Huh. You and I live in completely different climates—I’d be shocked to go through a winter that doesn’t require warm clothes, or a summer that requires cool clothes. I might not put on snow gear each year, but I wouldn’t consider that “clothes” for the purposes of this maxim.
Is it really that unusual to expect both summer and winter clothes to get worn every year? I know it’s true of Minneapolis and Seattle as well, and I’ve been lead to believe it’s true for most of Canada and Alaska.
I think in terms of layers that can be added or shed. (So it’s less “winter and summer clothes” and more “winter and year-round clothes”.) They are in order: shirt or T-shirt, cardigan, jersey, other jersey, thick woolen monstrosity. This year I’ve never needed the outermost layer, but I expect to next year. I also wore a light coat, but next year I’ll probably need a winter coat.
Huh. You and I live in completely different climates—I’d be shocked to go through a winter that doesn’t require warm clothes, or a summer that requires cool clothes. I might not put on snow gear each year, but I wouldn’t consider that “clothes” for the purposes of this maxim.
Portland has an unusually small thermal amplitude.
Is it really that unusual to expect both summer and winter clothes to get worn every year? I know it’s true of Minneapolis and Seattle as well, and I’ve been lead to believe it’s true for most of Canada and Alaska.
I think in terms of layers that can be added or shed. (So it’s less “winter and summer clothes” and more “winter and year-round clothes”.) They are in order: shirt or T-shirt, cardigan, jersey, other jersey, thick woolen monstrosity. This year I’ve never needed the outermost layer, but I expect to next year. I also wore a light coat, but next year I’ll probably need a winter coat.