Are girls today hardy or foolhardy?

Same here, and the blokes too.
I was wearing my duvet coat.

I think the young do not feel the cold, certainly not as much as I do nowadays. Although I have fond memories of walking to the disco with friends on a chilly November night all of us only wearing dresses. Taking a coat was too much faffing about. I have seen several men wearing shorts all through summer and not all of them postmen. I have only just washed and put away my duvet coat ready for next winter, yesterday I was thinking that was too soon, biting wind!

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They don't feel the cold , all the kids that go to Academy up the road from us go to school in either shirtsleeves or sweatshirts all through the Winter I rarely see them with coats on even when its chucking it down. They no longer have lockers or cloakrooms in schools so if they take a coat they have to lug it around school all day long. Maybe these young men and women got in the habit in high school and the habit lingers.

It's not just youngsters either, I've seen some 40-somethings out and about without a coat (and sometimes wearing short sleeved tops) at the first hint of sun, even though the wind-chill factor makes it feel freezing to me! Still in me thermals and will be for the foreseeable...

And the postmen in shorts even in winter.

There are a couple that live locally that we often see walking in the village, always holding hands. She seems to be usually wearing a hat, gloves and scarf, whilst he is ALWAYS in shorts, even when (a few winters back) we had a fair few inches of snow. Very odd!

I have been hot today, wearing T-shirt and cut-off jeans. I rarely feel the cold, sleep with just a sheet covering me, and Chillow cooling pads in the bed, all year round, and I am way past the menopause!

I've only been out one in just T-shirt I haven't worn a coat all winter as far as I can remember.
It's usually a long sleeved top and jacket or waterproof. I don't walk around town as there is nothing there ! So it's out the car into indoor shopping or the supermarket.
I too remember the walk home from the disco in just a dress nd quiet often carrying my shoes

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Most people are prepared to freeze for fashion, but I think you're right, the older one gets the more one feels the cold.

I used to know a man (not young by any means) who wore shorts all year round. And they were SHORT shorts, you had to avert your gaze when talking to him or you were likely to see rather more of him than you wanted to!

I remember walking to a New Year's Eve dance in the 60's when the snow had stopped all the traffic. My friend and I wore our nice dance dresses under lots of woollies and a winter coat. We carried our shoes and wore fur boots. The idea of leaving coats and boots in a cloakroom seems to have been forgotten, so girls just don't wear them.

I think they genuinely don't feel the cold because they're not shivering or looking as if they're uncomfortable. It makes me feel quite old to see them in short sleeves when I'm all huddled up in a quilted jacket.

On the same subject I remember wearing my new purple faux fur coat all summer, even on the beach because I felt the bees knees in it.

Funny how fashion regulates out body temperatures for us, I rarely wore a coat in the cold because I could only afford a nice dress until the purple peril came my way.

I'm in Newcastle and girls here ignore any weather, even in thick snow they are to be seen parading around the town in skimpy clothing. They are definitely hardy and some are foolhardy. Personally I'm in thick jumpers and big coat but then I'm just an oldie!

I personally think there should be a law against weather presenters wearing sleeveless, thin tops and dresses (albeit in their nice warm studio) when it's freezing outside and their talking about frost and snow. I shout at the tele - IT'S COLD - GET SOME CLOTHES ON!

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I once heard a jumper described as "something your Granny makes you put on when she feels cold". I guess that sums it up.

I don't think the young feel the cold; my son (now 37) would walk the long road to school with his blazer flapping open in icy wind with just a thin cotton shirt to cover his chest. Daughter was just the same; she insisted upon a very stylish but thin 'winter' coat as anything warmer didn't seem to fit the fashion bill at all. She now, aged forty two, has an array of duvet coats, lined macs and beautiful fur lined suede boots so yes, I think as we get older we get colder!

They are just young and image conscious.
At college in the late 60,s I would go out on a misty Friday night in a flimsy mini dress and not feel cold.Today I am working in jeans and long sleeved top with a good thermal layer INDOORS.
I am always concerned though to see very thin young girls as I wonder if they may have bone problems later.

It hardens them up to go down the Bigg market on a Friday night, in case they ever live in Newcastle

Some people genuinely don't feel the cold. There is a mature (70+yrs) gentleman who shops at our local supermarket and summer and winter, wears hiking boots, thick socks and shorts. His concession to freezing weather and snow is to wear a bobble hat. I also remember when I was a teenager, going out with a cheesecloth shirt rolled up and tied around my upper midriff and my grandmother saying something about catching a chill in my kidneys...did I care?...not one bit! It was all about image and appearance. Vanity vanity

It will come back to bite them when they get a bit older. My sister is a lot younger than me and she used to do the going out in just a slip and no stockings, now it is pay back time.
Mention to any Geordie or Wearsider The Bigg Market and they know instantly what you are talking about. I am surprised that there are not deaths from hypothermia.

Hubby and I watch the rugby league, which is supposed to be a summer game, although the season starts in February. We regularly see a young man on the terraces in shorts and a t-shirt. One Sunday afternoon one of the young women had to take her little boy home, he was so cold that he was crying. But there stood this young man in shirts, t-shirt and sleeveless body warmer. Hubby says maybe the "beer jacket" keeps him warm!