On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 20:15 -0800, Tim Bray wrote: > Obvious when one thinks of it, but I hadn’t; the adoption of various > mobile-device form-factors is likely climate-sensitive. But I bet > it’s > also gender-linked; the sizes of the purses and bags women carry seems > fairly orthogonal to the ambient temperature, in my experience.
Veering off topic, but a jacket or coat worn over a shirt or T-shirt,(or for that matter a dupatta over a woman's kameez), add just that much more "smartness" to one's appearance by an amount that is un-achievable with a shirt/T-shirt alone. Even an unbuttoned collared shirt worn over a collarless T-shirt has a "coolness" factor that the shirt alone does not impart. When I was young - I used to see pictures of people in the west and always felt their clothes were so much smarter and did not realize that the weather demanded such clothing. One has to really feel cold before one starts appreciating sunshine. And now, after so many decades, and having lived abroad as well as in south India I can tell the weather at a football or tennis match on TV by the clothes the spectators are wearing. shiv
