A week and a half ago, I was lying on the South Carolina beach in a bathing suit and walking through Charleston in shorts and a tank top every day. When I returned to Michigan last Sunday, still in shorts and a t-shirt, it was raining and 40 degrees outside. Needless to say, I was a little confused about what I should be wearing.
The part of my brain that was still stuck on the beach in the south wanted me to throw out all my jeans and put my sweatshirts away for the summer. However, when I got to school the next day, it seemed like everyone was still wearing all their winter clothes. This whole ordeal led me to think about when the appropriate time to actually start wearing spring and summer clothes is.
The conclusion that I ultimately came to is that spring break provides the perfect opportunity to switch out your seasonal wardrobe from winter to summer for a multitude of reasons.
First, especially if you are going somewhere warm on break, the change in climate on your vacation gives you the perfect excuse to buy yourself new summer clothes anyway. If you’ve grown out of your old shorts and T-shirts from last year, you can use spring break as a chance to get ahead on your summer shopping and pick out your new clothes.
Also, because so many schools and even colleges have spring breaks around the same time each year, stores get their stock of summer clothing in during the weeks before the vacation. This provides you with even more options and a wider variety of choices when deciding what you want to wear for the summer.
Spring break also is the perfect time to switch to lighter, more summery clothes because it gives you a chance to make the transition, without it being awkward. If you try just wearing jeans one day and shorts the next, it’s difficult to figure out when to finally make the switch. But having a week and a half off of school gives you the perfect chance to find outfits that you like and adjust to the warmer spring weather.
This leads to the next point that the week of spring break, and the weeks following, are almost always the time when the weather officially becomes the “springtime weather” that we are accustomed to. Excluding the few random weeks scattered throughout the winter when it almost feels like summer for a few days, the temperature is rarely above 50 degrees until late March and early April.
This means that when everyone is returning to school after their weeks off, the weather is finally warm for good. Although there are some horrible years when it snows in the middle of April, this month is generally the beginning of an upward spike in temperature that indicates the need for a new wardrobe change.
While the transition between seasonal clothing is sometimes awkward to have to navigate, it doesn’t need to be. Spring break is the perfect time to change your wardrobe from jeans, leggings, and sweatshirts to shorts, tank tops, and T-shirts.
