Tshirt and Shorts

hazelorb
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:05:37 +0000

I have no cold tolerance (waiting for the bus until I got old enough to drive myself was torture in Philly winters) so I like to have one of those big puffy jackets. I only use it around January/February because by March it is too warm typically and in December it is also usually warm. I like the sweatshirts that zip up the front so that they are an easy on/off without making my hair look like a disaster or dying from the heated classrooms by being too lazy to take it off (one of those always happens…). You will find at night it is usually colder (ie. I just had office hours this past weekend and I was freezing walking back to my car! so I tote around a light sweatshirt at nights typically), and sometimes early in the morning (8am classes every day this past year led me to get to know the weather better, but I would usually go back to my room and change by the afternoon!!). The year I bought my puffy jacket I had left my other one at home (tried to do the leave-winter-stuff-at-home thing but the weather did not cooperate because it was cold before Thanksgiving, which is atypical) and tried to rough it by just doubling hoodies but that was not enough at night. So I would say for those kinds of nights I would NOT go out in just leggings, she would want to wear jeans or sweatpants. For instance, I absolutely LIVE in flipflops, and you can tell when it gets cold because I switch into flat no-tie sneakers with socks. Definitely by Halloween, and I switch back in March typically. I love being able to wear flip flops in March. :)

But here is my note to you: considering her style is warm-weather oriented, you really should try to hold off on the winter gear until Thanksgiving. It sounds like you are lucky enough that if it did get cold early, she, like I did, could go buy herself a coat to make do. So let her use up all of the space in her first year wardrobe with stuff she will actually wear, do some swap outs at Thanksgiving, and make a plan to get rid of 95% of the winter stuff at spring break as well.

PS Cville also shuts down for a dusting of snow. But UVA doesn’t!!! There was only 1 snow day my whole 4 years there to date…