🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞 Living in the Midwest (in the US), I give your sister mad props for filming for over an hour in that cold of weather. I will say that I’m glad it didn’t get to negative temperatures (in Fahrenheit) if the translations are accurate, because wearing modern clothing and standing for even more than five minutes outside can feel brutal. But even if there was a mistranslation or something like that, it doesn’t really matter to me because cold weather is cold weather, no matter how you explain it.
as someone who knits and crochets as a major pursuit... wool is lovely and warm. also, hikers and the like have a saying: "cotton kills". cotton leaches away body heat when wet, whereas wool can keep conserving heat when wet, and also is more water-resistant; very good, when snow is concerned.
I'd love to see the inverse of this. I live in the South (US) where its like 90-100F and humid af. I'm dying in shorts and a tshirt. I wonder how women didn't just pass out from the heat down here in the summers! Winters are fine, basic jeans and a jacket (short sleeves under) is about all I wear.
Not forgetting one gets acclimatized by their environment, of course. You probably handle cold better than me, a southerner French, and I probably handle dry hot temperatures better than you do.
Wait... -1 and -2 celsius where COLD back then? Or like average? Heh... Eh heh! (lives in a country where the temperature at winter can be -30 celsius. -15 at a good day.)
Wool rules! I've been a knitter and lived wool before I started working in archaeology, but since then knitting with wool was not only for fun anymore. While we can't work when it's been freezing for days without thawing because of the frozen ground, we often work when it's low freezing degrees or around the freezing point. And when you're outside for a whole workday, that's cold enough, so you need to put on many layers. In winter, I wear wool-blended underwear including the long-johns (my grandma would be so happy if she lived to see this) under skiing trousers, a cashmere jumper, a woollen cardigan and skiing jacket. Then I'm also wearing 3 pairs of woollen hand-knit socks of different yarn thickness, the thinnest of them inside. I also hand-knitted woollen pants or knickers. Yes I did. Because I think my bum deserves to be well protected against the cold, I don't care about anything else. And the knickers do their job just fine. I would never underestimate wool, especially not when it comes to socks. Wool comes with the benefit of keeping you warm even when it gets damp, while fleece makes you sweaty once you get a bit warmer and then it gets very uncomfortable.
The combination of stockings is hilarious. I think I will try that on my next snowshoeing day. Three layers instead of two. Also the advice to keep your head and ears covered is helpful. Thanks for posting this, it was very interesting. 🦞
>raise wages >cap prices on essentials (food, water, shelter, electricity, internet, etc) >give money to animal ag farmers, not corporations >remove antiwool/silk propaganda from the world >warm, hardy, lasting clothing becomes more affordable >less people die in winter, AND we get to wear actually warm coats and underwear in older styles without having to save up!!!!
I don't know if it's fashionable or not but I assume women used to wear shawls over their heads, like Pavlovo-Posad's shawls. They are made out of wool, and to be honest, I still wear them when it's -15C.
"I put the petticoat under my bum pad because..." "and I then put my bam pad on purely for..." "over the bumper-had went my regular..." I've never been so entertained by a closed captioning translation. The reason I enlisted the help of subtitles has no relation to your pronunciation of English - which is quite lovely - but my own idiosyncratic need to catch every single word. I'm a blast to watch movies with, one never tires of sitting through 3 plays of every scene. P.S. Your thumbnail image is glorious; I'd enlarge it and frame it and put it on my wall because the expression on your face makes me laugh every time I see it. But a grown-ass woman blowing up the photo of another grown-ass woman who is a random stranger online? It raises questions. It could even be the rough sketch for a Lifetime movie that may or may not involve a resentful blow-up doll and the restraining order that failed to stop her.
Mountain climber here and back in the day those climbing to the heights of the highest peaks climbers would wear silk next to the skin then a wool layer and then another layer of silk then wool and so on till it was warm enough
It makes me so happy to see you appreciate and recognize the benefits of wool; I am an avid knitter and I work at a yarn shop (I was actually working on a sweater while watching this!) and the properties of different textiles are something that I’m really passionate about. It was so cool to hear you talk a bit about it!
