AIBU to be baffled by thick hoodies and woolie hats in 34C heat?

[Kloh]

Don’t get how people can wear thick hoodies and woolie hats in 34c heat

Had an outpatient appointment yesterday. Went on the bus as parking is a nightmare. The bus wasn’t air conditioned. Dripping with just wearing shorts and t-shirt.

On the bus going home around 6 people from teens to 70s wearing hoodies, coats, beanies.

Even a lady in front of me turned round and said “how can they wear that in this heat?” Wearing a sundress

If they were all on the same place there’s always the chance they came from the same place.

Regardless of weather you’ll always see people with coats, hats and gloves at the bus stop nearest a warehouse place on the edge of where I live. It’s ice cold inside, even when it’s roasting outside.

Shifts finish on the hour and the buses are at 4 minutes past so folks always get on the buses still layered up. Depending on the bus some get rid of layers but the aircon on the new buses is fierce so often they don’t.

I have seen someone wearing a North Face parka and a wooly hat. A young woman. She did look.a bit vulnerable so maybe is a bit of a MH issue.

Also seen a mum and a boy where boy was wearing a padded jacket. No idea why.

To add: seen a few young ladies in long sleeves, head scarves and long clothes dripping with sweat walking with fans.

I saw someone earlier walking over the road who was wearing what looked like a thick velvet hoodie, hood up, thick jeans, I thought wow I hope that person is okay. I wear the last amount of clothes possible over 25°, I’m red hot. If I could go out wearing nothing I would!! 30° here today and the wind is HOT. don’t know how anyone does it.

It's all us projecting - when I'm hot, I feel more hot looking at people wrapped up more than me.
I'll be wearing gloves and 2 pairs of socks way before anyone else because of my bad circulation and I feel extreme cold when I see a baby in the dead of winter without them , because they can't tell you they're cold, so I assume they must be 🫣.

I almost crashed the car yesterday seeing someone walking down the street in a coat! I can only assume they were ill.
I was slightly jealous though I would LOVE to feel cold seems like forever since I was last a bit chilly

Ass said some people don't seem to have a winter and a summer wardrobe.
Clothes are always seasonal in the shops too
Go in the shops now you'll see Autumn clothes starting to come in
I think some people have completely missed it. They don't know how to dress for the hot weather.

Yes I agree to an extent.

I lived in the Canaries for many years late teens onwards.

In “winter” me and my friend were wearing jeans or leggings, t shirt and coat. For us at 15-18° it could feel chilly of an evening.

But this heat - 30°+ climatisation to being use to hotter temps doesn’t really work!

I understand people experiencing temperatures differently but surely not to the point of wanting electric blankets and fires when it is so hot outside the government had issued a warning there is significant danger to life and health from the heat - as was the case for a good part of England and Wales yesterday.

Also surely the people who want to cover up parts of their body they are unhappy about/ashamed of would wear long, loose cotton clothes. Today I am wearing an ankle length skirt but it is light coloured and a cool linen/cotton blend.

NB not ashamed of my legs I just love a maxi skirt.

There are a lot of first generation South Asian immigrants living around here and their internal thermostat is definitely set differently from the Brits!

I can trump this, everyone in our little NE town today was in summer stuff, whether shorts t shirts light shirts and trousers etc. Except for one guy who'd gone full bohemian country squire. Cords,trendy shirt, tweed waistcoat and jacket. And a felt trilby. And pocket watch.His female companion looked cool in a casual linen dress and straw hat. He just looked hot. But not in a good way.

Therapy can’t cure the sensitivity issues caused by autism.

I use to do this to cover scarring now I'm older I don't care what others think of me but it was a real issue when I was younger

Shoplifters? People I know who work in retail noticed that shoplifters don’t change their clothing to shorts and t-shirt when it’s hot. Wear clothing that makes them shoplift and conceal their booty.

I've seen a couple of people wearing thick fleeces in 34 degrees. I'm practically melting wearing a light dress,so how they can wear a fleece is beyond me!

Were you in a rough area? Seems to be a current roadman fad - two tracky bottoms, a puffa jacket, beanie and face covering in a 40 degree heatwave.

I agree! I think this covers the majority of them, groups of teenagers/young men in all in black with their little pouch cross body bags full of drug paraphernalia!

It may depend on circumstances that you can’t see. So I do this but I work in an office with freezing air con and it can’t be temp adjusted. So I get cold. So I wore a woolly cardigan yesterday.
I then leave work and go to the hospital for an ongoing medical procedure which I know which will make me freezing. So need the woolly.
but you might only have seen me between the two.
i know I’d look odd for that 1 hour out of my 16 hours out of the house