"Fun in the Sun"
(Etiquette for the Summertime)
Summer is officially barely a month old and already multitudes of people should be ticketed for poor summer behavior. Just because the temperature’s soaring doesn’t mean that your mind has to go with it! Not quite sure what we mean…not a problem! Big Apple Style is about to give you a crash course in how not to behave this summer.
The Sweat Rule:
Now we know that it’s next to impossible to keep from sweating in this heat, but you certainly shouldn’t leave your sweat for others to find or touch. This means: Try to minimize actual skin contact with anything someone else might touch.
(I.e. wearing shorts or the like and leaving a sweaty mess in the seats on the subway. Just like at the gym, no one wants to sit in your sweaty mess.)
The Personal Space Rule:
Even in a city as large as NYC, it is possible to maintain a decent amount of personal space. So, in a city that’s known for hot stinky subways and a high population, nothing is worse on a blazing summer day than to be hot and have another uninvited hot body close in on you. Everyone knows that body heat can turn a once freezing room into an oven. The moral: unless someone invites you to invade their personal space, try as much as possible to stay an arm’s length away.
The Stinky Rule:
If you even had to do a sniff test when you read the title of this rule, then yes, we’re talking to you! There is absolutely no excuse, winter or summer, to smell so offense that an entire NYC block (and that’s big if you didn’t know) could potentially pass out from the scent wafting from your body. There are too many products on the market, regardless of skin type…no excuses…funky isn’t sexy!
The Skin Tight Rule:
Now fashion does permit for clothes to be form fitting. But you know when you’ve gone too far! In the winter, many fashion no no’s can be hidden with layering. The summer just doesn’t allow for the cloak and dagger approach. No matter whether you’re a size 00 or 24, certain things are not attractive. Jeans so tight that we see panty lines, tanks and tees so tight that there’s no choice but for everything to bulge from every opening and crusty heels that could only be fixed by Bob Villa’s sanding machine are a few no no’s…we order you to fix it before you leave the house again!
The Hairiness Rule:
With the onset of summer, clothes come off, but it’s not a guarantee that what’s underneath is as pleasant as we would like. Now, not everyone has to go the way of the full body wax, but we shouldn’t be forced to shield our eyes and wonder if we stumbled into the zoo! This goes especially for men who tend to think that it’s ok to let their body hair escape from beneath shorts and pants. Shave, wax, trim or pluck…do something!
These are just a few of the obvious infractions that are common to the summer time. Maybe you’ve been guilty at one time or another of violating them, but let this summer be the one where you stop violating these rules!! Don’t let us catch you making someone long for the summer when you can cover up those terrible habits!!
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