Feminising The Male Wardrobe

[Mr. X]

10 hours ago, mlroseplant said:

 Here in Iowa, we missed most of the snow, and it looks like we have about 24 more hours of this super cold stuff, then we return back to a blistering 20º (-7º C) for highs for a few days. It's going to feel like a heat wave!

Here, up north in Canada, we have been beyond cold! Overnight, it has been any where from -30 C to -40 C with the windchill. And it ain't stopping till we hit February. So another week of this cold for us.

[CrushedVamp]

4 hours ago, pebblesf said:

I am a member of the anitque outboard club as well, aomci.org.  I am from the east coast so not many old outboards left out here.  Have often dreamed of roaming through boathouses/barns on midwest lake houses though!   My swap meet went well yesterday, many more attended that I had figured...  I could only hang out outside for about five or ten minutes at a time before having to go back inside for a bit, but my legs were not frozen!  I am wearing my leggings again today for pushing the darn snow, love wearing my gloss black Hunter refined tall boots over my levis though, great for snow removal chores.    

Do you remember the name of the guy who was president of the local AOMCI chapter?  

So true.  

It is easy to confuse where people are from on a forum but you are thinking of another member of this forum who is from the Midwest. Like you I am from the East Coast as well faithfully watching the waves of the ocean crash into shore endlessly as I write this. But living on an island, there are lots of fisherman so lots of old skiffs and old antique outboards sitting in barns.

Sadly, I do not remember the man’s name. I never was good with names anyway and this was back in 1995, so 31 years ago. He was probably 50 back then and may be departed now. I know he had a bout with cancer, was devoted to church, and loved to carve wood. I sold him a whole truckload of Basswood for the endeavor back then. That is about as much as I remember…

3 hours ago, Mr. X said:

Here, up north in Canada, we have been beyond cold! Overnight, it has been any where from -30 C to -40 C with the windchill. And it ain't stopping till we hit February. So another week of this cold for us.

I said in a previous post that “it typically warms up to snow”, and that might seem odd but it is so true. A lot of times it will be cold, but for a snowstorm jump from 5 degrees to thirty when the storm blows in. Not on this one, it is 2 degrees with a gale blowing and heavy bouts of snow. We are in for a long, hard blow tonight. I hope the power holds out, but we are pretty good in that regard. The wind blows so hard, so often out here that the power company has got the system hardened against wind.

I remember one New Years night it was about -20 degrees (f) and blowing 20 mph and the ex-wife and I were out to a dance hall. She was wearing high heels and not something she was used too. Her feet hurt in them and so she took them off, and as we went to go home, she walked from the venue to the car, in -20 degree weather, in a plowed but snowy parking lot in just her pantyhose covered feet. I thought that was pretty tough! I know everyone on this forum would have been wearing their high heels. Was it ever cold that year!

 

[Cali]

I split my baby toe while at university in the early 70's and it snowed. Snow was rare there, but I couldn't put my foot into a shoe, so had to go barefoot for about two weeks. At least the cold kept the swelling down.  Moral of the story, stiletto spikes can split bones.  Also, never tickle anyone when they have stilettos and you are barefooted.

[CrushedVamp]

3 hours ago, Cali said:

I split my baby toe while at university in the early 70's and it snowed. Snow was rare there, but I couldn't put my foot into a shoe, so had to go barefoot for about two weeks. At least the cold kept the swelling down.  Moral of the story, stiletto spikes can split bones.  Also, never tickle anyone when they have stilettos and you are barefooted.

I will try and keep that in mind.

By the way, fun fact here: did you know it is impossible to tickle yourself?

Leggings work really well for me because I am strange in that if my legs are warm, I can tolerate a lot of cold elsewhere. To some degree, not so much my feet as that can be another weak spot, but people are often surprised how little I wear on my top half. Like I almost never wear a jacket instead just wearing a sweatshirt over a T-shirt, and I am fine down to 0 degrees (F). But this is because other people don’t know my legs are protected by leggings, I look like I am wearing just jeans and a sweatshirt, but in reality, my legs are really warm so I’m fine.

It is why I never saw the purpose of a vest. ‘It warms your core’, they say, but for me it would serve no purpose except paying for a garment that is half-useful with its sleeves lobbed off.

I am surprised that someone has not come up with reflective leggings or a base layer as a way to retain more heat though. I use radiant barrier underneath all my floors; it is basically tin foil on both sides of bubble wrap. It is only a quarter inch thick (6 mm) but retains 95% of heat by breaking the reflective heat loss. I use it as insoles on my boots to keep my feet warmer in the winter. Sadly, it has an R-factor of only 1, but that is a misnomer because of the way the R-factor calculation does not account for various factors of heat loss. (Kind of like how horsepower is a poor way of calculating true power of something). I would think having a reflective base layer would retain even more body heat making a person warmer with no extra weight or bulk being added?

[Cali]

They have, its called a mylar blanket.