I am a layering type of gal. I hate heavy coats. I have a few turtleneck thermals and one turtleneck crop sleeveless that also serves for face protection. I live in leggings most mornings and love this thermal ski dress (USA-made) but need to order the long jacket from Cordova, Alaska where they make them. I even layer socks with one being knee-high. I think that jacket (5th layer in full layering) would be perfect just to put over the leggings and dress and cover below the butt for out and about in cool weather, but for the coldest, my old USA-made loose-fitting jeans over the leggings (with full coverage thermal sports undies as base) are very warm and with my thermal stretch form fitting hoodie jacket (4th layer) over the dress (3rd layer) and my long crop mock neck bra as the 1st layer with a stretch thin but thermal turtle neck as the 2nd layer, I can take negative temps if I thermal ski cap over the thermal hoodie and use thermal ski gloves. Mitts work best in the severe cold as they keep your fingers together sharing warmth. Sometimes I use a thermal scarf that I wrap around my face loosely with only my sunglasses showing.
my husband and i have Levi parkas...we layer first..add face toboggan with flip mouth and nose cover...then...that parka...lightweight...big nice zipper...hooded...breaks the wind
Girls I knew wore snow pants under their skirts that were removed upon arrival and hung with the coats.
Yeah, we had to wear skirts during school, even in 1st grade. I think, like Don said, we could wear snow pants underneath to get there and go home, but had to take them off as soon as we got to school. How silly.
One of the many things I don't miss about living in a wintry state is the problem of what to do with all the outerwear when you get to where you're going. You sit down in your seat at the theater and now you have to figure what to do with your coat, extra sweater, hat, muffler, gloves. Your feet are sweating in your boots. You get to the mall and have to carry all that around. Don't miss it....at all.
I don't miss the old rubber boots that you had to pull on over your shoes. Snow is nice the first day, but when it finally melted it left a gray soupy mess all over for days. You don't really need boots, but by the time you walk to where you're going the backs of your legs have gray splotches of mud all over. You have to go to the restroom and wipe them all off. ( Well, you don't have to, but it wouldn't be ladylike if you didn't. ) I don't miss that at all.
My grade school was the same way. I think I had to wear a dress until my Junior year in high school before the school changed the rules so girls could wear jeans. I think our skirts and dresses were getting too short and the admin was tired of calling parents, and sending girls home to change into dresses that were a more appropriate length.
Actually, the opposite is true. Ideally, the oil should be warmed up before putting a load on the engine. But it's not going to make any measurable difference for us lowly peeps. That's why race car drivers fully warm the engine before pounding on it.
When I first learned to drive, we learned that cars should be warmed up before they were driven in cold weather, whenever possible, and I have always assumed that to be true. In recent years, I have heard that this wasn't the case but I am not sure whether it's actually not true or whether the experts simply want us to sacrifice the longevity of our cars in order to avoid using excess fuel for reasons of global warming. When I had a car with an external starter, I would warm it up first, for comfort if for no other reason, but if I have to walk out in the cold to start it, my tendency is to do so when I'm ready to go.
I can start my car remotely with my key fob or with the app on my phone. Also, it has heated seats and a heated steering wheel, so I'm good to go on a cold day.
In our first winter in Michigan, we had a car with a broken defroster and no heat. We couldn't afford to get it fixed. I'd drive to and from work with a scarf wrapped around my lower face to lessen the amount of moisture I'd put into the air, steering with one hand and scraping the inside of the windshield with the other. It wasn't a fun winter.
I remember wearing jeans for school when we had a very cold snowy winter. The teachers turned a blind eye so more girls started wearing jeans too. I don't like big heavy coats so I wear padded jackets, scarf, sometimes a baseball cap or woolly hat, long socks, ankle boots or trainers, and if it's really cold I tuck my t-shirt into my trousers to keep the heat in.