“Is your office too cold?” I asked a clutch of men — pinstripes, charcoal pants, crisp shirts with the faint outline of undershirts beneath.They looked at me as if I spoke in Finnish, confident faces contorted in puzzlement.“No.”
I’m the sort of oddball who likes wearing somewhat formal clothes. But I’m under no illusions as to its practicality, especially now that I live in the South. We probably shouldn’t be tailoring our climate control to people who are wearing manifestly unreasonable clothing.
…of course, there are always outliers. If my perpetually overheating wife is reading this, she’s probably thinking “no, don’t you dare turn those thermostats up!”.