My (Yorkshire) grandmother told me that mothers would put potatoes in the range to bake overnight and in the morning they would put the hot potatoes in their daughters' hand muffs to keep them warm while they walked to school. Then when they got to school they would eat the potato.
🦞 As a knitter who lives in the Midwest US (where it regularly gets down to -10C/14F and stays there for weeks in the winter), I understand well the power of wool lol. I've knit myself quite a few winter things from real wool and it's amazing how massive a difference it makes to even just toss on a real wool knitted scarf, gloves, and hat alongside more modern winterwear.
I live in Canada, and I've always said that the best winter wear is what the Indigenous people wore traditonally! Modern stuff has nothing on what thousands of years of perfecting winter wear gave us.
I inherited a mink coat from my Great Aunt and that thing is sooooo warm! Sometimes too warm. So are we surprised that the Victorians, with their detailed sewing techniques, also used different types of fabric they had at their disposal to their advantage? Insulation wool and fur in the winter, linen and covering from the sun in the summer. It's not that hard.
Furs are a godsend for warmth, after all that’s what they were made for originally. Wish there wasn’t such a stigma around them nowadays, even used ones.
OMG, I bought a calf length fur coat at an auction for 30 bucks and wore it quite a bit that winter for walking the dog and so on. I was doing a lot of travelling between eastern Iowa and northern Saskatchewan so yup.... :)
@@Jhud69 I know, I wish so too. I get why the negative stigma is there and yeah, the ethics surrounding it nowadays are questionable. It would be great if it was just common practice to resource fur ethically (people are going to have a differing views on what "ethically" means. I don't know if like the idea of mink farms and I'm not sure what else you can resource from minks other than fur.) and fur lovers would at least have a better argument for using it in today's world. Even nice synthetic fur just isn't the same.
@@xXOpenYourHeart759Xx i think it has to do with the fact that fur is an easy win for animal rights organizations who can't affect change when it comes to the nightmarish conditions other animals experience in farming, and that people have less of a need so are more likely to associate fur with rich assholes or characters like cruella. like a mink mill or overfeeding foxes for the highest output is something we should avoid, but it's hard to argue that native peoples hunting seals or beavers or whatever in sustainable numbers is anywhere close to that. if anything it's more reasonable because you need very little meat to survive, most people probably eat an unhealthy amount of meat, but people sustainably used furs hundreds of thousands of years and no other material comes close.
Animals should have the right not to have their own skin ripped off for others to use, just as humans have that right. Humans do not have the right to own everything we see. It’s good we’re finally learning that, especially with all the cruelty free alternatives available today.
Hmm. The fact that Karolina was comfortable but her sister was freezing makes one realize how little people spend time outside in the cold anymore. If we did, there would be a much higher demand for warmer winter clothing. Of course, those who do spend time in the cold know to wear multiple layers everywhere.
I have a coat with a woolen inside and windbreaking modern stuff on the outside. It is nice and warm. I also have huge skipants that I wear when I cycle or go for a longer walk. Yes my silhouette is ruined, but I am toasty and happy.
@@jinde75 I wish, lol. I get -40C weather where I'm from and the only thing you can do is wear 3 layers (for pants: liner ski pants, fuzzy pj pants and snow pants are standard) and wearing a fur coat...or just not going outside.
* chuckle * I always told my twins when they were teenagers and insisted on leaving the house in winter without a coat, blue is not a fashionable colour for human skin unless you're a corpse. *)
These kinds of videos have done a good job of teaching me how to dress for winter. Moving from a place with very mild winters to one that snowed regularly, I had to learn how to layer pretty quickly. Thank you, Karolina
If you wanted to make a real fur coat you could always get used ones! The thrift stores by me sometimes have them for pretty cheap. Then the fur gets a second use out of it too!
I love being a wool onion. Right now, inside, I am wearing animal fiber: hat, knitted vest/waistcoat, sweater, leggings, skirt, legwarmers, ankle warmers, socks, slippers, and a custom handsewn tube as a finger sleeve for my arthritic finger. My nose and toes are still cold. It’s 63.4F /17.4C in my kitchen. I am ready to add my Norwegian-inspired pulsewarmers to help my hands. I have been planning to make a wool skirt and I love the one you are wearing. Is it any particular pattern or system? I will need to use several pieces of unmatched fabric, because I am used to modern clothes for which 3 yards is plenty for a short girl!!! Still, a long skirt would be so much warmer than my above-the-knee Smartwool 3-layered skirt (that I adore).
I have personally walked to the store in a blizzard, wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers beneath a full-length wool cape, and it was very comfortably warm.
I work outside with my husband and by the time I get all my longjohns and layers on inside the house, I’m sweating profusely too!!! I totally get! It’s so bad in fact, that I usually finish the second half of getting dressed outside!
I know I'm late to this party, but 🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞 I live in Alaska and we are having a pretty cold winter thus far (like, 16⁰f is a warm day for us 😭 -10⁰F is more the theme). I've been wondering how people dressed back in the day to stay warm in dresses and such. Been wanting to get more into sewing and create my own victorian wardrobe for all seasons so this was very insightful! I love your channel.
When I lived in Norway I also layered an insane amount of wool stuff under my clothing and it really worked extremely well. It was basically the bread and butter of all my outfits.
Surprisingly, it's again: Wool. Layers of it, but thin layers for summer, and less. Linen is an alternative if you want, but sewing and taking care of linen clothing wasn't exactly easy peasy.
🦞 Much respect to Gosia's sacrifice For Science. Also your winter outfit is not just warm but rather magnificent! *eyes that one 1893 travelling outfit with the cape in Costume in Detail and starts scheming*
I think the biggest problem is that all clothing is fashioned for america, and of course, America is not the rest of the world. So when we take the fashion that is fitted for the southern U.S., and mass produce it to make the most profit. It doesn’t fit the wider range of climates everywhere else. Making it impractical for where others live.
@@da_bananananana4171 I live in central texas. But for some reason we get one snow day in January for the whole year. Though sometimes it doesn’t come. Texas just ranges from 24F to 104F (-4.5C to 40C). I think the lowest temp I ever felt was 17F.
I grew up in southern Brazil, where it can get very cold, and we don't have any heating and our houses aren't insulated. I remember commonly wearing two woollen jumpers indoors and feeling COZY. Sometimes I would sleep in a woollen jumper too, under lots of blankets. My parents had this monster blanket that was stuffed with sheep wool and it weighed a ton. It was great.
my 93-year-old finnish grandma used to say: "you can take a layer off but you can't add any" - and in her day (40s and 50s) that'd mean: a cotton vest underneath a thin jumper (to catch the sweat, this would be washed every other day), a thin jumper, cardigan, a pair of woolly homemade trousers (double layered at times) and woolly socks, winter boots borrowed from a relative with large feet (to accommodate the layers of wool), winter skirt (longer and the wool would be treated differently), and finally! woolly mittens underneath a pair of leather gloves. she told me that when puffers came to the market, she was overwhelmed with joy as it'd mean less layers. also, despite the excessive layers, frostbites are pretty much a given, my grandma had frostbite on both of her ears, fingers and toes.
Having lived in Finland, the layers and unfortunately also the inevitable frostbite make a lot of sense. I think people living in the North are real heroes.
That's what my mum also used to say! We're all onions in the north. xD Layering clothes is also great for a minimalist/capsule wardrobe, since you can use the same garments year-round by varying the number of layers.
and that's a person who's acclimatised to cold and probably from a place that gets way-way colder than in the video! i don't know what part of finland she was from of course, i only looked at this from estonia and thought it's a little overkill for -9. part of getting ready for the winter is also checking that i accidentally don't dress myself too warm out of comfort when it's only getting a little cold in the autumn, and let my body get used to the temperatures gradually so that when it should get to minus 20 (or even colder, nowadays very rarely tho) suddenly, i wouldn't run out of layers to put on. i'm glad Karolina stayed relatively warm throughout the entire video tho and of course it's a good experiment
The drawers were split (see 4:26) so normally, you would just need to hide a chamberpot underneath and do your business without taking anything off. Her woolen long underwear covers that up, but with buttons, so that would need to be undone--only one layer to undo, kind of like unzipping a fly. There's a good vid about the topic here if you're interested. czcams.com/video/ED-wKZBAl5w/video.html
🦞I love this outfit! You are the MacGyver of historical fashion! I have been finding soft merino wool knit online and it works well for a skin layer, especially hiking/camping expeditions.
How close are you to the mountains. I live in Georgia (US🤢) but I really live mountains and I dream of visiting Norway 🥺/ touring all the mountains that Europe has to offer cause they’re just so pretty and I’ve already visited most of the mountains here in the US so now I must explore
@@louisemarnell6298 Norway is basically just one big mountain range. My family's farm is on top of a hill, and it's just a 20 minute walk to the nearest mountain. Though it's a small one. Drive for an hour and you'll be in the middle of the mountain range
What's a good alternative when you cant handle wool? When a sweather has just 3% wool in it, I'm already too itchy. I can only wear it with a shirt layered underneath but then that has to cover te entire suface for it not to itch.
@@maanlicht8583 latest I've heard is that bamboo viscose is the new big wool replacement fiber for people with sensitive skin, but ive never tried it myself. Other options are silk, soy based fibers and something we call "super underwear" which is made from polyester to keep you warm while still breathing. You can also try a variety of non-sheep wool to see if that works better with your skin, like alpaca and angora. And there's always down jacketsbor coats for the top layer. But what you're doing now isn't wrong either. It's common for people with sensitivity to wool to do a layer or two of cotton against the skin and then do wool on top where it can't touch you but still keep you warm. Hope this helps!
It completely depends on where you are, from Canada here, and honestly for us -9 really isn't all that bad (admittedly it's easy for me to say that because I'm used to -30 on a regular basis and since I moved to Ontario have literally never actually worn my winter coat because there's no need). I do agree that layering is absolutely key and in my case, wool has never truly left my wardrobe either. I totally agree about needing to cover your ears and even though it wasn't fashionable my grandmother (who was Polish btw) used to use head scarves, which were always wool, and then put her hat on top unless it was really cold, then she didn't wear the hat. Gloves, same thing really, you would really need to have fur lined gloves although at -9 you might be able to get away with wool lined, but again layering is the thing. I know you probably don't want to hear it but what meant you could spend that much time in the cold pre-central heating was the fur. Lots and lots of fur everywhere. Coats, capes, blankets, etc. Also lots of breaks to go back indoors, warming huts were a very big thing everywhere. And lots and lots of hot drinks, teas, hot chocolate and hot toddys. I also laughed every single time you stuck with Celsius instead of Fahrenheit. Literally I have no clue either so it was kind of refreshing for me to hear that. Please tell Gosia that even though being the control in the experiments sometimes sucks, we appreciate what she went through for us. Give her a hot toddy.
As a fellow sensitive ear person who always has to have warm ears, I did a little digging myself (because I was like “surely there were Victorian people whose ears got cold”) and apparently ear muffs were invented in 1873! Looking at pictures of antique ones that have survived they’re usually tufts of fur or little cups of silk and velveteen attached by wire or a string. How neat!
Wow, that’s so interesting, thanks. I’m going to have to read up on this. It’s also exactly what I was thinking about as I was watching. Thanks so much for sharing this information 🙂🐿
Yeah, but they were invented in a small town in Maine, US. So it took a while for them to take off, especially outside of the US. (My dad is actually from that town, still incredibly small)
I've been doing layers for ages because I like the ability to adjust my tempurature & OMG I'm thankful to find out that people did layers like that because my family fashion shames me over the layers I do... So again thank you for showing the power of wool
Northern Yukoner, sup neighbour. Can also confirm, fur and leather is what my ancestors (First Nation) wore in -50 to -60 Celsius. Wool is just the cherry on top guys.
@@LuisaH2022 Isn’t wool just a byproduct of shearing the sheep for summer because it get’s hot,uncomfortable for the animal and they get attacked by maggots which is bad for the sheep? Why do they want to ban a good thing like this.
@@LuisaH2022 @Arthur Agawin Unfortunately, wool is not just a byproduct, but has quite a cruel industry behind it. The problems with overheating, maggots etc. are human-made: sheep have been bred so that they have deep wrinkles in their skin (and thus produce an unnatural amount of wool). Wild sheep don't have any of these problems. Additionally, sheep are often treated very badly, for example handled roughly during shearing, castrated (males) and inseminated (females) with painful methods, and ultimately slaughtered. So as practical and warm as wool might be, it's worth choosing cruelty-free options instead.
I, obviously, don't know you, but you are one of my favorite humans. Your joy and curiosity and grand. Your rants ring true. And you shine. Thank you for sharing yourself with the world.
Re: wool against skin. I started knitting about a year ago and I was really surprised when I realized that knitting wool (when you find nice wool) is a whole different experience than products made from mass produced wool. I can imagine people in Victorian times who either knit garments for themselves and their families, or who bought items that required less manufacturing were able to wear wool closer to their skin because it was made from knitting yarn and therefore softer!
Totally. There are different kinds of sheep, and the wool they produce can be wildly different. I think wool gets a bad rap because the strong, tough stuff can be scratchy. Case in point,I made a baby blanket for my niece out of moderately quality, washable wool, not the nicest stuff, but still good. That kid is nearly 4 and drags that blanket everywhere. It’s held up well, she loves how soft it is and will tell you “feel it” just to prove it. Makes me a happy aunt! Wool is a nearly miraculous fiber. And, believe it or not, light weight wool will keep you cool in summer too.
My mom had a cardigan of that quality when she was pregnant with me. It was hand knitted by by her relative. That wool was so different from what we see in market. 20 years later that cardigan still keeps me realllly warm in winter..that was a whole different level than the padded coats we find in market today. Heck i don't even need that coat unless i am travelling or something
Some people (hmm hmm:me) have skin allergies when it comes to wool, which doesn’t help giving wool a good reputation. My godmother knitted me a few really nice wool sweaters when I was a kid with high quality wool and even that didn’t help. I loved the sweaters, but I couldn’t for the life of me wear them without having a layer underneath that would cover my whole skin and prevent any contact (a nice cotton turtleneck top with slightly too long sleeves did the trick for me). People just need to realize that some people having allergies to something doesn’t mean it’s bad for everyone (I’m looking at you gluten).
@@sarahbeth124 I had a cashmere jumper that kept me well when I was battling a cold in summer and still had to do quite some labour. I usually never wore any wool and I was so confused how balanced my body temp felt despite being sick. 🙀 A damn shame I gave that thing away. Also lucky kid! So great to have made sth that is loved so eagerly! :)
@@ameliegonissen7154 Yep. There’s a difference between “I don’t like that” and “my skin will literally revolt” ( (I’m allergic to latex rubber. Feels like I washed my face with jalapeños when my dentist puts on the wrong gloves)
There are some very good ones if you go to the right store. I remember talking to a guy who crossed the arctic a couple times on skis and did some skiing in antarctica as well, and he said that, surprisingly, the best fabrics he could find were synthetic. They just aren't what you would get at your typical mall. They are highly specialized. It was of utmost importance to him that he never break a sweat, but that he not be too cold and he found that wool caused him to sweat too much. He also couldn't ski too fast or he would sweat. He also ate a lot of sandwiches that consisted or a slab of cashew butter between two slabs of butter between two crackers. Sometimes he also just ate a stick of butter.
@@ellajando-saul2493 That lines up with what the (sort-of) survivors of the Franklin Expedition and the navy who searched for them experienced in the Canadian Artic. If you loose a glove up there, you don't survive. You want to live - dress like the Inuit. You can't argue with 15,000 years of technology development that goes into just a winter coat. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
YES! I'll pile on my jacket and sweaters and stuff that are technical fabrics and freeze and sweat all at once, but just an old thrift store wool jacket over a cotton shirt will keep me warm and dry.
I feel the Power of Wool in something as simple as socks as well. I have socks with 75% wool blend and regular cotton socks from the same brand, and boy is the difference significant when I wear wool socks! and not only do my feet keep much warmer, they're also not sweaty or uncomfortable. such a great material.
The more I learn from this beautiful community, the more I realise: our current fashion is mostly this because it's cheaper to make. The production of clothing is so FAR removed from the actual users. I think that has created a mindset that the need for actual fitting clothing that suits the climate of different countries has diminished, while it obviously has not.
I wish we could see what fasion would look like if it wasn't be influenced by mass production. What things would we still use from the past and what things would we inevitably evolve anyway?
Exactly! This is why I decided to learn how to draft and sew for myself. Modern day clothes are solely for the purpose of increasing the company’s profit margin. And we’ve become accustomed to lower quality fabrics and ill fitting garments because the clothes are cheaper.
i have a genuine rabbit fur coat from the 1970s (it belonged to my great-great-grandmother, so a senior citizen fashion queen i can assume) and the past 3 winters i’ve had it have been the warmest winters of my life. i also got wool-lined leather boots from the 60s last year and typically my feet turn into ice blocks with any shoes but those babies do the JOB. i only ever get animal clothing products from secondhand sources and i don’t think i’ll ever want to turn back because i’m extremely sensitive to the cold and those materials do wonders in wintertime.
Here's a tip when wearing multiple layers of socks: make sur they're not tight, because it cuts the blood circulation from your legs and that means that theyre going the be cold faster.
I`m from Russia and in my experience, long shirts are THE BEST for cold weather. Like even if it is -20c it`s still working. Even when I wore just a summer SUMMER skirt and casual jeans it still worked. We REALLY should make it trendy again because it`s just so good for any weather
Few days ago me and my boyfriend were watching series where there was a short sketch that was supposed to take place in the 1920s. Me, of course, noticed the issues with the fashion and started critisizing that this and that is more like 30s and 40s. In response my boyfriend says: "Thank you miss Zebrowska." I just thought you should now.
Petition to modern society to bring back 1890s fashion with all its smart clothing tricks. Or not, amma bring it myself for my own sake, lol. Also 🦞🦞🦞 for Gosia's sacrifice, since I'm already commenting.
having worked outdoors and spent long times in cold weather when it is wet leather and fur still beats any of the synthetics I have used for staying dry and keeping me warm. They also don't melt when they get exposed to heat like plastic based threads.
"If there is one thing I'll miss when pandemic is over, it's surely not being BOTHERED." This is perhaps my favourite quote of all time and also me too big time lol (not that tourists approach me. Just in general.)
@@sherryhassler5932These monstrosities came back in the late 90s/early 2000s. I feel your pain, I had a horrible Peptol Bismol pink one. About the only nice thing I can say about it is that it did actually keep me warm during the first (2003ish?) freak snowstorm to hit Texas in a century.
I have always said while my legs are freezing under two pairs of leggings and a skirt, that women's winter fashion lost a lot of it's warmth factor when we stepped away from multiple levels of wool skirts. Back when the world was still normal my family used to go caroling at Christmas, and let me tell you, dressed in a 1700s wool dress and cape was the warmest I have ever been while walking around at night in below freezing temperatures.
Yes! I also think we lost/lose a lot by not wearing velvet casually! I have two velvet sleeveless dresses I wear clubbing or to fancy dinners etc in the winter, and they keep me so cozy that I can and have worn one of them, in December, in the rain, without a jacket, just wearing a pair of heeled boots, the dress, and some bike shorts underneath. The sleeveless-ness gave me ventilation in the club and the velvet kept me warm outside, to the point where I was the only person not shivering 😅 Not enough people wear velvet casually, like, velvet CAN and SHOULD be casual, it’s just a fabric, like cotton, or silk/satin etc.
🦞🦞🦞 -9 is cold enough to be out for an hour! Brrr. How cool that all the layers worked and if you were in that era you’d be able to adjust and add as needed, and add something for the ears even if it wasn’t like in those particular paintings. Love it!
I have never knitted with natural fibers. I'm put off by all the issues they have. I can't stand the idea of pouring three or four times the cost into materials and then spending hours crafting something just to have it shrink, stretch, or pill. I'd love to know any tips you have because I do want to move to natural fibers!
@@EamonWill Superwash wool! If you're getting good quality natural fiber yarns, you really shouldn't have much problem except for (non-superwash) wool's ability to felt, which is predictable - just don't heat it while wet or rub it against itself while wet and you'll be fine. I think a lot of the problem people have is starting with cheap wool yarn, which uses poor quality wool with short thick fibers which make it itchy and less sturdy than long, fine fibers. I find acrylic yarns pill much worse for me than wool.
@@EamonWill I use a no rinse wash, like Soak. 15 minutes in the water and then a light dab with a towel and then usually I lie flat to dry on a surface like my bathtub or if I need to hang to dry, I put it on my shower curtain rod. Almost completely a no think process and super easy. I don't really worry about felting or really stretching out my knits.
@@EamonWill always do a swatch test, wash as little as possible, you should be able to get multiple wears out of wool, since most of the time it's not worn directly against your skin, wash on the delicate setting, when you pull it out it will be dripping wet, don't hang dry it, lay it on a laundry rack instead, this isn't necessarily for small items, but makes all the difference for bigger ones, if you dry your wool inside and don't have a drain in your laundry room put your drying rack in the bathtub/shower for the first few hours, wool retains a lot of water and the delicates setting doesn't have a spin cycle, so even after wringing it out there will still be a lot of water dripping from your wool If your wool item shrinks soak it in lukewarm water with wool detergent or hair conditioner for 20 minutes to an hour, pat it dry with a towel and while it's still wet start pinning and stretching, if the first pass doesn't get you far enough come back after a few hours, spritz it with some detergent/conditioner water and repin until the garment is a size that's wearable Plant fibres are a lot less fussy than protein fibres, added bonus that they won't get eaten by moths, cotton is great for knitting, a cotton wool blends also have some great properties
I don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this yet so I’ll say it as well! During the 1890’s the Victorian’s would knit little mini scarves called fascinators which they would wrap around their heads in the cold. There are lots of examples of these in books like The Art of Knitting (1892), and Engineering Knits here on CZcams has made some videos about them and winter Victorian clothes. I hope this helps in some way! Love you meme mom!
Great video! Wool is fantastic! When I was younger, in the 80s, I loved long outdoor trips in cold winter. Once it was between -35 and -42 C (-40 is the same in C and F) for five days. I was fine the whole trip. Double wool underwear, thick wool sweater, thick wool vintage trousers from the1950s. Double wool caps, two wool scarves, one covering the face. Two pair of wool mittens. Big vintage leather boots, with wool socks and one pair of very heavy wool felt socks. Outer layer was a home sewn anorak and wind breaker trousers in "watertight" Egyptian cotton. I was not freezing at all. Was sleeping in a heavy down sleeping bag on top of two reindeers skins. Some friends used heavy duty synthetic materials, it was clearly not as warm, and the big drawback at -40C was that it got extremely stiff (and noisy), like having clothes made of thick tarpaulin. Wool is really great, even when it gets wet/icy. My thick wool felt socks got a bit moist from my feet and the outer layer actually froze and stuck to the boot, but my feet were still warm and comfy.
For the sweating while dressing: I guess houses (and especially bedrooms, where you get dressed) were way colder back then, so you wouldn't mind the extra layers inside eithers
You would guess correctly, usually the living rooms were heated through fire, but the other rooms weren't. And the further away from the fireplace the room was, the colder it got. So bedrooms very cold, kitchen fine (you work with fire in there, so it was pretty warm anyways), bathrooms rather cold, depending on how much money you had. Btw houses (like the one I live in) still have that heating point of having the fireplace in between the kitchen and the living room. So you put the wood inside the ofen from the kitchen but the heat giving side is towards the living room. And in castles or bigger houses they either had a lot of money and fireplaces or only a few warm up rooms and just kept warm through other means. Little portable coal boxes to put underneath you feet were a thing as early as the ~16th century.
@@TemariNaraannaschatz so. Like my house. Well my grandparent's house. They only heat the front room (the "family room") and their bedroom, the bathroom and kitchen are all connected to that room so they're warm (except the back part of the kitchen farthest from the family room) but then they close the kitchen door, which closes off the back porch with the laundry room, pantry, and bedroom where I, the cat, and dogs sleep, is FREEZING. It's just as cold in there as outside. Sometimes colder. I bundle up like all hell and wear wool socks, use 4 fluffy blankets, and a sleeping bag to stay warm. Ridiculous.
@@TopAnimeLoverEver My bedroom is in the basement, and while I do have heating, I sleep in 4 warm blankets to keep me warm aswell. I feel you. But it is amazing in summer to sleep there.
@@TopAnimeLoverEver My grand-mother used a bed warmer when she was young. They were made out of metal and you basically put embers in it, and put it under the blanket before going to bed.
What a great experiment! And so pretty, too! Totally agree that we tend to overestimate modern cold-weather clothing. I live in Canada, and the northern indigenous people, for example, still wear traditional fur coats - not because they couldn't have modern coats if they wanted them, but because the modern ones are seriously inferior! I also think its worth remembering that 1800s Europeans lacked central heating! They didn't just need to know how to dress for outside weather - they needed to know the most efficient ways to stay warm indoors! Makes perfect sense that they knew what they were doing, or they wouldn't have survived in Northern Europe.
Love your videos and love your sense of humor. Cute cat too! 😊💖💖💖 I learn so much watching your videos. You are a wealth of knowledge and class! And so funny too! So beautiful too! Love your hair!
Family anecdote about woollen underwear: My dad talks a lot about his maternal grandparents (aka my great grandparents). We are from the Faroe Islands (cold, moist, foggy islands between Scotland and Iceland), and he has very distinct memories of staying with them in the 70's, sleeping in their bed, and they wore wool underwear and wool nightgowns, and the thing he remembers most vividly is how itchy it was, and my great granddads dry response was just "I've worn it since 1891(the year he was born), you get used to it:
In my hometown they had a plant in the town utilizing steam for all the homes in the town. The townsfolk and buildings were all heated via steam. Radiators. They were old when I was a kid in the 1960’s, we had huge windows in all buildings were warm and I lived in N. Minnesota. The winters as I recall were not -20 to - 30 of much below. Zero. The town used to have tremendous winter activities
I heard that as I was crocheting myself a pair of gloves and went !!!!!!! Wool is magical and amazing and is a thousand times better than every more modern 'insulating' fabric that makes you sweat and then get colder.
Got me good too. Everything I've ever knitted has resorted in becoming something for a four-legged friend. imagine having the patience to make something for a human...? I can't.
Many of us Canadians are familiar with the "wool onion" concept. Thin merino wool under layers and thick wool outer layers have helped me survive many winters. But I also always have to add extra ear protection, so let us know if you find some fashionable options. You looked fabulous as always.👍
Merino wool is a big life saver. These days if it's sub -20C I normally wear merino under layers, regular clothing, wool socks, cashmere scarf, wool hat and alpaca gloves with a wool coat on top. It definitely keeps me warm but I also run warm.
@@idislikemints in Siberia they have these fur lined and fur exterior boots that work well for weather -40. For me, personally (since weather doesn’t go to -40 where I live) in the winter I wear these thermos pants ordered from amazon under any pants which helps and I invest in some very nice quality Italian leather boots which always keep my feet warm, and I wear it with my fur coat and for my ears i wear pavolovoposadskaya scarf (a very traditional Russian scarf). It’s perfect for the winter and very specially made with silk and wool blend. I hope I helped a bit! :)
@@danirezaeva3934 thank you! We also get cold winters (not as cold as yours). When the wind starts or when there is rain/snow, I feel like most of my clothing doesn't stand a chance. All the stuff in the shops is poorly made. No fur anything. A lot of them have no isolation. The best you can do is go to a sports shop and check the section for skiing or whatnot and then buy from there. You gave me idea what to specifically search for.
Same here in Canada! If you want a coat that's actually going to keep you warm when the wind chill hits - 20 C or lower, down filled coats are a necessity! So is layering, just like in the video! I usually wear thermal leggings under my jeans or trousers, and an average of three pairs of socks under a solid pair of boots. And we may not have invented the touque, but we've made it our own, eh?
My dad didn't believe me that me wearing leggings and loose cord pants kept me way warmer than jeans ever could. I wish i had a proper wool set up tho, it is so comfy! 🦞🦞🦞🦞
I have a pair of sweater tights From Gaynor Minden that work beautifully for the cold. I bought them for ballet class on cold mornings but I can also wear them with a skirt and boots or under a pair of pants when it gets cold.
I used to work outdoors year round. I'd wear thin wool leggings and shirt underneath canvas pants, a long sleeved cotton shirt and sweatshirt, a canvas jacket lined with wool felt and a knit wool hat. Even when the temperature was below freezing and damp, I was okay in that outfit. The wool gave me plenty of warmth and the tight weave of the canvas kept out the wind.
3:55 I believe that you mean the idea of cheap wool against the skin as that tends to be of a more brassy textured wool while the more expensive ones either feels silky smooth, really fluffy/soft or both
Yup! It's why it's a common fire safety tip to lightly douse a wool blanket in water and shelter with it covering you in the event you cannot escape a fire. You want the outer layers of the material to be wet to deter burning, but the inner layers should stay dry to prevent a potential sauna/boiling scenario. Wool is the master fiber, there is no doubt!
I play stardew valley.when it was Christmas in the game,a character said "arent you cold dear?they dont make winter clothing like they used to."i understand now.
First thing you learn in Sweden as a child in winter, is layering! (Then, at 14, you completely disregard it and build up your resistance to instead "look hot" they are freaking immune to cold while wearing mini skirts @_@ ) It was interesting to see what sort of layers they would have worn back in the 1800s tho! 😁
Relatable!! As a teen, I always avoided wearing ski pants during winter. But then in my final year of high school, a week of -30 C came, and I would spend at least 15 minutes in the morning just layering up (including ski pants), and once I got to school I would literally hatch out from my "chrysalis" :D
Fun fact about wool. When Roald Amundsen went on his cross Greenland trip all of his crew was kitted with wool clothing instead of standard fur for that time. That was mainly for the weight saving reasons. And they did just about fine. Or as fine as you can do in the Arctic weather conditions... Also there was re-creational effort done to see how good 1920-ties high altitude mountaineering kit was really performing. Basically, they re-created kit and clothing from ill fated Mallory/Irvin Mt Everest expedition. All wool, leather and some fur added for the good measure. And yet again they were just fine, or as fine as you can be on the Roof of the World... Cheers! I.
I've been keeping my great-grand-mothers' fur coats and I ask everyone I know to send me the furs they want to get rid of. When it gets real cold here in Canada (-25°C happens often in january) I grab one of my vintage 60's silk lined fur coats and I'm the warmest girl around. I get weird looks, but I'm warm. 🙃 I also started collecting unfinished cruelty free furs so that I may one day make a piece of clothing of my own. When my pet bunny died of old age, I had her fur done. When my cat brought home a dead mink, I had the fur done too. You never know when those could be useful. And I'm not about to go support a fur industry that wastes so much and who mistreats animals so much. Also, 🦞. Love you girls.
"never underestimate wool" truth! I have an Icelandic wool sweater, and if I wear it with just an long sleeves undershirt I don't need a coat when it's 0c/32f.
🦞thank you for your efforts. I hope you are warmer now. This was an interesting experiment. I live in Vermont and we definitely get cold winters. I want a wool walking skirt now even more than I did previously
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Alternative title: a time traveler teaches the people of the twenty first century the right way to dress when going out in winter.
Who pretends to be part of the 21st century but fails
Truths.
@@onelonelypotato7204 Me, it’s very hard, to comprehend how stupid people are.
@@onelonelypotato7204 why does nagito have a gun
@@fern7571 I seriously don’t know
My (Yorkshire) grandmother told me that mothers would put potatoes in the range to bake overnight and in the morning they would put the hot potatoes in their daughters' hand muffs to keep them warm while they walked to school. Then when they got to school they would eat the potato.
So a heater and a snack....innovated
On wow. They did/probably still do this in Russia too!
🦞 As a knitter who lives in the Midwest US (where it regularly gets down to -10C/14F and stays there for weeks in the winter), I understand well the power of wool lol. I've knit myself quite a few winter things from real wool and it's amazing how massive a difference it makes to even just toss on a real wool knitted scarf, gloves, and hat alongside more modern winterwear.
"Victorian fashion is DOPE"
*everyone liked that*
Yep u_u
True though ❤️
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I live in Canada, and I've always said that the best winter wear is what the Indigenous people wore traditonally! Modern stuff has nothing on what thousands of years of perfecting winter wear gave us.
I inherited a mink coat from my Great Aunt and that thing is sooooo warm! Sometimes too warm. So are we surprised that the Victorians, with their detailed sewing techniques, also used different types of fabric they had at their disposal to their advantage? Insulation wool and fur in the winter, linen and covering from the sun in the summer. It's not that hard.
Furs are a godsend for warmth, after all that’s what they were made for originally. Wish there wasn’t such a stigma around them nowadays, even used ones.
OMG, I bought a calf length fur coat at an auction for 30 bucks and wore it quite a bit that winter for walking the dog and so on. I was doing a lot of travelling between eastern Iowa and northern Saskatchewan so yup.... :)
@@Jhud69 I know, I wish so too. I get why the negative stigma is there and yeah, the ethics surrounding it nowadays are questionable. It would be great if it was just common practice to resource fur ethically (people are going to have a differing views on what "ethically" means. I don't know if like the idea of mink farms and I'm not sure what else you can resource from minks other than fur.) and fur lovers would at least have a better argument for using it in today's world. Even nice synthetic fur just isn't the same.
@@xXOpenYourHeart759Xx i think it has to do with the fact that fur is an easy win for animal rights organizations who can't affect change when it comes to the nightmarish conditions other animals experience in farming, and that people have less of a need so are more likely to associate fur with rich assholes or characters like cruella. like a mink mill or overfeeding foxes for the highest output is something we should avoid, but it's hard to argue that native peoples hunting seals or beavers or whatever in sustainable numbers is anywhere close to that. if anything it's more reasonable because you need very little meat to survive, most people probably eat an unhealthy amount of meat, but people sustainably used furs hundreds of thousands of years and no other material comes close.
Animals should have the right not to have their own skin ripped off for others to use, just as humans have that right. Humans do not have the right to own everything we see. It’s good we’re finally learning that, especially with all the cruelty free alternatives available today.
Hmm. The fact that Karolina was comfortable but her sister was freezing makes one realize how little people spend time outside in the cold anymore. If we did, there would be a much higher demand for warmer winter clothing. Of course, those who do spend time in the cold know to wear multiple layers everywhere.
Not just warmer clothing, but natural fibers. Modern fashions and materials really don't insulate all that well.
I have a coat with a woolen inside and windbreaking modern stuff on the outside. It is nice and warm. I also have huge skipants that I wear when I cycle or go for a longer walk. Yes my silhouette is ruined, but I am toasty and happy.
Laughs in Swedish.
@@jinde75 I wish, lol. I get -40C weather where I'm from and the only thing you can do is wear 3 layers (for pants: liner ski pants, fuzzy pj pants and snow pants are standard) and wearing a fur coat...or just not going outside.
@@Arianrhod9 membrane, fleece and modern feather do work
“fashion is important... but... I guess... so not ✨freezing to death✨perhaps?”
-meme mum 2021
* chuckle * I always told my twins when they were teenagers and insisted on leaving the house in winter without a coat, blue is not a fashionable colour for human skin unless you're a corpse. *)
Tell that to floral shirt gays on a December night out
I accidentally read this AS she said it, are you magic? 👁👁
These kinds of videos have done a good job of teaching me how to dress for winter. Moving from a place with very mild winters to one that snowed regularly, I had to learn how to layer pretty quickly. Thank you, Karolina
If you wanted to make a real fur coat you could always get used ones! The thrift stores by me sometimes have them for pretty cheap. Then the fur gets a second use out of it too!
I can’t believe Victorian women were actually wool onions
😂 that just made my day!
I love being a wool onion. Right now, inside, I am wearing animal fiber: hat, knitted vest/waistcoat, sweater, leggings, skirt, legwarmers, ankle warmers, socks, slippers, and a custom handsewn tube as a finger sleeve for my arthritic finger. My nose and toes are still cold. It’s 63.4F /17.4C in my kitchen. I am ready to add my Norwegian-inspired pulsewarmers to help my hands.
I have been planning to make a wool skirt and I love the one you are wearing. Is it any particular pattern or system? I will need to use several pieces of unmatched fabric, because I am used to modern clothes for which 3 yards is plenty for a short girl!!! Still, a long skirt would be so much warmer than my above-the-knee Smartwool 3-layered skirt (that I adore).
I have personally walked to the store in a blizzard, wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers beneath a full-length wool cape, and it was very comfortably warm.
Where is the lobster in this comment 🦞
I work outside with my husband and by the time I get all my longjohns and layers on inside the house, I’m sweating profusely too!!! I totally get! It’s so bad in fact, that I usually finish the second half of getting dressed outside!
Alternate title: *Fashion Historian Leads Unethical Experiment on Family Member to Prove “Old Clothes Are Better”*
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I would totally watch a video with that title.
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Oh, good Lord, must everything be called unethical??????
Amber was jocking, Mimi 🙂
I know I'm late to this party, but 🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞
I live in Alaska and we are having a pretty cold winter thus far (like, 16⁰f is a warm day for us 😭 -10⁰F is more the theme). I've been wondering how people dressed back in the day to stay warm in dresses and such. Been wanting to get more into sewing and create my own victorian wardrobe for all seasons so this was very insightful! I love your channel.
for a second I didn't see the °f lol and I was about to be like, but 16° is a comfortable temperature...
When I lived in Norway I also layered an insane amount of wool stuff under my clothing and it really worked extremely well. It was basically the bread and butter of all my outfits.
The real question is how they stayed cool in the summer 😳
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Linen ... it's like wearing nothing 😉
Live in England 😂
Light colored fabrics, parasols, sunhats, open corsets, etc.
Surprisingly, it's again: Wool. Layers of it, but thin layers for summer, and less. Linen is an alternative if you want, but sewing and taking care of linen clothing wasn't exactly easy peasy.
🦞 Much respect to Gosia's sacrifice For Science. Also your winter outfit is not just warm but rather magnificent! *eyes that one 1893 travelling outfit with the cape in Costume in Detail and starts scheming*
treat 👏🏻 your👏🏻 self 👏🏻
Karolina Żebrowska can you do winter wear from the 20’s please 🦞
I think the biggest problem is that all clothing is fashioned for america, and of course, America is not the rest of the world.
So when we take the fashion that is fitted for the southern U.S., and mass produce it to make the most profit. It doesn’t fit the wider range of climates everywhere else. Making it impractical for where others live.
@@crayonburry yeah, I live in South Carolina, and it has been years since I've seen snow or ice outside of my freezer and tea glasses.
@@da_bananananana4171 I live in central texas. But for some reason we get one snow day in January for the whole year.
Though sometimes it doesn’t come. Texas just ranges from 24F to 104F (-4.5C to 40C). I think the lowest temp I ever felt was 17F.
I grew up in southern Brazil, where it can get very cold, and we don't have any heating and our houses aren't insulated. I remember commonly wearing two woollen jumpers indoors and feeling COZY. Sometimes I would sleep in a woollen jumper too, under lots of blankets. My parents had this monster blanket that was stuffed with sheep wool and it weighed a ton. It was great.
my 93-year-old finnish grandma used to say: "you can take a layer off but you can't add any" - and in her day (40s and 50s) that'd mean: a cotton vest underneath a thin jumper (to catch the sweat, this would be washed every other day), a thin jumper, cardigan, a pair of woolly homemade trousers (double layered at times) and woolly socks, winter boots borrowed from a relative with large feet (to accommodate the layers of wool), winter skirt (longer and the wool would be treated differently), and finally! woolly mittens underneath a pair of leather gloves. she told me that when puffers came to the market, she was overwhelmed with joy as it'd mean less layers. also, despite the excessive layers, frostbites are pretty much a given, my grandma had frostbite on both of her ears, fingers and toes.
Your grandma makes a whole lot of sense
Cotton is horrible as a baselayer. I'm so glad for merino wool and synthetics. Yay science.
Having lived in Finland, the layers and unfortunately also the inevitable frostbite make a lot of sense. I think people living in the North are real heroes.
That's what my mum also used to say! We're all onions in the north. xD Layering clothes is also great for a minimalist/capsule wardrobe, since you can use the same garments year-round by varying the number of layers.
and that's a person who's acclimatised to cold and probably from a place that gets way-way colder than in the video! i don't know what part of finland she was from of course, i only looked at this from estonia and thought it's a little overkill for -9. part of getting ready for the winter is also checking that i accidentally don't dress myself too warm out of comfort when it's only getting a little cold in the autumn, and let my body get used to the temperatures gradually so that when it should get to minus 20 (or even colder, nowadays very rarely tho) suddenly, i wouldn't run out of layers to put on.
i'm glad Karolina stayed relatively warm throughout the entire video tho and of course it's a good experiment
As someone who has to pee a lot, these layers stress me out
The drawers were split (see 4:26) so normally, you would just need to hide a chamberpot underneath and do your business without taking anything off. Her woolen long underwear covers that up, but with buttons, so that would need to be undone--only one layer to undo, kind of like unzipping a fly. There's a good vid about the topic here if you're interested. czcams.com/video/ED-wKZBAl5w/video.html
🦞I love this outfit! You are the MacGyver of historical fashion! I have been finding soft merino wool knit online and it works well for a skin layer, especially hiking/camping expeditions.
"I have no idea how much that is in Fahrenheit but who cares" a mood 🦞
I of course being an old lady of many US east coast winters loved every minute
who cares about fahrenheit? not mee
@@danone2414 America apparently
@@MissEarthling United States* I'm from America and we couldn't care less here
@@MissEarthling Yes we use Fahrenheit here.
I'm a Norwegian and I can tell you that we still use layers and layers of wool when going outside in winter. Good old fashioned Wool never disappoints
How close are you to the mountains. I live in Georgia (US🤢) but I really live mountains and I dream of visiting Norway 🥺/ touring all the mountains that Europe has to offer cause they’re just so pretty and I’ve already visited most of the mountains here in the US so now I must explore
@@louisemarnell6298 Norway is basically just one big mountain range. My family's farm is on top of a hill, and it's just a 20 minute walk to the nearest mountain. Though it's a small one. Drive for an hour and you'll be in the middle of the mountain range
Yup. I'm currently wearing layers, oh and a blanket.
What's a good alternative when you cant handle wool? When a sweather has just 3% wool in it, I'm already too itchy. I can only wear it with a shirt layered underneath but then that has to cover te entire suface for it not to itch.
@@maanlicht8583 latest I've heard is that bamboo viscose is the new big wool replacement fiber for people with sensitive skin, but ive never tried it myself. Other options are silk, soy based fibers and something we call "super underwear" which is made from polyester to keep you warm while still breathing. You can also try a variety of non-sheep wool to see if that works better with your skin, like alpaca and angora. And there's always down jacketsbor coats for the top layer. But what you're doing now isn't wrong either. It's common for people with sensitivity to wool to do a layer or two of cotton against the skin and then do wool on top where it can't touch you but still keep you warm.
Hope this helps!
I like how her accent just gets thicker when she's cold
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It's the viscosity.
It completely depends on where you are, from Canada here, and honestly for us -9 really isn't all that bad (admittedly it's easy for me to say that because I'm used to -30 on a regular basis and since I moved to Ontario have literally never actually worn my winter coat because there's no need). I do agree that layering is absolutely key and in my case, wool has never truly left my wardrobe either. I totally agree about needing to cover your ears and even though it wasn't fashionable my grandmother (who was Polish btw) used to use head scarves, which were always wool, and then put her hat on top unless it was really cold, then she didn't wear the hat. Gloves, same thing really, you would really need to have fur lined gloves although at -9 you might be able to get away with wool lined, but again layering is the thing.
I know you probably don't want to hear it but what meant you could spend that much time in the cold pre-central heating was the fur. Lots and lots of fur everywhere. Coats, capes, blankets, etc. Also lots of breaks to go back indoors, warming huts were a very big thing everywhere. And lots and lots of hot drinks, teas, hot chocolate and hot toddys.
I also laughed every single time you stuck with Celsius instead of Fahrenheit. Literally I have no clue either so it was kind of refreshing for me to hear that. Please tell Gosia that even though being the control in the experiments sometimes sucks, we appreciate what she went through for us. Give her a hot toddy.
I love your channel! 🦞 Your voice is really soothing. Sometimes I listen to your videos when I'm feeling stressed. 🙂
As a fellow sensitive ear person who always has to have warm ears, I did a little digging myself (because I was like “surely there were Victorian people whose ears got cold”) and apparently ear muffs were invented in 1873! Looking at pictures of antique ones that have survived they’re usually tufts of fur or little cups of silk and velveteen attached by wire or a string. How neat!
That’s so cool
Wow, that’s so interesting, thanks.
I’m going to have to read up on this.
It’s also exactly what I was thinking about as I was watching. Thanks so much for sharing this information 🙂🐿
My Mom swears by ear muffs! I always hated the pressure the plastic band put on my head. I would love to try the older model.
Yeah, but they were invented in a small town in Maine, US. So it took a while for them to take off, especially outside of the US.
(My dad is actually from that town, still incredibly small)
That sounds better compared to modern ones, those give us poor-sighted people headaches lol
If I ever make a period drama movie, I’ll make Karolina in charge of my costume design
This
I want three, Karolina, Bernadette, and shoot I forgot. Um sewstine lady I forgot her name. Oh! or the American duchess people?
My dream team would be: our meme Mum of course, Bernadette and Micarah Tewers 👌
@@Kyrridwen420 if you're grouping her in with karolina and mircarah, I must know who bernadette is, please guide me to her😁
@@taylorgrace1523 here's her channel:
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Probably the prettiest Victorian outfit I’ve seen, you are so beautiful!
I've been doing layers for ages because I like the ability to adjust my tempurature & OMG I'm thankful to find out that people did layers like that because my family fashion shames me over the layers I do... So again thank you for showing the power of wool
🦞 As a resident of Alaska I can confirm layers, fur, and wool is the way
Why the lobster
Edit: sorry, I've watched the rest of the video
She said to put it in the comments as an ode to her sister for being red as a lobster after being outside for so long
Northern Yukoner, sup neighbour. Can also confirm, fur and leather is what my ancestors (First Nation) wore in -50 to -60 Celsius. Wool is just the cherry on top guys.
Hello Fellow Alaskan
Wool and fur, FTW!! 🦞🦞🦞
The POWER of WOOL is strong with this one.
PETA, 4 paws and others want to ban wool. 😉
@@LuisaH2022 Isn’t wool just a byproduct of shearing the sheep for summer because it get’s hot,uncomfortable for the animal and they get attacked by maggots which is bad for the sheep? Why do they want to ban a good thing like this.
@@arthurianking9776 ikr. Those "organisations" ban everything
@@LuisaH2022 @Arthur Agawin
Unfortunately, wool is not just a byproduct, but has quite a cruel industry behind it. The problems with overheating, maggots etc. are human-made: sheep have been bred so that they have deep wrinkles in their skin (and thus produce an unnatural amount of wool). Wild sheep don't have any of these problems. Additionally, sheep are often treated very badly, for example handled roughly during shearing, castrated (males) and inseminated (females) with painful methods, and ultimately slaughtered.
So as practical and warm as wool might be, it's worth choosing cruelty-free options instead.
@@franziska5582 cruelty-free options - examples please
Now that's what I was looking for for all those years, very informative and entertaining video, thank you🦞
I, obviously, don't know you, but you are one of my favorite humans. Your joy and curiosity and grand. Your rants ring true. And you shine. Thank you for sharing yourself with the world.
Re: wool against skin. I started knitting about a year ago and I was really surprised when I realized that knitting wool (when you find nice wool) is a whole different experience than products made from mass produced wool. I can imagine people in Victorian times who either knit garments for themselves and their families, or who bought items that required less manufacturing were able to wear wool closer to their skin because it was made from knitting yarn and therefore softer!
Totally. There are different kinds of sheep, and the wool they produce can be wildly different. I think wool gets a bad rap because the strong, tough stuff can be scratchy.
Case in point,I made a baby blanket for my niece out of moderately quality, washable wool, not the nicest stuff, but still good. That kid is nearly 4 and drags that blanket everywhere. It’s held up well, she loves how soft it is and will tell you “feel it” just to prove it. Makes me a happy aunt!
Wool is a nearly miraculous fiber. And, believe it or not, light weight wool will keep you cool in summer too.
My mom had a cardigan of that quality when she was pregnant with me. It was hand knitted by by her relative. That wool was so different from what we see in market. 20 years later that cardigan still keeps me realllly warm in winter..that was a whole different level than the padded coats we find in market today. Heck i don't even need that coat unless i am travelling or something
Some people (hmm hmm:me) have skin allergies when it comes to wool, which doesn’t help giving wool a good reputation. My godmother knitted me a few really nice wool sweaters when I was a kid with high quality wool and even that didn’t help. I loved the sweaters, but I couldn’t for the life of me wear them without having a layer underneath that would cover my whole skin and prevent any contact (a nice cotton turtleneck top with slightly too long sleeves did the trick for me). People just need to realize that some people having allergies to something doesn’t mean it’s bad for everyone (I’m looking at you gluten).
@@sarahbeth124 I had a cashmere jumper that kept me well when I was battling a cold in summer and still had to do quite some labour. I usually never wore any wool and I was so confused how balanced my body temp felt despite being sick. 🙀 A damn shame I gave that thing away.
Also lucky kid! So great to have made sth that is loved so eagerly! :)
@@ameliegonissen7154 Yep. There’s a difference between “I don’t like that” and “my skin will literally revolt” (
(I’m allergic to latex rubber. Feels like I washed my face with jalapeños when my dentist puts on the wrong gloves)
The problem with modern "insulating" fabrics is that they just make you sweat, they don't actually keep you warm.
Linen was chosen for underwear, bedsheets and nightwear because it keeps you warm even when damp.
There are some very good ones if you go to the right store. I remember talking to a guy who crossed the arctic a couple times on skis and did some skiing in antarctica as well, and he said that, surprisingly, the best fabrics he could find were synthetic. They just aren't what you would get at your typical mall. They are highly specialized. It was of utmost importance to him that he never break a sweat, but that he not be too cold and he found that wool caused him to sweat too much. He also couldn't ski too fast or he would sweat. He also ate a lot of sandwiches that consisted or a slab of cashew butter between two slabs of butter between two crackers. Sometimes he also just ate a stick of butter.
@@ellajando-saul2493 madlad
@@ellajando-saul2493 That lines up with what the (sort-of) survivors of the Franklin Expedition and the navy who searched for them experienced in the Canadian Artic. If you loose a glove up there, you don't survive. You want to live - dress like the Inuit. You can't argue with 15,000 years of technology development that goes into just a winter coat.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
YES! I'll pile on my jacket and sweaters and stuff that are technical fabrics and freeze and sweat all at once, but just an old thrift store wool jacket over a cotton shirt will keep me warm and dry.
🦞Wool for the win! Definitely looking to add more wool to my winter wardrobe ❄️
I feel the Power of Wool in something as simple as socks as well.
I have socks with 75% wool blend and regular cotton socks from the same brand, and boy is the difference significant when I wear wool socks! and not only do my feet keep much warmer, they're also not sweaty or uncomfortable. such a great material.
The more I learn from this beautiful community, the more I realise: our current fashion is mostly this because it's cheaper to make. The production of clothing is so FAR removed from the actual users. I think that has created a mindset that the need for actual fitting clothing that suits the climate of different countries has diminished, while it obviously has not.
I wish we could see what fasion would look like if it wasn't be influenced by mass production. What things would we still use from the past and what things would we inevitably evolve anyway?
This!!
Exactly! This is why I decided to learn how to draft and sew for myself. Modern day clothes are solely for the purpose of increasing the company’s profit margin. And we’ve become accustomed to lower quality fabrics and ill fitting garments because the clothes are cheaper.
"layers and layers of wool" - so basically, become a sheep
Yes this is accurate
I'm a sheep beep beep.
Reject humanity, return to sheep
Have you ever heard of a cold sheep???
Someone at some point in history looked at a sheep in winter and went "wait THEY aren't cold" and that's how fabric was invented.
i have a genuine rabbit fur coat from the 1970s (it belonged to my great-great-grandmother, so a senior citizen fashion queen i can assume) and the past 3 winters i’ve had it have been the warmest winters of my life. i also got wool-lined leather boots from the 60s last year and typically my feet turn into ice blocks with any shoes but those babies do the JOB. i only ever get animal clothing products from secondhand sources and i don’t think i’ll ever want to turn back because i’m extremely sensitive to the cold and those materials do wonders in wintertime.
Here's a tip when wearing multiple layers of socks: make sur they're not tight, because it cuts the blood circulation from your legs and that means that theyre going the be cold faster.
maeve thats what I learned when I was a kid. I am Austrian and we went skiing a lot. Still remember that ist was VERY cold.
Yeah learned that one the hard way :)
before hitting "read more", I thought you were going to say "or your feet will fall off" lol
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That’s why your winter boots are a size bigger!!!
I`m from Russia and in my experience, long shirts are THE BEST for cold weather. Like even if it is -20c it`s still working. Even when I wore just a summer SUMMER skirt and casual jeans it still worked. We REALLY should make it trendy again because it`s just so good for any weather
🦞 so much love for the effort!
Few days ago me and my boyfriend were watching series where there was a short sketch that was supposed to take place in the 1920s. Me, of course, noticed the issues with the fashion and started critisizing that this and that is more like 30s and 40s. In response my boyfriend says: "Thank you miss Zebrowska." I just thought you should now.
*Victorian people using nice and cute dresses to stay warm*
*Meanwhile me using a big ass hoodie looking like a potato sack*
Reason number 1 why I don't like modern fashion.
@@6thgraderfriends Worst part is that I still feel cold in those big ass hoodies
Petition to modern society to bring back 1890s fashion with all its smart clothing tricks.
Or not, amma bring it myself for my own sake, lol.
Also 🦞🦞🦞 for Gosia's sacrifice, since I'm already commenting.
@@Kasiarzynka omg yes!!
Just layer a spring jacket under it. Solves a lot of problems. 👍🏼
having worked outdoors and spent long times in cold weather when it is wet leather and fur still beats any of the synthetics I have used for staying dry and keeping me warm. They also don't melt when they get exposed to heat like plastic based threads.
Fiber artist here, and wool is probably the most magical of all fibers
"If there is one thing I'll miss when pandemic is over, it's surely not being BOTHERED." This is perhaps my favourite quote of all time and also me too big time lol (not that tourists approach me. Just in general.)
I still get approached by strangers tho! TwT
✨ "Yes you wanna stay warm, but you don't want your silhouette ruined, do you?" ✨
As a child who wore puffy coats in the 80's and hated them, I feel this.
@@sherryhassler5932These monstrosities came back in the late 90s/early 2000s. I feel your pain, I had a horrible Peptol Bismol pink one. About the only nice thing I can say about it is that it did actually keep me warm during the first (2003ish?) freak snowstorm to hit Texas in a century.
🦞also, i love the effort and thought that goes into your outfits!
That jacket!!!!
Just gorgeous!!!
I have always said while my legs are freezing under two pairs of leggings and a skirt, that women's winter fashion lost a lot of it's warmth factor when we stepped away from multiple levels of wool skirts.
Back when the world was still normal my family used to go caroling at Christmas, and let me tell you, dressed in a 1700s wool dress and cape was the warmest I have ever been while walking around at night in below freezing temperatures.
Yes! I also think we lost/lose a lot by not wearing velvet casually! I have two velvet sleeveless dresses I wear clubbing or to fancy dinners etc in the winter, and they keep me so cozy that I can and have worn one of them, in December, in the rain, without a jacket, just wearing a pair of heeled boots, the dress, and some bike shorts underneath. The sleeveless-ness gave me ventilation in the club and the velvet kept me warm outside, to the point where I was the only person not shivering 😅
Not enough people wear velvet casually, like, velvet CAN and SHOULD be casual, it’s just a fabric, like cotton, or silk/satin etc.
Try fleece tights
Certainly, it will be cozier, it is just like having layers of blankets covering you all the time.
Sounds like someone was never introduced to thermal tights
I get what you're saying, but please dress warmer, like thermal tights, long john, sweat pants, trousers that you can have layer(s) under.
🦞 so what I’m hearing is that I should get myself a whole Victorian winter outfit
Treat yo self!
🦞🦞🦞never seen snow before, it looks so beautiful. Thank you for shooting this.
🦞🦞🦞 -9 is cold enough to be out for an hour! Brrr. How cool that all the layers worked and if you were in that era you’d be able to adjust and add as needed, and add something for the ears even if it wasn’t like in those particular paintings. Love it!
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“WOOL IS COOL” ....as a Knitter, I totally agree.
I have never knitted with natural fibers. I'm put off by all the issues they have. I can't stand the idea of pouring three or four times the cost into materials and then spending hours crafting something just to have it shrink, stretch, or pill. I'd love to know any tips you have because I do want to move to natural fibers!
@@EamonWill Superwash wool!
If you're getting good quality natural fiber yarns, you really shouldn't have much problem except for (non-superwash) wool's ability to felt, which is predictable - just don't heat it while wet or rub it against itself while wet and you'll be fine. I think a lot of the problem people have is starting with cheap wool yarn, which uses poor quality wool with short thick fibers which make it itchy and less sturdy than long, fine fibers. I find acrylic yarns pill much worse for me than wool.
@@EamonWill I use a no rinse wash, like Soak. 15 minutes in the water and then a light dab with a towel and then usually I lie flat to dry on a surface like my bathtub or if I need to hang to dry, I put it on my shower curtain rod. Almost completely a no think process and super easy. I don't really worry about felting or really stretching out my knits.
Wool makes my skin itch. Sadly.
@@EamonWill always do a swatch test, wash as little as possible, you should be able to get multiple wears out of wool, since most of the time it's not worn directly against your skin, wash on the delicate setting, when you pull it out it will be dripping wet, don't hang dry it, lay it on a laundry rack instead, this isn't necessarily for small items, but makes all the difference for bigger ones, if you dry your wool inside and don't have a drain in your laundry room put your drying rack in the bathtub/shower for the first few hours, wool retains a lot of water and the delicates setting doesn't have a spin cycle, so even after wringing it out there will still be a lot of water dripping from your wool
If your wool item shrinks soak it in lukewarm water with wool detergent or hair conditioner for 20 minutes to an hour, pat it dry with a towel and while it's still wet start pinning and stretching, if the first pass doesn't get you far enough come back after a few hours, spritz it with some detergent/conditioner water and repin until the garment is a size that's wearable
Plant fibres are a lot less fussy than protein fibres, added bonus that they won't get eaten by moths, cotton is great for knitting, a cotton wool blends also have some great properties
I don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this yet so I’ll say it as well! During the 1890’s the Victorian’s would knit little mini scarves called fascinators which they would wrap around their heads in the cold. There are lots of examples of these in books like The Art of Knitting (1892), and Engineering Knits here on CZcams has made some videos about them and winter Victorian clothes. I hope this helps in some way! Love you meme mom!
Great video! Wool is fantastic! When I was younger, in the 80s, I loved long outdoor trips in cold winter. Once it was between -35 and -42 C (-40 is the same in C and F) for five days. I was fine the whole trip. Double wool underwear, thick wool sweater, thick wool vintage trousers from the1950s. Double wool caps, two wool scarves, one covering the face. Two pair of wool mittens. Big vintage leather boots, with wool socks and one pair of very heavy wool felt socks. Outer layer was a home sewn anorak and wind breaker trousers in "watertight" Egyptian cotton. I was not freezing at all. Was sleeping in a heavy down sleeping bag on top of two reindeers skins. Some friends used heavy duty synthetic materials, it was clearly not as warm, and the big drawback at -40C was that it got extremely stiff (and noisy), like having clothes made of thick tarpaulin. Wool is really great, even when it gets wet/icy. My thick wool felt socks got a bit moist from my feet and the outer layer actually froze and stuck to the boot, but my feet were still warm and comfy.
🦞 Layers and natural fibres are the way to go I think 🤔 Hats are essential for warmth. Amazing how you make an outfit in such a short time. TYFS.
The area you live looks beautiful, I’m not surprised there are normally loads of tourists 🦞
As someone who makes their own wool mittens and wears them every single winter, I agree. NEVER underestimate wool, that stuff is magic
Bernie Sanders agrees.
I am alergic 😓
Glad to be a tropical gurl
I have mild Raynaud's. Wool socks are a miracle.
@@catvergueiro8905 I hear alpaca is almost hypoallergenic...
@@sycamorevalley8580 can confirm. i have a pretty bad wool allergy but alpaca doesn't really bother me.
For the sweating while dressing: I guess houses (and especially bedrooms, where you get dressed) were way colder back then, so you wouldn't mind the extra layers inside eithers
You would guess correctly, usually the living rooms were heated through fire, but the other rooms weren't. And the further away from the fireplace the room was, the colder it got. So bedrooms very cold, kitchen fine (you work with fire in there, so it was pretty warm anyways), bathrooms rather cold, depending on how much money you had.
Btw houses (like the one I live in) still have that heating point of having the fireplace in between the kitchen and the living room. So you put the wood inside the ofen from the kitchen but the heat giving side is towards the living room.
And in castles or bigger houses they either had a lot of money and fireplaces or only a few warm up rooms and just kept warm through other means. Little portable coal boxes to put underneath you feet were a thing as early as the ~16th century.
@@TemariNaraannaschatz so. Like my house.
Well my grandparent's house.
They only heat the front room (the "family room") and their bedroom, the bathroom and kitchen are all connected to that room so they're warm (except the back part of the kitchen farthest from the family room) but then they close the kitchen door, which closes off the back porch with the laundry room, pantry, and bedroom where I, the cat, and dogs sleep, is FREEZING. It's just as cold in there as outside. Sometimes colder. I bundle up like all hell and wear wool socks, use 4 fluffy blankets, and a sleeping bag to stay warm. Ridiculous.
@@TopAnimeLoverEver My bedroom is in the basement, and while I do have heating, I sleep in 4 warm blankets to keep me warm aswell. I feel you.
But it is amazing in summer to sleep there.
My grandparents' home was built in 1812; can confirm the cooling effect the farther from the living room and the kitchen you were.
@@TopAnimeLoverEver My grand-mother used a bed warmer when she was young. They were made out of metal and you basically put embers in it, and put it under the blanket before going to bed.
What a great experiment! And so pretty, too!
Totally agree that we tend to overestimate modern cold-weather clothing. I live in Canada, and the northern indigenous people, for example, still wear traditional fur coats - not because they couldn't have modern coats if they wanted them, but because the modern ones are seriously inferior!
I also think its worth remembering that 1800s Europeans lacked central heating! They didn't just need to know how to dress for outside weather - they needed to know the most efficient ways to stay warm indoors! Makes perfect sense that they knew what they were doing, or they wouldn't have survived in Northern Europe.
This was very interesting and quite entertaining. You are a blast, thank you. Stay warm.
🦞🦞🦞 We appreciate you, MemeAunt!!! 🦞🦞🦞
Don't have a lobster, so using you as my appreciation ☺️
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I also have no lobster and am sad I can't show my appreciation
I don't have a lobster either, but used all my red foods to show appreciation.
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I transformed a quilted couch cover into a fashionable red quilted petticoat for winter, and it has trasnFORMED my enjoyment of winter 🎉
Love your videos and love your sense of humor. Cute cat too! 😊💖💖💖
I learn so much watching your videos. You are a wealth of knowledge and class! And so funny too! So beautiful too! Love your hair!
Family anecdote about woollen underwear:
My dad talks a lot about his maternal grandparents (aka my great grandparents). We are from the Faroe Islands (cold, moist, foggy islands between Scotland and Iceland), and he has very distinct memories of staying with them in the 70's, sleeping in their bed, and they wore wool underwear and wool nightgowns, and the thing he remembers most vividly is how itchy it was, and my great granddads dry response was just "I've worn it since 1891(the year he was born), you get used to it:
I'd love to visit the Faroe islands one day - I've heard it's so stunningly beautiful there!
@@PurpleDungarees it really is!
I love the stories you can find in Karolina’s comment section! Thanks for sharing 😊
The Faroes are so rugged and breathtaking. I'd love to experience the rugged cliffs and sea
Thanks for the anecdote ❤✌
I wanted to go visit there but I wasn't able to, maybe someday. I'm from Sweden so it's not too far!
🦞 huge respect for Gosia, I would never put in that much effort for my brother hahahaha
Who's Gosia?
@@annamwangi289 Karolina's sister
In my hometown they had a plant in the town utilizing steam for all the homes in the town. The townsfolk and buildings were all heated via steam. Radiators. They were old when I was a kid in the 1960’s, we had huge windows in all buildings were warm and I lived in N. Minnesota. The winters as I recall were not -20 to - 30 of much below. Zero. The town used to have tremendous winter activities
Short capes add a lot of warmth and they did wear them. Or even long capes.
"How did they survive" some didnt. Winter was hell.
*returns home from bitter cold*
Karolina: I feel pleaseantlty refreshed.
Sister: two claws down 👎🏻🦞👎🏻 would not try again.
What a gorgeous outfit! It just made me think of Anna Karenina 💕
I’ve been watching so many videos on old/vintage fashion, and it is convincing me to make my own clothes.
"Don't underestimate wool"
*fiber artists have entered the chat*
I heard that as I was crocheting myself a pair of gloves and went !!!!!!!
Wool is magical and amazing and is a thousand times better than every more modern 'insulating' fabric that makes you sweat and then get colder.
@@systlin2596 - felted mittens = best and easiest winter gear! Plus, fisherman’s wool is cheap and easy to dye!
I love, love wool!
"The only thing I ever knitted was a scarf for my cat and it took me two weeks" is a big mood.
Got me good too. Everything I've ever knitted has resorted in becoming something for a four-legged friend. imagine having the patience to make something for a human...? I can't.
I knitted a scarf for myself. Took half a year.
2 weeks... Fft! Try 10 Months! XD
Many of us Canadians are familiar with the "wool onion" concept. Thin merino wool under layers and thick wool outer layers have helped me survive many winters. But I also always have to add extra ear protection, so let us know if you find some fashionable options. You looked fabulous as always.👍
Merino wool is a big life saver. These days if it's sub -20C I normally wear merino under layers, regular clothing, wool socks, cashmere scarf, wool hat and alpaca gloves with a wool coat on top. It definitely keeps me warm but I also run warm.
This is why fur or goose feather down coats are still used in Siberia. “Modern” winter clothes just do not cut it
What about pants or shoes? I always struggle with those in winter.
@@idislikemints in Siberia they have these fur lined and fur exterior boots that work well for weather -40. For me, personally (since weather doesn’t go to -40 where I live) in the winter I wear these thermos pants ordered from amazon under any pants which helps and I invest in some very nice quality Italian leather boots which always keep my feet warm, and I wear it with my fur coat and for my ears i wear pavolovoposadskaya scarf (a very traditional Russian scarf). It’s perfect for the winter and very specially made with silk and wool blend. I hope I helped a bit! :)
@@danirezaeva3934 thank you!
We also get cold winters (not as cold as yours). When the wind starts or when there is rain/snow, I feel like most of my clothing doesn't stand a chance.
All the stuff in the shops is poorly made. No fur anything. A lot of them have no isolation.
The best you can do is go to a sports shop and check the section for skiing or whatnot and then buy from there.
You gave me idea what to specifically search for.
Same here in Canada! If you want a coat that's actually going to keep you warm when the wind chill hits - 20 C or lower, down filled coats are a necessity! So is layering, just like in the video! I usually wear thermal leggings under my jeans or trousers, and an average of three pairs of socks under a solid pair of boots. And we may not have invented the touque, but we've made it our own, eh?
@@idislikemints those "Siberian" shoes are nutukas in English if by chance you want to go very warm.
🦞haha! I love the outfit! I wonder if you could sneak some wool padding in the puff of the sleeve to help keep the arms warm
The execution on the outfit was *chef's kiss* Also, props to Gosia for filming! 🦞🦞🦞
My dad didn't believe me that me wearing leggings and loose cord pants kept me way warmer than jeans ever could. I wish i had a proper wool set up tho, it is so comfy! 🦞🦞🦞🦞
I have a pair of sweater tights From Gaynor Minden that work beautifully for the cold. I bought them for ballet class on cold mornings but I can also wear them with a skirt and boots or under a pair of pants when it gets cold.
I used to work outdoors year round. I'd wear thin wool leggings and shirt underneath canvas pants, a long sleeved cotton shirt and sweatshirt, a canvas jacket lined with wool felt and a knit wool hat. Even when the temperature was below freezing and damp, I was okay in that outfit. The wool gave me plenty of warmth and the tight weave of the canvas kept out the wind.
right? people asking me how I could wear skirts in winter, not realising that their thin cotton jeans are WAY colder than some thick leggings.
Dein Name!😍
I would love to wear the whole outfit everything. Your sister was a brave little lobster 🦞 trooper.
🦞 love this video ... you need to make your sister a winter outfit too!
3:55 I believe that you mean the idea of cheap wool against the skin as that tends to be of a more brassy textured wool while the more expensive ones either feels silky smooth, really fluffy/soft or both
fun fact that nobody is gonna have actual use of: wool retains a lot of its insulating ability even while soaking wet
very useful fact!
Must be why it was used as swimwear back then. If you don't live somewhere tropical year round the ocean is freezing.
I know and love this fact, especially when I come across a creek/river while backpacking with my wool socks 🥰
Max it’s exothermic, emits heat when it’s wet
Yup!
It's why it's a common fire safety tip to lightly douse a wool blanket in water and shelter with it covering you in the event you cannot escape a fire.
You want the outer layers of the material to be wet to deter burning, but the inner layers should stay dry to prevent a potential sauna/boiling scenario.
Wool is the master fiber, there is no doubt!
"I made it out of a pizza box"
me: impressed but also shocked pikachu
This is why I always have spare cardboard around: so my impromptu projects don’t make me hungry all day. Mmmm pizza!
I play stardew valley.when it was Christmas in the game,a character said "arent you cold dear?they dont make winter clothing like they used to."i understand now.
Granny is the sweetest old lady.
First thing you learn in Sweden as a child in winter, is layering! (Then, at 14, you completely disregard it and build up your resistance to instead "look hot" they are freaking immune to cold while wearing mini skirts @_@ )
It was interesting to see what sort of layers they would have worn back in the 1800s tho! 😁
Relatable!! As a teen, I always avoided wearing ski pants during winter. But then in my final year of high school, a week of -30 C came, and I would spend at least 15 minutes in the morning just layering up (including ski pants), and once I got to school I would literally hatch out from my "chrysalis" :D
My life changed when I learned about insulated leggings that match your skin. You don’t even have to shave!
“...my new fur collar, it’s heated...” Only a few seconds in and already love it
🦞I love this an appreciate all your effort as you educate me on ways to stay warm historically.
I truly LOVE your warm, breathing fur collar! Looks a lot like mine. Congrats!!
Fun fact about wool. When Roald Amundsen went on his cross Greenland trip all of his crew was kitted with wool clothing instead of standard fur for that time. That was mainly for the weight saving reasons.
And they did just about fine. Or as fine as you can do in the Arctic weather conditions...
Also there was re-creational effort done to see how good 1920-ties high altitude mountaineering kit was really performing.
Basically, they re-created kit and clothing from ill fated Mallory/Irvin Mt Everest expedition. All wool, leather and some fur added for the good measure. And yet again they were just fine, or as fine as you can be on the Roof of the World...
Cheers!
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I've been keeping my great-grand-mothers' fur coats and I ask everyone I know to send me the furs they want to get rid of. When it gets real cold here in Canada (-25°C happens often in january) I grab one of my vintage 60's silk lined fur coats and I'm the warmest girl around. I get weird looks, but I'm warm. 🙃
I also started collecting unfinished cruelty free furs so that I may one day make a piece of clothing of my own. When my pet bunny died of old age, I had her fur done. When my cat brought home a dead mink, I had the fur done too. You never know when those could be useful. And I'm not about to go support a fur industry that wastes so much and who mistreats animals so much.
Also, 🦞. Love you girls.
"never underestimate wool" truth!
I have an Icelandic wool sweater, and if I wear it with just an long sleeves undershirt I don't need a coat when it's 0c/32f.
🦞thank you for your efforts. I hope you are warmer now.
This was an interesting experiment. I live in Vermont and we definitely get cold winters. I want a wool walking skirt now even more than I did previously
"Oh that's a DisGusTing background, this is much better" 🦞🦞🦞🦞
this is just filled with the exaggerated swagger of a polish time traveler