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Back to t shirt colour. I forgot to make the point of spf ratings. White is generally terrible for spf, around 5 or so. Where as a black top can be 30+. Obviously mesh isn’t good. But serious consideration and skin cancer sucks. And it’s something I’ve been really bad about before but I am trying to correct, perhaps too late.
I read something about this a while back when I was doing research for a jersey for TCR. I found my club jersey, which has quite a lot of black on it, felt hot last time so I wanted to find something cooler.
It said that, for normal clothes, black is always going to be hotter in sunlight as you'd expect. But that there is a way of making Lycra clothing which means black would be no hotter than a white jersey. Same article also said that the was a placebo effect: people just felt hot in black even if the jersey wasn't absorbing any more sun.
It said sun was an issue with mesh jerseys but didn't mention a relationship with colour. I can see that there would be for a really fine fabric, though.
There are lots of jerseys advertised as summer jerseys nowadays: I concluded I'd just get one of those, in a light colour, both to be cooler and for visibility. I'd be happy to wear a white jersey but I wouldn't wear black or grey.
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Back to t shirt colour. I forgot to make the point of spf ratings. White is generally terrible for spf, around 5 or so. Where as a black top can be 30+. Obviously mesh isn’t good. But serious consideration and skin cancer sucks. And it’s something I’ve been really bad about before but I am trying to correct, perhaps too late.