# What do sex workers wear during the winter?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-sex-workers-wear-during-the-winter/615972
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 16, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-sex-workers-wear-during-the-winter/615972 "2012-03-16T15:30:31Z")
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### Author:  [@florez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/florez)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-sex-workers-wear-during-the-winter/615972/21 "2012-03-16T20:26:53Z")
> [@Themenin](#):
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> Long johns ?
I suggest that streetwalkers in cold weather invest in some practical flannel long johns. They are very popular in Alaska, for all kinds of people, and some styles are available with the “fireman’s drop seat” and “button up flap”, if that helps.
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### Author:  [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-sex-workers-wear-during-the-winter/615972/22 "2012-03-16T20:51:58Z")
> [@pravnik](#):
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> Most streetwalkers aren’t identified so much by their skimpy clothing as by their swagger when they walk and unrelenting eye contact as you drive by.
I think that even in Los Angeles (the basin)–where at night, the coldest it usually gets on a winter night is in the 30s–it’s still too cold to dress the way they do on Sunset Boulevard, just a few blocks from where I live. It seems to me that a woman wearing a really short dress on a night like that simply must be a prostitute.
But even so, the women who dress that way don’t “swagger”–not the way street hookers always do on TV. Rather, it’s that they don’t seem to be walking anywhere with a purpose. They’re out there–near Sunset and Normandie, let’s say, at 11:00pm–and they clearly aren’t _doing_ anything. Even if they’re bundled-up with a jacket, and even if they aren’t staring at all the cars driving by, they still stick out because they clearly aren’t getting to or from the bus stop, or walking home from the corner market.
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### Author:  [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-sex-workers-wear-during-the-winter/615972/23 "2012-03-16T22:01:49Z")
I saw one in D.C. I thought was wearing pink tights but it was just her legs freezing off.
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-sex-workers-wear-during-the-winter/615972/24 "2012-03-17T01:37:52Z")
> [@guizot](#):
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> But even so, the women who dress that way don’t “swagger”–not the way street hookers always do on TV. Rather, it’s that they don’t seem to be walking anywhere with a purpose. They’re out there–near Sunset and Normandie, let’s say, at 11:00pm–and they clearly aren’t _doing_ anything. Even if they’re bundled-up with a jacket, and even if they aren’t staring at all the cars driving by, they still stick out because they clearly aren’t getting to or from the bus stop, or walking home from the corner market.
That’s exactly what I mean by swagger. I don’t mean doing the boom-boom Memphis hip shake like a tv streetwalker, I mean a confident, lesuirely and purposeless back and forth stroll in an area and time where nobody else has any business to conduct other than walking from point A to point B as quickly as possible.
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