I get cold really easily. Over the past year, I've given up fashion for comfort and have decided to do whatever I need to in order to avoid feeling the chill of winter. I have a really ugly white hat made out of some unnatural hybrid of fur and fleece. Since I have uber-short hair, the hat covers my whole head and I look like a potato. But do I care? Nope. Because I am nice and toasty. And, hopefully, noone will recognize me under all that furleece. Yes, I just made up that word.
But the real secret of dealing with the brutal cold of boston is thermal underwear. Lots and lots of layers. Remember when we were kids (those of you who grew up in the colder climates at least) and we would wear thermal (pronounced "THURRRR-mul", accent on the rolling r, in a desi household)? I am talking the old school, waffle-type thermal. In colors like awful yellow. For girls, they had flowers on them. For boys ... well, I don't know. But I'm guessing He-Man certainly made an appearance.
They don't make waffle type thermal for adults. At least I haven't come across it recently. I have an old pair from many years ago that I have been wearing regularly since the weather turned icy. The headache of rewearing one day, doing the inside-out trick the next, and then finally succumbing and doing laundry was getting on my nerves though. So this past weekend, I grabbed my family and went on a multi-store hunt for some thermal underwear.
Results? No cheap waffle like thermal underwear for adults anywhere. We checked Target, Wal Mart, Marshalls AND Costco. Um, hello? I think there is a market for this stuff! Target did indeed carry Cuddl Duds. These are fancy schmany silky feel long underwear. And not so cheap. $20 per set. I bought some, and have been wearing them daily. I'm so warm! I love it. But I don't love the fact that I still would much rather prefer some cheap cotton waffle thermal. With pictures of She-Ra carrying lots of flowers.
I can't believe I wrote an entire post about thermal. I'm sorry readers.
3 comments:
I discovered this company,Lady Morgan, when I lived in Chicago and endured freezing, artic-like winds during the winter, finding it necessary to wear longjohn thermals (as they were deemed affectionately in my household growing up). They are the only company I know of that makes adult waffle cotton underwear.
btw, i think the cuddl duds ones are cuter though...but if you have some serious old-school nostalgia for the waffle cottons ones, this is the site that carries the company's line.
http://www.essentialapparel.com/jump.jsp?itemType=CATEGORY&itemID=447
longjohns! these days i wear sweatpants under jeans (i am one of the few people who own sweatpants that aren't uber baggy) and no one can even tell. if anything they fill out my legs :-P
Thanks for the link! Actually I must admit since wearing the cuddl duds I've become a big fan. They are really comfy and I feel like I'm from Victorian times. Because for some reason I think that ladies in Victorian times wore silky long underwear. And E - sweatpants under jeans? Nice. Women could never do that, since our jeans are basically painted on our bodies.
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