Does clothes reflect climate and relief?

Answer 1

Some people may not take you seriously, but clothes can have a much larger impact on energy use than people give you credit. The cooling and heating our homes, workplaces, and areas of commerce consumes enormous amounts of energy. If you can dress lightly in the summer, you can be more comfortable setting your thermostat higher. Conversely, dressing heavier in winter, even when indoors, let's you keep the thermostat set lower.


I can't tell you how many times where I've gone to businesses or homes where people are dressed in short sleeves or wearing thin fabric pants (possibly shorts!) during the cold of winter.

Answer 2

Anything and everything reflects light (including sunlight) unless it's black; lighter colours reflect the most.

The amount of sunlight reflected or absorbed by clothing will have such a minuscule affect on climate as to be negligible.

Relief is something completely different and isn't affected by reflectivity, absorption or climate.

Answer 3

Huh?