East Africa is completely different climate from the Gulf.
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Wearing Leather Jackets in the Middle East
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East Africa is completely different climate from the Gulf.
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Tim S
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No. The Arabian Desert bounds the Persian Gulf and is an extension of the Sahara. While some differences do exist they are both hot deserts. Khartoum compares favorably to Doha where wearing a leather jacket is a fine idea when seasonally appropriate. The same for south Texas where winters tend to be milder.
I've lived in both regions. You don't generally get the suffocating humidity in East Africa that you do in the Gulf, even on the hottest days.
Tim S
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And I sure hope you didn't wear a leather jacket on those days. Khartoum and many place are along the Nile and it can be as humid as the the equator. Generally it subsides in the winter and a leather jacket is fine. In the Middle East, typically, folks don't appreciate work wear leather and go for very fine, thin lamb or exotic hides with designer labels.
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Only ever been in the Gulf during a break between flights - Dubai a couple of times, and Doha once. (I swore I'd never leave the airport in Dubai after the flight forced a video about Dubai tourism on me as we neared landing, causing me to have to wait hours for the last twenty minutes of a film I was watching, ha.) I have worn leather in India. Back in February 2013, I travelled in a Wested Raiders (goat) on a work trip. It was fine after dark and in the early morning when we got up at 5 to do a day trip from New Dehli to Agra, but a bit uncomfortable when it hit 20 celsius later in the day (alas it was my only secure pocket at the time). In Beijing, it was fine on a colder, wet day, but otherwise really only bearable in the air-conditioned airport. Mainly it was useful as a way of keeping all those bits you need to hand in an airport in one place without having to empty my trousers every time I turned around. I dread to think what it would be like in the ME.
One December I flew to and from Beijing via Doha. In Beijing the cold would take your head off; landing in Doha, the short walk from the plane to the airport bus in thermals and a B3 nearly killed me. I wouldn't even dream of leather if I had to spend time there, TBH, I doubt I'd be able to cope with denim in that environment.
One December I flew to and from Beijing via Doha. In Beijing the cold would take your head off; landing in Doha, the short walk from the plane to the airport bus in thermals and a B3 nearly killed me. I wouldn't even dream of leather if I had to spend time there, TBH, I doubt I'd be able to cope with denim in that environment.
If everyone just followed rational reasons, nobody would wear leather jackets these days because there are better alternatives for every purpose.
Sometimes a leather jacket is just cool. Need more reason?
If everyone just followed rational reasons, nobody would wear leather jackets these days because there are better alternatives for every purpose.
Sometimes a leather jacket is just cool. Need more reason?
The thing is those kinds of outerwear are also cool and if anything they are neglected today!
Solstice 62
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I spent a couple of years in Riyadh (many years ago), we’d be out in shorts (Frowned upon by the locals) and tee shirts, the locals would be wrapped up like it was about to snow, I guess it depends on what you’re used to
