THE Clothing & Temperature Thread (merged)

[smallpoxgirl]

It's frequently below freezing at night in my cabin. I usually wear polypro longjohns, warm socks, a sweater, and a warm hat (needs to have the little chin tie do-dads or it will come off). That along with a down sleeping bag will keep me warm well into the single digits Farenheit.

Seriously though. People sleep in tents on Everest. By comparison, even an unheated house is posh.

Running a wood stove periodically does wonders to dry things out and prevent mold if that's an issue where you live.

[HamRadioRocks]

It's a standard energy conservation tip for winter, as wearing a sweater allows you to be comfortable at a lower temperature. President Carter wore a sweater in the White House, turned the thermostat down, and urged everyone else to do the same. I can't believe that people hated him for that.

All this presumes that the energy-guzzling alternative is to wear a T-shirt and shorts in the house in winter. Do people really dress like that inside in winter? If I did that, I'd have to change clothes EVERY time I enter or leave the house (even just to take out the garbage), because I'd STILL need to wear the sweater (plus the coat, hat, and gloves) outside the house. It's easier to just remove the coat, hat, gloves, and boots but continue to wear the rest of my winter attire. (Just watch - someone here will pan me as a lazy bastard because I don't want to take the effort to change clothes 10 times a day.)

Am I that strange? Am I that out of touch?

What really burns me up is that the malls are so hot in winter that it seems I'm expected to show up dressed for summer. In fact, I have to not only remove my coat but also my sweater as well, as anything more than a short-sleeved shirt is overkill. Of course, in the summer, the mall is so cold that it seems I'm expected to show up wearing a sweater and overcoat. This is a reason I don't go to the mall that often.

[WisJim]

A lot of the problem is that energy was very cheap in the 1950s through early 1970s, so cost to heat/cool was no problem, and people are not yet adjusted to the fact that it is no longer cheap to maintain unreasonable temps in buildings.

[chris-h]

People on TV are not wearing sweaters !!!
That is why.
Everybody must do as the people on TV

[ClubOfRomeII]

It's a standard energy conservation tip for winter, as wearing a sweater allows you to be comfortable at a lower temperature. President Carter wore a sweater in the White House, turned the thermostat down, and urged everyone else to do the same. I can't believe that people hated him for that.

We didn't hate him for wearing a sweater, we hated him because he was a whining nitwit, one of the first American Apologists In Chief.

I don't care if we wore thongs and a propeller hat, I was just glad to help ease his incompetent butt out of office by voting for Ronny.

[Laughs_Last]

Let's go to the land of make-believe:



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What I can't believe is that Reagan wasn't executed for treason, for conspiring with foreign enemies to delay the release of hostages.

[edited to change image hosting link and to don flame-proof suite.]

[Tinman]

People on TV are not wearing sweaters !!!
That is why.
Everybody must do as the people on TV

What about the cosby show?

[ClubOfRomeII]

What I can't believe is that Reagan wasn't executed for treason, for conspiring with foreign enemies to delay the release of hostages.

October surprise! Where is Ruppert the Silly when we need him most? oh yeah, he ran away to Venezuela vowing never to come back!

Oh...and except for Ronny being a few orders of magnitude better than Jimmy, yeah, he wasn't that great either.

[ACrisisAwaits]

I live in San Diego, so we don't really have a "winter" but we do have days when highs are in the mid 50s and lows in the high 30s.
My parents won't let me turn the heat below 68, but my room tends to hover around 62 due to poor insulation and 3 external walls.
I usually wear (cotton) underwear and a (cotton) t-shirt, followed by (80% cotton) thermal underwear and a (80% cotton) thermal shirt, a pair of acrylic socks, followed by a pear of (70% cotton)sweatpants and a (70% cotton) sweatshirt. This is usually very adequete to remain comfortable. Sometimes I wear another collared 100% polyester fleece sweatshirt over my other sweatshirt.
I know I should probably ditch all the cotton, but I've yet to find polyester underwear. Does anyone know of any?
My parents on the other hand, still dress pretty much like they did in India, which might explain they constant complaining that its cold.

[mekrob]

Sweatpants and socks with a T-shirt. Sometimes have to put on a hoodie if I go downstairs. We keep it around 60. I tend to stay in my room (upstairs, facing the Sun in the afternoon) with hot tea, so it's very comfortable. I'm in NC with it being in the 50's usually during the past few weeks and next few days.

[Troyboy1208]

Naked!

[anarky321]

you can get away with cotton in San Diego, but in a real winter the only real options are WOOL or POLY

i wear all wool underwear, thick wool socks, regular socks over them and mostly wool under-pants and sweater and on top of that some polyester pants and jacket

the point is, in a REAL winter you DONT want to be wearing cotton

my house temp is about 40-45 degrees, and wool is very warm and isnt as bulky as cotton, wearing what i described above, anything above 45 degrees i start sweating i turned off all the radiators in my apartment because it was too hot

one little known fact is that the reason people get sick more in winter is because of the dry heated air in their house, which dries out the protective mucus in your throat and thus allows infection to pass in, especially if your a mouth breather, during the night your throat most likely dries out severely, your much better off dressing warm and using as little heating as possible

one huge advantage of wool is that it doesnt smell unlike poly, once lesson i learned the hard way with my poly facemask

[Cloud9]

Pretty much the same way I dress in summer. I live in Florida.

[dinopello]

I wear a layer of silk, then sweats or something and I have poly pullover that I wear a lot. Various blankets we can pull out for lounging on the couch. I have radiator heat so it doesn't dry things out.

[Chesire]

Shorts and a tshirt

[ACrisisAwaits]

one little known fact is that the reason people get sick more in winter is because of the dry heated air in their house, which dries out the protective mucus in your throat and thus allows infection to pass in, especially if your a mouth breather, during the night your throat most likely dries out severely, your much better off dressing warm and using as little heating as possible

Guess that explains the whole "cathing a cold when its cold" myth. You catch a cold in winter because of heating, not because its cold out.

[mekrob]

one little known fact is that the reason people get sick more in winter is because of the dry heated air in their house, which dries out the protective mucus in your throat and thus allows infection to pass in, especially if your a mouth breather, during the night your throat most likely dries out severely, your much better off dressing warm and using as little heating as possible

Guess that explains the whole "cathing a cold when its cold" myth. You catch a cold in winter because of heating, not because its cold out.

Doesn't it also have to do with the fact that houses are usually dirtier than outside and in the winter, you spend more time inside than say in the spring or summer?

[anarky321]

yes it does, there are loads of dust that build up in a house when all the windows are closed for weeks

[frankthetank]

Winter+San Diego=lots of laughs for a guy from Wisconsin. I'd be sleeping naked down there. I dress in layers even inside. I tend to even wear my jacket a lot and always have a winter cap on. It was -12F here last night. My feet will go numb if i don't wear socks, we have really cold floors.

[anarky321]

i remember my parents once had the bright idea to spend winter break in north dakota....ill never forget that cold

flat land + extreme cold = extreme windchill ...and i mean extreme