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angelina jolie-laide is a gaudy tulip
01/06/09

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The arctic has no respect for fashion.
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Maulleigh
01/06/09

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I live in a cold apartment and wear several layers. My roomates are skipping around in baby Tees and g-strings and wonder how come they're so cold all the time!

Idiots.
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Crackers In Bed
01/06/09

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I used to read the sugar sites (popsugar, fabsugar, fitsugar, etc) all the time before I discovered jezebel. then I realized they made me feel vaguely the same way as too many hours reading lady mags does: fat, poor and tragically plain jane. pitooey.
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morninggloria
01/06/09

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I stay warm in the winter by not going outside unless absolutely necessary, and when I do have to go outside, I repeat the following mantra to myself:

"I am not going to die en route. I am not going to die en route. I am not going to die en route."

I have yet to die of hypothermia.
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silentrationale
01/06/09

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Yeah, yeah, mock all you want, but as someone who grew up in Texas, I thought undershirts were A REVELATION. At age 22, nonetheless.
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hellosunshine
01/06/09

@silentrationale: Clearly your father was not a Yankee. To this day, when I come home to Dallas from NYC, Dad's all "WHY AREN'T YOU WEARING A HAT?? WHERE'S YOUR SCARF??" Dad! It's 55 degrees! This is like spring!
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SunburnedCounsel
01/06/09

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Gweyneth? Is that you?
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bluebears
01/06/09

@SunburnedCounsel: GOOP is taking over!!!!
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SomeAuthorGirl
01/06/09

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Dammit, another thing my mother was right about. Undershirts. Who knew.
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RisaPlata
01/06/09

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Yeah, this was something I actually had to re-learn recently. See, I grew up in New England, but now I live in Los Angeles and just go back for two weeks at Christmas and one week at Thanksgiving. And I got so good at living in LA that I forgot how to dress for cold, and froze for a couple years before I remembered that I always used to wear shirts under my sweaters. I still don't have wool socks or legitimately warm sweaters or a hat or boots made for snow and not fashion, but I got a nice, fuzzy scarf this year! So, you know, progress...
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sequined
01/06/09

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Wait. WHAT? You can wear multiple clothing items at the same time?? For warmth?

Mind = blown.
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
01/06/09

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Or, you could sew some down pillows together and stuff them inside of a thin coat, making what I like to call a "down jacket". It looks a bit silly, but it's creative and warm.
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
01/06/09

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I thought this was going to be about covering the most exposed areas of your body with higher layers, but no, all the move obvious.

This is so new-age chic.
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PrairieGirl
01/06/09

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What about tips on looking fashionable and chic when you have to wear long-johns every fucking day for the last two weeks? How about those huh? Oh, I should tuck my gloves into my sleeves? Really? If I don't do that around here I'd DIE. And, actually, I don't tuck in my gloves because I don't wear gloves. THEY'RE NOT FUCKING WARM ENOUGH! I wear mitts with other mitts tucked inside them, and THEN I tuck them into my sleeves. EVERYTHING much be tucked and cinched AT ALL TIMES, or I will literally PERISH.

(Um, sorry. It's been really cold here since before Christmas. It's been around -32C/-26F, -40 with the windchill. Today is the first day I'm not wearing long-johns to work because it's a fairly balmy -15C/+5F. I'm getting a little punchy.)
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Mkp-hearts-NYC
01/06/09

@PrairieGirl: ...is your Prairie in Alaska?
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Penny
01/06/09

@PrairieGirl: I don't know how you do it, I bitch about 50 degree weather in CA. But, I have good news for you....I've been researching the S/S shows and HAREM PANTS are apparently going to be all the rage. Lots of room! Although, I guess those won't be available for a few months...
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Penny
01/06/09

@PrairieGirl: Alright, for reals though.....sometimes natural fabrics (like wool) aren't enough. Have you looked into any man-made uber-warm stuff? I assume NorthFace/Columbia/REI make super warm stuff.
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AuntieEm (robots from the year 2000 > zombies)
01/06/09

@PrairieGirl: I hear you! This is normal weather in Wisconsin
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LBB
01/06/09

@Penny Plastic (Archetype): ...harem pants? Oh god.
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Penny
01/06/09

@LBB wishes everyone a happy 2009!: I honestly can't wait to write about the worst trends because there was a whole lotta ugly on the runways.
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St. Francis of a Sissy
01/06/09

@PrairieGirl: I saw these in the Cabela's catalog for the first time over Christmas and my head damn near exploded.

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Mkp-hearts-NYC
01/06/09

@St. Francis of a Sissy: *whew* I was so confused about which was the top and which were the pants until I saw those labels.
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Penny
01/06/09

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Awwww, FabSugar is so cute and earnest, I can't make fun of them.
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PilgrimSoul
01/06/09

@Penny Plastic (Archetype): Not as they reify stereotypes about women as frivolous, naive clotheshorses?
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Penny
01/06/09

@PilgrimSoul: You used the word "reify," I think I just popped a word boner.

I am frivolous, although not naive, about clothes....so I am not entirely sure how to respond....
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The HZA.
01/06/09

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Yeah it's called target and you buy a pack of men's a-shirts for like 5 bucks. And they are nice and long too.
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nagumi
01/06/09

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"Next: Pants - Which Leg First?"

Am I the only person that puts on pants TWO legs at a time while sitting? Whenever someone says "we all put our pants on one leg at a time" I feel so left out... :(
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PilgrimSoul
01/06/09

@nagumi: Jinx!
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LaFemme
01/06/09

@nagumi: Hha. I do that too. I sit on the edge of my bed and pull them on at the same time. I guess there is a kind of one foot leading the other deal, but I pretty much just jump into them.
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