There's just no explaining some people. I dress for comfort according to the weather every day of the year. I'd say age, except I see apparel like board shorts on people of all ages all year around. Yes, shorts in the grocery store this month. When I'm scurrying through the parking lot to my car and wasting no time. Both our community grocery stores are right on the river where its windy on a good day, unbearable at 24F like yesterday was.

Haha - hubby was just telling me about a guy he saw yesterday in shorts & slides in a parking lot, as the temp. was dropping into the 40s. We agreed he must not be from around here 😄

I think I know that lady...HAHAHA! This lady I know will wear sandals in the snow to the dog park and capri pants....she says she's burning up and can't stand heavy shoes and clothing. I guess she's just very hot natured? I also have a friend that talks about a guy he used to work with that always wore shorts no matter how cold it was, he was just not cold.

" except I see apparel like board shorts on people of all ages all year around. "

That appears to be the accepted uniform for any male under the age of 25 in my neighborhood. The high school is less than a block away from a large grocer store, which the kids like to haunt for lunch and it will be filled with teenage boys in shorts at all times of the year!

And apparently coats and jackets are unheard of between the ages of maybe 13 and 21, cos I never see anyone in that age group wearing them!

As I was in a down coat, wool hat under my down hood, mittens, and scarf, I saw a guy in shorts and a tee shirt heading into the store. One of us is nuts, I thought.

Average Canadian day?

Some of the older women on here may remember having to wear dresses or skirts where they worked. Depending on the era they may have worn a girdle, panty hose or a garderbelt. Always or almost always in heels. My older brother attended a parochial school for one year before we moved to the country. The uniform until you reached a certain age for boys was shorts. While I may think the people lack something remembering those days things really have not changed.

Everyone's different, and I'm pretty sure adults are -- in absence of chemical impairment -- able to decide for themselves if they're cold or not. There was a guy in my old neighbourhood who wore shorts all year 'round, and the only change he made with the seasons was in his footwear and upper body clothing......who knows? Maybe he hated the feel of fabric moving across his legs. For a couple of years through peri-menopause, I was like that woman, wearing t-shirts and sandals in the winter because I had lost control of my personal thermostat and was always hot.

Different strokes.

I worked with two guys who were in our production department and wore shorts every day of the year, no matter the weather.

Isn't that insane! ☃️ I forgot my gloves yesterday and I was really freezing!

“With the wind chill, it was below freezing.” Geez. That’s ok weather for shorts and flip flops. Not everybody is the same.

It’s all relative, of course. Day before yesterday our high temperature was 1°. Just now, as we returned from Christmas Eve service, it was 8°. These are NOT wind chill figures - they are actual thermometer temps.

Maybe...a Christmas pedicure? I'm always cold, so no idea here.

That could have been me. I cannot tolerate closed in shoes of any kind. My feet stay warmer in flip flops because they sweat in socks & shoes. Wet feet become horribly cold.

Anyone else remember waiting for a school bus wearing a skirt and knee socks?

My obese father never owned a long sleeve shirt in his life.

Maybe she is a 'Snowbird' from North Dakota.

Rusty

If it gets below 65° here, people bundle up and put on their warmest clothes - unless they are tourists.

My brother lives in Florida. He told me that when there's a cold snap, you can tell when people moved down there by the era of their winter jacket.

My husband is rarely dressed in anything but shorts, even in very low temperatures. But he does wear shoes and socks. It’s 26 degrees and he’s out side filling the bird feeders. Our Lowcountry guests are bundled up a bit while they clean up after our oyster roast last night.

What bothered me, and I nearly took the guy's head off, was seeing a father (?) carrying a child with bare feet and just a diaper, while the "adult" was wearing a parka and long pants. If the child survives, that will be one tough kid!

HU, can't like your post. That would make me mad, what is wrong with people?

" That would make me mad, what is wrong with people? "

But things aren't always what they appear to be, especially with kids who like to pull off clothing regardless of what their parents want. I'll choose the more charitable reason until proven otherwise.

I remember pushing my daughter to the childminder through one of our rare snow falls. After about the 6th time she’d pulled off her shoes and socks I gave up. We arrived with her otherwise fully bundled up, but bare foot, having endured a lot of disapproving looks.

I think so many people have gotten used to quite warm winters that they no longer register real cold as something dangerous. I'm pretty sure that around here, many people no longer have warm winter clothing. I know that surely wasn't true when we were a zone 5A (instead of our current nearly zone 7), temps regularly went well below zero--30 below Christmas eve 1983, though that was exceptional-- with daytime temps that never got out of the low teens. School rarely closed, certainly not for cold temps, and they used to put chains on the school buses if it was snowing--steep, curvy mountain roads. Now schools close if it looks like it's going to be too cold--mid teens maybe?