People who live in cold climates

[baratron]

Can you tell me how you dress in the winter?

I'm trying to work out what sort of clothes I need for this Canadian trip, and I'm confused about what to wear when it's -10 degrees C outside and 20 degrees C inside. See, I'd generally assume that when it's -10 degrees, you want to wear thermal baselayers - but I wouldn't want to wear thermal underwear indoors. So I'm trying to figure out what order you put the layers on in.

Also, sitting in a wheelchair, I get colder than people who are walking around. But I'm loathe to get one of those wheelchair-user leg-cosy things in case I need to stand up for some reason.

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[pir.livejournal.com]

Thirding the silks comment. When I'm wandering around in those temperature ranges I put long silks (originally bought for riding motorbikes in cold weather) on under my trousers. It keeps me warm outside yet doesn't overheat me inside.

I usually layer enough and have a warm jacket that I don't usually put the silk top on, generally short-sleeve t-shirt, long sleeve t-shirt, hoodie and jacket is enough for me. With layers I can drop down as many as I need if it's particularly warm inside somewhere.

Living in cold weather I started wearing a fleece neck warmer rather than a scarf since they don't fall off, don't have an end to create a gap unless you carefully wrap them and don't have end bits to get in the way of the jacket being in the right place to prevent heat loss.

Gloves are varied as well, I have very different gloves I will wear in -2 weather to -10 weather. Gloves intended for skiing, etc, can be good for that.

If it's getting to nearer -20 outside then I need over-trousers (in my case usually my lightweight snowboarding trousers) as well and will wear the silk top half too. Jacket hood up over my hat if it's windy.