 Poster: A snowHead
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I was reading this article about the 80's taste for all-in-one ski outfits http://www.studentbeans.com/tenofthebest/top-ten-incredible-80-s-ski-outfits/pinky-and-lilac1622.html. I have to say I've subsequently become a bit obsessed with them. I'm thinking of get hold of some original numbers on eBay and starting a collection that will suit every 80's mood I have... Does anyone else ever rock the onsie? Are they all right to ski in, i was imagining if I got too hot, i could have the top part down and tie the sleeves around my waste - which is also a pretty 80's thing to do.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Not just on the slopes. The onesie is the perfect garment for dancing on tables outside mountain restaurants. Flourescent headband optional.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Fartbags are overdone as retro irony - no surer sign of a bunch of British seasonnaires or wacky holiday punters you might wish to avoid. The French way of wearing them with appropropriate sang-froid is the way to go especially if accompanied by a mono.
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Fartbags are overdone as retro irony - no surer sign of a bunch of British seasonnaires or wacky holiday punters you might wish to avoid. The French
way of wearing them with appropropriate sang-froid is the way to go especially if accompanied by a mono.
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Right. Fortunately I don't spend much time in the kind of resorts where you come across a mob of "wacky holiday punters" being pleased with themselves in fartbags.
I enjoy seeing a French grandpa and grandma, in suits they have probably worn every winter for the last quarter of a century, pottering around competently and kindly with their grandchildren. No fuss. No need for the latest gear, no showing off.
My kids do always have a "spot the retro suit of the week" competition, though. This guy wasn't even in with a shout.
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B@gger the fashion police. Fartbags are great. Got a cracking Degree 7 suit on fleabay for £20 last season which should last for years. Why ski in anything else apart from swimming trunks in last springs heatwave?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Fart bag, neve heard that. S'funny!
I wouldn't want to wear them as a wacky gang thing - no irony but genuinely respectful homage to a period packed with nostalgia for me - that i just caught the tail end of in mountain terms - my first ski holiday was in 1987 at the age of 9. Thanks for the tips everyone, I'm going to have to explore 'the French way one-piece way'.
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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 had a purple Spyder one - thought it was the dogs Bo*****s. Made me feel like an elite fighter pilot. Happy days.
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Used to wear a Killy one. I've monoskiedi in it.... 
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You know it makes sense.
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A few of the guys in Tignes were talking about a game called "Lick the Fartbag" where someone would try and get photo evidence of licking a fartbag wearer, sometimes without their knowledge. Be careful out there kids.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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PowderOneDay, I still have my Rodeo (C&A) bright powder blue, black and pink all in one
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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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| A few of the guys in Tignes were talking about a game called "Lick the Fartbag" where someone would try and get photo evidence of licking a fartbag wearer, sometimes without their knowledge. Be careful out there kids. |
Tis a pretty standard seasonnaire game, have seen a few attempting to lick onesies when I've been in the Arlberg.
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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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Can't wait to get all licked up in my fartbag! Sounds like a fun game, so I want in though - it'll be all right to play whilst in the one-piece, I should think...?!
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I'm the one in the middle... Perfectly timed picture to capture the two other people in onesies as well.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I picked up an old Nevica at a carboot sale a few weeks ago for a pittance - I saw it hanging there in all it's cyan and pink nylon glory and just couldn't resist giving it a home.
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My first experience on skis was in a borrowed one-piece. It was by some margin the most comfortable thing I ever wore for skiing although admittedly it was slightly inconvenient when it came to lunch-time indoors.
I picked up a Killy one-piece a couple of years ago on Ebay for about 20 quid. I'm ashamed to say that fear of derision has limited my use of it but when I do brave the jeers it's still the most comfortable way to go.
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I can also confirm that when on boys trips falling on my backside repeatedly, that despite some really quite spectacular falls the onesie is the only garment that completely prevents snow up the front, and snow down the back, two of the nastiest feelings on the slopes. The only area for snow entry is down the neck, but good use of a neck warmer closes off that avenue nicely.
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Pfft, 70's inspired retro! Everyone knows that the fartbag didn't achieve perfection until the 80's.
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i have a black one, with pink and purple flashes, from about 1994 ... Mrs S has banned me from wearing it, but it was extremely comfortable. It also avoided the risk, as happened to a friend of mine, of falling off a t-bar and getting it hooked under your jacket, dragging you backwards up the mountain for 100 metres ... oh how we laughed 
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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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rompertossers,  nice, like the bonus points for Romper/Fanny Pack combo
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You know it makes sense.
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In one resort where I spent a season we used to have 'One Piece Wednesdays', that being the day that most chalet workers etc had off. There has been at least one 'Retro-Saturday' this season in Saalbach.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I hope my OH doesn't see this thread.....
I have no doubt he would make if his mission to find the best fartbag ever to take to France based on his current love of the fleecy snow camo onesie he regularly adopts while in front of the tv!
Lucky he has a newish ski jacket that he loves so prob little chance of it actually coming to fruition!
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Poster: A snowHead
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I had one in the '90's and loved it. Black, red trim, from Next. Had an instructor in Sauze who called me the Black Knight 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Oh yes on a weekly basis we get punters being so "hilarious" in these suits, normally wearing mullet wigs too. JAPES !
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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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Had to give mine (well over 20 years old) a solemn burial only the other week. RIP beloved fartbag.
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Just got my daughter another one piece - this one is red and black with a zebra print patch and comes from C&A. I can imagine Duran Duran wearing something similar or Pepsi and Shirley on the dry slope at Becton alps...
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Oh yes on a weekly basis we get punters being so "hilarious" in these suits, normally wearing mullet wigs too. JAPES !
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All French ski shops sell one-piece suits and plenty of French skiers wear them with absolutely no sense of irony. They're not, on the whole, anything like as posey and self-conscious as British skiers and if they have a serviceable garment they tend to see no very good reason for spending money on a new one.
I skied in lessons with a French woman in a nice, subdued, Decathlon one piece the week before last. She and her family live in Berlin where her husband works in the French Embassy. She didn't say so, but I suspect that he is quite senior and they are not short of a bob or two. They have two teenage children at the Lycée in Berlin where they insist that all pupils speak French, German and English to "mother tongue" standard.
So this was no "hausfrau" from the provinces.
If they played their cards right the French could soon be laughing up their sleeves at Brits paying good money for their cast-off ski suits, just as they laughed some years ago at the daft prices being paid for badly built cowsheds.
Pedantica: sorry to hear that your old faithful has shuffled off its mortal coil. I rather regret the Degré 7 suit in six different shades of pink and purple which I chucked out some years ago. It was Goretex, warm, waterproof and I could probably sell it on eBay, no problem.
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