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Sonora Rebel wrote:
Long pants absorb moisture and then cool by way of evaporation. Short pants just allow evaporation...and rapiddehydration... same with t-shirts. This ain't Miami... it's the high plains Sonora Desert. Same desert it's always been. Leather boots work better than those 'plastic' sneakers as well. Leather breathes. Neckerchiefs also add to evap/cooling... beside keepin' sweat from runnin down yer crack. It's only 101 here now...
'Cowboy up'... it's been workin' for the past 150 years here.
Stuff like the AR is 'grandstanding'... and does nothing but draw attention. Yeah... it's legal... but WTF?
I don't care what people wear personally, but I get ganged up on all the time by the surroundings.
If I wore flip flops, I give three minutes before a chunk of cholla has attached itself to my foot.
If I wear shorts, it's going to be about as long before there's more blood than a horror film.
I may sweat like a bastard, but it's jeans and, at minimum, hiking shoes, for me. Wool flannel provides moderate amounts of armor, especially in cooler weather.
I marvel at how many people walk around here with shorts and flip flops, impervious either to danger or pain, I don't know. Or maybe it's because I just find myself randomly walking into patches of scrubby desert all the time while others lead more normal, sane lives.
It reminds me of an Easter Sunday when I was quite young, and while we were waiting for the women to get ready, my grandfather took me walking up on the slagpiles ('colm banks') - big hills of black sooty coal waste - near his home, where he used to work. I was in a suit.
My mother was overjoyed. But of course my grandfather and father were quite clean.
I was covered in coal dust.
Yeah, I know, personal problem.
As for the cowboy thing, trust me Sonora Rebel, not everyone can pull that off. I get what you're saying, but if you encountered my very Yankee self in that getup, you'd probably have a seizure, and rightly so, once you heard me speak.
Instead, I try to dress like Norm Abrams. That seems to work well here.
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