Why does it seem like desert cultures tend to cover most of their body, while tropical cultures tend to wear very little clothing? - eviltoast

Like, I know that desert dwellers do it to protect their bodies from the sun, but isn’t that also an issue in the tropics?

  • thedsilo@dsilo061298.ddns.net
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    1 year ago

    As someone who lives in the tropics, humidity.

    The air is humid here and sweat does not seem to evaporate quickly, the dew point here is also high. Covering yourself up like those in the Desert can be a bad idea when you are sweating, you would want to evaporate all that sweat as the evaporation seems to take all that heat energy out of the body.