# When do you take out your summer clothing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 15, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-take-out-your-summer-clothing/532514 "2010-03-15T03:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-take-out-your-summer-clothing/532514/21 "2010-03-16T00:45:27Z")
It depends on the temperature, but I usually start wearing my summer clothes about mid-October. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-take-out-your-summer-clothing/532514/22 "2010-03-16T09:36:10Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > It depends on the temperature, but I usually start wearing my summer clothes about mid-October. Stupid upside down land, confusing everyone. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-take-out-your-summer-clothing/532514/23 "2010-03-16T10:01:16Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > Try living in a country where the temperature can go as low as below freezing in winter and as high as 30 degrees Celsius in summer. There isn’t one set of clothing that could possibly cope with that kind of temperature variation. Well, I only live a hunded or so miles north of you, so I am quite familiar with the climate! My point is that I have enough clothes to cope with summer and winter, but I have one small wardrobe and a small chest of drawers. It all fits in there quiet nicely without any need to shift things around from season to season. Simples! ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-take-out-your-summer-clothing/532514/24 "2010-03-16T10:04:19Z")
> [@ScareyFaerie](#): > > Well, I only live a hunded or so miles north of you, so I am quite familiar with the climate! My point is that I have enough clothes to cope with summer and winter, but I have one small wardrobe and a small chest of drawers. It all fits in there quiet nicely without any need to shift things around from season to season. Simples! Ah, I see what you’re saying - I thought by wardrobes you meant “collections of clothing”. Yes, same as me, all my clothing is in one wardrobe even though it varies quite a lot. Should have noticed you’re in the same country as me. :o ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-take-out-your-summer-clothing/532514/25 "2010-03-16T11:29:50Z")
Nobody in our house has that huge a wardrobe, and we have enough clothing storage space that we don’t switch summer and winter clothes around. However, it has become a tradition that I wash the woolens and the winter coats on May 1st, which is a holiday around these parts, before they disappear into the appropriate closets. That way I’m sure they’re all clean before the summer. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-take-out-your-summer-clothing/532514/26 "2010-03-16T15:45:33Z")
The first warm week, when it’s at least 60 degrees. I always keep a couple of hoodies and sweaters out year round just in case it gets chilly. The winter sweaters get washed and put in boxes till next year, with the ‘winter’ slacks and jeans. The tank tops, t-shirts, skirts, and sundresses come out and hung up in the winter clothes’ place. I try to pick through and get rid of clothes at this time, too. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-take-out-your-summer-clothing/532514/27 "2010-03-18T00:01:06Z")
Based on past experience, about 48 hours prior to a late patch of really crappy weather. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-take-out-your-summer-clothing/532514/28 "2010-03-18T01:20:08Z")
I pretty much wear shorts, a t-shirt and sandals all year, even when it’s like 4ºC outside. At night, in winter, it can go as low as -7ºC or so, and I’ll still be in shorts, a t-shirt and sandals. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-you-take-out-your-summer-clothing/532514.md?page=1)