Courtesy of CNN, copied right from the screen:
Dress in loose layersThat’s television as a PowerPoint slide, a slide that whose last eight words seem suitable for an audience five or six or seven years old. And on MSNBC yesterday, a reporter standing in the cold advised viewers to Be Prepared. Which meant — I’m not making it up — a coat, a hat, and gloves or mittens.
Wear a hat
Cover most of your body
Fresca’s blog today shows shows many cold-weather battlers wearing plaid. I find in these photographs strong support for my belief that plaid really is warmer. My revised CNN slide:
Dress in loose layers of plaidOr better yet, stay inside if you can, also in plaid.
Wear a hat of plaid
Cover most of your body in plaid
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A passage from Proust with plaid
Phil Silvers in plaid
As our temperatures were forecast to sink below -20, I couldn't find a scarf and so had to resort to wearing the scardigan, which has the added benefit of meeting the plaid recommendation.
ReplyDeleteThat’s pretty stylin’. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy new year, even with the snow! We Canadians are pretty tough, eh. But I still got a chuckle out of this Onion story:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theonion.com/video/snowy-conditions-proving-hazardous-for-nations-idi,18705/
Remember, pace yourself with the shovelling.
Happy New Year to you, Julia, and thanks for the link. The line between real media and The Onion gets thinner.
ReplyDeleteI did pace myself, with time out for cocoa and a change of clothes. Total shoveling time: less than an hour and a half.