{"id":1140,"date":"2011-01-11T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2011\/01\/11\/"},"modified":"2011-01-11T23:29:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T14:29:01","slug":"staying-toasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/2011\/01\/11\/staying-toasty\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying toasty"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve maybe been complaining about how cold it is. Maybe that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only on Facebook or Twitter, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cold for Nagoya. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no central heating in my apartment although I do have radiated heat through the floors<\/a> in part of my house. Not all rooms, so I have cold areas and warm areas. I like the heated floors, but because they are heated by hot water, my gas bill gets pretty high in the winter.<\/p>\n

One way to combat the cold temperature though is to wear warmer clothes. So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sitting here in wool socks, a wool sweater, and thick \u00e2\u20ac\u0153house pants,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d plus a HEATTECH (link in English<\/a> or Japanese<\/a>) turtleneck from \u00e3\u0192\u00a6\u00e3\u0192\u2039\u00e3\u201a\u00af\u00e3\u0192\u00ad<\/a> (UNIQLO<\/a>). Yes, here I am talking about underwear again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"HEATTECH<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

UNIQLO, as I have posted before<\/a> is about the only place that I can find clothes that come close to fitting. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m preparing to go to Hokkaido in a couple of weeks, so I figured I needed long underwear. Everyone swears by HEATTECH so I also bought some long underwear there. And now, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop wearing it or buying it. Do people in the States often wear longjohns to work? Do you have to reach a certain age to do so?<\/p>\n

\"HEATTECH<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know the answers to those questions, but I am not alone in my love of leggings in Japan. Nor does it seem to be an age thing. Many of my younger colleague\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tights poke their way out from under their pants when they sit with their legs crossed. And we know from past posts that leggings under pants are fashionable<\/a>. So on these colder days, I shamelessly wear my long underwear to work, smugly knowing that I am staying warm.<\/p>\n

I do keep it a little old school on the tights, going for the waffle material as opposed to the silky material they offer as well. I almost went with camouflage as well, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have anything camouflage, so why get the tights? I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t emphasize enough that, although they pants and sleeves are a little short, the HEATTECH is really nice to have and makes the chilly Nagoya mornings and nights a little toastier.<\/p>\n

And for my Midwestern friends and readers, the weather here is nothing compared to your winters. I know it. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a Californian now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve maybe been complaining about how cold it is. Maybe that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only on Facebook or Twitter, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cold for Nagoya. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no central heating in my apartment although I do have radiated heat through the floors in part of my house. Not all rooms, so I have cold areas and warm areas. I like … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Staying toasty”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acts-of-nature","category-cultural-experiences","category-general-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}