<p>Barbour jacket with a removable vest and hood will put her into the stand out category and will allow her to walk around on drizzly days without an umbrella. On nicer days she can remove the hood and lining. Northface fleece will make her blend in with the crowd. Bean boots and hunters will complement either outfit.</p>
<p>Re layers: I’m a fan of silk long underwear. It’s thin, lightweight, & very warm. You can find it on sale right now at outfitters like [Sierra</a> Trading Post](<a href=“http://www.sierratradingpost.com/s~silk-long-underwear-women/]Sierra”>http://www.sierratradingpost.com/s~silk-long-underwear-women/) or [url=<a href=“http://www.campmor.com/outdoor/gear/CAMOmnifindQueryCmd?storeId=226&catalogId=40000000226&langId=-1&searchCategory=&ip_state=&ip_constrain=&ip_navtype=search&pageSize=24¤tPage=&ip_sortBy=&searchKeywords=silk+long+underwear]Campmor[/url”>http://www.campmor.com/outdoor/gear/CAMOmnifindQueryCmd?storeId=226&catalogId=40000000226&langId=-1&searchCategory=&ip_state=&ip_constrain=&ip_navtype=search&pageSize=24¤tPage=&ip_sortBy=&searchKeywords=silk+long+underwear]Campmor[/url</a>] - not a big investment ~$25/top or bottom. It takes up almost no space in luggage.</p>
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<p>except that’s kind of what the girls wear these days. Black leggings/long underwear/tights type bottoms and boots. I’ve seen it on every campus I’ve been on this year. Maybe not in California, but in “cold climates.”</p>
<p>Interesting. I haven’t seen long underwear-as-leggings on the campus where I work, nor on my D’s campus, both in the NE.</p>
<p>My D wears leggings and footless tights and regular tights all the time under skirts, but not long underwear. I think that might be what momofthreeboys is referring to.</p>
<p>Waterproof boots are a must!</p>
<p>I have grown up in NH my whole life and go to school in upstate ny now.
They are much more important in New England than they are in other cold climates like the midwest because of the slush that accumulates in NE. The mw doesnt get the sleet, freezing rain, snow combo in a single day that causes 4-6 inch puddles of muck. </p>
<p>Bean boots are awesome. They come lined, unlined, tall, short. </p>
<p>Schools tend to be very slow and poor at plowing/sanding, so a good pair of boots is an absolute necessity.
These boots would be in addition to uggs.</p>
<p>Mindy, a down vest, a down coat (Northface) and Bean boots (everyone wears them. )</p>
<p>It’s been pretty mild in Maine this winter, too.</p>
<p>My son will be in upstate NY next year. This year for christmas we bought him a northface “ensemble” - lol (he’d freak if he heard me say that). Basically it came with a fleece that could zipped into an outer shell which can fit into a lightweight down coat. He can wear any 3 separately or all 3 together. </p>
<p>This winter has been very mild here in the mid-atlantic as well. I’m figuring it means next year will be freezing cold. </p>
<p>I want to take him shopping now for end of season winter clothes sales.</p>
<p>I live in Maine, too. I agree with the layering advice, above. The biggest cliche in college outerwear for the last decade has been the black North Face parka. :)</p>
<p>Bates is a fairly short drive away from Freeport, where you can visit the LLBean mothership (open 24/7) as well as outlets for Beans, Patagonia, and North Face. Not to mention Polo, Gap, J Crew, Talbots, Brooks Brothers, Banana Republic, 9West, Cole Haan, and many more. The Cuddledown outlet is a great place to buy comforters, duvet covers, pillows, etc.</p>
<p>This year, because of my job, which involves visiting people at home, I had to buy a more professional-looking coat than my 25-yr-old down parka. I got a black lambswool peacoat lined with Thinsulate at Beans. It is attractive and not bulky at all, but rated from 40 degrees down to -10. (It VERY rarely gets that cold here, I hasten to add. I have lived here since 1995, and have worn long underwear perhaps 5 times, max. )</p>
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<p>40? That’s when they pull out the spring clothes.</p>
<p>Thanks to those who mentioned waterproof boots: they are essential. Our daughter thought she wouldn’t need her Hunter wellies until winter and left them behind. We had to send them to her ASAP. Bean boots are great, too, but the girls at her college seem to prefer wellies.
(She says that they don’t call them ‘wellies’ but that’s what we always called them back in Ireland and the UK).</p>
<p>She has only worn the long underwear (which I think is silk rather than synthetic) when she went snowshoeing, but she’s glad she has it. Everyone kept telling her the weather would get much worse but so far it hasn’t. Next year I expect will be different.</p>
<p>Get a good-quality folding umbrella (or two cheaper ones) and make your student takes it. It may not be ‘cool’ but it will be used.</p>
<p>It’s a very mild winter…setting record highs in many typically cold and snowy parts of the country (which means instead of sub zero it’s in the thirties.)</p>
<p>We are in Upstate NY here and kids really just wear pea coats and gloves. There are those Northface tribes as well. 
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<p>Long underwear is for skiing, not for day to day. </p>
<p>My S hasn’t even broken out a winter coat yet. Hoodies all winter. The 4 days when the weather was frigid, he wore his northface fleece.</p>