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...this season. Akpan was also named in College Soccer News’ Preseason All-America First Team and Soccer America’s Preseason All-America Team, and was tabbed by ESPN as a top contender for the Hermann Trophy.Akpan came back to campus looking particularly sharp following a summer in which he played for the Chicago Fire’s Premier Development League squad. “Andre put a lot of work in this summer playing at a really high level, and it’s carried over and he’s gotten...
...common explanation is practical. For centuries, wearing white in the summer was simply a way to stay cool - like changing your dinner menu or putting slipcovers on the furniture. "Not only was there no air-conditioning, but people did not go around in T shirts and halter tops. They wore what we would now consider fairly formal clothes," says Judith Martin, better known as etiquette columnist Miss Manners. "And white is of a lighter weight." (See pictures of the fashion looks of Sarah Palin...
...beating the heat became fashionable in the early to mid-20th century, says Charlie Scheips, author of American Fashion. "All the magazines and tastemakers were centered in big cities, usually in northern climates that had seasons," he notes. In the hot summer months, white clothing kept New York fashion editors cool. But facing, say, heavy fall rain, they might not have been inclined to risk sullying white ensembles with mud - and that sensibility was reflected in the glossy pages of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, which set the tone for the country...
Instead, other historians speculate, the origin of the no-white-after-Labor Day rule may be symbolic. In the early 20th century, white was the uniform of choice for Americans well-to-do enough to decamp from their city digs to warmer climes for months at a time: light summer clothing provided a pleasing contrast to drabber urban life. "If you look at any photograph of any city in America in the 1930s, you'll see people in dark clothes," says Scheips, many scurrying to their jobs. By contrast, he adds, the white linen suits and Panama hats at snooty...
Labor Day, celebrated in the U.S. on the first Monday of September, marked the traditional end of summer; the well-heeled vacationers would stow their summer duds and dust off their heavier, darker-colored fall clothing. "There used to be a much clearer sense of re-entry," says Steele. "You're back in the city, back at school, back doing whatever you're doing in the fall - and so you have a new wardrobe...