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Post by david on Dec 28, 2017 21:25:39 GMT -5
Do you wear it? How often? Safe for daily use?  |
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Post by Village Idiot on Dec 28, 2017 21:29:37 GMT -5
Daily use? Heck no. Only when it's bitterly cold and I'm planning on being outside for a while. It's been a while, though, as my Carhart bibs and a warm coat seem to do the trick.
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Post by Doug on Dec 28, 2017 21:38:59 GMT -5
In the olden days when I was young and stupid enough to live places where it was needed. Daily much of the winter, all of the hunting and no it wasn't a fashion statement.
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Post by Tamarack on Dec 28, 2017 22:53:33 GMT -5
Definitely not a fashion statement. I wear thin polypropylene long underwear all winter, usually under jeans and flannel shirts or sweaters. We keep the house on the cool side (65-68) and the office can be chilly. Also appropriate for winter hiking.
When it's really cold (single digits and below zero) I have a set of expedition weight long underwear for working outside.
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Post by david on Dec 28, 2017 23:04:19 GMT -5
I have a gift certificate for Cabelas and plan to see what is available this weekend. My office has a cut-out window area right in front of the computer that I sit at most of the day and I am sedentary and leg cold. I only used to wear long handles for hunting trips. But now it is a matter of comfort. Otherwise I need to keep a space heater going, and that seems a waste of energy. Maybe I just need some of these:  |
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Post by Marty on Dec 28, 2017 23:24:39 GMT -5
I wear long thermal underwear all winter. Too expensive to keep the house above 65F and much smarter to dress warm and throw a lap blanket over yourself. I do have a heat pad on my office chair because that room doesn't get as much heat as the rest of the house and I spend a lot of non working hours in there, like now. The cats have been liking my lap a lot lately and if I get up one of them will take my chair the moment my butt is off it.
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Post by xyrn on Dec 28, 2017 23:29:53 GMT -5
I'm wearing a pair right meow.
It was 10°F today, and in the single digits last 3 days.
Pretty much if it's under 15°F as a projected high they're part of my on'sambl.
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Post by drlj on Dec 29, 2017 7:09:08 GMT -5
People in MN wear those red Union suits with the flap in the back from Sept until mid-May. Then they switch to their spring long Johns.
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Post by jdd2 on Dec 29, 2017 7:24:34 GMT -5
I have a gift certificate for Cabelas and plan to see what is available this weekend. My office has a cut-out window area right in front of the computer that I sit at most of the day and I am sedentary and leg cold. I only used to wear long handles for hunting trips. But now it is a matter of comfort. Otherwise I need to keep a space heater going, and that seems a waste of energy. Maybe I just need some of these: I think back in the 50s my great-uncle, rollie (his real name was rolland), said something about seeing that quick flash of skin--there it is, briefly, never in full, accentuated by the edges, being seen and then gone, between two articles of clothing... ...was what got you hot. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2017 7:48:48 GMT -5
I have two sets of those left from my Army days. If I know I'm going out into the cold for a long time, then I'll put them on.
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Post by millring on Dec 29, 2017 7:58:32 GMT -5
I wear them all winter long. I keep the shop cool and my boss's shop is her garage -- with a door that gets opened about 10 times a day.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2017 10:30:02 GMT -5
I'll wear them when it's very cold when going for a walk with the dog, for instance. Otherwise I'm a tough, thoroughly winterized Canadian. I do believe in snow tires, however. Oh and my Camry's heated seats. I wish they'd heat the steering wheel. I'd rather not drive in gloves, for some reason.
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Post by brucemacneill on Dec 29, 2017 10:48:01 GMT -5
When we went to Antarctica we were issued thermal underwear, 2 sets. We were allowed to change once a week when we got our weekly shower. Upon return to New Zealand we had to return all the Antarctic gear including the 2 sets of thermal underwear. I always wondered if they were going to reissue those to the next poor slob going South who happened to be my size.
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Post by Doug on Dec 29, 2017 11:17:34 GMT -5
When we went to Antarctica we were issued thermal underwear, 2 sets. We were allowed to change once a week when we got our weekly shower. Upon return to New Zealand we had to return all the Antarctic gear including the 2 sets of thermal underwear. I always wondered if they were going to reissue those to the next poor slob going South who happened to be my size. Your size?  In the Marines they came in one size, extra large if you were small and tiny if you were extra large. All the tall guys longjohns stopped at the knees and all the short guy had 2 ft extra in the leg. And they were itchy wool left over from WW2 they were the ones that should have been shipped to Korea in 51. |
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Post by coachdoc on Dec 29, 2017 11:27:14 GMT -5
One word, Cuddleduds.
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Post by paleo on Dec 29, 2017 11:32:54 GMT -5
Skied the past 3 days, highest temp was 6 degrees. Level 3 Under Armor is the thermal underwear I use, still need additional good cold weather gear, but it lets you enjoy the great outdoors even in the cold weather.
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Post by coachdoc on Dec 29, 2017 11:36:09 GMT -5
Skied the past 3 days, highest temp was 6 degrees. Level 3 Under Armor is the thermal underwear I use, still need additional good cold weather gear, but it lets you enjoy the great outdoors even in the cold weather. As the patrollers at Sunapee say, 'There is no such thing as too cold, only insufficient clothing.' |
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Post by Doug on Dec 29, 2017 13:03:35 GMT -5
Skied the past 3 days, highest temp was 6 degrees. Level 3 Under Armor is the thermal underwear I use, still need additional good cold weather gear, but it lets you enjoy the great outdoors even in the cold weather. As the patrollers at Sunapee say, 'There is no such thing as too cold, only insufficient clothing.' BS  If you own socks you live where it's too cold. |
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Post by Chesapeake on Dec 29, 2017 14:46:52 GMT -5
I wore Patagonia capilene long johns while on an extended reporting assignment in the Eastern Arctic years ago, and have kept them on hand for the kind of weather we're having in Maine right now. I'm getting reacquainted with them.
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Post by dradtke on Dec 29, 2017 14:52:53 GMT -5
I still have some from winter camping in the Boundary Waters. If it ever gets cold here I'll put them on.
Somewhere there's a picture of me skiing across a lake, pulling a pulk, with nothing on but long underwear bottoms.
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In the Marines they came in one size, extra large if you were small and tiny if you were extra large. All the tall guys longjohns stopped at the knees and all the short guy had 2 ft extra in the leg. And they were itchy wool left over from WW2 they were the ones that should have been shipped to Korea in 51. 
If you own socks you live where it's too cold. 
