https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Mon, 25 May 2026 14:53:12 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1910047 Wed, 18 Apr 2018 05:08:19 +0000 Gigi 1910047@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am generally the coldest person in the room. I hate ceiling fans and the like. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1909609 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 22:55:16 +0000 Anonymous 1909609@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Always cold. Hate AC with passion </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1909568 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:40:29 +0000 Janet 1909568@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You know, I’m not so sure anymore. Maybe I’m running more average. I used to run cold when I was younger, and then warm flashes made me feel like I was running warmer than normal. But my days of warm flashes seem to be waning (not complaining!). </p> <p>Humidity (prevalent in my home climate) generally seems to exaggerate temperature feel to me — hot and humid feels more uncomfortable than hot and dry. Cold and damp feels more chilling than cold and dry. But here’s something weird: I get goosebumps with big temperature changes, even if I’m going from normal to hot — I get goosebumps getting into a hot car all the time! I didn’t know this was weird until I had friends notice and remark on it. </p> <p>These days I like it much cooler at night for sleeping than I used to. I’ve gotten rid of all heavy and flannel pj’s. Our thermostat is at 63 at night in the cold months, and my husband complains sometimes that I keep the house too cold for him (I prefer it around 68-70 and put on a sweater if I feel cold). </p> <p>In the summer, however, I don’t like overly air conditioned places and I end up keeping our thermostat around 75 or even a little higher, just enough to run the AC to take the humidity out of the house. </p> <p>I have Reynaud’s too, so I will get numb fingertips even in 60 degree weather sometimes, especially after a run or bike ride if I don’t get inside and warm quickly. But the rest of my body can feel fine. </p> <p>I’m generally happier in cooler temps than warm — my philosophy is that you can always put on more layers to warm up, whereas once you’re down to shorts and a tee, you really can’t take anything more off to cool down without getting arrested. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1909560 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:28:11 +0000 cindysmith 1909560@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My temperature threshold varies throughout the year. In winter, I'm freezing if its below 55. In spring, anything below 75 might warrant a sweater. In summer, I try not to wear shorts until its 100F, and I'm a meat popsicle if its below 78 </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1909513 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 18:00:55 +0000 tulle 1909513@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I guess I run exaggerated!&nbsp; Like Kerlyn, I have a pretty narrow comfort zone--say 65 to 75 degrees F.&nbsp; When it's colder than that my shoulders hunch up and my neck and ankles feel drafty.&nbsp; That feeling is easily dealt with by adding woolen socks, a sweater, and a scarf, even indoors.&nbsp; Summers are much more uncomfortable for me, because one can only remove so much clothing in public.&nbsp; Temps in the high 80s &amp; 90s, with humidity to match, is my idea of misery.&nbsp; The tropics hold no allure for me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1909416 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:48:58 +0000 Mac 1909416@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I run Hot. I always have. It’s a real style challenge to look good in summer, when I tend to be, no joke, soaking wet unless I’m in AC or directly beneath a fan. I find humidity particularly tough. Since I’m sensitive to sun, I’m always looking for loathing that can protect my fair skin, but not show heavy perspiration and keep me relatively cool: no easy feat! Most July and August, I just cower indoors... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1845312 Sat, 16 Sep 2017 01:27:41 +0000 K.M. 1845312@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>Marina</b>, you are from São Paulo? That's my hometown! But I haven't lived there in a long time (I'm in the US). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1845201 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 16:35:59 +0000 Scarlet 1845201@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I used to run cold, but now May-September is my unhappy time. I like winter. Can't wait for that first morning when the air turns crisp. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1845160 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:19:39 +0000 Christina F. 1845160@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>In addition to <b>Marina</b>'s fun facts, I also know that most a/c calculations for cooling offices were created in the 1960's, when offices were mostly men, who run warmer, and wore full suits. Since the calculations haven't changed, it helps explain why women in offices (many of whom aren't in suits these days) freeze. </p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1845085 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 03:59:50 +0000 Ginger 1845085@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you, Marina! The Houston area sounds very similar, and yes, hotter. I'm further north, away from the ocean, so not quite as humid... which means it gets hotter. It was 99F today! That said, humidity was 28% at that point. But it's not desert here; it's humid enough to make both the heat and cold extra intense, and dry enough to allow huge daily/yearly temperature swings. At 10 PM it was still 87F with 50% humidity. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1845077 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 03:22:55 +0000 Marina 1845077@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Don't feel bad, Ginger &nbsp; In São Paulo we have 33C/91F with 70% or more relative humidity in summer and 33C/91F with 12% relative humidity in winter. I can handle using a tunic or even a shirt and pants in dry 33C, but using more than a light sleeveless dress or tank top and shorts in this sort of temperature in moist conditions is some sort of masochism (I believe Texas is even hotter than this).&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1845073 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 03:00:28 +0000 Ginger 1845073@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you, too, Marina! I confess I've felt guilty for wanting my shorts or my sleeveless dresses in the 100F heat... but this is Texas, and Texas is never a dry heat. Now I don't feel bad. ;)</p> <p><b>shiny</b>, I also get very sleepy in chilly temperatures, particularly in meetings and classes. I start yawning my head off and simply can't stop. I feel like I'm going into hibernation.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1845068 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 02:37:59 +0000 elpgal 1845068@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Marina, those are great points. I always cover up in dry heat to feel cooler. I just don't get the tank tops and shorts when the sun is beating down upon you.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1845066 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 02:31:38 +0000 Marina 1845066@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>ahahah. This conversation is making me very happy! (nerd meteorologist)</p> <p>A few nerd notes, if anyone is interested in random curiosities:</p> <p>- One of the reasons some people feel so hot or so cold is metabolism. Some people produce more heat than others. And when it comes to women, higher levels of estrogen indirectly lead to lower metabolic rates (that is one of the reasons women usually feel colder than men). Some women feel colder as they age because they used to have a higher metabolism and with age, it drops. Other women never had&nbsp;so much of a metabolic heat production due to higher levels of estrogen, so they feel hotter after menopause as estrogen production decreases (and have hot flashes during the transition). Or so I read (I'm not a physician).</p> <p>- Translating Celsius and Fahrenheit degrees feel odd because these two scales have an odd relationship. Fahr. = Celsius *9/5 - 32. We can't just multiply by some factor like we do with other conversions, like&nbsp;inches and centimeters. I personally find Celsius more intuitive since freezing point = 0C/32F and boiling point =100C/212F, but I'm sure Fahrenheit had a very good reason to choose such weird numbers. </p> <p>- It actually does make sense covering up in dry hot weather and not covering in hot moist weather. Covering in a light layer&nbsp;won't make you feel a lot hotter in dry conditions than not covering (and it will protect you from potential dehydration). Covering in moist conditions is like wearing a personal sauna. Think about desert nomads in 40C Saara and South American Indigenous&nbsp;people in 40C Amazon. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1845053 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:38:12 +0000 shiny 1845053@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>LOL,&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="https://youlookfab.com/member/delurked/">delurked</a>, I totally agree! Glad the hot flashes are over. </p> <p>I've said this before on the forum, but the hubby has anemia so he runs cold. During 10+ years of peri-menopause I ran hot and flashy. Very often in the winter at night I'd have the window open AND the bedside "hotflash" fan running AND be sleeping in barely nothing, no sheets... while the hubby was in his flannels, a hoodie, thick socks, robe, and cocoon-rolled in a down comforter plus bedspread....which is basically how he sleeps year round, even if the AC is off and it's 80 degrees and humid...&nbsp;</p> <p>Now that things seem to be winding up in the menopausal department, I still like it colder at night, but not quite that cold. Something about lower temps seems to help me fall asleep faster. And now I no longer wake up with the sheets drenched, my face and chest beet red, needing to run outside into the snow to cool off.&nbsp;</p> <p>Is it just me but do colder temps make you sleepy? They make me sleepy. If I'm in a hotel room and I can't fall asleep, I just turn down the thermostat (while putting on warm socks and curling up in the comforter) and once it hits 68-70 range I fall asleep easily. </p> <p>I've sat through a few meetings in chilly offices/hotel rooms this past summer, with thermostat set at 68, and last summer I'd have been fine in short sleeve dress / bare legs/ sandals. This year, I'm not only freezing cold, but I am very very sleepy... it's like my brain freezes.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/3#post-1845051 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:25:44 +0000 rachylou 1845051@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lol, Lisap and smittie! I have become famous in every place I've ever worked for my wearing of The Puffy... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/2#post-1845042 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:52:12 +0000 Anonymous 1845042@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I had fun reading all your comments.<br /> Some people are very wimpy, I must say ;-)</p> <p>Kathleen: My office recently put the kabosh on space heaters and mini fridges. Guess who had the space heaters and guess who had the mini fridges!</p> <p>Rachy and Lisa p: Puffers and Beenies don't come out until it's at least 32F (0C) and even that temperature those things are a bit overkill. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/2#post-1845023 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:31:02 +0000 Anonymous 1845023@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rachy - if you wore a puffy , beanie and sweater in Manitoba when it was 18C (like today for example) , let's just say you'd be given a wide berth on the street &nbsp;I'm in a sleeveless top and barefeet here in my office. &nbsp;The house is comfortably chilly at 20C - neither ac nor heat is on - which will make for a perfect sleep with a window cracked a bit &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/2#post-1845013 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 22:02:36 +0000 SummerB 1845013@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Living LA I've grown accustomed to warmer weather, I think below 75F is when things start to get chilly haha. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/2#post-1845004 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 21:12:19 +0000 Elle 1845004@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I run hot so my husband and son are constantly closing windows and turning up the heat. &nbsp;On the other hand, anything over 80 makes me horribly uncomfortable and I could barely tolerate Angie's description of what she wears in 100 degree heat.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/2#post-1845003 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 21:09:44 +0000 Carla 1845003@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cold. My family teases that I'm the only person who works in the garden when it is 30degC and wears a hoodie! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/2#post-1844998 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:55:36 +0000 rachylou 1844998@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh and also, breezes matter. I don't like the feel of a breeze unless it is very hot, 90+. So 68, humid, but breezy is a yuck. Lol. But the other night, in our weird breezeless humid heat wave... I did the night walk in a sweater! It was exciting and my puffy was sad, hehe. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/2#post-1844940 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:50:28 +0000 Anonymous 1844940@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What&nbsp;<b>Sterling&nbsp;</b>said.<br />Though I did once work with a guy who kept the thermostat at 60 degrees (said thermostat was unfortunately located in his office.) &nbsp;That was not pleasant. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/2#post-1844929 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:12:46 +0000 delurked 1844929@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sorry, must say the only people welcoming hot flashes are the ones not having them. I will happily send you the tingling sensations that run up my neck as well.</p> <p>Suz - your supposed summer are my winters. I could have worn it then, but decided I had other items I would prefer wearing instead. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/2#post-1844919 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:43:01 +0000 Kathleen 1844919@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I sit above a refrigerated warehouse at work even though I work in IT so I have a little space heater in my office year round.&nbsp; I dread having to walk through the warehouse as it's kept below 40F even when it's 90F outside.&nbsp; I think I naturally run cold but maybe a little more so since I started working here. At home, I like to keep the temp a nice steady 74F. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/2#post-1844912 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:18:56 +0000 Angie 1844912@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>Sterling</b>, this post confuses me too. It's not aligned with what many Fabbers have been saying for years, and what they wear.</p> <p>High fiving,<b> Suz, Dianna&nbsp;</b>and <b>Ginger</b>.&nbsp;</p> <p><b>Jane</b>, I also cover up in the heat. I'm&nbsp;always covered, it seems. Greg mentioned that recently...</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/2#post-1844910 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:18:17 +0000 Angie 1844910@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I will welcome hot flashes.&nbsp;</p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/2#post-1844883 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:08:18 +0000 Ginger 1844883@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Suz, I would absolutely wear a sweater on days that did not get above 18/20C. It doesn't sound strange to me at all. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/2#post-1844877 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:02:09 +0000 Christina F. 1844877@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think my personal comfort range is very narrow. Or so my husband says! I think I run cold, but I also have trouble with heat if it's humid or there is no air circulation. All things equal, I'd take a hot day over a cold one, though. Oddly enough, except when I'm very cold, I hate to wear socks, especially in bed, because my feet feel too WARM. I guess my body has different temperature zones! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/i-run-cold---what-about-you/page/2#post-1844872 Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:22:45 +0000 Suz 1844872@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>delurked -- yes -- it's funny, right? But that has to do with our different climates more than our personal comfort range, I suspect. Because we basically did not have a "summer" this year -- we had cool wet weather the entire time with only a few hot days. By cool I mean many supposed summer days were 18 or 20 (about 65F) with a cooler north breeze...so those are the days I was wearing the sweater. It would never be warm enough for our -20 winter days (-4F) unless layered over a much warmer piece!&nbsp; </p>