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Lisabel (ne: Dagnabbit)
02/19/09

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Genetic? Eh, it's an age thing. I saw a bunch of underage chics in miniskirts outdoors at our New Year's Ball drop. I (and everyone other sensible person) was bundled like that kid from "A Christmas Story". Said girls where also getting their drank on to forget the cold. Wonderful.
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bowleserised
02/19/09

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As the immortal Kenickie put it:

"I can't work with heavy coats

they're not revealing

have to see each other's clothes

so we're all freezing"

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bowleserised
02/19/09

@bowleserised: Ach scheisse, not audio on the video. It was Nightlife, by Kenickie.
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Plum-Pie
02/19/09

@bowleserised: I was just thinking the other day how awesome they were live!
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bowleserised
02/19/09

@Plum-Pie: I saw one of their last gigs and got backstage with a student journo friend who was interviewing them. The atmosphere wasn't so great - hence the split, presumably. But they should have had the kind of popularity that Girls Aloud have now.
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Lizawithazee
02/19/09

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Without a coat, where does one hide one's weapons, drug paraphernalia, and bootleg liquor?
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SomeAuthorGirl
02/18/09

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This isn't a localized phenomenon. Where I lived in the southern Rockies for many years hardly anyone bothers with such things unless you are actively going to ski or snowboard. But instead of sparkly minidresses, everyone is wearing sandals, cargo pants, and environmentally and/or politically aware t-shirts. If it isn't snowing (and sticking) it's just not that cold.

Even though I've come home to the Northeastern US, I still can't be bothered with things like heavy jackets or, even more rarely, umbrellas.
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rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
02/18/09

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Also, my little brother is running around in shirts and a t-shirt all the time. THankfully he switches away from sandals to sneakers in the winter, but it's not just the ladies that don't dress for the weather.
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veronykah
02/18/09

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I have never understood this.

i live in LA and you won't catch me in a skirt HERE in the winter. Shit its 58 and I'm drinking tea and freezing.

I think I'm the opposite, I'll wear a parka when its 65.

However, I grew up in Northern MN and distinctly remember wearing an army jacket, mini gloves and chuck taylors ALL winter before I had a drivers license. We would walk around outside in minus who knows what -10 -20? NO clue how the fuck I did that, other than I was probably drunk and/or high.
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elitza owns the last Enzo shirt
02/18/09

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I'm constantly yelling from my car at the UMich girls in heels and minis hiking through six+ inches of snow. I think they forgot where they live. I've got fairly thick blood but that shit is RIDICULOUS.
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Snaffles
02/18/09

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Dude. Having just spent the weekend in Liverpool, I can say that isn't a stereotype, that is REALITY. I walked out of a bar Saturday night, looked up and down the entire street, and realised I was the one woman in eyesight wearing a coat.

I was also one of the few not wearing the full-on 6" platform stilettos, but I guess that's a whole other study waiting to be made.
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bowleserised
02/19/09

@Snaffles: A friend's favourite Liverpool anecdote involves seeing a girl peeing in the street while giving a bloke a blow job... Multi tasking!
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tscheese
02/18/09

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I grew up in South Dakota, where average temperatures can plummet below 0F for days at a time in winter. I've been living in the NYC area for about five years now, and I still CANNOT BE BOTHERED to put on a proper coat.

All winter I've been living in a little thin single-layer corduroy jacket. I have only put on my peacoat a few times, and I haven't seen my fluffy parka in years. To me, it just doesn't get that cold here.

I HATE wearing coats when it's not cold enough for them. A couple of hours ago, when I walked a mile from my workplace to my bus stop to go home, it was 40F and I couldn't even be bothered to put on my cord jacket. I was fine in my dress, tights, boots, and cardigan. If I was all sweaty by the time I got there, what would be the point? I'd be all sweaty all the way home on the overheated bus. Forget that.

I'll put the cord jacket on below 40, and if it's in the teens I miiiiight think about breaking out the peacoat. Being overheated ON PURPOSE is so gross to me.
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Pocahaunted
02/18/09

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OH MY GOODNESS!

This is so topical for me right now. I am doing my PhD between Newcastle and New York and just came out from a night on the 'toon'.

It's true. The women wear NOTHING, nothing I say. I go out in a thermal vest + sweater, two pairs of tights and a peacoat. The local girls go out in mini dresses that Jezzies would demand tights for.

I have a strong belief it has a direct correlation with the amount of alcohol consumed before departing the homestead.

It is so baffling. You can spot a student from twenty yards by the coat and scarf, and the grad student from the hat and mittens.

I do find it liberating though, seeing the 'older' women (that is, over 45) going out and wearing as little and consuming as much alcohol as their 20 something counterparts. Liberating walks a fine line with disturbing though.
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nessalicious
02/18/09

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When I lived in Coventry for a few years I started doing this, I think you just get used to it. A bit like when I came back from living in Cabos after a year and my mother has pictures of me sat on the beach at Cape Cod in May in a hoodie and blanket complaining I'm cold.

Children in Cabos wear parkas when it's 'winter' you know? Sometimes even mittens. It's surreal.
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SarahHeartburn
02/18/09

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People here in Madrid refuse to acknowledge any season other than summer, and only grudgingly acknowledge winter. Last month we had a rare 4 inch snowfall in the center of the city and don't you know everyone was slipping and sliding in normal shoes. (I broke out my Timberlands.)Hats and gloves are only cool if seen as fashion accessories. The only year chicks dressed warm was about 3 years back when Zara was featuring ankle lenghth down coats. Of course, then the fashion victims wore them until May....
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Triphena
02/18/09

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I almost never wear a coat, only when it's raining or snowing really hard and I've got something nice on. If it gets down to, like, 10 degrees I might conceed to a puffer vest.
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Rare Affinity
02/18/09

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Having worked in Newcastle during the winter over a decade ago, I can vouchsafe that even then the "lassies" there were prone to wander around the town centre skimpily dressed at the weekend. Nor do they seem to have an extra layer of fat to protect them. Some of the streets around there are very steep and how they avoid breaking their ankles or necks, let alone not dying from hypothermia is a wonder.
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PrettyNotPretty
02/18/09

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Last January, I decided it would be super fun to remove my coat and sweater and do cartwheels down Avenue A in a tube tob.

It...wasn't. Drunk or not, fuck it was cold.
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