# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/61 "2012-10-23T13:58:42Z")
In Summer, thinner cotton shirts & shorts if its hot enough. In Winter, I start to pull out the shirt-jacs. I have under-armor base shirts for those days when it gets really cold ( or for camping). Sometimes I’ll wear a leather jacket in the Fall. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/62 "2012-10-23T14:22:15Z")
I do swap my summer shoes into storage and pull the winter shoes (and boots) out; not sure if that qualifies. Used to swap cotton for wool socks but now they all fit in one sock drawer. ---
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/63 "2012-10-23T14:36:23Z")
I think it is very much related to closet and drawer space. If I had the space, I wouldn’t swap clothes for summer and winter, but I don’t so I do. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/64 "2012-10-23T17:05:10Z")
> [@sachertorte](#): > > I think it is very much related to closet and drawer space. If I had the space, I wouldn’t swap clothes for summer and winter, but I don’t so I do. This: My summer and winter clothes all fit in the same closet and drawers, so the extent of my “swapping” is the natural migration of the long-sleeved stuff to the tops of the drawers and the more-easily-accessed side of the closet. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/65 "2012-10-23T18:39:52Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I’m female, and I’m going to say false. I live in North Texas, and our weather is notorious for being quite changeable, at least in the winter. During the summer, it’s going to be HOT. However, fall and winter and spring might be quite warm one week, and the next week rather cool. We always have to plan for the Halloween costumes to be lightweight, because October 31 might be very warm, so that a heavy costume would send a kid into a near heatstroke. However, we have to allow room under the costume for warm clothes, in case a cold front comes in. > > I almost always wear the same clothes during summer and winter, but I will put on layers of shawls depending on how chilly it is. I’ve had one heavyweight wool cloak/ruana for about 30 years or so, and I don’t need anything heavier. I will wear a long Tshirt dress under my regular clothing for extra warmth, if I need it for inside wear. During warm weather, I’ll wear the Tshirt dress alone. All this time I thought you were a woman. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/66 "2012-10-25T15:06:19Z")
> [@jali](#): > > All this time I thought you were a woman. Same here, but “Lynn” could go either way I suppose. I’ve known a lot of guys with that name. More men than women, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/67 "2012-10-25T15:36:26Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I’m female… > [@jali](#): > > All this time I thought you were a woman. > [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Same here… Huh? mmm ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/68 "2012-10-25T15:51:43Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Huh? Read the title of this thread and the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062/69 "2012-10-25T15:57:07Z")
Of course I have seasonal clothes. Shorts are no good to me when it’s sub freezing out, and it’s not a lot of fun to wear flannel shirts when it’s 90. And we get both of those temperatures in New England. I don’t “swap” them in my closet or anything though - there’s enough space that I don’t need to do some ritual swap out when the weather gets cold/warm, and that would kinda suck, because much like taking out the air conditioners, we’d get a sudden warm snap as soon as I switched to winter clothes and the reverse in the spring. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-do-you-have-seasonal-clothes/638062.md?page=3)