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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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would you notice if someone was skiing in gear that was too big
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would it embarassing if you were with them.
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No. Are you really the kind of shallow person who would be embarassed by what your companions were wearing? Tut, I am disappointed.
If your kit doesn't fit you, eBay it and get some more with the proceeds. I can say from experience that trousers which are too big don't keep you very warm.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I can say from experience that trousers which are too big don't keep you very warm.
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Lizzard, joking apart that's the sort of obervation that is useful - thanks!
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Trousers which are too large are also rather uncomfortable, as they tend to slip off your waist down to your hips.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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And (god forbid) you end up sliding head first.. they might end up round your ankles.... 
Seriously though, couldn't you just change the trousers? I wouldn't have thought a too-large jacket would be so much of an issue.
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I like to keep it 'street' as much as the next perpetually-twenty-one-year-old. But even I had to admit defeat when my last set of pants and jacket made me look like the Michelin Man after six months on the Weight Gain 2000 program.
STOP CLAIMING THAT A 42" WAIST IS 'MEDIUM', OAKLEY.
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Helen Beaumont, don't they have belts in Durham?
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Trousers which are too large are also rather uncomfortable, as they tend to slip off your waist down to your hips.
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But what if they START OFF below buttock level  ???????? Can anybody tell me:
- how you keep them (and jeans) at that level without them coming down completely??
- how you continue to jib in the park when your lower back/upper buttock area is blue with the cold??
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mountainaddict, how they keep them at that level has perpetually mystified me. When I see the look being worn in the street here in London I am impishly tempted to march past, smack the offender on the back of the head and then run. There is no way anyone with jeans cinched below their butt cheeks can run fast enough to catch me
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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too small is when you cant show off the nice male camel-toe when going for a switch 3...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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The slipping off the waist thing isn't too much of a problem - they are salopettes with elastic braces.
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I ski with a few people who I'm embarrassed to be with - nothing to do with their gear though... 
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You know it makes sense.
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too baggy??? Is there such a thing? I have to bend down to reach the cargo pockets on my trousers
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Jerry, he feeling's entirely mutual!
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Poster: A snowHead
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| too small is when you cant show off the nice male camel-toe when going for a switch 3... |
I just got that, forgot skiers go switch as well, not a nice image.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sharkykeeeee!, Awright dood ? You're one of the cooler blokes I have skied with. (Not difficult, I admit  )
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Wed 22-10-08 23:02; edited 1 time in total
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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If it's too baggy, yer too old 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Megamum, "I am now not the woman I was".
Have you reset your ski bindings (DIN)?
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"Baggy" is too baggy, though I suspect there are very few people that can get away with "tight".
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The gear's bright orange...............size is the least of your problems...
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Kruisler,
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| The slipping off the waist thing isn't too much of a problem - they are salopettes with elastic braces. |
You might want a belt anyway, baggy = drafty when it comes to waistlines!! I'm "suffering" the same problem and have gone for a belt instead of new trousers but will be getting a new jacket...mainly because the current one is so great at waterproofing that it has become my everyday coat for striding to the station in the rain (and because I'm a girly and it's four years since I had a new one and I WANT one!!)
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Megamum, FWIW, the jacket I was wearing at the EoSB is way to big for me & always has been (I just really wanted it when I saw it in the shop) & it's snuggly warm - I was worried that it might be a bit draughty but it's fine. I do tend to prefer baggy jackets in everyday life, though, so that probably affects how I feel about my skiwear. I don't like to ski in pants that are too baggy, though - I feel that they're flapping round my legs & it puts me off. And as Lizzard says, they are not so warm (although depending on the weather, that might not be such a bad thing!) IME, no-one will mind what you look like! Or perhaps people have always been too polite to say things to my face...
But if you do decide on new stuff, remember, TK Maxx is your friend!
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You know it makes sense.
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Jo225, Horses for courses
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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maybe the baggy thing came from skateboarding, I used to wear my trousers so low skateboarding because when you fall on a hand rail it slightly protects your nuts on the rail.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Megamum, I'm having the same problem. Having tried on nearly every jacket on the Snow and Rock stand, I couldn't make my mind up between a 'fitted' size 10 or a baggy size 12. I think you have to be comfortable. The 'high end' jackets are very tailored and don't feel particularly comfortable.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I don't like having baggy ski clothes. My hard shell is a small which is pretty close fitting but my trousers are fairly loose.
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chris, In all seriousness given that I am so much less than the woman I was, I had also considered the DIN setting issue, however, I think I made such good progress in VT that the increase in expertise = >DIN probably balances the weight loss = <DIN - at the moment I was going to leave at 5
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Megamum, the boots got looser.
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Megamum, Maybe buy some braces ? . . . But personally I would buy new gear; you can get a Trespass jacket in TKMax for £30 and I've seen D2B salopettes for £24 - so £54 for an outfit and then ebay your old gear. I probably wouldn't have even considered the DIN setting, but I don't have my own skis (yet).
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Megamum, I think I'd agree with *IncogSkiSno*. After all that weight loss, you deserve a bit of a treat and the new you needs a new outfit... don't you think?
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Megamum, save the money and get new boots.
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Megamum, I think 5 is about right for (the new) you.
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Megamum, you must know what size you now are and what size your existing clothes are. If you are a 12 and everything you own is a 14, you need new stuff. If you are likely to drop another size, buy something cheap and temporary. eBay any surplus.
I'm sure you know all this already.
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