<p>Just checked the weather report for the nor’east for over the holiday week - and if any kiddos from the west are in the nor’east - take heed - it is gonna get COOOOLLLLLDDDDDDDD - windy - and maybe white or wet also - stay warm :)</p>
<p>LOL - Picked up DS at Bates (Maine) today where it was a “balmy” 39 degrees. When it’s that “warm,” I didn’t expect to see much in the way of winter outerwear, and I didn’t. Among either students or adults. </p>
<p>My favorite outfit, however, was a female student wearing - gasp! - a blue ski parka. This she paired with a chino mini-skirt, tight and straight, and - as the piece de resistance - bare legs atop white (WHITE!) 4-inch open toe heels. She was able to walk just about as well as you might imagine in this get-up. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Me thinks mollie is a secret agent. In the name of CC security and our war plans for getting kids to wear warm clothes, let us out her.</p>
<p>We can have two parallel threads. Like that Woody Allen movie Miranda, Miranda.</p>
<p>One thread as if she is a Secret agent and another as a shadowy character.</p>
<p>Amazes me to go to S’s cold campus and see nearly everyone wearing the same thing: sweatshirt or light fleece, plus a scarf, in 20mph northwest wind and accompanying lake-effect snow squall. </p>
<p>As someone said cold weather is coming around T’giving…eventually they WILL break out the NorthFace. btw if you have the time and like to shop, you can find NF pretty cheap in Marshall’s (depending on location of course)…nephew bought one last year (somewhere near his Dartmouth campus) and said they actually had a decent selection.</p>
<p>Muahahahaha. ;)</p>
<p>My Alaska kid is constantly too hot and doesn’t wear any clothing he is not required to (Naval Academy). He is also annoyed that it is warm and dark there, when everyone knows it is either warm and light or cold and dark. :)</p>
<p>K,
Last yr, D left CA with a wool p-coat and one other light winter jacket. Apparently, that’s all she needed since the trick is to layer clothing…from the cold into a heated building. That seemed to work better for her.</p>
<p>Haha, this thread reminds me of a friend of mine who never, ever wore pants or long sleeves - year round, he’d wear shorts and a t-shirt. It doesn’t get <em>that</em> cold in NC compared to the Northeast, I suppose, but still cold enough to dress more warmly than that. The only time we ever saw him in anything different was when we had special dress days and he had to wear a long sleeved dress shirt and slacks (he’d complain all day that he was hot) or when it snowed, his mom would make him wear long pants…but that was about it. :)</p>
<p>I have another friend at Brown who is incredibly skinny (no body fat at all!) and has a very low tolerance for cold…not to mention he was raised in the South. I wonder how he’s enjoying his first REAL winter. ;)</p>
<p>What real winter? S came home for lunch wearing a T-shirt today.</p>
<p>Here’s to let you warm weather parents know that it’s mostly the kids who don’t dress for the weather. Here in PA today it got up to 60 degrees and I am wearing jeans a mock turtle and a light fleece - inside.</p>
<p>H took S1 out to dinner on Saturday nihgt on the East Coast. S came down to the lobby in a t-shirt. H spent 15 minutes trying to get him to go back to his room to get a jacket or another shirt. Nothing doing. “It’s all good.”</p>
<p>To top it off, they met S1’s best friend for dinner–and that boy got off the subway wearing a t-shirt. <em>throws up her hands</em></p>
<p>I think my Ds roommate spends the winter wearing either a kilt or shorts
( of course D2 spent a whole year in grade school wearing shorts , tank top, sandles and a fleece vest all year)</p>
<p>It was 80 degrees here yesterday and today. But I wear long-sleeve shirts, not for warmth, but because my skin has two settings: Moby-Dick White or Sunburned Red. It’s the Irish genes, I think.</p>
<p>I’ve never seen my S with anything above a t-shirt. At a lecture at his school, he and some other UGs stood out for being dressed without consideration for the weather. Last year, I listened to advice on CC and bought S a NF fleece, but I doubt its been taken out of the wrapping. He’s also been wearing the same sandals for 1 1/2 years.</p>
<p>My Arizona D in Ca already bought a warm coat that she wears a lot!!! She would have been in trouble back east</p>
<p>I must be a kid at heart. I don’t allow myself to wear a jacket until November. No coat until December. Dressing warmly only encourages winter weather. I take 10 minute walks several times a day throughout the year. No jacket allowed. It does seem a bit brisk when the temperature is near zero and the wind is blowing. On those days the walks are pretty quick. I have a drawer full of sweaters that have never been worn. </p>
<p>Intentionally kicking up your metabolism does wonders for weight control. It also helps to deal with the cold weather without always feeling cold. I am always amazed at people who live on salads and gain weight. Get rid of the sweaters and you will shed the pounds.</p>
<p>hey, are calling me pudgy because I’m always cold? Unfortunately, my kids don’t like to cuddle with me because they say I’m too bony. I need the extra layers for padding. I’m hoping for the hot flashes that you get with menopause! </p>
<p>Seriously, I think the brisk walks are a better prescription for weight loss then underdressing. I mean it’s the same kids that don’t dress for the weather that gained the freshman 15. Ah, that’s it - their coats don’t fit them anymore! Disclaimer - for those of you that have coat-impaired kids, I’m in no way saying that their body shape is anything other then perfect.</p>
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<p>That’s what I do. When I get weighed at the doctor’s and do not like the readings, I go home, shed the sweater (s) and, invariably, my weight goes down. Totally painless 
I also have two drawers full of sweaters, but that’s mostly because I can’t wear them all at the same time. My S has one drawer full of sweaters, and that’s because he never seems to wear any.</p>
<p>Jmmom!!! WHITE shoes after Labor Day! What is the world coming to?</p>
<p>There are many different reasons for wearing sandals and flip-flops in all kinds of weather, I’ve discovered. When it’s warm (relatively, like yesterday(, you don’t want to wear shoes. When it’s rainy (like today), you don’t want your shoes to get soaked and remain wet for the rest of the day.</p>