Labor Day? But what if the summer season lasts longer? What if the seasons disappear all together?
That’s the case in the retail and fashion industry (not high fashion, mind you). Our wardrobes are offering surprising insight into how the changing climate is impacting the styles and fabrics we wear, to the point that people don’t own as many strictly winter or summer pieces.
Hard to believe? Yet the Wall Street Journal’s article on the stylish phenomenon attests:
Last month, Liz Claiborne Inc. invited Mr. Horton, the climatologist [at the Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research at ], to an informal discussion with 30 executives, where the talk ranged from fabrics to the timing of seasonal markdowns and retail deliveries.
Retailers are starting to factor the climate into their selling strategy:
Target says it uses weather-related intelligence in planning its collections. One immediate change: Starting in January, Target will begin selling swimwear year-round nationwide.
So now, what about white swimming suits after Labor Day?
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We went to a lake yesterday and today for labor day and it was HOT!! and i was surprised about how little bit of clothes many people wearing there. Even some girls with no tops at all! My mom was mad but i think she will must get used to it. i think when the weather gets hotter people will wear less clothes in the future. thats is one way our culture can change. My LA teacher made us write about our ideas about how human culture would change in global wraming. another idea is less TV watching poeple going outside more in the evening time instead of watching so much TV and that would be a good thing in some way but, maybe bad if news does not get around if their was a large emergencey.
i even wore a lot of sunscreen and still got sun burned. Its already too hot for me. And now we have a new hurricane , hurricane Felix, they say it will be as bad as another one they had in 1998. Is that the year that was the hottest? or was it last year? somebody told me 1998 was hottest and it got cooler after that thats not true right? it got coolder but itis getting hotter obviosly. There might be more than 10.000 people get killed they said on the news.
1998 was the hottest year on record, thanks in part to an El Niño event adding warmth to the global warming trend. We will soon pass 1998, and scientists predict that especially after 2009 it will start to get very hot.
Looks like 1934 was the hottest year on record…http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt
Dr. Bob: That is continental U.S. data — which is 2% of total Earth. You’ll find the global data here: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/