what to wear when it's cold?
Do you?
Hi ladies, it's Erin and
Today I wanna share with you some outfits
for the snowy, cold weather.
This is real weather.
We're not talking a mild day
in Texas that's Texas cold,
we're talking about real cold,
like when it drops down below zero
or or there's a wind chill
or there's a lot of snow,
there's a lot of ice,
severe winter weather
would be more like it.
Which really is half of the country
and I know some of you are from Canada,
which is most of Canada.
(laughs)
And then if you're on
the East coast of Canada,
I know you've got the
humidity mixed in there
so it even feels colder,
in your bones cold.
I understand what that cold is like
because I grew up in the North East,
I grew up in Watertown, New York
which is right on the border of Canada.
So it was very cold and snowy growing up.
Now we live in Telluride, Colorado
it is still very cold
but it is a drier cold,
so there's no humidity in the air
and it does feel a bit warmer here.
Today I wanna share three outfits
that you can wear for real cold weather.
These are all looks that
I think are very stylish
in addition to being highly functional
for that snowy cold weather.
So it's a very strategic combination
and I have seen others
bloggers and YouTubers
put cold weather outfits together
but until you really intensely understand
what that cold is like,
I feel like it's impossible
to really do it right.
Before I dive in to the three outfits,
I kinda wanna tell you what not to do.
It's not meant to sleight
anybody who does this,
it's just meant to say
here are some of the things
you probably see on Instagram or YouTube,
but they are not things
that I would recommend
for real cold weather.
So if it's a 40º or 50º day
and it's a little bit snowy,
there's a little snow on the
ground, there's no wind chill,
you could do these things,
but for intense weather I don't
think they're appropriate.
So the first thing I
wanted to share with you
is rain boots as snow boots.
So I see this a lot on Instagram
where people will wear those
super cute Hunter boots
and scrunched up Ugg socks
or scrunched up wool socks
and it looks adorable,
but it is not practical
for severe winter weather.
The rain boots may keep you kind of dry,
but they don't do anything to
protect you in terms of warmth
and then even when you add the
socks underneath the boots,
it still does not do enough
to keep your feet warm.
I know this because I've tried it.
I actually did a blog post about it,
you guys can check that
out if you want to.
But that's an example of what not to do.
Another one would be to
wear just ear warmers
instead of a full hat.
You lose so much heat from your head,
especially the top of your head,
that you are losing an
opportunity to stay warm
when you do ear warmers.
If you just want to do ear warmers
and then wear a hat over
it, that's totally fine.
If it doesn't look too goofy
and you can pull that off, great.
Or, I mean wear your head
warmers over your hat.
That can sometimes look really cute
and that certainly is functional and fine
and will definitely keep you warm.
But the head or the ear
warmers just on their own,
ear muffs, that's what they're called.
I'm like, ear warmers,
what are they called?
There's a word for 'em, ear muffs!
Yes, I got it!
Those on their own are not enough.
So that's sort of what not to do.
I'm gonna get into what to do.
(upbeat music)
The first outfit I wanna
show you is something
that I wore recently on a trip to Poland
and it was ridiculously cold there.
I mean, super duper cold.
It was definitely below zero,
there was definitely a wind chill
or maybe it was in the teens,
but the wind chill made
it feel like even colder
and it was also very damp,
so it was in your bones cold.
So here's what I do, here's my combination
for everyday when you need extreme warmth.
The combination is a base layer,
the base layer can be
either a dry wick shirt,
thermal shirt, something
with a wool in it.
A wool blend is typically
the best and the warmest,
but you could also just go with a dry wick
active-wear shirt (mumbles)
as long as it's long-sleeved
and I would go with either a
crew neck or a turtle neck,
whatever your preference is.
But you want that
long-sleeved, very fitted,
either wool blend or dry wick
or both, base-layer shirt.
Same with pants.
If you can pull it off
under your pants, do that.
If you can't pull that
off under your pants,
you could always try just tights.
Tights can work under pants,
that's what I used to use back in the day.
But what you're gonna do is make sure
that you have a really good base layer.
It should be a wool blend,
it should be breathable,
it should keep you dry,
so it should have some sort
of dry wicking technology
in the fabric, so that's key.
The second layer that you're going to use,
and I know it's going to be tempting
to try and throw on your
chunkiest, coziest warmest sweater,
that's not what you should do.
What you should do is wear a sweater
that's very fitted to the body
and in a fine fabric, like cashmere.
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