Worst ski outfits

[Molly]

Coming out of lurkdom to say, actually, yes. At Ski Liberty last year, I was passed by a bunch of snowboarders with their pants down around their ankles.

You could say they'd hit a new low. ;)

I've seen this, too, and I hate it. It's awful.

Also, camo or fluorescent hunting jackets. Ugh!

 

[Snowbird]

My pet peeve is blue jeans. That's got to be cold and wet. Plus it just looks stupid.

 

[HotChocolate]

SkiDiva - I will never forget the woman I saw once on the bunny slope at Hunter in NY. She had a full length fur coat, white rear-entry boots, no hat, no gloves and 3-inch long false finger nails. She was slidding down the bunny slope, knobbed-kneed, in a wedge . . . screaming in a heavy New York accent . . "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God I'm gonna kill you Ant-ny!"

One of the funniest things I have ever seen on the slope! Just thinking about it makes me laugh all over again.

Lola

OMG I think I was there that day....she was wearing mink! LOL!:D

 

[Snowsong]

How about duct tape on any skiwear?

 

[ski diva]

Wait a minute --- I must defend the duct tape. Last year my husband tore his pants on the ski slope. If it wasn't for duct tape, the world would've had a free show for the rest of the day!

 

[Snowsong]

Okay, we'll make an exception for emergencies!

 

[ski diva]

Resurrecting this old thread because I saw one in a million the other day: a tight, fleece, bright lime green jacket topped with a furry, black "Sonny Bono" type vest -- the kind that looks like gorilla-suit fur. Truly one of a kind (especially now that Sonny's gone and it isn't 1967 :D ).

 

[Lori_K]

I see quite a few people (men and women) wearing cowboy hats down here. Complete with feather in the hat band.

Yes, a lot of people come up from Texas to ski, but the cowboy hat doesn't seem very functional, or warm, so I can't figure that one out.

 

[snobound]

I have to defend the blue jeans while skiing just for one sec tho! lol

I used to work at a ski area in South Dakota and a bunch of us went to Aspen for the weekend. We ended up meeting up with some of the more wealthy "locals" that ended up (to say the least) a ski off. So the next day we showed up in blue jeans, carhart coats and ball caps. Needless to say the "locals" didn't win the ski off and were appalled that a bunch of "hicks" showed them up. It was just priceless that we in jeans. lol

 

[Shellski]

I still have a one-piece fluoro pink Quiksilver ski suit I wore in the '90's, I refuse to part with it!

Things I hate.... anything fur trimmed, bare midriffs, stretch pants, those ladies jackets that cinch in at the waist and flare out over the hips, unzipped jackets, pants that are hitched up over the top of boots.

 

[smpayne]

Things I hate.... anything fur trimmed, bare midriffs, stretch pants, those ladies jackets that cinch in at the waist and flare out over the hips, unzipped jackets, pants that are hitched up over the top of boots.

What about pants hanging down under the hips.

I like my fur trimed jacket, although I'm thinking of knitting a bunch of different colored pieces to switch between, just for fun. If you skiied where I do, you would unzip your jacket too, because by 10am it's 50F in the shade (the lift line is in direct sunlight). Sometimes I ski in just a T-shirt and my soft shell with all the vents open and 1/2 unzipped.

 

[Shellski]

What about pants hanging down under the hips.

I like my fur trimed jacket, although I'm thinking of knitting a bunch of different colored pieces to switch between, just for fun. If you skiied where I do, you would unzip your jacket too, because by 10am it's 50F in the shade (the lift line is in direct sunlight). Sometimes I ski in just a T-shirt and my soft shell with all the vents open and 1/2 unzipped.

It gets pretty warm here in Australia in spring too, but I just can not do the open jacket thing. One word we have for 'Gaper' is 'Jacket Flapper'. When it warms up I will take the jacket off entirely and change it for a fleece and vest or a soft shell rather than ski with the zip open.

Do you mean a cotton t-shirt? Probably not the best thing to wear when you are a bit hot as it's not going to wick away the sweat.

 

[Native Vail Gal]

Ummmmmm.......What's up with the furry ear-flap hunter type hats? I don't get that.

Oh.....and....um.....I hope I don't offend anyone, but the lime green, pink and orange thing.....ewwwwwwwwww.

 

[kmrose]

I have seen a number of butt crack pants recently too. The most recent was unintentional, I hope! A rather large man was sitting in the lodge on a bench with his back to me eating lunch with his young son, yes, you guessed it, slipped down pants with the band of thghty whities showing slightly over it. Yuck!!

We also get logger gear here , insulated Carharts, that kind of thing, and the hockey look-kids in long hockey jackets and dads in jackets tight at the waist with some sport team logo, making them look like baseballs. 70's gear seems rather popular as well, and occasoinally I'll see the disco look, those jackets with little wing things at the shoulders. Needless to say, the wing things don't seem to help their wearers stay aloft!!

All in all, though, I am glad these people are skiing rather than sitting at home all winter.

 

[Cambridge Kate]

men in skirts

How 'bout the guys that wear kilts to ski or snowboard? I can't decide if it's unparalleled bravery or utter foolishness. Saw three of them at Breck last week, one in a bright yellow plaid that made the eyes ache. Nice legs though...

Also there seemed to be a trend toward wearing animal pelts, specifically what looked to be an entire coyote fur - head and all - draped over the skier's head and shoulders. Ick. Saw this several times at various places.

The Ant-ny story is hilarious!

CK

 

[ski diva]

Never seen the kilts, though that'd be a good one. I'd imagine they'd have something over their legs???? Otherwise they'd be pretty chilly!

I've been seeing quite a few day-glo onsies lately. Is this a new fashion trend, or is it just so cold that people are digging them out of their closets because they think they're warmer? I've even seen some 80's-type retros -- the ones that look like super-hero suits! NOT to be missed.

 

[Jilly]

Oh, I've seen the Kilts. Bunch of guys from the states at Tremblant. Do it every year. Also this past weekend, I saw alot of 80's gear - skis, boots and clothes. Floursecent colours etc. I think the best outfit I've seen this year is a very tiny lady, baby blue one piece with cowboy fringe. All she needed was a white stetson (without the feather!) and a horse. I think in alot of cases, the parents started or skied in the 80's and 90's. Got married, bought the house, and started the kids. Now they want to introduce the kids to skiing. So they drag out the old gear and take off for a week of skiing. Lessons and new/rental gear for the kids, but they use the old stuff. I agree with kmrose - At least they are out there!

 

[BatGirl]

Oh.....and....um.....I hope I don't offend anyone, but the lime green, pink and orange thing.....ewwwwwwwwww.

When I first started skiing, I blew a good part of my budget on my boots and didn't have much left over for a decent ski jacket. So Comprex kindly donated his old down (and thereby poofy) ski jacket to me. It's really warm and soft and snuggly, but the zip-out liner is fluorescent green on the inside and hot pink on the outside. The shell is (mercifully) black. It's very 1980s.

He doesn't understand why one of my big expenditures for this year was a new Marker jacket that is a tastefully understated black, white, and ivory color. :D

 

[sleddog]

I was over on the bunny slope at our local bump last week giving a lesson and one of the snowboard instructors was working with a father (read: middle-aged and chunky)/daughter combo on their first attempt at snowboarding. "Dad" had the plumber look going after his first fall - didn't bother hiking up his pants... a little later there was a "half moon" over the beginner run - his daughter told him to pull up his pants, but I think he was working so hard at staying upright that it didn't register with him, one more fall and it was a full moon. The dad still wasn't feeling the cold , so one of the other instructors at the bottom of the hill had to tell him to please hike up his pants. He was even sitting on the snow bare-backed and didn't feel the snow on his backside. Gives new meaning to the term "numb nuts".:D

My other clothing related story is about one of the boys on my high school race team. He was a senior and the boys were not going to qualify for the state meet- he thought he'd like to go out with a bang! The last race was a warm night - in the upper 30's and the course had been salted (fertilized) to firm up the snow. He asked if he could race without his shirt on - I said it wasn't a good idea, but he whipped his shirt off before the start anyway and raced without anything but his race bib on top. Needless to say - even though he was my best racer on the boys team and hadn't fallen all season, he took a bad fall on his second run and scraped his arm pretty badly. He wouldn't show me his cuts (he was 18, so able to make his own decisions - good or bad), but the next day the school nurse saw me in the hall and told me that one of my racers had been to see her earlier in the day. His shirt was glued to his arm from the cuts and he was immediately sent to the hospital when she saw the veins in his arm were red - he was getting blood poisoning from all the junk both in the snowmax snow and the "salt" used to firm up the snow. I don't think he'll try that stunt again.

 

[Cambridge Kate]

bare-legged men

Nope, the kilt-wearers had nothing on the legs. Kind of daunting to think of the view should they take a tumble....