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MoM’s PersPective by Cheryl Pangborn It’s <strong>January</strong>, I’m in Georgia and I am cold. Truthfully, I’ve been cold since the end of October. One of the things I was most looking forward to about the move here was not sweating 362 days out of the year. I can also profess to have been, in my estimation, completely ready for this weather fashionably speaking. For the last 20 years of my life, I have shopped for this. I have hats, scarves, sweaters, jackets, and most importantly, boots. Knee length boots, ankle boots, high-heeled boots, fuzzy boots, and riding boots. I think you get the picture. Even as I was getting ready to move during the hellish summer months of 2016, I was scavenging clearance racks for any winter wear I could get my hands on. In mid-October, we started to get cooler mornings but by midday, it was in the 80s. Am I wearing sweaters, shorts, jeans, or tank tops? Help me! My reasons for coveting the cold are twofold. First, you know, the sweating profusely thing but also, I want to wear my boots all day every day. The good news is I didn’t need to panic for long because eventually, we had a cold day and then that was the start of it. It was cold pretty much all day every day. I have never lived in a place that is consistently cold. Additionally, I have not had a day where I didn’t feel like the recipient of boot shaming by others. It really is not practical to wear boots all day in Florida. You can get away with this maybe for an evening, but when it’s 90 degrees at noon 36 you’re feet are craving a flirty wedge sandal. I do notice that my family seems a bit more bundled up, like we are visiting the Alaskan Tundra as opposed to a state only six hours from South Florida. The Low Country folk seem content in jeans and a T-shirt, some even in shorts, while I’m swathed in fleece and wool and denim resembling a fashion forward Eskimo. The issue I have here is that while I’m all about the footwear I am not a jeans person. I rarely wore jeans in Florida and in Georgia everyone wears them. I am, however, a huge fan of tights. That’s another item of clothing I would try to wear in Florida that always was an epic fail because tights in the Sunshine State offers nothing more than the possibility that they will act like those hot pants for slimming your thighs. So, I am attempting to use the tights/skirts here in Georgia but in 45-degree weather it’s rather impractical for a Florida girl. I love the look, and normally I am willing to sacrifice comfort for fashion, but shivering like I’m experiencing some type of freaky entire body muscle spasm might be scary to people. The cold weather most definitely takes a little getting used to. Waking up in the morning when it’s just frigid outside does not promote family efficiency. Just working up the guts to make it to the bathroom is a challenge. When we had our first few days of cold weather, we wanted to fling all the doors and windows open like we did in Florida. If it dropped below 80 in Parkland, the A/C went off and the JANUARY <strong>2017</strong> windows were open. You have to regulate this a little more closely here in Georgia because the house can get really cold. Unbearably cold in fact. I actually caught my husband Steve wearing my red fleece oversized Victoria Secret nightshirt because “he doesn’t like the cold!” (do I hear the waaambulance?) He is actually saying to me at night “So, where is my nightshirt?” It’s scaring me but in all fairness, I have no limits to what I’ll wear privately or in public if it keeps me warm. Sweatshirt and jeans, yes, I’m that girl now. I never really understood the point of the puffy vest. Your arms don’t get the benefit of the fleecy, puffy material so what good it is? I bought one mostly to look good but am amazed at the warmth it provides. I guess it keeps your core warm thus warming the rest of you? Whatever, it’s really cute and I’m warm. Trust me, I am not complaining about this weather. It’s refreshing and invigorating. Like many things of late, I am on a crash course in Georgia 101 figuring out how to dress, where to go, what to do. I know that this part of the Low Country also gets some very warm, sticky, buggy, wet weather so I plan to enjoy this cold spell for as long as I can. I have every intention of wearing my boots for as long as is socially acceptable here in Savannah even if I have to pair them with shorts in a few months. So, all I can say for now is happy winter to me! P
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