What is the colour of your school uniform? Most schools in India have a light-coloured uniform in summer. Come winter and you see many students wearing grey blazers, trousers and sweaters to school. Do you know why most school shirts are white?

Light-coloured clothes, like white, are the best colours to wear in summer. Do you know why?

Let us understand the interesting science behind why light-coloured clothes are best in summer.

The sun is too bright and hot in the summer season. Do you know that sunlight is a mixture of many different colours?

When we go out, sunlight falls on our clothes. Our clothes absorb their colour and reflect other colours. If we wear light-coloured clothes, they will absorb only a little bit of sunlight and reflect most of it. Do you know the magic of white? It does not absorb any sunlight or heat. It reflects all of it. That is why light colour clothes are the coolest and most comfortable colours to wear in the hot scorching summer heat.

Dark colours, on the other hand, absorb most of the sunlight. That is why you should wear dark colour clothes in winter to keep your body warm.

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