Men who wear hats

I know I was talking to an older relative of mine who's now in her 80s and she was talking about walking through Dublin in the 1950s wearing trousers and women literally shouting out "GET THEM OFF YA, MRS!" at her out their window of their houses around Smithfield somewhere, and being loudly tutted at by women in shops and stuff.

She was saying you used to get comments / looks for being "out in your hair" (without a hat / scarf) or being "out in your figure" (without a coat).

It has a bit of a history of conformist fashion sense and taunting people.

Some of that is just acclimatisation though too. Most of us seem to operate at a totally different temperature range to some tourists and some tourists also making an assumption that Ireland's utterly freezing (Americans in particular) and bringing way too many heavy clothes.

If you look over at some of the tourism forums on Reddit for example, you'll occasionally see some tourists (again, mostly Americans) who seem to be prepping for a trip to the antarctic (or possibly outer space) and are actually just going to West Kerry. There's a bit of a notion that it rains (heavily) all the time etc etc.

I'll be wandering around in a t-shirt in December, while I know some people from Italy who were going around shivering.

Also, I've seen people make the same comment about Parisians. It can be drizzling / raining lightly in autumn / spring and nobody has an umbrella and are flitting around the place running between the drops, because - why would you?! it's not that wet and people in these kinds of climates just don't notice light rain.

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