Lets engineer a shirt that looks black in the visible spectrum but is white in everything else.
You could do that, unfortunately solar irradiance is highest in the visible spectrum.
Could probably just take a black shirt and smother it in sunscreen. Apparently, you would want "mineral sunscreen", which aims to reflect the UV light rather than just absorbing it.
No guarantees that it's actually still black afterwards, though. 🙃
That's why I stopped listening to metal. Too hot in the summer.
Just listen to ska in the summer and metal the rest of the year
Funk, it's basically thrash but with a wah pedal. And more purple shirts. And black people 👍
I listen to funk in September, metal in October and November, Christmas songs in December, and Irish music in March.
Just paint your metal white and your problem will be solved.
No, we suffer in black
Yes! I agree 100%. That's why I buy non black tshirts nowadays. These are the latest acquisitions:
Preach, I quit black metal t shirts ten years ago and haven't looked back. Unless of course there is no other option, or the colour is particularly crap
White is not very flattering to the average metalhead figure, and also does not hide spilled beer
Or blood.
Even if it's not about the heat, I want some diversity. Black gets boring at one point, so I get other colours any time I can.
Agreed!
For variety, I sometimes switch it up with charcoal, ebony, or obsidian.
But for special occasions I'll break out the soulcrusher's Vantablack.
I don't know. I wear black, pastel black, broken black, dark black and 50 shades of black. Plenty of options.
I have a colleague who’s into metal. Always wears a band shirt, always in black. As you’d expect. Except on VERY rare days where she runs out of those or if it’s indeed just too hot to wear black.
It’s downright jarring to see her in anything except black. Looks like a completely different person.
I do imagine it’s nice to be a female metal fan. Never have to worry about what to wear or what colors to match 😂
There was a brief era in the 2000's where bands from pop-punk to metal-core released super bright coloured shirts (like fluro-bright) with over the top cartoon artwork, it was a nice change.
Also you can get pink metal shorts/jumpers that go pretty hard (i have only seen these worn by men though)
Anarchists at a summer protest: "WHY DID WE CHOOSE BLACK?! WHYYYYY"
Is it weird that I just thought about white goth aesthetic as a parallel to those all white PC builds? I don't think I've seen 'white goth theme' done before and am kinda curious if it would look good.
You're close. Not 'white goth'...
Pastel Goth:
Arguably many variants of the older, harajuku gothic lolita style can/have also been done in primarily white or lighter colors.
This is a more modern dress and pic, but I think you could find examples of similar going back to at least the 90s:
... there's also now... clown core, and clown goth, but ... just no, nope, you're gonna have to personally choose to look for that, I'm not just gonna force you to see it.
EDIT:
I suppose if we carry forward trends in PC case styling... to fashion... well, we would somehow have to end up with dresses or suits with wood grain pattern elements or accents.
... Not sure if that exists yet.
Can you make a ruffled fringe out of wood, lol?
Or like, wood grain patterned corset, you know, the trunk?
Leaf ears instead of cat ears?
Bonsai Core? Bonsai Goth?
Ok, pretty sure I'm delerious, time for bed now.
lol
sonuvabitch, it exists, a literally wooden dress.
... damn.
Xyla did a good job with that, the details on the bottom are actually inset pices of wood. Still quite stiff but looked better than the carbon fibre one imo.
(...) and am kinda curious if it would look good.
Spoiler: It doesn't
White metal, the ultimate underground you haven't heard of yet, you poser
I think that's called Pantera
Dammit, that got me lol. That's a literal lol right there. Fuck me, that was a good one
the only white shirt metalheads have is reserved for the next GWAR concert
You mean my red GWAR shirts?
Well sure they're red now
That's not the problem, since she is hot anyway.
Nah, it's a lifestyle, I'm committed
I had a dope-ass cream colored shirt from my favorite band, Caligula's Horse. Was devastated when it got destroyed. Now back to all black stuff...
How about some black mesh? Lets the mitties really breathe.
I want her to use my face as a chair.
I have a old Sucide Silence shirt that is the depiction of a nude woman covered with long hair hugging a skeleton that is white.
Out of curiosity, aren't clothes actually heat the same under the sun? It's infrared albedo that matters after all, not the visible specturm one, no?
No, white clothing does reflect more heat than black clothing. However the answer to which is better to wear in hot weather is "it's complicated", the TL;DR is that for tight clothes white is better, for loose clothing black and white are the same.
So the fit of the clothing is actually more important than the colour. However, if you are going to be wearing tight-fitting clothing, then stick with white. Fabrics with texture – such as seersucker or pique, a fabric often used in sports polo shirts – also help to lift clothing off your skin, rather than staying snug and tight-fitting.
Light gets converted into heat, white rejects more light before it can do that.
Colors work by which parts of the light spectrum get absorbed and which get reflected. A shirt that absorbs most wavelengths, but largely reflects green, will look green.
And in that same vein, colors will appear darker, if less light is reflected in general. So, a white shirt may reflect 90+% of light, whereas a black shirt may absorb 90+% of light.
And ultimately, absorption means that the light's energy is turned into warmth. So yeah, a darker shirt heats up more in the sun.
I’ve got a good few, but they are local bands, so it was likely a cost decision, but I definitely sport them more when it’s hot.
I’ll sweat balls in my Conan shirts without a second thought, though. Because fuckin’ Conan.
All hail Volt Thrower.
Memes. For metal music.
Don't be an ass and try to keep the gatekeeping and whatnot to a minimum. Memes from all sorts of metal genres and bands are welcome here.
