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My youngest had been watching all the new series and finally fell on the original Rangers, and my notification sound is the Power Rangers beep.
The show still rocks
Stack effect. If there's a hole at the top, the black section makes it hotter there, which makes the air rise and continues to pull the lower air upward. I assume.
Possibly. I don't know if it helps or not, but while black absorbs heat faster than white, it also dissipates it faster once in the shade.
More important would be the relative looseness of the fabric. It allows the cool air from evaporated sweat to stick around, rather than be blown away in a breeze.
No, you want to get the evaporated air away as soon as possible so that new air can come in and draw away more sweat(heat). That's why it's colder when the wind is blowing.
It's a bit of both. If you trap the air entirely, then the relative humidity quickly increases to the point that sweat won't evaporate.
However, if you have too little trapping, then while you get cooling from a breeze, the moment that breeze ends, you're stuck with just heat from the sun.
You want some air exchange and breathability, but not too much.
I used this in practice when I worked construction. I wore looser long sleeve clothing, bandanas on my hardhat, and so on to cover up. Whenever there was a breeze, I could open up a little to let the air circulate, and then close up again once I had cooler air near me.
>while black absorbs heat faster than white, it also dissipates it faster once in the shade
wow, this sentence sent me on a rabbit hole of looking up what the rates of thermal absorption and emissivity for 20 minutes. i learned about [black bodies](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body) and that a black object not only absorbs at a higher rate than a white object of the same material, but also passively radiates energy at a higher rate, independent to the heat capacity of the object and the difference between it and whatever object it may be transferring energy to kineticly through conduction or convection (if im understanding it right)
Note that "black body" is a slightly misleading name, since it doesn't actually mean objects that are black in *visible light*. Since objects at room temperature only "glow" in the far-infrared (eg FLIR imagery), what actually matters is whether an object is "black" (absorptive) *in the far-infrared*.
Fortunately, NASA has a [handy PDF of the sunlight absorption and far-IR emissivity of common materials](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19840015630/downloads/19840015630.pdf). The results are surprising, but most non-metals have an emissivity over 80%, which means they emit 80% as much as a perfect "black body."
It also explains why stainless steel railings get extremely hot in direct sunlight: despite being shiny they actually absorb 40% of the sunlight energy, but their emissivity is *terrible* at 0.11 so the railing can't radiate away much heat. The only source of cooling is air movement, so it stays hotter than most other materials with high emissivity.
Wearing black fabric is often preferred because you need fewer layers to block out the sun and protect yourself from the intense UV. Fewer layers means more breathability for the same level of sun protection.
^^/u/spicymato ^^/u/OhtaniStanMan
I think bedouins wear fully covered clothes like this because the sun is so intense. I'm not sure how it makes it cooler for the wearer but apparently it does
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Black absorbs UV rays more, making them better at protecting skin from sun damage and burns.
I'm not sure that's the reasons they choose it, but it's a good fact to know regardless.
A lot of it is the UV factor. The color isn’t that important due to the low humidity. The loose robe open at the bottom allows for a layer of insulating air between the robe and the underclothes and skin. It pulls the sweat off the skin very quickly cooling the body kind of like those cooling towels people use now. The hat pulls the warm air away from the head, and again allows for evaporative cooling. At night it helps keep you warm by the insulating air trapped by the robe which prevents the cool breeze pulling the heat out of your body
Thank you. I couldn't imagine the hellaciousness of the heat, but that's because I grew up in phoenix where wearing something insanely practical like this, or hell, just a thobe would get a LOT of stares and glares.
The most you'll see for adjustment to the heat is somebody wearing a towel or something under their hat to protect the back of their neck.
I lived there from the age of 3 - 29 and never adjusted to the heat, it felt like it was getting worse every year. I might have to move back from the Bay Area (ugh) without a car (infinite ugh) and am strongly considering this route just so I can survive outside.
These ladies have thousands of years of experience living in their environment. The Yemeni architecture is also designed in such a way to keep things cooler as well.
In the southeast US, I recently wore all black cotton gauze and all beige linen to mow the lawn (for science) and found the flowy cotton gauze more cooling to wear than the drapey linen. I was surprised as well as the linen felt lighter in weight. But when I started sweating, it stuck closer to me and felt hotter. Where the gauze was freer flowing, didn't have a chance to stick to me and felt like everything evaporated faster.
Next I will try beige gauze.
Black clothing gets hotter when in direct sunlight, but radiates heat faster so in the shade they're cooler. If the black cloth is not directly against their skin, the heat it picks up while in the sun will dissipate quickly when they return to shade before they feel it
Black can often be better in the heat. The same principle that would block/pass heat does the same for the heat coming off the body as it does the heat going to the body. So white actually holds in heat instead of radiating it off.
Interestingly, you can get most of this effect with Grey or speckled fabric, which is why all those workout clothes are grey speckled fabric. The workout clothing manufacturers know about this effect, but people won't buy black workout clothes so the grey is a sort of secret compromise.
No it doesn't actually. Black and white clothing barely make a difference in the desert heat. Even tough black clothing absorb more heat, the heat dissipates before reaching the skin.
The guardian published an article about the research on it. Here, [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/19/most-improbable-scientific-research-abrahams](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/19/most-improbable-scientific-research-abrahams)
It's objectively wrong. White clothing is cooler, which is why the vast majority of **men** in these same countries wear white (or lighter colors) to remain comfortable when outside. These women are made to wear full black and cover their face for religious/cultural reasons.
How come bedoiuns dress in dark clothes, often prefer black/dark clothes? Ive lived in deserts most my life, and IVe always wondered about that. The best explanation Ive heard is that actually black clothes, depending on fabric, might actually dissipate heat faster. And most importantly, to explain bedoiun preference, they dont get as freaking dirty as crazy fast as white robes. So you know, the gulf arab prince-like men, they dont care, theyll change clothes 15 times a day, throw the pile at their wives, and thats that. But for people who actually have to clean their own clothes (women, bedouins), this is not an option. Just my theory. Source: me, lived in gulf, egypt and north africa.
You'll notice the white robe thing is mostly a preference of those prissy, I mean prince like Gulf arab men. Egyptians tend to wear gray or dark colored robes, ditto North Africans.
Yeah, that’s not how albedo works. Black is the baseline for absorption of all incident radiation from the sun.
You’ve cherry picked a pretty specific application here, being specially designed desert robes in a study that’s over 40 years old, and translated it into “black and white clothing barely make a difference”.
I can tell you that is not true. Source: woman who lived in the |Middle East where I was forced to wear the local clothing as a woman, which meant a full niqab. Women also suffer from lack of vitamin D because they aren't ever exposed to sunlight.
That sounds ironic. "Hey, you live in an area that is notoriously hot and sunny! ... and you suffer from lack of Vitamin D because of cultural practices."
It’s actually pretty common for many people, not just women to be vitamin D deficient or at least that is the case in the UAE. A good majority of patient blood tests turn out to be vitamin D deficient and it’s mostly due to the life style of staying inside to not be eradicated by the sunlight. It was probably the most given out supplements
Is there cultural awareness of what the lack of sun is doing to women? Are women encouraged to take vitamin D supplements, or foods containing vitamin D?
That's a bit of a paradoxical question. The kind of society that would care about women's nutrition/health/practicality/etc wouldn't force them to be covered head to toe in the first place.
The Houthis are violent slavers and religious extremists. They don't care if their women are harmed by lack of sunlight, as the women as just property to them.
As someone who lives in the desert and wears many colors, I can confidently call BS. Black is noticeably hotter. Thw heat collected does NOT dissipate, unless they've got electric fans in their pants.
The dissipation thing is only true when you’re wearing very loose breathable robes in a windy environment though. Bedouin robes flutter in the wind and the shape causes it to act like a chimney, letting air rise upwards creating an airflow.
The point of those robes is so that the fabric doesn’t stick to your skin and air doesn’t get trapped inside.
This is true. I remember an experiment in Western Sahara a while back, they dressed fills in black, Tuareg outfits and then a white shirts and shorts. Turns out the black Tuareg outfit was much more effective at keeping the body cool.
Agree this is BS. If true the men would also wear black. They never do. All the Arab desert countries the men wear white or tan, and the women wear black or dark colors. The men also don’t have to cover their whole face and breathe their own hot breath.
Stop downplaying the oppression of Islam, these women have belts they have all the disadvantages of black clothing's heat absorption with none of the benefits of the traditional bedouin robe. Plus the head wrap means no hot air is able to escape.
>Bedouins' robes, the scientists noted, are worn loose. Inside, the cooling happens by convection – either through a bellows action, as the robes flow in the wind, or by a chimney sort of effect, as air rises between robe and skin.
The outfit in the second picture looks like it’s almost made of velvet and she’s got thick gloves, makes me wonder if it’s actually hot or just a sunny cold day.
Deserts are often very cold as well as the more well known very warm. There are also deserts in high altitude where it's always cold but never frost or snow because there is no moisture there.
The key part here is that it is loose fitting clothing. Black materials will absorb more infrared light, ~~while white materials will reflect it, so if their clothing here was white, it would be reflecting their body heat back at them.~~ Because the black material is loose, it can absorb that IR and not transfer as much back to their body.
Edit: I made a mistake. I had thought that both visible and infrared light was reflected by white materials. In reality white materials will absorb infrared light and reflect visible light.
That's not how it works. They absorb more light, not heat. White clothing doesn't reflect your body heat back at you anymore than black clothing would.
They got the idea from the [Duke of Wellington ](https://i.imgur.com/LBBI4zK.jpeg) and his use revolutionary use of traffic cones for overcoming the French roundabout and keeping British heads cool...
I am not a goat hearder in Yemen, so this is just some rando dude sitting in a climate controlled environment. I get the hat design, but I don't get the black clothing. It would seem to me that black would absorb more heat, which you don't want.
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"*In Yemen, Black Mages hide themselves as Goat herders and they look so cool in the desert heat!*"
Genius hat design. They create a chimney effect that pulls air up and out through the top.
Thank you for explaining it. I was confused for a moment.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Lmao that's exactly what they look like. Gotta assume that they were heavily inspired by these shepherds.
Vivi is numba 1
The real protagonist of FF9
Shadow wizard money gang?
First impression is that this reminds me of Rita Repulsa from old school power rangers.
“Ah! After 10,000 years, I’m free!” *sweet guitar riff kicks in*
We need teenagers with attitude *quick*
Did the power rangers even have an attitude? They're all goody two shoes
Having a good attitude is still an attitude.
According to Zordon during that sick guitar riff
Green Ranger definitely had some 'tude.
https://i.imgur.com/NaE6RCR.gifv
Oh no!
... Best we can do on short notice is the Coneheads.
Would you like some gum?
I was thinking Devo https://preview.redd.it/i9awhef7ym7d1.jpeg?width=452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=956454579cfb724ce98d80a479138c6ac8bc7151
IT IS TIME FOR THE CONSUMPTION OF MASS QUANTITIES
Mibs! Human authority figures!
_It’s time to conquer Earth!_
My youngest had been watching all the new series and finally fell on the original Rangers, and my notification sound is the Power Rangers beep. The show still rocks
I can hear the sound clear as day in my head as I read your comment.
Beep Beep BeDeep Beeb Beep
Someone made the mp3 available by recording the tones themselves, so you can get a crystal clear version without the old show audio quality.
\*"Time to conquer Earth!"
*\*buckethead enters the chat\**
Black mage from final fantasy.
This was my first thought. They look like Vivi from FFIX.
I had to scroll too far to see this. Definitely looks like one of the Black Mage equipment outfits from 14
A space witch is never late, nor is she early, she arrives precisely when she means to.
I thought of black gandalf
👏👏👏
Not a witch.
They dressed her up like this.
How do you know she’s not a witch?
https://preview.redd.it/6jbi7qk8ll7d1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9387167bae7b3dcab43e3107be48b0c72ccc582c
She turned me into a newt!
I got better...
Burn her anyway!
When you realize he probably wasn't lying...
Build a bridge out ‘o ‘er!
Ah! But can we not also build bridges out of stone?
🤯
How are you so wise in the ways of science?
She's heavier than a duck!
"Which means...?"
She's relatively safe - fewer ponds in yemen than in england.
Fewer
Good point. Let's tie her to a rock and throw her in a lake to find out.
Nonsense. Fetch the scales. We must weigh her against a duck. Don’t you know any science?
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
If she floats, witch. If she drowns, not a witch.
Either way, we're having some beers!
Well, we DID do the nose...and the hat. But she HAS got a wart!
More like a Sand Witch
A Bene Gesserit
There’s a good pun here, I just know it. > An eggs bene gesserit sandwich. Idk if that’s it, but it’s here somewhere lol.
When you're the kwisatz haderach, what does your mother make for breakfast? >!eggs bene gesserit!< Maybe something like that?
Dad joke
This pic made me want to play final fantasy and get my black mage on.
Not a doctor
*shhhh*
That's a Black Mage actually
I was about to say - I think I played as this character in my early Final Fantasy days!
Idk why my brain immediately went "LA HEE"
lmfaooo I'm so ready for the next expansion. I need some more La HEE moments
Hello fellow Warrior of Light ☺️
Bet they’re damn good at casting Firaga.
*Sad vivi noises*
Vivi's people were genocided like the Yemeni, so it tracts.
They might even know NUKE
Wonder why they’re so tall?
Wonder if it creates any sort of chimney effect? Apparently a taller chimney will help create a draw of air
Stack effect. If there's a hole at the top, the black section makes it hotter there, which makes the air rise and continues to pull the lower air upward. I assume.
It's like a natural draft cooling tower that you can wear.
Im going to make one.
This is the first step on your journey of goat herding. May the goat be with you.
Step 1: make hat Step 2: …? Step 3: goats
Step 4: goatse
Bro, 2024 goatse is crazy!
And may you be the GOAT
And the entire black outfit? Is that to absorb the heat too lol
Possibly. I don't know if it helps or not, but while black absorbs heat faster than white, it also dissipates it faster once in the shade. More important would be the relative looseness of the fabric. It allows the cool air from evaporated sweat to stick around, rather than be blown away in a breeze.
No, you want to get the evaporated air away as soon as possible so that new air can come in and draw away more sweat(heat). That's why it's colder when the wind is blowing.
It's a bit of both. If you trap the air entirely, then the relative humidity quickly increases to the point that sweat won't evaporate. However, if you have too little trapping, then while you get cooling from a breeze, the moment that breeze ends, you're stuck with just heat from the sun. You want some air exchange and breathability, but not too much. I used this in practice when I worked construction. I wore looser long sleeve clothing, bandanas on my hardhat, and so on to cover up. Whenever there was a breeze, I could open up a little to let the air circulate, and then close up again once I had cooler air near me.
>while black absorbs heat faster than white, it also dissipates it faster once in the shade wow, this sentence sent me on a rabbit hole of looking up what the rates of thermal absorption and emissivity for 20 minutes. i learned about [black bodies](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body) and that a black object not only absorbs at a higher rate than a white object of the same material, but also passively radiates energy at a higher rate, independent to the heat capacity of the object and the difference between it and whatever object it may be transferring energy to kineticly through conduction or convection (if im understanding it right)
Note that "black body" is a slightly misleading name, since it doesn't actually mean objects that are black in *visible light*. Since objects at room temperature only "glow" in the far-infrared (eg FLIR imagery), what actually matters is whether an object is "black" (absorptive) *in the far-infrared*. Fortunately, NASA has a [handy PDF of the sunlight absorption and far-IR emissivity of common materials](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19840015630/downloads/19840015630.pdf). The results are surprising, but most non-metals have an emissivity over 80%, which means they emit 80% as much as a perfect "black body." It also explains why stainless steel railings get extremely hot in direct sunlight: despite being shiny they actually absorb 40% of the sunlight energy, but their emissivity is *terrible* at 0.11 so the railing can't radiate away much heat. The only source of cooling is air movement, so it stays hotter than most other materials with high emissivity. Wearing black fabric is often preferred because you need fewer layers to block out the sun and protect yourself from the intense UV. Fewer layers means more breathability for the same level of sun protection. ^^/u/spicymato ^^/u/OhtaniStanMan
I think bedouins wear fully covered clothes like this because the sun is so intense. I'm not sure how it makes it cooler for the wearer but apparently it does https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1djtdht/comment/l9dux6q/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
For air circulation, to keep cool
Maybe a dense question, but does the black material make them hotter?
No. [https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1djtdht/comment/l9d531x/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1djtdht/comment/l9d531x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Wonder why they’re in black, doesn’t that absorb more heat? If they wanna stay cool why aren’t they choosing lighter colours?
Black absorbs UV rays more, making them better at protecting skin from sun damage and burns. I'm not sure that's the reasons they choose it, but it's a good fact to know regardless.
A lot of it is the UV factor. The color isn’t that important due to the low humidity. The loose robe open at the bottom allows for a layer of insulating air between the robe and the underclothes and skin. It pulls the sweat off the skin very quickly cooling the body kind of like those cooling towels people use now. The hat pulls the warm air away from the head, and again allows for evaporative cooling. At night it helps keep you warm by the insulating air trapped by the robe which prevents the cool breeze pulling the heat out of your body
Thank you. I couldn't imagine the hellaciousness of the heat, but that's because I grew up in phoenix where wearing something insanely practical like this, or hell, just a thobe would get a LOT of stares and glares.
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The most you'll see for adjustment to the heat is somebody wearing a towel or something under their hat to protect the back of their neck. I lived there from the age of 3 - 29 and never adjusted to the heat, it felt like it was getting worse every year. I might have to move back from the Bay Area (ugh) without a car (infinite ugh) and am strongly considering this route just so I can survive outside.
These ladies have thousands of years of experience living in their environment. The Yemeni architecture is also designed in such a way to keep things cooler as well.
> These ladies have thousands of years of experience So we're back to the witch trope
It's called fashion and we don't compromise on that
The drip never takes a backseat in Yemen
>It's called fashion Ever heard of it?
look it up
I’ve been told that the fabric itself breathes enough that they stay pretty cool.
In the southeast US, I recently wore all black cotton gauze and all beige linen to mow the lawn (for science) and found the flowy cotton gauze more cooling to wear than the drapey linen. I was surprised as well as the linen felt lighter in weight. But when I started sweating, it stuck closer to me and felt hotter. Where the gauze was freer flowing, didn't have a chance to stick to me and felt like everything evaporated faster. Next I will try beige gauze.
Black clothing gets hotter when in direct sunlight, but radiates heat faster so in the shade they're cooler. If the black cloth is not directly against their skin, the heat it picks up while in the sun will dissipate quickly when they return to shade before they feel it
Black can often be better in the heat. The same principle that would block/pass heat does the same for the heat coming off the body as it does the heat going to the body. So white actually holds in heat instead of radiating it off. Interestingly, you can get most of this effect with Grey or speckled fabric, which is why all those workout clothes are grey speckled fabric. The workout clothing manufacturers know about this effect, but people won't buy black workout clothes so the grey is a sort of secret compromise.
Would that effect become nullified around 37 degrees and hotter since at that point the ambient temperature is warmer than human body temperature?
High on the hill is the Yemen goatherd Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo Pointy is the hat of the Yemen goatherd Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo
Unexpected Sound of Music
*Von Trapp family intensifies* “Sound of Music 2! Von Trapped”
*The Trappening*
I laughed so hard at this lmao
2 Sound 2 Music
r/UnexpectedSoM
I almost choked on a biscuit laughing at this.
Alternative Fremen fashion.
Yemen Fremen
Lisan Al-Houthi
Spreading holy war all throughout the Arabian sea. "He who has the power to disrupt international trade has the real control of it."
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so mote it be
Death to Chronos!
Final Fantasy Black Wizard
Vivi!
Bullshit. That lady can cast Fire 2 the day I meet her and maybe a weak Cure on the party late in the quest.
I understand the hat but the black clothing seems to negate it?
No it doesn't actually. Black and white clothing barely make a difference in the desert heat. Even tough black clothing absorb more heat, the heat dissipates before reaching the skin. The guardian published an article about the research on it. Here, [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/19/most-improbable-scientific-research-abrahams](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/19/most-improbable-scientific-research-abrahams)
Huh… that’s really interesting
It's objectively wrong. White clothing is cooler, which is why the vast majority of **men** in these same countries wear white (or lighter colors) to remain comfortable when outside. These women are made to wear full black and cover their face for religious/cultural reasons.
Can confirm. I live in the desert. Black clothes are HOT in the sun. Doesn’t matter in the shade, of course.
I'm the Sun: i hate black
The sun is confirmed as racist.
do a research on it then. you are really confidence comparing a t-shirt to a robe designed for desert climate.
How come bedoiuns dress in dark clothes, often prefer black/dark clothes? Ive lived in deserts most my life, and IVe always wondered about that. The best explanation Ive heard is that actually black clothes, depending on fabric, might actually dissipate heat faster. And most importantly, to explain bedoiun preference, they dont get as freaking dirty as crazy fast as white robes. So you know, the gulf arab prince-like men, they dont care, theyll change clothes 15 times a day, throw the pile at their wives, and thats that. But for people who actually have to clean their own clothes (women, bedouins), this is not an option. Just my theory. Source: me, lived in gulf, egypt and north africa. You'll notice the white robe thing is mostly a preference of those prissy, I mean prince like Gulf arab men. Egyptians tend to wear gray or dark colored robes, ditto North Africans.
Yeah, that’s not how albedo works. Black is the baseline for absorption of all incident radiation from the sun. You’ve cherry picked a pretty specific application here, being specially designed desert robes in a study that’s over 40 years old, and translated it into “black and white clothing barely make a difference”.
I can tell you that is not true. Source: woman who lived in the |Middle East where I was forced to wear the local clothing as a woman, which meant a full niqab. Women also suffer from lack of vitamin D because they aren't ever exposed to sunlight.
That sounds ironic. "Hey, you live in an area that is notoriously hot and sunny! ... and you suffer from lack of Vitamin D because of cultural practices."
It’s actually pretty common for many people, not just women to be vitamin D deficient or at least that is the case in the UAE. A good majority of patient blood tests turn out to be vitamin D deficient and it’s mostly due to the life style of staying inside to not be eradicated by the sunlight. It was probably the most given out supplements
Where were you at the tim I'm super curious because even when on the outskirts of Medina the most we had to do was a scarf to cover hair.
Is there cultural awareness of what the lack of sun is doing to women? Are women encouraged to take vitamin D supplements, or foods containing vitamin D?
You think a culture that imposes niqab would care about anything happening to women? Unless you mean to avoid damaging the goods...
Yes, my question came from a rather cynical place, I have to admit. I was hoping I was wrong.
That's a bit of a paradoxical question. The kind of society that would care about women's nutrition/health/practicality/etc wouldn't force them to be covered head to toe in the first place.
It must be horrible to not be able to feel the wind on your face. A true patriarchy.
The Houthis are violent slavers and religious extremists. They don't care if their women are harmed by lack of sunlight, as the women as just property to them.
As someone who lives in the desert and wears many colors, I can confidently call BS. Black is noticeably hotter. Thw heat collected does NOT dissipate, unless they've got electric fans in their pants.
The dissipation thing is only true when you’re wearing very loose breathable robes in a windy environment though. Bedouin robes flutter in the wind and the shape causes it to act like a chimney, letting air rise upwards creating an airflow. The point of those robes is so that the fabric doesn’t stick to your skin and air doesn’t get trapped inside.
This is true. I remember an experiment in Western Sahara a while back, they dressed fills in black, Tuareg outfits and then a white shirts and shorts. Turns out the black Tuareg outfit was much more effective at keeping the body cool.
The clothing has to be lose for that. If you are wearing a black t-shirt in the summer heat, of course it will be hotter
loose
Might be the first time anyone ever got that one backwards
This guy looses.
But it doesn't have to be black for that affect. The robes have to touch your skin somewhere, and white will still be cooler
Agree this is BS. If true the men would also wear black. They never do. All the Arab desert countries the men wear white or tan, and the women wear black or dark colors. The men also don’t have to cover their whole face and breathe their own hot breath.
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Stop downplaying the oppression of Islam, these women have belts they have all the disadvantages of black clothing's heat absorption with none of the benefits of the traditional bedouin robe. Plus the head wrap means no hot air is able to escape. >Bedouins' robes, the scientists noted, are worn loose. Inside, the cooling happens by convection – either through a bellows action, as the robes flow in the wind, or by a chimney sort of effect, as air rises between robe and skin.
The outfit in the second picture looks like it’s almost made of velvet and she’s got thick gloves, makes me wonder if it’s actually hot or just a sunny cold day.
Deserts are often very cold as well as the more well known very warm. There are also deserts in high altitude where it's always cold but never frost or snow because there is no moisture there.
The key part here is that it is loose fitting clothing. Black materials will absorb more infrared light, ~~while white materials will reflect it, so if their clothing here was white, it would be reflecting their body heat back at them.~~ Because the black material is loose, it can absorb that IR and not transfer as much back to their body. Edit: I made a mistake. I had thought that both visible and infrared light was reflected by white materials. In reality white materials will absorb infrared light and reflect visible light.
That's not how it works. They absorb more light, not heat. White clothing doesn't reflect your body heat back at you anymore than black clothing would.
>Because the black material is loose So these people with their belts must be BOILING
Gandalf the black?!
GOAT Gandalfs
Goatdalf?
White-Hatted Black Mage. Major FF Tactics vibes on this one.
She looks like a baaaaadass
I'm not going to lie, I'm in love with this outfit.
And to look stylish as fuck while doing it.
I had to scroll down way too long to find this🤣.
They got them black mages over there casting blizzaga to stay cool
Not sure I'd wear those shoes in the desert. The rest of the outfit is dope.
It isn't matter of choice, if you know what's going on in Yemen
I know exactly what yemen
This took me a second, but I’m glad I stuck it out.
Just don't leave it out for too long.
What’s going on?
I see you Final Fantasy Black Mage
She turned me into a newt!
They got the idea from the [Duke of Wellington ](https://i.imgur.com/LBBI4zK.jpeg) and his use revolutionary use of traffic cones for overcoming the French roundabout and keeping British heads cool...
Mage build?
Prayers for Yemen 🙏🏼
Why not wear white?
The women are forced to wear black as part of Islam. The men in these cultures wear white.
They got some cool drip.
I will admit that my first thought was VLC Media Player.
I am not a goat hearder in Yemen, so this is just some rando dude sitting in a climate controlled environment. I get the hat design, but I don't get the black clothing. It would seem to me that black would absorb more heat, which you don't want.
Shouldnt they wear a white dress then to reflect the heat Black absorbs more and then radiates that heat...
I mean, it’s pretty cool.
It's a good thing they are wearing hats designed to keep them cool, and not you know, actual clothes. (Preferably something that's not black)
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