Morocco in June is hot. Not as hot as it gets later in the summer, but bad enough, according to numerous blogs, that you don't want to even consider going to the desert. This is complicated by the fact that women are supposed to cover up. Long sleeves, say some sources, short say others. But not sleeveless. No shorts, short skirts, or tight clothes. This pretty much rules out one of our wardrobes.
Then there is the question of "wicking." There are whole clothing lines now that promise to transport the sweat from your skin to the outer layer of the garment, where it then evaporates. The problem is that these clothes are usually expensive, festooned with logos and are quite unattractive. Obsessive web surfing on the part of the main trip planner also turned up another category of clothing designed for keeping cool: menopause clothes. These tend to use more cotton-like fabric and the websites promise comfortable nights in their special menopause-enabled wicking nightgowns.
In the end we decided to forgo wicking for oversized shirts in cotton -- absolutely the worst fabric you can wear in a hot climate, according to posts on the Lonely Planet message board. We shall see.
why is cotton the worst? first I ever heard it. As one who had the opposite problem camping in the mountains while my luggage was in Marrakech, five cotton T-shirts worn simultaneously with a windbreaker doth not a parka make.
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