<p>What do you think of wearing shorts in cold weather? Do you think these people increase their chances of getting sick when they wear summer clothes in wintry weather?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t wear shorts when it’s cold because it’s god damn cold, not the risk of getting sick. I’ve got a killer immune system anyway.</p>
<p>Good topic. I wear shorts often in the winter, but that’s only because I spend most of the day inside a building anyway. It’s only cold between classes, which isn’t much of a problem for me because my legs don’t get cold very fast, only my toes. And I almost always wear warm socks.</p>
<p>Ummmm… <em>looks down</em></p>
<p>I’m wearing shorts and its like 40 degrees outside :P</p>
<p>Personally I hate when people don’t know how to dress seasonally and they complain about it being cold. It’s called layers because it’s winter time. So yeah if I saw someone wearing shorts I would think they were silly and from the suburbs where they can easily just get in and out of a car so the weather isn’t important to them.</p>
<p>I wear shorts everyday, no matter the weather. Even when it dipped all the way down into the 40’s last month.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s bad as long as the person doesn’t complain about being cold. Some people just react to cold differently. you can’t catch a cold or the flu from being cold so i don’t see a problem with it</p>
<p>Inside I don’t see a problem. I don’t think you would increase your chance of a cold. My bio teacher told me that was a myth, that you get sick from being cold out because breathing and the germs, or something or other, not because you don’t have your mittens on. However, depending on how cold it is, frostbite can occur. I went outside in very cold weather once, with no gloves, and when I got inside my hands took about 30 minutes to warm and literally made me cry they hurt so bad.</p>
<p>So I wouldn’t be outside in the cold in shorts for long periods of time for risk of frostbite. Though the word “cold” depends on the person. To my bf its anything below 50. To me its below 0.</p>
<p>My personal cold-meter has been radically adjusted during the last three weeks.</p>
<p>After 19 years living in St. Louis (4 moderate seasons every year)–</p>
<p>Cold = 35 or below. Warm = 60 and up.</p>
<p>After six months living in Minnesota (yeah)–</p>
<p>Really cold = -10 or below (it got to -30s with windchill a few weeks back). Cold = 10 or below. Warm = 30 and up.</p>
<p>Will I throw on some shorts when it finally gets to 40 in a few months? I don’t know. Maybe capri pants. :)</p>
<p>I wear shorts in the winter! And I live in NJ!</p>
<p>At Cornell, this is usually a reliable indicator that someone’s an engineer/CS major. I see it more frequently than you’d imagine and I don’t really understand it; is it laziness or do they just not own pants?</p>
<p>I’m just used to it. I love the cold weather so it doesn’t bother me :P</p>
<p>I knew a kid in high school who wore only shorts. Never saw him in trousers, regardless of the weather outside.</p>
<p>I usually laugh to myself at kids that wear shorts in the snow. It looks silly. Wouldn’t you laugh at someone wandering around in snow pants in july?</p>
<p>depends. out here it’s common to see shorts and flip flops when a snowmelt is going on on the streets, but the grass is still packed with 6+ inches. 40 without wind is pretty decent weather for shorts, but I dont like it at all. i dont understand how someone could like those gloomy, cloudy days. i need sun, and green.</p>
<p>I have to wear shorts in the snow because I can only afford one season’s worth of clothes. Thanks for reminding me of that.</p>
<p>Here in the Northeast, a typical white guy’s winter outfit is often khaki or jean shorts with a University of ___ sweatshirt on top. this uniform seems to appeal to white guys only. i’ve never seen people of any other race or women doing it. The equivalent white girl’s uniform is mini jean skirt with black spandex leggings stuffed into brown Uggs.</p>
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<p>I would never do that. My hands get unbearably cold without heat pads or gloves, why have my legs freeze? lol </p>
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<p>That’s so true. I’ve heard this remark and seen this fact so much IRL. I’ve seen women do this though. I even saw a girl wear flip flops when there was snow on the ground.</p>
<p>To me:
nice = 32-45
Cold = below 32
really cold = below 20
*****ing insane = below 0</p>
<p>I’ll probably wear shorts a lot of the “nice” days but never below that as a general rule. Obviously above 50 and it’s a no-brainer.</p>