# Men: Do you have seasonal clothes? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062 "2012-10-17T20:39:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Phila444](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba8739/32.png) [@Phila444](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phila444)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/21 "2012-10-17T21:53:39Z")
My closet basically stays the same year-round. There’s long-sleeved shirts in there, but they only get worn if it’s cold enough to wear them ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/22 "2012-10-17T22:04:49Z")
> [@polar\_bear](#): > > Yes, I do. But only the ‘top half’. I have polo shirts and the like, that I only wear in spring/summer and I have sweaters that I only wear in the autumn and winter. I usually have one moment a season where I switch and then I just make due. Once I have switched, I rarely go back if there happens to be an unexpected warm/cold spell. I think this also applies to most of the men I know, including my dad and brother. They own sweaters n stuff, but seem to wear the same pants regardless of the weather. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/23 "2012-10-17T22:14:18Z")
Of course. You can’t wear corduroy in the summer or linen in the fall/winter. Short sleeve polos in light summery colors get replaced with sweaters in deeper colors. I have a lot of dress shirts that are white with stripes or checks etc. that I’ll wear year round, but I have others in deeper or muted colors that don’t look right in the spring and summer. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/24 "2012-10-17T23:33:00Z")
I think I have a pair of jeans somewhere if the weather gets below 65, haven’t used them for a while though. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/25 "2012-10-17T23:56:29Z")
To back up the rest of this thread\*, I have clothes that I wear in the summer because they’re cool and clothes I wear in the winter because they’re warm. I have no clothes that I only wear in a particular season for any sort of fashion-related reason. - Though I actually read the part where the OP said that coats, hats, and such were not part of this discussion. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/26 "2012-10-18T00:07:24Z")
It really makes no sense to wear golf shirts in the winter or sweaters in the summer. I also have summer and winter hats and shoes. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/27 "2012-10-18T00:40:34Z")
Yup. During the winter I wear a grey hoodie over my T-shirt. That’s about it, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/28 "2012-10-18T01:01:02Z")
For work, short sleeve shirts and Dockers in the summer. Long sleeve shirts and Dockers in the winter. On the weekend, jeans and whatever shirt suits the climate. Shorts only for mowing the lawn or working in the garden - I hate shorts, I don’t have enough clothes to need to rotate any. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/29 "2012-10-18T01:04:07Z")
Winter: long underwear. Summer: shorts. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/30 "2012-10-18T01:56:19Z")
Definitely. Summer-only wardrobe has polo shirts and shorts; winter-only wardrobe has sweaters, sweatshirts, turtlenecks, and long underwear (mostly for when shoveling snow). Plus, totally different sets of clothes for running outside in the summer (shorts, short-sleeved tech shirts) versus winter (sweatpants, tights, long-sleeved tech shirts, sweatshirts, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/31 "2012-10-18T02:02:51Z")
At work, I wear jeans and long-sleeve shirts all year round, but the winter shirts are heavier fabric than the summer shirts. I’ll also pull out the sweaters in the winter, and wear jackets or coats to and from work. At home, I wear cutoffs and light t-shirts all summer. In the spring and fall, jeans replace the cutoffs and I pull out the t-shirts that are made with heavier fabric. In the early spring and late fall, long-sleeve shirts go over the t-shirts, and in winter, the long-sleeve shirts become flannel, and are topped with sweaters, jackets, and coats as appropriate when outdoors. So yeah, my wardrobe has various seasonal gradations. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/32 "2012-10-18T02:17:44Z")
I wear a Hawaiian-style shirt to work practically every day. I have a couple that are Christmas themed, and a couple others that are long sleeved, so those are definitely winter-only items. I don’t know that I have any summer-only clothes, except that I don’t generally wear shorts and tank-tops when it’s 45 degrees and raining in January… ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/33 "2012-10-18T02:28:36Z")
Jeans, year-round. I do have a few long-sleeve shirts, but I’m much more likely to wear short-sleeved shirts even in winter. The last few years here in CT, the winters have been so mild I haven’t even needed a coat, except when it was raining. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/34 "2012-10-18T03:32:02Z")
A jacket completely changes my summer clothes to winter clothes. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/35 "2012-10-18T05:37:31Z")
I only wear sarongs in summer, and I only wear waistcoats in winter. That’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/36 "2012-10-18T06:49:16Z")
I definitely have different wardrobes for summer and winter. When I lived in the States, the difference wasn’t that much, even though I lived in Utah as there is central heating, air conditioning and I went everywhere by car. Living in Tokyo, there is less temperature difference, although the humidity more than make up for that. However, since I walk, bike and use mass transit, then I’m outdoors more. They also don’t cool the buildings as much. There’s just no way to use the same clothes. I even have summer and winter suits. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/37 "2012-10-18T07:39:22Z")
Yes. I have boots and coats that I only wear in the winter. But for regular clothing it would just be the heavy long sleeves shirts I wear in winter. That’s about it though. My lightweight summer tees become undershirts in winter. I have no special winter pants, though I wouldn’t wear shorts in cold weather (and usually not in the summer either to avoid bug bites and the like). ---
**Author:** ![akeimi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@akeimi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akeimi)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/38 "2012-10-18T09:41:02Z")
I wonder if this might be a “single vs coupled” thing as opposed to a gender thing. I’m female, and I never bothered with putting off-season clothes away until I got married. Now I do it because of space constraints. Notice that _I_ do it, it’s not even on my husband’s radar, so of the two of us I’m the only one who might bring up swapping out winter clothes in response to some “it’s getting cold!” or “what did you do last night” small talk. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/39 "2012-10-18T13:13:51Z")
Hmm, I think that I didn’t make myself clear enough in my OP. The answers I was looking for were not “Yes, I wear shorts in the summer and long sleeved shirts in the winter.” Let me rephrase: True or false: I often hear myself saying “I spent the weekend putting my summer wardrobe in longterm storage for the winter and broke out my entire winter wardrobe, which has now replaced my summer wardrobe in my easily accessible closets and drawers.” The question is one of making a project of swapping out seasonal clothes, involving putting a significant amount of them in a not very accessable place. **akeimi** , you make a great point. Let’s add an additional question: Is your immediately available closet and drawer space large enough to include your entire wardrobe? ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/40 "2012-10-18T13:29:13Z")
No, I don’t swap out. Yes, my closet and dresser space can hold the year’s wardrobe at once. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062.md?page=3)