Winter Simplifies

Winter does something to how you dress. You can’t hide anything—everything either keeps you warm or it doesn’t, and you look equally stupid in both situations. Watching people in cold cities, from Vancouver to Moscow, they all figure this out the same way. Once they’ve got a coat that works, boots that work, something on their head that works, they stop thinking about clothes for the next six months. Everything else falls away. You see people from totally different places looking basically the same because the cold has erased all the choices that seemed to matter in the summer.