Adults who don't dress properly for winter

[Bearpawk]

Driving me mad.
I work in an office where must people have a commute or a decent walk to get to work . I'd say about 90% can't dress themselves properly.
Young woman next to me ankle trainer socks. Midriff showing. Pissing and moaning about being cold. It's 1 degree outside and it's December.
It's raining and they come in wearing canvas shoes and a fluffy coat. No umbrella or waterproofs. Then expect to have the heating on full whack all day to dry their coats and shoes out.
In a training room all day where the lead trainer (middle aged, old enough to know better) insisted on having the heating cranked up all day because she's wearing a thin acrylic jumper and got cold to the bones on the way to work and can't warm up.
Everyone without exception has access to the weather forecast via their phones. It shouldn't be a shock when it's raining or cold. Yet they dress like it's May, all year round.
They earn decent money and aren't hard up so it's not a financial issue (maybe with some of the VERY junior/ young ones fair enough )

AIBU to fed up of people moaning about being cold or wet but making zero attempt to dress appropriately for the weather ?

I am in my miď 30s, am a lone parent to two kids, money is so tight I don't have a summer wardrobe/winter wardrobe I just have clothes and by the time I've finished kitting my kids out for winter, there's no money to kit myself out. I perhaps don't go to work dressed like I should for winter, but that's not a fashion choice

Well the inability to dress appropriately for British weather is the equivalent of the whole country ‘s inability to cope with a little snow or freezing cold. Trains stop, points freeze, schools close and we build on flood plains.
And we complain with high cost of electric heating bills

I think if you have a long top and trousers then you addressed for winter . I focus winter dressing for outside as absolutely hate layers on me . My thought is , that’s why I have heated homes and work places etc , so I do t feel like a stuffed pillow all day . If I’m home I may wet a hoodie or similar but outside I cannot wear comfortable enough clothes so focus on proper boots and good winter coats . If I enter the car or home , shop etc I can remove it straight away

22c is just about ok , not warm !!

I think younger people don't understand, I had a job working in a wear house, so no heating. Well we did have a little space heater, but that warmed your ankles up but not much else.
I wore, tights under my jeans, t-shirt, long sleeve top and a jumper. With fingerless gloves, as we had to use or hands.
We where taking some other people on, for the Christmas time. A girl came for an interview, in her 20's when she came for her interview, she looked more like she was off clubbing, I heard my boss ask her, how are you with the cold? As the day she came, it was pretty mild.
She didn't get the job, which was good as she would have moaned about the cold all the time.
It was funny in the spring, when the lates came off, my boss said I had lost weight, I just said I had wasn't wearing a load of clothes anymore. 😂

I taught art /Dt.

My hands were always too cold in freezing classrooms to do demonstrations. Trying to show how to draw a complex object and my hand was too cold to hold the pencil.

Despite being togged out in thermals, jumpers etc.

British children are told to dress impractically the entire time they are at school - dress shoes and blazers are not suitable attire for the six months of winter we have here. That doesn't help.

Also most UK buildings - whether workplaces or social venues like pubs, restaurants, theatres etc - don't have cloakrooms so if you do wear weatherproof stuff you have nowhere to put it when you get to where you're going.

@Maireas

when you go to a restaurant you don’t want to sit eating dinner in a coat though do you ?

Maybe not actual cloakrooms,but most offices have somewhere to hang your coat even if it is just a coat stand. Plenty of restaurants do too.

There's no such thing as common sense.

If you grow up feeling cold, you don't even think about it. It can take a long time to unlearn things from childhood.

If you never had wool, how would you know it is warmer than acrylic?

22 is high - average is 20, recommended is 18-21.

Cloak rooms or even a coat stand in the corner seem to have disappeared from restaurants during Covid.

8-10 years ago every restaurant and pub would either hang up your coat or have plenty of hooks but only very posh ones do these days - and some of them still don’t!

Google would be an excellent start.

Google would be an excellent start.

If you're just used to acrylic as the norm, you wouldn't really think to look this up though. I only learned about wool jumpers by chance. I had no idea that the jumpers I grew up wearing were "acrylic", I called them "wool" just the same as any other jumper. I didn't read labels as didn't need to. As for merino? Had no clue what that was until my mid 20s.

22c is just about ok , not warm !!

To you. This just proves that nobody will be happy no matter what temperature it is. For some, it will be too warm, for some it will be too cold. I have a friend who has her heating on in the high 20s! She says that's fine and nice, I'd be sweaty and feeling sick in that, but she'd say my place is "Baltic".

Teenage Ds is struggling with dressing for weather -now gets a bus to college and they can have long waits.

He says if he takes a coat he has to carry it round all day and says even with layering up its hard - underlayers can be to much in heated buildings even stripping off top layers. I was like well since I started secondary I had to carry instrument, PE kit all my books and a coat and blazer if allowed off around - you have bags and checked everything is in them and you have them all before leaving as know you'll be in hot building and stood outside in all weathers waiting so have to plan.

It is harder when you get wet - and it's really hard to find long water proof coats these days - but change of clothes ect is a possibility - DH bikes part of the way so summer need changed of clothes due to heat and winter despite appropriate clothes can still get wet - in very wet part of country.

I think people are so used to cars - going from cars to indoors dressing for weather is less a thing - but our DC have grown up with public transport so you'd expect them to be more aware but apparently still have some lessons to learn the hard way. Wool not an option for him - it's a trigger for eczema -but he's learning art of layering and even DH is starting to favour natural fibers now but can be hard to find in modern clothes.

Sadly true. It serves no purpose.

A lot of the private schools do it better. Proper summer and winter uniforms, and some save uniforms for formal occasions only and during a normal school day the pupils are allowed to wear uniform branded jogging pants and sweatshirts in the winter, shorts in the summer.

YANBU. I really feel the cold but I wear appropriate clothes ie long sleeved thermal, jumper, trousers, boots so that my feebleness doesn't affect my colleagues. I envy people who don't feel the cold. My partner is completely opposite to me and wears shorts to work all year round (London cabbie). We have to compromise indoors - me in my three layers and him in shirts an t shirt of an evening. I used to have the heating on overnight before I met him but now I don't - I wear pjs. At least it's saving money!

well I'm 35 and i don't even own a coat! Hate the way they look so would at most wear a thick jumper (although I drive to work so if i had to walk I would prob wear two jumpers and then want the heating on to dry it). I also don't think 22 is super hot. At home the heating is at 20 as a min.

What do you wear in the rain? A jumper would be horrible if it was wet....?

If you don't own a coat and drive to work don't you think you should get some fresh air and daylight a bit more often? Do you never go out in the rain and cold?

i dont go out in the rain - but id still have a jumper on if i had to with an umbrella !

im happy to not go out in the rain and cold is just more layers of jumpers/scarfs. I dont think anyone goes out in that if they dont have to!

Are you in the UK? It's barely stopped raining this year!