What's up with the towels?

Not sure I have posted about this before. A high percentage of kids walk around with towels coming out of the neck on their shirts.

What I have been told is that when it is hot and humid outside (which is almost everyday) they use these to wipe up the sweat. So as they go in and out of air conditioned places, they won't get too cold and then won't get sick.

In this picture it is 2 girls. Usually it is boys since they run around more and get sweaty. Now for those of us that move from one air conditioned place to another, this really isn't that much of a big deal.

We really couldn't figure this out initially, so I had to breakdown and ask someone. You will occasionally see an adult with one. This is pretty common, so we don't look for it too much. However, something really sad. Every once in a while you will see a very, very poor child with wadded up newspaper there instead of a towel. They can't even afford a rag. I am sure I have mentioned before that the newspaper here is made with ink that comes off on your hands. So I can imagine how much of that ink gets on their back when they sweat.

Anyway, something else unique to the Philippines.