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 ?

It is if it means the heating has to too high! We're facing a climate emergency. People need to wise up.

Ynbu
It's one thing to not dress appropriately for the weather, but another to expect everyone to be uncomfortable cos you want the heating whacked up to dry off and warm up.

It's thoughtless, be young and silly but don't expect everyone else to pander to your lack of thought.

Admittedly, I'm older and always feeling hot and bothered these days so wouldn't cope with the heating on all day, maybe short bursts but not all day. It would do my head in OP.

Good coat, three pairs of warm trousers ( only wash if actively dirty) three long sleeved pref thermal t shirts ( ditto), three thick, unpatterned sweaters (these need washing max twice a week) . All in colours which go with each . One pair wellies, one pair boots, one pair solid winter shoes/ trainers. Job done.

I know you'll say " but what about looking GOOD"? To which the short answer is " men don't care if they wear the same thing days on end, why should we?"

I feel like a lot of people have two modes. Either they look like they're going on an Arctic expedition when it really isn't that cold or they're wearing too little and not weather appropriate. I feel like my bf goes from just hoodie into a full on thick winter coat. I'm from a cold country with a very unpredictable weather and mine and my (gb) bfs clothing selection is very different.

What really baffles me about my office is in winter it's heated to volcanic temperatures so if you cycle in like me you have to wear about 1000 layers then take them off and store them all day (but yes I do want my office to dry my coat out, waterproof or not it's still unpleasant putting on a damp coat).

Then in summer it's so heavily chilled by the air conditioning that you have to take a vest and jumper to put on when you get there. It's totally absurd.

If you are in London, you can't wear thermals, the Tube is boiling!

My house is around 14!! I wfh and never have hearing on. M&S thermals, layers, fleeces (mountain warehouse, 16.99). There really is no excuse for not being able to dress yourself warm.

Not really. I never had any wool jumpers so I just assumed what I had was normal. I now have cashmere jumpers and am warm at last, but I didn't know it would make such a difference until my 40s.

I don’t understand shorts wearing in this country in the winter months. I don’t understand bare feet in sliders either. But if that’s what they want, none of my business. I would be annoyed if they were insisting of turning up the heating.

Where do you work? You can’t wear woolly jumpers and long sleeve thermal t shirts in many professional workplaces. Equally I don’t want to wear work trousers on rainy winter dog walks.

22 degrees sounds right to me. I’m at home in thermal vest, jumper, 2 pairs knee length thermal socks, cords and a blanket. I’m still cold at 22 degrees.

I don’t get this, I walk to work and arrive boiling hot from the exercise, whatever the weather. The people who drive in have the office like a sauna

Our office is a rather balmy 25 degrees. I don’t dress warmly for work as then I’d be sweaty. Am perfectly capable of layering up for a sub zero dog walk. I suppose it makes more sense to
be cold for 10 minutes twice a day which is how long the car takes to warm up than be too hot for 9 hours.

@Naptrappedmummy

if @Wahtnow is warm enough, it's warm enough clothing!

@FuckinghellthatsUnbelievable I feel for you, the thought of an office being 25 degrees makes me feel physically sick. Ours was 22 today and I sloped off early to wfh with a headache.

I'd say about 90% can't dress themselves properly.

Sooooo patronising. Who made you the judge of ‘properly’? Today I wore trainers with ankle socks (so inappropriate according to you 😄) and no coat and was perfectly fine tyvm. I hate coming in from the cold to a warm room and thus overheating. So I choose not to wrap up. Literally no one else’s business 😄

This was me when I used to walk to walk in a previous job! And same now when I'm walking my toddler to groups and things. I tend to walk fast when I'm on my own (toddler is in buggy). I wear loads for the cold and then have to start removing things and am roasting by the time I arrive!!

Now I get the bus to work and am much colder (very little walking at either end)!

sod looking professional! I’ve dropped that particular rope due to constant sub zero bloody temperatures. I wear a full on fleece and I dare anyone to question it!

I don’t wear jumpers, gloves or socks because of sensory issues, but I am not averse to a non-woolly waterproof coat and I don’t care about looking stylish.

@Mum2jenny

17° is too cold if you work in an office. Isn't the legal minimum 18°??

Why would you need to rotate them? Surely a decent coat and boots will easily last 5 years of daily wear. Merino underwear only needs washing every week or so and you can get it in Aldi. A decent coat could also be from Aldi. Good boots are expensive fair enough

And smug

Underwear needs washing more than that!

When I started work in the 80s I’d be wearing a jumper over a blouse over a t shirt. And a coat over all that &or commuting. I agree with op. I find it equally irritating when people are wearing skimpy summer clothing at the first hint of warmth in the early spring sunshine.

It's also partly a cultural thing.
Where I live on the continent children the vast majority of children attend preschool (3-6).

Here as well as playing and other activities they learn how to dress themselves. They do how to tuck vests into pants games and they talk about what clothes to wear for what season. It's quite amusing really because they go into detail.

Knowing how to keep warm/cool and wearing appropriate footwear is seen as general knowledge so much so that nobody would ever think of wearing an open toed shoe or a sandal past mid September. The very idea of bare legs in the winter is unthinkable😆