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adrian_turtle) wrote2005-12-13 11:05 pm
adrian_turtle) wrote2005-12-13 11:05 pm
notes on getting dressed
I usually read while getting dressed and ready to go. This morning, I was reading _The Blue Place_. (I know the order is wrong. I can't know how I'd feel if I read them the other way around, but that hovering sense of what was going to happen worked beautifully for me.) I was getting dressed to go out in 20F weather, reading that cool and vivid description of a sensible person putting fear (mostly) to one side and fighting hypothermia. I was paying attention to the book, not to my clothes. I didn't make a point of picking out all blue clothes between my skin and my parka.
I didn't even make a point of picking out the warmest clothes I could find. That would be silly. It's only the middle of December, only 20F. But midweight thermal underwear (of which I have one blue set) is really a lot warmer than the lightweight stuff in other colors. And this blue sweater is amazingly warm. I could wear it instead of a coat in October or November, but of course sensible people don't wear coat-type-things they can't get on or off without removing their glasses. I have a blue shirt that I look at critically almost every time I fold it after drying, thinking, "This is so nearly worn out, I shouldn't wear it any time I want to look respectable. I'll just save it for messing around in, or doing stuff that's likely to damage clothes." It doesn't help that I damage more clothes at work than anywhere else. I'm afraid I'm going to keep wearing this blue tatter to work until I throw it away, or cut the sleeves off, or do something similarly drastic.
Furthermore, the snow sneakers arrived from LL Bean. They're easy to put on. They run wide. They're pleasantly warm. The true test of boots is whether they're waterproof in slush, and I'm just as glad not to know about that just yet.
I didn't even make a point of picking out the warmest clothes I could find. That would be silly. It's only the middle of December, only 20F. But midweight thermal underwear (of which I have one blue set) is really a lot warmer than the lightweight stuff in other colors. And this blue sweater is amazingly warm. I could wear it instead of a coat in October or November, but of course sensible people don't wear coat-type-things they can't get on or off without removing their glasses. I have a blue shirt that I look at critically almost every time I fold it after drying, thinking, "This is so nearly worn out, I shouldn't wear it any time I want to look respectable. I'll just save it for messing around in, or doing stuff that's likely to damage clothes." It doesn't help that I damage more clothes at work than anywhere else. I'm afraid I'm going to keep wearing this blue tatter to work until I throw it away, or cut the sleeves off, or do something similarly drastic.
Furthermore, the snow sneakers arrived from LL Bean. They're easy to put on. They run wide. They're pleasantly warm. The true test of boots is whether they're waterproof in slush, and I'm just as glad not to know about that just yet.