<p>My son is 19 and goes to school near Albany. We live in Maryland and for much of HS he took a bus. I honestly can’t remember the last time he wore a coat except when we go skiing. I think he survived freshman year without wearing one. He did say he might wear gloves though apparently his hands get cold. it’s just my job to make sure they have coats, but I can’t force them to wear them. Same kid pumped up tire in garage tonight in just his pj bottoms. No coat, no shirt, no shoes. Yes, it was VERY cold.</p>
<p>SockherMom? Is your son a fan of proper football? If so, you might try ordering a supporters scarf for one of his favorite MLS or European teams. That could be more fun to wear than something that looks like your mom made you get it.</p>
<p>I don’t know when it became a trend to wear or not wear clothing that is inappropriate for the weather…seriously, is it about looking cool for wearing flip flops or shorts when the temps are below freezing ? It seems more common with guys than girls.
We love our warm clothing. footwear around here.
I have two pairs of Bean boots for going out in messy weather. I have better boots for deep snow. I collect scarves, have jackets and coats for different temps. I don’t get the stubbornness about putting on attire to protect you from the elements</p>
<p>One of the young boys (2nd grade) at my school today wore gym shorts and a T-shirt. And it was 6 degrees today! I imagine he won’t wear a scarf either.</p>
<p>Years ago D was on the high school bus in the rocky mountains in the middle of a cold winter and a guy gets on the bus with a tshirt and shorts. The bus driver was razzing him about it and asked him if he thought it was hot. The student said ’ well actually yes, I just moved from Alaska’. It is relative.</p>
<p>I don’t wear hats. Given my hair is so fine, a hat just mushes it down. Even in Wisconsin, I only wore earmuffs.</p>
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<p>Most of the answer to the posed question could be answered by the following songs:</p>
<p>Macho Man & Eye of the Tiger. </p>
<p>Yes, some of it is a “Cold’s nowhere near as tough/macho as I am.” :D</p>
<p>For others like my Maine friends, 10-20 degree cold weather in the NE isn’t really that cold to them.</p>
<p>As for the fashion part, I read one factor for why hats fell out of fashion after WWII was that after demobilization, many formerly drafted men felt hats reminded them too much of being in the service and its regimentation so they preferred to avoid wearing hats. </p>
<p>Am a bit skeptical about the truthiness of that story, but it’s an interesting musing…</p>
<p>Today someone got off the commuter train in gym shorts. Really? :eek: It’s nine degrees out there!</p>
<p>All the kids who study in the middle east wear kaffiyeh. Apparently the different colors all have different meanings.</p>
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<p>After experiencing some bitter cold while a college student, I lost all sense of vanity when it came to winter clothes. I would wear two hats, a knit hat, with a giant furry Russian looking thing over it. One scarf below the coat, one wrapped around my neck and lower face. Leg warmers that went up to my hips. Sometimes, an umbrella to block the wind. </p>
<p>This was in St. Louis which doesn’t even compare to Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc. But one night, it was 20 below with a wind chill of minus 80 and I had to walk home. I had been helping a friend with a project and of course, his car wouldn’t start. It made a perfectly hideous sound! We ran back inside and realized we would have to walk. I offered him my knit hat because he didn’t have one. He refused! He walked home, more than a mile, bare headed. But he did take the umbrella.</p>
<p>DS won’t wear gloves or hat either.</p>
<p>DD, now in her 5th year in Connecticut, has finally purchased proper footwear.</p>
<p>My Southern husband warms-up the car and expects the snow to fall off. No ice scraper for him.</p>
<p>Where I’m from, our lake freezes over so hard we drive cars across it.</p>
<p>When I went to college in Chicago back in the day, I was vain and didn’t dress appropriately. Because I’m short, my mother told me I shouldn’t wear knee-high boots, as they would “cut my height.” And, I didn’t wear a hat because it would schmoosh my hair. And, I didn’t know anything about down way back in the old days, and it was the era of the miniskirt. </p>
<p>One of my worst memories from my freshman year is walking from my chem lab to my dorm – about a mile away – in a blizzard, wearing regular shoes, no hat, a short little coat (came to mid-thigh), and a pair of leather gloves. (Very stylish, but not at all warm.) It was one of the most miserable experiences of my life.</p>
<p>Yesterday at the dog park (around 10 degrees) I had on a hat, two pairs of gloves, and two layers of all my clothes, plus a down coat. And oh yeah, a scarf wrapped around my mouth, nose and cheeks. </p>
<p>It’s nice to be a grown up and know what’s really important!</p>
<p>My boys appeared dressed for the bus stop today complete with scarves! Older son was wearing a Gryffindor scarf from Harry Potter costume days 5+ years ago. Younger son got a new scarf for Christmas and he actually wore it! It helps when Sherlock and the Doctor wear scarves.</p>
<p>Having some work done on the house this morning and it’s about 15 degrees out. All three workers have no hat on and either a light coat or just two hoodies! Now, I’m going to notice this everywhere.</p>
<p>One place people wear their hats is on the ski slope. Polar fleece hats shaped like the Statue of Liberty’s crown, like a middle finger, a lightning bolt, whatever, come flying down the slopes. Not so many scarves but lots of “turtle fur” (a brand of polar fleece neck gaiter). H wears a balaclava - looks a bit like a bright blue executioner’s hood.</p>
<p>Because of the way the holidays fell this year, our trash and recycling pick up was disrupted. They only picked up trash in the week of Christmas and New Yrs…so I had a very high volume of recyclables . Today was the first day since the week before Christmas that I could get it picked up , so I bundled up with hat, two scarves , long down coat, gloves and boots. My driveway is pretty long, so I drag it all out on one of those Amish wooden wagons. There was some water in the wagon since it has melted snow on it…the water froze in the three trips I made back and forth ! I wasn’t outside for more than ten minutes. I’m looking forward to a warm up !</p>
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<p>Physical labor = exercise, and exercise warms you up.</p>
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I’m with you. I don’t think it’s amusing either, it just seems stupid. I get that some people have different internal heat settings and what might be cold to me is not cold to someone else, but to dress as if it’s a hot summer day when it’s below freezing is like having a sign around your neck saying, “I am not with stupid, I AM stupid”.</p>
<p>Haha ! So true…it’s not like they are less vulnerable to frostbite because they want to look tough</p>
<p>The title of this thread cracks me up. Not sure why I find it so funny, but i guess just having a son…</p>