 Poster: A snowHead
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With the full length leg thermals what do you put on first; your socks and then thermals over the top or the other way round?
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zebedee,
Don't usually use LJ's but if I do I pull them up to just below my knee- they'd finish just below the calf anyway- and then pull the sock up to the LJ. I would be careful not to have any big creases that would chaffe the ski tho'. I would want to avoid big clumps of sock/LJ in my boots and on my shin, hence the above
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zebedee, my leg thermals come down over my socks
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zebedee, I have some 3/4 length one that I use but like JT, if I use long legged ones I pull them up so they are over of top my boots.
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Although thinking about it the thermals don't come all the way down to my ankles, stop about mid-calf, so they go over my socks but not right down into my boots
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cathy, don't they make a ridge where they end? I never put mine inside my boots.
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Mine go over my socks. But I wear thin socks and thin tight fitting LJs - with the LJs in the boot I don't have any problem at all - not even a line around my calf at the end of the day.
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cathy, I can join in this now  I got some thermals last weekend, found some cheap in Netto's, unfortunately not swish ladies ones like you get from M&S, but in Netto's they had a load of gents ones for a good price, and I thought, 'well, provided I don't get carted off the mountain on a stretcher' who's going to see them, so I got a couple of sets. They are fairly close fitting, and I have tried them on with my ski 'tube' socks over the top and then put the boots on, seem OK so far.
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Megamum, see this is the question, do as cathy does and put the socks on first and then then the thermals, or like you have and put the thermals on first and then the socks on top.
I think I normally do socks first because my thermals have a bit if a mesh texture so I'd prefer the sock next to my skin. But if I don't put my ski socks on until after breakfast, just before putting on the boots then it can be a real pain pulling up the thermals cos they're such a tight fit.
I'm tempted to cut the bottom part off so they only go down to just below the knee.
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I want some shorter ones, mine come down past my ankles. They aren't too tight around my knees though a bit wrinkled.
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| Helen Beaumont wrote: |
| I want some shorter ones, mine come down past my ankles. They aren't too tight around my knees though a bit wrinkled. |
aka Norah Batty ? 
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You know it makes sense.
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Helen Beaumont, Try Helly Hanson I got some 3/4 length ones which are great
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Linds, I knew you'd be along to help out!! 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Helen Beaumont, 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'm a socks then thermals gal.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I never wear thermals....they just make me too hot. so socks.....
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zebedee, I wear socks then thermals over them! if you cut off the bottom they might go baggy and ride up 
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Deffo socks next to the skin - did it the other way round once and never again, nasty red weals from the seam on the thermals. My thermals are silk and incredibly fine and by the time I'm in a skiing position the ankle cuff just tucks into the very top of my boot - long enough not to wrinkle and be uncomfortable and short enough not to affect boot fit drastically
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A bit behind everyone else commenting on this but...
All my lot wear thermal LJ's.
The first thing I've always done when buying a new pair is to take a pair of scissors to them and make slits up the side so that they can be pushed up above the top of the boots.
I certainly notice if I don't do this.
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Megamum, Good socks are wicking and are worth spending proper money on . . . and that same sort for the whole vacation. Cut off and hem your thermals just under the knee.
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I'm with Masque and others in the 3/4 or cut off camp. Did anyone have a double layer in their boots when they were fitted? so why do it after 
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you don't need an excuse, Megamum, it's a really good idea to clomp around a bit in your boots before hitting the slopes.
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I s'pose a lot depends on the LJs. Proper LJs for active sports are very thin, close fitting and moisture wicking and I'd imagine the only type of people who would notice them would be those who notice a pea under a mattress!
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| rich wrote: |
| I'm with Masque and others in the 3/4 or cut off camp. Did anyone have a double layer in their boots when they were fitted? so why do it after |
Tempted as I am, it is hard to argue with Msq when he's right.
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Masque has it right, That is exactly what I did to my first pair of thermals AFTER getting a 4 inch long blister up my calf from the seam . My current pair are loose enough round the ankle that I simply roll them up above the sock. NEVER put them under your sock in your boot, why risk it?
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You know it makes sense.
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Now, where's my scissors? 
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Buy some without seams! Mine have cuffs but they're sort of knitted in.
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