For anyone who spent their childhood walking to school, you are a pro at this. Even for drive-everywhere people, this is the set up for the warm up routine you do when you jump in your car (someone else draw that diagram). It’s up there with scarf-condensation-avoidance but I like this one the best because it’s so subtle yet (I believe) widely engaged – like when everyone started talking about the other side of the pillow.
If you are an appropriately dressed winter person, you’ll only really do this when you run out for something real quick, or lose/forget your scarf/neckwarmer/balaclava at home that day; for most of us Winnipegers though, this is a multiple-times-a-day thing. We think it’s a sign of hardness and defiance to dress inappropriately. “Cold is cold” we say “what I wear in October will just adjust somehow”. Obviously the inappropriate dress thing hits its height in teenage years but that stuff lingers, man. We hold on. And techniques like this allow for that.
The trick is to keep as much of your face out of harm’s way as possible while avoiding the parts of your outdoor ensemble that freeze up on you – like your zipper. I know some of you are saying “yeah but MY jacket has a guard so I don’t touch the zipper”. Good for you I guess, then all you have to deal with is the awful jacket material that makes a rashy irritated mess of the tip of your nose and your chin. Either way, you’re back at square one with the jaw-jacket avoidance, making it an essential learned skill for Winnipeg winters.
There’s some variations to the pursed lips too. Like you can do some hot-breaths in there, but you still have to move your jaw back. And then you get into condensation-avoidance/ rashy territory. So… just be careful okay?
xo e.
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