The layers advice is sound. The sneakers advice is bogus: Forget sneakers. Your footwear must be WATERPROOF.
On Jan 9, 2:05 am, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sure this is a dumb question. In my defense, while I was born in > Ann Arbor, I have lived almost all of my life in California. My wife > is from Hawaii. > > I am taking my family to DC for the inauguration. We don't have > tickets, so we will be standing in the mall with a million other > people, probably for many hours. We have been told to wear long > underwear and gloves. I mean, we have been told: "Seriously, I'm not > kidding. You must wear long underwear and gloves". OK. We have worn > those before, on the 5 or 6 times we took the kids skiing in Tahoe. I > think I know what long underwear is. But do they really mean gloves > like what we used to go skiing? The ones I had were kind of bulky, and > I don't look forward to having to use them all day (and I don't want > to look like an idiot, dressed for the arctic unnecessarily). On > amazon I see 5 or 10 different kinds of gloves. I kind of like these > classy looking leather driving ones - but maybe they are not really > meant for cold/rain? I don't see anything that says "perfect for cold > ass winter weather in an urban environment". > > While I am at it - what kind of shoes should we wear? I almost always > wear sneakers. When we go skiing I wear big old clodhoppers - but I > find those rather uncomfortable. Would it be stupid to walk around in > the cold or snow in sneakers, or will those work fine if I have heavy > socks? > > One more thing: How does intelligent human life manage to survive in > climates where it gets so cold that you actually have to think twice > about the kind of clothes you are going to wear? People are telling me > that if we make the wrong clothing choices we could die; I think that > is God's way of suggesting that people don't belong there. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
