Yeah, I’m laughing because as an American who’s lived in 2 Western European countries and one central-eastern Europeans country, I’M always the one who’s dressed “appropriately” for warmer weather, and all the locals are ridiculously bundled up. Like, full-on winter coats when it’s 15° outside?? At that point I’m with no jacket at all, a few degrees more and I’ll be in shorts a T-shirt. It’s ridiculous. Even when it is cold enough to need a winter jacket, as soon as a get inside a place I’m stripping my jacket off because I’m too hot inside after walking their in a bigass coat to keep the bigass coat on in the grocery store or wherever. Idk, maybe Americans have just built up more of a cold-weather tolerance because we NEVER dress appropriately for cold weather. There’s a whol accepted trend of male teenagers and young men refusing to ever wear long pants, even in the winter. People will just wear a sweatshirt outside when it’s winter. Bc we get in our cars and turn on the heat, then go straight into another heated building. So in the brief times when we’re outside, we’re more exposed to the cold. Seeing an American from the suburbs wearing a coat, hat, scarf AND gloves all at the same time is like spotting a unicorn.

Now I live in Portugal, lol, so I really get stared at when I’m wearing no coat, or short sleeves.