The Perfect Gentleman Issue 9 - Christmas | Page 43
Baby It's Cold Outside
How to Dress for the Winter
by Leah Morrigan
I consider myself an expert in cold weather
dressing because I spent more than half of my
life in one of the coldest inhabited places on
earth: Saskatchewan, a dry, constantly windy
and dead flat province in the centre of the
Canadian prairies.
The coldest temperature I can remember was a
December evening when I had to go to the
university to write a final exam. Before dressing
to go to school, and before the Internet was in
widespread use, I called Environment Canada to
find out what the weather was like.
In Saskatchewan (sas-KA-chew-un), the winters
are so bitterly cold that people plug their cars in
overnight so the battery works in the morning.
Under the right conditions, skin can freeze in
seconds and ice forms in your nostrils. It’s the
kind of dry cold that stings. But no matter what
the weather, nothing stops in Saskatchewan; on
the prairies, people suck it up, pack on the
layers, and continue with their routine.
It’s really no wonder that Socialism was born in
Saskatchewan, the place where people rely on a
strong community for survival