@cmconseils that's what we call in German "Übergangsjacke". Not Winter anymore, not Summer yet.

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In Finland, we have "välikausitakki", literally "in-between-seasons jacket".

@teemuki @Matthias_01 @cmconseils "Tussenjas" in the Netherlands. (But I wore my summer coat today because it was 16 degrees and sunny, though humid so not very nice)
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Just go naked everywhere, problem solved.
@cmconseils I have a formula. If it's below 40°, I wear my heavy coat. If it's in the 40s, I wear my less heavy coat. If it's in the 50s, I wear my windbreaker, rain jacket, or a sweater. If it's 60° or above, no jacket needed. 🙂
@cmconseils Also if you wear boots your feet will die, but if you wear anything else your feet will freeze.
@cmconseils There is a german word for the appropriate garment for this time of the year: "Übergangsjacke".
@cmconseils Take the opportunity to be extravagantly wrong. Edit: I’m looking at you, loud, plaid, designer thing from Stockholm, it’s your turn, baby!
@cmconseils it's the right coat for the moment, but an hour later, you're dying.
@cmconseils Jokes on you. I'm german, we have übergangsjacke
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Corollary: The coat you choose in the morning will probably be wrong by the afternoon.
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Accurate. I went out the door for lunch in my flannel-lined spring/fall jacket. I walked directly back in the door, took it off, and walked back out the door in my t-shirt.
@cmconseils Probably because fear of abandonment issues, I take pictures of orphaned gloves - approaching 1000 - and this is the best time of year for it. Nobody loses a glove that's on their hand, but many a glove shoved into a pocket will fall prey to my lens. I'm here for it.
@rose @cmconseils i used to take pictures of single shoes when id come across them. i used to go for lots of walks. and i found a surprising amount of single shoes. i probably lost most of the shots, and i used to be too broke for a phone so i missed lots of them. but its interesting to see someone else with a similar habit. if i were still walking everywhere, id still be doing it
@briellebouquet @cmconseils Every lost shoe implies a story in a way that a lost glove never will, because - how does it even happen? I don't see many, though.
@rose @cmconseils that is literally why i started doing it lol, you're fully in my head at this point
@rose @cmconseils i climbed up onto a roof of a little multi-unit commercial complex once just to like. be weird. and hang out up there and smoke weed. and i found a single fucking shoe. a fair number in alleys. the odd one downtown. kids boots here and there. i suspect most of the adult ones were from unhoused people

@briellebouquet @cmconseils My favorite lost glove shots are from when I happen across one of my partner's gloves - she is challenged to keep hold of her stuff - such as one I found on a Cleveland OH sidewalk that I only later learned was hers. I've even got one of my own glove, retrieved an hour after it fell our of a pocket at a bump in the road on a bike ride. I celebrate the universality of lost gloves, eyes open that some people can't afford them.

Never found one on a roof, though.

@rose that's neat!

most people dont go on roofs in fairness. i dont anymore either bc im getting too old to climb things and HRT vastly diminished my upper body strength.

my theory for the roof shoe was, someone got bullied and the bully threw their shoe on the roof :(

@briellebouquet Do you have a theory for why there are so many tied pairs of gym shoes hanging from utility wires? Either that's, again, bullying, or it's some obscure part of culture for which I missed the memo? Possibly both, but I've been missing cultural memos since 1952.
@rose cultural one. ive seen people joyfully attempting to throw shoes up onto wires. one group was doing it where i could see from my apartment. they were out for over an hour. i checked back the next morning and they had hooked a couple pairs hahaha
@briellebouquet @cmconseils Also fun - but rare - is when I find and document the second glove in a lost pair.
@cmconseils For the same coat to always be the wrong coat it would have to be fur
@cmconseils listen carefully and you can hear the rustling of all the Germans smugly pulling out their Übergangsjacken
@cmconseils ma'am, that is an emergency poncho
@cmconseils that's why i wear tshirts all year round. Much less mental overload.
@cmconseils a time for repopulating lost and found coat racks
@cmconseils Not if you are german. Then you have Übergangsjacken, several of them 😆
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It's time for onion look. Much layers which could be shed during the day.
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Good, if that's the case I'll be wearing the long PVC trenchcoat because I can't go any wronger.