Are girls today hardy or foolhardy?

I think it is a personal thing. I suffered from Febrile convulsions as a child & I still have a heat problem. Never noticed hot flushes at menopause as I'd always had them. I never sleep with even a stitch of clothing on & usually under a very light cover. My younger son is the same. 3 of my GC never feel cold & the other 3 do.
I have a friend who does not even HAVE a coat & another who wears long sleeves all summer.
It's not an age thing I don't think- it is just hw you are made.
Mind you I hate drafts!

Not just girls I have noticed men in there mid 30-40 in shorts t shirts. It's really cold out now the weather keeps going into different temperatures. Don't remember when I was young being allowed to go out in shorts and t's

My DH is one of the postmen who is in shorts all year long. It started as a bet, "Who can wear shorts the longest?" but he found that if it rained his legs dried quicker than his trousers would have. He won the bet - 11 years and counting.

I really don't think that young people feel the cold. The number of times DH and I used to drive through the city centre in the early hours of the morning in the winter after visiting friends on the other side of the city, to see youngsters coming out of nightclubs, wearing next to nothing and certainly not anything as uncool as a coat! We came back from France on a coach once when the heating had broken down and there was ice forming on the inside of the windows, it was so cold. We came through Chesterfield very late at night to see lads walking about in teeshirts for all the world as if it was the middle of summer!! I think our GS is going to be one of those - he never seems to feel the cold.

I live near the university in Aberdeen. I see students going about in the coldest and rainy weather wearing thin flimsy shoes and not at all dressed to cope with the cold weather here. I think they are so used to being in a car at home they dont have clothes to wear in the cold when they are walking or travelling in buses .

I remember wearing mini skirt and sling backs in the snow!
What makes me feel queasy is seeing (usually large) men who walk about bare chested at the merest hint of sun.

My dd is at Aberdeen uni, Nipsmum but she isn't one of the semi-naked ones. She always wraps up warm as we used to live in the tropics and she is never too hot here!

As a child, we always knew when it was summer because my dad would discard his knitted pullover. He still had his long-johns, vest, shirt and jacket on, though. You don't want to be taking chances when you live on the Kentish coast.

Granny2016 I think that you have hit the nail on the head. It is an image thing.
I was just the same in the late 60's/ early 70's.
I had no confidence. I felt ugly and awkward in myself as a teenager, so when I wore an outfit that made me feel even remotely pretty, I wanted to show it off regardless of the weather, so a coat was a no-no.
And yes, I was often freezing, but it was worth it, or so I thought at the time.
Attitudes change though as we get older don't they!
These days, I do a fair bit of hiking with my lovely Chums. The first thing that I think of clothes wise, is a Thermal vest and Thermal long johns. Lovely and cosy

I didn't feel the cold when I was young. As a student in Yorks I would go home in the snow after a night out in a v short thin dress with a short, thin leather coat on top, thin tights, stilettos, no scarf, no gloves, no hat. And certainly no layers under the dress.

They say you know you are properly grown up when you wrap up warm without your mother telling you to.

I know I am turning into an old fartette now since unless there's actually a heatwave, I always take a nice warm, cosy cover-up absolutely everywhere.

My DMil used to that when she was young her pride kept her warm so it's not just a modern phenomenon as her heydays were back the early 1940s!

Actually, you can see young girls in their Ugg boots (and the cheap imitations that look awful when they pronate in them) all through the year even on the hottest days. They'll put up with any discomfort in the name of fashion. My feet would be throbbing in fur lined boots in summer!

We get sunshine so very rarely I think some take every advantage when it does come out. Although we are not quite at the vest top and flip flops stage for our hunks out there, thank god. I use the word hunk very loosely. Yuk

Some girls are hardy; some are foolhardy. Twas ever thus and ever will be.

I am English but live in Australia. There are variable differences in heat and cold as this is a big country. I live near the Qld border which is subtropical. Our summers are hot so young people walk around practically naked. In winter (a relatively mild one compared to England) they still walk around practically naked but with ugg boots on and a scarf. Quite hilarious. I do wear warmer clothes myself as I feel the cold but when the southerners come up here in droves for the warmth they wear their summer clothes so I feel a bit overdressed!! I don't care - I'm old so I can do as wish!