Outdoors

[Alison]

It feels pretty cold up here in NY just now.
I guess, I think, that's the way it will stay all day?

I'm running out to do an Outdoor Event today. 
It feels cold, but the weather report says it will be going up to 60 degrees.

So what to wear?
Sometimes I try the layering approach - I feel like I'm stuffed, like a beggar trying to get some warmth.
Today I'm going to try one long-sleeved shirt with a winter jacket.

What do you guys do to handle this?

[MandiIlene]

generally for 9 months out of the year, I can't wear too little clothes, it is HOT!

and even though it may be 50 degrees outside here this winter, there is still the chance that it will get hot quick, specially when I am working.

When it gets cold I usually do a short sleeve t shirt, covered by a zipped hooded sweatshirt with jeans. When it gets hot, I just take off the sweatshirt, if its really cold I wear two shirts, one long sleeve and one short.

~*~Mandi~*~

[Alison]

Aw, I guess you can't relate
to when your fingers get so cold
that they just won't work.
S
ti
iif
jerky movements -
As tho it doesn't bother me -

But I do know the too hot thing too.
When your supplies seem to be melting
(especially bad for the balloons)
and the heat is putting you to sleep
and you'd better remember your sunscreen......

I have ways of approaching both extremes
(as well as wind) - and I wonder if anybody
else has any fool-proof methods.
The layering thing is so important for the changes
we experience throughout the day.

Your description of putting the t-shirt UNDER
the sweatshirt got me to thinking.  Because I need
both a tshirt AND a long sleeved shirt under a sweatshirt
under a jacket.  And there have been times that
I peel down to the bottom shirt - That's the Long-Sleeved
shirt for me.  I had been layering the tshirt OVER the long-sleeved
shirt - because the extra hidden shirt makes me look fatter.
But there have been times when I wished I could be in the
Short-sleeved shirt only. 

Vanity - be gone!  Nothing looks better than being Comfortable.

[MandiIlene]

Comfort all the way, thats why I dont do the clown thing, I can't imagine!
~*~Mandi~*~

[Alison]

Oh yeah - the last time I was outdoors, I was wearing a Starter Jacket.
I was real happy to be wearing it - because I painted it at the end of last year
when I wished my raggy-willing-to-wear-while-painting jacket looked better.
And now it looked soooo unique - front and back.  Came out great.

But it sort of took up too much space.  I needed more room between my chair and my little table because of the baggy sleeves of my jacket.  And Park Security came by and said that I was taking up too much space - they made me condense Everything closer together even though nobody else was there.  Comfortable jacket - I don't know if it's down - but it's 'fluffy'.

[Sherry]

Park security would be all over me.  I always take too much stuff to gigs.  I guess I'm a tackle tart!     It seems when I try to pair down, then one of the things I left, I was wishing I had.

It doesn't get cold enough here to layer too much.  It has started getting cooler at night, so yesterday I wore a t-shirt and shorts during the hot day and brought along some jeans to change into when it got colder, plus a jacket.  I did change into the jeans, but ended up not needing the jacket.  Aaahh, the life of Florida.  I feel lucky now, but didn't feel too lucky a few weeks ago when it was oppressive heat.

[Party Picassos Facepainting]

Since I am from the Windy City, I know cold too. Once I did an professional soccer game and all of us vendors were in an area with nothing to block the wind. It was rainy, windy and freezing! My fingers were red and stiff and the customers certainly thought the make up was cold going on that night!