<p>Mine hasn’t. I suggested catalogs. He’d rather try it on. He’s gone to Filene’s and Macy’s and bought a beanie, gloves and some other things but no coat.</p>
<p>How long can he hold out? He’s not coming home for Thanksgiving, so I hope he’s able to hit some sales the day after.</p>
<p>He can hold out all winter if he joins the “locals”. My S has not worn a winter jacket for several years (except when actually on ski slope). Surely you’ve seen all the threads where we discuss the Flip Flop as Boot Alternative, etc. :eek:</p>
<p>Kinshasa:</p>
<p>Today it was in the 40s but a couple of days ago it was in the 70s. Next to Macys is an Eddie Bauer outlet, in case he does feel like buying a winter jacket.</p>
<p>It is still jacket weather. Another month or so should be enough to reach the point of buying a warm coat or deciding to spend life indoors.</p>
<p>Mine spent last winter in Boston without a real coat. He wears his jacket and if it’s really cold he wears pants. When he plays in the snow he might wear long johns. I figure if he gets cold enough he’ll buy a coat!</p>
<p>I saw mootmom’s kid last week on campus in shorts.</p>
<p>Good thing we CC folk look out for each other – I immediately sent her a PM informing her that he was going to catch his death of cold! :D</p>
<p>Last year D didn’t stop wearing her flip flops to class until after the second snow storm. I nagged her about getting a coat, but she wasn’t taking any action. So when I came for Parents Weekend I dragged her into a store a bought her a heavy winter coat. She ended up needing and using it.</p>
<p>HA HA HA! I told molliebatmit it was either that he was trying to prove his credentials as a Californian, or he hadn’t bothered to do laundry for a while. </p>
<p>He confirmed later that he hadn’t done laundry recently. 
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<p>He tells me he has a winter coat, though. mollie, be sure to let me know if you ever see him in a coat, OK?</p>
<p>NY D, who spent four glorious undergrad years in AZ and is now in the midwest for grad school gave in this week and ordered a new winter jacket from Lands End along with hat gloves and scarf.Had to put sneakers with socks on.While she loves her grad school and her living arrangement, she cant wait to get back to a desert/warm weather situation.The thought of wearing anything heavier than a hoodie agitates her. Wonder how she’ll handle the first snowstorm that comes along.
She always was a warm weather kid, even back in her NY days.</p>
<p>A friend of mine at MIT (back in the 70’s) never bought a winter coat. He was from Honolulu. In the dead of winter, he’d put on a sweater.</p>
<p>My son informed me last week that it’s not really cold in Boston yet; he’ll bring out the heavy coat in January, when it’s below freezing (way below) for days on end. “If you put on the heavy coat too soon, it doesn’t work in January.”</p>
<p>We just spent a few days in Boston and Maine; it was plenty cold enough for me (although we had one day in the 60’s that was amazingly lovely). However, the entire trip was redeemed by the low price and ready availability of lobster, which we ate for 7 out of 8 lunches/dinners during our trip. Yumm.</p>
<p>My Fairfield County (SW Connecticut near the shore) boy hasn’t added a winter coat to his wardrobe at prep school in NW Connecticut (Berkshire mountains). </p>
<p>He has picked one out of LandsEnd however, and knows he <em>will</em> need it next year in Ithaca …</p>
<p>This morning, it’s 21 at home, and 22 at school. We’d expect a 10 degree temperature differential the other way!</p>
<p>Tell him to try Urban Outfitters. They are all over NYC. My daughter has gotten several coats and jackets from them in recent years as have many of her guy friends. They have a pretty good contemporary selection in a variety of price ranges. You can check them out at <a href=“http://www.urbanoutfitters.com%5B/url%5D”>www.urbanoutfitters.com</a></p>
<p>No winter coats for my NH kids. We picked up S1 from his college in upper VT last night. Temp was 21 and he was wearing shorts and a sweatshirt! When it gets really cold in January he will switch to jeans and add a fall jacket on top. Like jmmom’s S, my kids only wear real winter parkas on the slopes.</p>
<p>Don’t worry, if they’re cold they will get themselves a coat. Stores in NE sell coats well into the winter-no rush.</p>
<p>K, I think they’ll take care of it when they have to. They may want to see what kind of coat(s) other more used to the weather are wearing, check out used clothing stores, or have any number of reasons for delaying. My D, the hothouse flower (froze any time it dropped under 68 degrees, doing an imitiation of Napoleon retreating from Moscow), finally found something she was happy with and it was late November.
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It’s really been more sweater weather here lately. I’m lucky if my HS kid wears a fleece thing to school – most days, he just wears a long-sleeved dress shirt (dress code). My son in NH informs me that it’s somewhat cool there lately, but the new jacket I ordered online is too warm for now. In case anyone is interested, it’s a Columbia Pressure Drop Interchange Parka with the zip-out fleece jacket. It feels lightweight, but apparently is very warm. In any case, as I tell my kids, the sign of intelligent behavior is the ability to come in out of the rain (or wear a warm jacket when it’s below freezing.) If they don’t get that concept by now, I’m out of luck.</p>
<p>Well, it is latish November, and the sun is shining gloriously. I wore a windbreaker this morning and I was hot. If your kid is resistant to buying winter gear, I don’t think the weather for picking out winter coats has arrived yet.</p>
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<p>I’ll definitely be on the lookout. ;)</p>
<p>are you eskimos? up there is is 40 F or below and you are talking about shorts, windbreakers and flipflops. It is 60 F here and it is COLD.</p>
<p>Simba:</p>
<p>It’s all in the brain 
Last year, in mid-December, I did see a young woman in a pair of flip-flops; her toe nails were blue (not her toes, though). Besides, how can you appreciate warm weather if you’ve never been cold? When it snowed (prematurely) a couple of weeks ago, all the TX and CA kids in S’s dorm went out and played in the snow. S, very blase, stayed put.</p>
<p>Oh no! Poor Greg, the women are spying on him and reporting to his mom. It is my fraternal obligation to warn him. I need to have my son give him a heads up. I wonder if Mollie has been reported to family lately, she sounds like a pretty shady charecter and I’m sure we could get the goods on her. Hmmmm. What to do, what to do?</p>