Have you noticed...

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... people from lower socio - economic backgrounds always tend to wear coats on really hot days or all summer?

I keep noticing it and just cannot stop. They also seem to dress their children in warm clothing too. Think trousers, coats and boots when it's 20° outside.

Have a biscuit, SE status of your choosing.

Nope. Especially not skinny slightly sunburned underclass men with bare torsos and tracky bottoms tucked into socks. Balaclava and stolen motorcycle optional.

@brownbreadicecream Yummy. Do you wear a coat in the summer and that's why you're getting all defensive? 🤣 I'm very poor too, I need a light summer jacket but I can't afford one so it's coat or nothing. I choose nothing.

Schools out for summer 🙄
No
HTH

You sound like a treasure! 🙄
I’m rich and I wear my coat in the Summer….. so what!

I have loads of jackets but my wealth keeps me warm so I don't bother wearing them.

I feel the cold and every draught regardless of the outside temperature so I tend to wrap up all year round.

HTH.

🙄

So no one thinks wearing a winter coat in summer is a bit odd?

People with less money have fewer choices. It’s not rocket science.
We had school shoes we wore for everything, all year round - in sunshine or snow. The only other footwear we had was canvas pumps for PE, which got handed down between siblings. Dressing appropriately for the weather is a luxury.

@SpikeGilesSandwich 😂

If you need pockets, or you think it might get chilly later on, or it looks like it might rain, you’d probably pick out a nice lightweight jacket. Fine if it’s in your wardrobe already, but buying a nice lightweight jacket instead of food would be a bad choice when you could just wear the coat you already have.

It's definitely a thing. Particularly with teenagers. There's even a song about it. "Man's not hot"

Perhaps if people less money to spend on clothes they are less likely to have different weights of coat for different seasons.

Having said that, I have never noticed this.

Slow news day?

Of course they all do, it's towards the end of chapter 4 in the handbook.

DP is on lifelong medication, a side effect being that he is constantly cold.

HTH

Oh and for some of us 20-degrees isn't that warm anyway.

So no one thinks wearing a winter coat in summer is a bit odd

That wasn't the question you asked.

If you wanted answers to a certain question, why did you put a different question in your original post.

I presume I'm from a lower socio-economic background to you, given that I can't afford to be a full-time professional snob, but I wear shorts & a T-shirt on hot days.

When I was skint I had one coat.

That's why I wore it in the summer. Because I only had one.

Your point is?

Some of us have conditions that make us constantly cold.

And given the Great British weather, what on earth do you wear some days?

Can't say as I've noticed this but then again maybe my cosy money blanket prevents me from noticing.

No, I have not noticed anyone wearing a winter coat in the summer.

Are you sure it was not just the weather was just a bit changeable today? I went out in my bloody winter coat because it was cold and wet this morning. When I went out at lunch I didn't realise it was warmer until I was out! I did think I probably looked a bit odd but I'm finding it funny someone watching me go get my lunch in my coat might have been wondering about how much money I have 🤣

This was me yesterday! Went out in a waterproof jacket because it was raining. By lunchtime we had sun.