I went to the gym today. Usually when I go I wear a tank top because I get hot very quickly and it is cooler with a tank top. I can’t help but notice that I have been very under dressed. Generally the Toulousain wears heavy sweatpants and sometimes even snowpants, at least that is what they look like. Often there is a chain dangling from them and a couple of cell phones. For a top the layered look is in. Think long sleeve sweat shirt, t-shirt, and maybe a tank top on top. The more impractical your shoes the better. This includes the participants of aerobics classes. Imagine this look in an advanced step class, I kid you not. Anyway today everyone was wearing tank tops. I could not figure it out. People who only wore arctic parka type outfits now sported tank tops. Today is the first day of spring, is there a coincidence?
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Humans are ruled by time and calendar.
You’re forgetting you’re in one of the world’s fashion capitols.
The image of people exercising looking like a Michelin tire guy made me smile. As to the tank top mystery, It looks like you solved it Sherlock. I love to see people shedding their winter selves at the first sign of warm weather.
Fashion capitals? Toulouse? Well in comparison to many cities in the US maybe.
Shedding clothes for warmer weather I understand, but they wore tank tops on the first day of spring which was not as warm as many other days in the winter. I tend to shed clothes because the day is warm, not because the calendar tells me to. I still think there was some unofficial tank top day declared.