<p>i live in florida and im going to school in DC. i want to buy enough clothes to definitly hold me over until december and hopefully last me the entire year. what quantity/type of clothes should i buy, as i have little experience in cold weather and living on my own.</p>
<p>Make sure you have a good fleece.</p>
<p>DC is going to be colder than you're used to, but it's not brutally cold. If you're going home for fall break, plan to swap out some clothes then. By October, it'lll be well fall and you'll need lightweight sweaters, lightweight jackets, etc. You'll need one good, warm winter jacket, gloves, a hat if you get cold easily, and maybe a fleecy jacket to stay warm inside. You don't really need heavy snow gear. I've lived here for about 8 years, and usually, it snows a lot only a couple of times, and then there are a few flurries. Basically, you'll want to have long sleeved shirts (about the amount you think you'd need for a week or two), sweaters, a few lightweight things (sweathshirts/hoodies/fleeces), and some good heavy things for January/February (1 good winter jacket, a pair of gloves, a couple pair of warm socks if you're into that). Ah sorry this was so long</p>
<p>I recommend a Northface Denali jacket...they are very expensive but warm without being bulky. I wear mine so often; it was definitely worth it, especially if you can find it on sale like I did.</p>
<p>For fleece: other brands like Columbia or EMS will work just as well, and are cheaper.</p>
<p>i like the north face fleece (lot of girls in DC wear them) and northface jackets. pretty much anything northface for the winter. DC doesnt really get that cold (in my opinion) and in october and stuff u should be fine with just a sweatshirt on and anyways ppl up here wear flip flops up until it snows so u can bring a couple pairs of those.........</p>
<p>Its going to be tough to bring enough for the entire year. The end of August, Sept, and even October is hot... like sometimes in the 90s and brutally humid. Then it goes down to the fifties and then depending on the winter, down into the 20s and 30s. 99% of the time in the winter, I don't wear a jacket. I wear a windbreaker type thing but not Northface type warmth. Go to weather.com and look at the averages for the area.</p>
<p>... and re: snow, sometimes we get like 1 "snowstorm" of like 4 inches. Truely pathetic. Also, normally when it snows, everything shuts down.</p>
<p>you'll make a lot of friends with just a suit case full of bikinis</p>
<p>i am from MD, and DC is the same, i dont see the point in buying 139.00 jacket when you can prob head somewhere around georgetown or Pentagon City and buy winter clothing when the season comes around, all you need is sweaters, a coat, gloves, scarves and hats, long sleeve shirts to.</p>
<p>Everyone around here wears Northface stuff, heh. And yes, people wear flip flops in every month of the year.</p>
<p>I have a Columbia jacket that has fleece lining, but you can take it out and wear just the fleece. Or you can wear just the outside shell, or you can wear them together as a heavy duty winter coat.</p>
<p>It'll probably snow 10-15 inches over the course of the whole winter. And a month of that, you won't be there anyway assuming you go home for winter break. Every few years, we get a big snow storm of like 1.5-2 feet.</p>
<p>And when it's 31 degrees, and rain is coming down. Watch out. It's not rain, it freezes when it hits the ground. Apparently this weather is kinda unique to the va/md area. My friends at school said in NY they get snow or rain, not freezing rain. Anyway, it rains and freezes when it hits the ground, so the ground has a coating of solid ice. Watch everyone walk across campus to eat when that happens. Hilarious.</p>
<p>Patagonia.</p>
<p>some ppl have also been shot (and lots more robbed for the black market) over north face jackets in DC... like that one who died and was featured on the last sunday washington post. it's really pathetic. but that's off topic, huh...</p>
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DC is going to be colder than you're used to, but it's not brutally cold.
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I disagree it does get pretty cold here. I had to wear Pajama pants or long johns during really cold days...the coldness just hits your face painfully if you're from a warmer place. all the chicks from california in my dorm would wear one-piece flannel pajama outfits. lol</p>
<p>There are much cheaper and much better jackets then North Face, use the internet and search on ski equipment websites. And in the Northeast, you will need one. Last winter we had a few days in the -0 degree range with windchill factor. It is cold, and people might say oh its only cold for a few days, thats not usually true, its gets cold for long periods.</p>
<p>You can't really predict how you will feel - you are used to a very warm climate. Others really can't tell you how you will react to the "cold" - however cold that might objectively be.
When I was in a school in the Northeast, there was a girl from southern California who started whering a down jacket when everyone else was still just wearing long sleeve shirts. Other kids from southern climates were fine.
You are not going to some remote place where you have bring all your provisions ahead of time. Since you would have to buy all the cold weather clothes anyway, just pick up a few things, wait until you see how it actually is, and go shopping in the DC area.</p>
<p>yeah northfaces r expensive but its just style. my bro goes to school in DC and he has a huge Northface snorkel (the jackts witht the fur on the hood) and a northface windbreaker thing, and he hasnt been shot or robbed. (maybe cuz he's a big black dude..................)</p>
<p>Oh god don't get a north face unless you're one of those people who enjoy looking like a clone of everyone else. I've worn my friends' north face jackets, and they're not as amazingly warm as everyone raves about. I mean they're warm, but only as warm as any other fleece jacket that you're going to buy and cost three times as much. Fleece jacets are pretty ugly anyway. Europeans laugh at how americans think that fleece jackets like north face are a fashion statement.</p>
<p>and Americans laugh at European men who wear capris</p>
<p>are you saying we shouldn't wear fleece jackets because the Euros will laugh at us?</p>
<p>... mostly, I wear a school hoodie =P</p>
<p>No I'm saying its pathetic when people think they're so stylish walking around in an ugly fleece jacket. There are so many more aesthetic options out there.</p>
<p>dressage, think about it... YOU think it's ugly, not the entire world. They are personally too expensive for taste, but I am one of the old navy fleece owners :). </p>
<p>So go off and be "stylish" while the rest of us hide in the depths of the unfashionable crowd.</p>