What Clothes Can Keep Our Body Cool During Summer?
April 25, 2017
Last Updated: 2026-04-02
It started with a pair of linen pants.
I ordered them in April, they arrived, I loved them, I washed them on cold and hung them to dry exactly like you're supposed to — and they came back two inches shorter. Not "hmm, did these shrink a little" shorter. "These are now capris and my whole proportions are ruined" shorter.
I stood in my bathroom holding them for a long time. Then I folded them and put them back in the drawer. They're still there. I don't know why I haven't donated them. Maybe because I spent sixty dollars on them and my brain hasn't processed the grief yet.
Anyway. That's what made me actually start paying attention to fabric.
Not because I want to be a fashion person. I really don't. I just want to walk to the subway in August without feeling like I'm being slowly cooked inside my own clothes. I want to sit through a client meeting without thinking about whether my shirt is doing something embarrassing. I want to feel like I'm wearing almost nothing. That's the goal. That's the whole goal.
Why do we feel cool
You know that feeling when you've just finished a run and a breeze hits you? That's not just "nice"—it's your body basically performing a high-stakes engineering miracle. Since we’re warm-blooded, we’re basically walking heaters that can't turn ourselves off. If we don’t dump that heat fast, we’re toasted.
The main trick we have is sweating. It’s gross, sure, but when that liquid evaporates, it drags the heat away with it. I remember being in Kyoto last July, standing in front of a vending machine for ten minutes just because the exhaust fan felt like a godsend against my soaked linen shirt. I still regret not buying that weirdly expensive matcha ice cream there. I was too busy trying to calculate if my sweat was evaporating fast enough to keep me from fainting.
To actually feel that "cool," your clothes have to get out of the way. If you’re wearing something that traps the moisture, you’re basically just sous-viding yourself. You need airflow. You need the sweat to actually leave.
Which clothes we wear to keep our body cool
The Principle of Keeping Cool with Clothes
1. Looseness
Unlike the tight-fitting clothes, loose clothing doesn't attach to our body, which is helping us to lose the heat. |
2. Lightness
The heavy/thick clothes are hard to blow, which means air flows are hindered and sweats are also difficult to evaporate. |
3. Breathability
For example, when explaining "breathability": You can add that "Breathable fabrics usually have a loose structure, such as mesh fabric, or use special weaving methods, such as jacquard weave, to increase air circulation.
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Here are some guidelines to determine if a fabric is breathable and comfor
4. Moisture Absorption
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Also Read: How to Style a Linen Blouse For Women
5. Light-Colored
Dark clothes absorb more heat than light-colored clothes. This means that in the sun, wearing black clothes will feel hotter than wearing white clothes. Therefore, in the hot summer, we should choose light-colored clothes as much as possible, such as white, beige, light blue, pink, etc. These colors can reflect sunlight and reduce the heat absorbed by the body, thereby achieving a cooling effect.
6. Clothing Styles
In addition to fabrics and colors, clothing styles also affect how cool we feel. For example, loose dresses or long skirts have better air circulation and are more cool and comfortable compared to tight pants. Sleeveless or short-sleeved tops allow our arms to be fully exposed to the air, helping to dissipate heat. In addition, V-neck or round-neck clothes are also more breathable than high-necked clothes.
7. Consider the Wearing Occasion
Although staying cool is very important, the wearing occasion is also a factor we need to consider. In some formal occasions, such as offices or business meetings, we may need to wear relatively formal clothing, such as shirts and suit pants. At this time, we can choose light and breathable shirt fabrics, such as light cotton shirts or silk shirts, and pair them with loose-fitting suit pants, which can maintain a certain sense of formality and take into account coolness and comfort. In casual occasions, we can more freely choose various cool and comfortable clothes, such as T-shirts, shorts, dresses, etc.
Clothing fabric selection
Natural Fibers
A. Cotton (non-pure cotton)
Strong hygroscopicity, comfortable, soft and washable. But cotton is easy to wrinkle, easy to shrink and easy to be stained. |
B. Linen (non-pure linen)
Linen clothing is breathable, cool and also highly moisture absorbent. However, its texture is hard, stiff, and easy to wrinkle. (except for the high-quality soft linen) |
Also Read: How To Match Your Linen Clothing
C. Mulberry silk
Moisture absorbent, breathable, cozy, extremely soft, and anti-wrinkle. Compared with cotton linen, its price is much higher.
D. Natural Fiber Blended Fabrics
In order to take into account the advantages of natural fibers and make up for their shortcomings, we can choose natural fiber blended fabrics. For example, cotton-linen blended fabrics combine the softness and comfort of cotton with the breathability and coolness of linen, while also reducing the stiffness and wrinkle-prone shortcomings of linen. Silk blended with cotton or linen fabrics can reduce the high price of silk and make it more everyday.
Chemical Fiber
A. Chiffon
Chiffon can be divided into silk chiffon (100% mulberry silk ) and artificial silk (100% terylene). All basic features are as follows:- Texture is light and transparent. Feel soft, non-elastic, breathable and draped.
- Elegant, comfortable, wear-proof, uneasy to fuzzing and pilling, size is stable and anti-wrinkle.
B. Lace
The types of lace are numerous. However, whatever it's filament, monofilament, warp knitting or embroidered clothing, its texture is relatively light and pellucid.
C. Modal
Modal has a good softness and excellent moisture absorption. Its luster, softness, hygroscopicity, dyeing property, dye fastness is better than pure cotton (super-75% cotton contained ) products.
I believe, for many women, they all want to wear clothes to look pretty rather than losing heat or keeping cool. Right?
If you are interested in the differences between different fabrics, you can read The Differences Between Cotton Linen And Linen
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