 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello, should I wear my thermal leggings/skins inside my ski boots, and if the advice is not to, then what should I do with bottom 6 inches or so?
Nick
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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no
cut it off
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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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No
Buy calf length ones
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Cut it off. My wife had some full length thermal leggings last year and for the first day she tried them inside the boots - very uncomfortable. So we simply took a pair of scissors and chopped off the bottom, and Robert is your father's brother.
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but some fabrics will unravel..... if you're not a sewing sort of person, maybe ask someone who is? Long long johns are a pain. But then some people still have their ski pants tucked inside their boots - so it's obviously personal choice!
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I couldn't wear my long johns inside my boots but I have a pair of CW-X leggings which are like Skins and they are fine because they are so tightly fitting
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Fold the bottom 6 inches back above the knee, so you have a short strip of double thickness. Works fine.
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That's right - no need to cut them. Just keep them above your boot and they will fall into folds on your shins and give more insulation.
Makes me think of Nora Battie's wrinkled stockings 
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Just push them up your calf above the boot. That's what i do & it's never been a problem to me.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I wear mine inside my boot, but I only wear normal socks - not ski socks - so maybe that's why I find it comfortable.
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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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I bought 3/4 ones in Tesco's last year. Mind you the time I needed them most was under my jeans in the evening and full length would have been a bonus then!
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Would you tuck your shirt (blouse) inside your boxers (thong)?
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You know it makes sense.
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I had to cut mine as they had cuffs with seams above - couldn't even get them over my calf never mind up to my knee.
pam w, I thought they would unravel, but they haven't, just look a bit ragged, but not bothered about that.
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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coming from CEM, who is God of all things boot related...I'm worried. but I like my thermals in my ski boots, and I have no discomfort. To be honest I thought this thread was a joke at first as I had considered no other way 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Shimmy Alcott, your boots are too big. 
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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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Absolutely - long johns/ thermals inside boots is a big no-no. That has to be one important thing to come of the thread for the opening poster. Just don't do it!
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Lizzard, Can too just have to take mummy with you!
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Right guys. Lets talk common sense. I am OK to have big fat ski socks in my boots....right? Well I dont like, or need them. I wear little short thin ankle socks. My lovely soft Peter Storm thermals fit lovely in my boot and cause me no discomfort.........tell me...where is the problem? x
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Shimmy Alcott,
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I am OK to have big fat ski socks in my boots....right?
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Nope, properly fitted boots have no room for big fat socks. Your boots are indeed likely to be too big. (I have only recently been initiated into the dark arts practised in Bicester, btw.  )
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Hurtle, so you wear ankle socks while skiing?
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Question from Mrs Radar who wears her seemles(north face) longjohns under her ski socks,never had a problem so why shouldn't she carry on?
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Shimmy Alcott, What Hurtle, says, plus the seams at the top of your short sock and bottom of your thermals, will cause a ridge inside the boot. Not good.
I have 3/4 length thermals and thin ski socks that overlap the thermals above boot cuff height. I'd be lucky to get a fag paper in they fit so well.
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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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radar, Seamless is the saving factor, but it's still not good to have two layers between the skin and boot liner. The sock could ruck, it's wicking properties could be affected, friction between the layers, etc.
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Shimmy Alcott, how far up your boots do your ankle socks come? If they reach to the top of your boot, they're no different from ski socks. If they don't, no wonder you need your thermals to fill the space above them.
And if you're only comfy with them inside, what do you do on those days when it's too hot for thermals? .
And yes, what about thermal top. Inside underpants? Between underpants and thermal leggings? Between the leggings and the salopettes? (This is a genuine issue which my OH and I have argued about before now. But then we have been married a long time.....)
With luck this thread might see us through to the pre-Christmas snow.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Hurtle, pants, long johns over pants, thermal base layer pulled over long johns, ski troursers. Trousers over boots not in them.
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Poster: A snowHead
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radar,
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Trousers over boots not in them
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I don't know, somebody told me that the stirrup-footed skin-tight pants which used to be worn in the 1970s are about to come into fashion again.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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radar,
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Trousers over boots not in them
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I don't know, somebody told me that the stirrup-footed skin-tight pants which used to be worn in the 1970s are about to come into fashion again. |
Where can I buy some?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Spyderman, is this wise? 
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Spyderman, Italy seemed to be very popular for posing with the Italians, when I was in La Rossiere
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I'd be lucky to get a fag paper in they fit so well.
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I'm doing it all wrong!
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Skins won't fold up they're far too tight, the only option is to wear them inside the boot. But they're so skin tight I doubt they'd be noticeable at all - if they are then they're too big! Everything else outside the boot.
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What about ski racers outfits. the legs appear to go inside the boot?
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Thermals? What's wrong with you lot, WORK HARDER!!!!
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| michaelf wrote: |
| What about ski racers outfits. the legs appear to go inside the boot? |
I wonder what Chemmy does when she's skiing recreationally?
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