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I forgot to mention in my first post, When I was staying in Pasadena, CA I was walking around in a t shirt enjoying every bit of it, except sometimes at the beach it cold a bit windy and cold..
But id see people bundled up in coats when it was around 65 degrees, I thought they were crazy...
It is kind of a silly question... with a very obvious answer, but I will answer anyway.
I've spent my entire life in Texas. Well, at least the parts I was conscious of anyway (birth to age three was spent in Japan, Kansas, and Arkansas).. and I distinctly remember watching TV when I was young, seeing kids going "back to school" in jeans and corduroy and coats and being jealous. Here, I never even bothered to shop for back to school clothes for my kids until October at the earliest because they just wore what they'd been wearing all summer anyway. Shorts and t-shirts are the norm, no brisk Autumn days for back to school weather!
Same with all the magazines showing recipes for soups and Fall meals, hot chocolate and apple crisps. Means nothing to us here when it is WAY too hot to fire up an oven at that time of year!
For me, hot is horrid. And it is hot here for the majority of the year. I break the fashion rule of "no sleeveless tops", the rule I should and would apply to myself at my age/untoned arms, because it is too damned hot to care. I wear a lot of lightweight cotton and linen which seems to always be wrinkled and lighter colors even though those aren't what look best on me.
In "winter" (from December to February) I have to keep my warm stuff available plus have some sweaters and warmer things on hand, so it's never a simple matter of being able to put part of my wardrobe "away". I would love to regularly be able to wear boots, scarves, and hats but those things are worn maybe 3x a year. I wouldn't even mind the mild winters if they were consistent with temperature... like if it stayed in the 50s or 60s, but it doesn't. Winter here means weird periods of a week of 40's, then up to the 70's, then the 50's, then temps near 80! It's impossible to plan what you're going to wear without checking the forecast pretty much every day.
Well, it's hard to wear flip flops around here in January...
We have at least six months with snow on the ground here. It's usually in the 20s or 30s, but can get to the single digits occasionally. People mostly don't care too much about fashion here, but most still aren't dressed like "big blobs" during that time. With newer technical fabrics, high loft down, and so on, you can stay dry and warm and still look like a human. And layering will keep you warmer than wearing some big bulky coat, anyways. Bright colors are common as well, and are important for safety, especially if you do much walking.
Summers last a few months, if that, and are cool and often drizzly. A nice summer day is 65F; 70F is hot and only seen a handful of times a year. But people still wear summer clothes. We lay in a hammock and drink beer on a sunny day, just like people do in warmer places. It's called acclimating. You'll even see people wearing shorts and t-shirts in the 40s, especially in the spring.
A subarctic rainforest climate doesn't have as many warm, dry days as you might elsewhere, so of course we have more winter clothes and rain gear than the average person. That seems like it would be pretty obvious. But we still have a mix of different options. I actually have a much more diverse wardrobe here than I did when I lived in Texas or Florida. I felt very limited in what I could wear comfortably down there most of the time.
Well, it's hard to wear flip flops around here in January...
We have at least six months with snow on the ground here. It's usually in the 20s or 30s, but can get to the single digits occasionally. People mostly don't care too much about fashion here, but most still aren't dressed like "big blobs" during that time. With newer technical fabrics, high loft down, and so on, you can stay dry and warm and still look like a human. And layering will keep you warmer than wearing some big bulky coat, anyways. Bright colors are common as well, and are important for safety, especially if you do much walking.
Summers last a few months, if that, and are cool and often drizzly. A nice summer day is 65F; 70F is hot and only seen a handful of times a year. But people still wear summer clothes. We lay in a hammock and drink beer on a sunny day, just like people do in warmer places. It's called acclimating. You'll even see people wearing shorts and t-shirts in the 40s, especially in the spring.
A subarctic rainforest climate doesn't have as many warm, dry days as you might elsewhere, so of course we have more winter clothes and rain gear than the average person. That seems like it would be pretty obvious. But we still have a mix of different options. I actually have a much more diverse wardrobe here than I did when I lived in Texas or Florida. I felt very limited in what I could wear comfortably down there most of the time.
Exactly. You can only get so "naked" before it becomes horribly inappropriate, or illegal.
I would definitely prefer to have the option of adding more layers to get warmer, vs. trying to wear the bare minimum of clothing and still feel like I am being roasted alive.
I don't think this is a dumb question. Basically, I was asking whether you live in a climate where you wish you could wear different types of clothing than the climate limits you to.
For example, some people might prefer to wear lighter summer clothing all the time. While others might actually like sweaters, coats, etc.
Yes, climate affects wardrobe choices--darn! Here in NM's high desert, it's so cold in the winter I wear ugly flannel lined jeans, long underwear, wool sweaters, and scarves inside the house--sometimes a jacket and hat, too! Outdoors it's a long, down coat. Often wear mud boots when leaving the house. I liked my Seattle wardrobe--wool gab pants, lightweight sweaters, nice shoes, and a ton of precip (rain) gear.....
Yes! For me a perfect wardrobe is a summer wardrobe- sundresses, lots of white, capri sandals, espadrilles. I think I was made to live in a Southern European beach town. The reality is that I live in NYC and my ideal wardrobe is something that I can wear for maybe three months out of the year.
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