"Gosh, Fingerless Gloves Are Rad!" or "Winter Wear Thread"
 

So what with the advent of the colder weather, I decided to pick up some new gloves. I found a great pair of fingerless ones for, like, seven bucks. I'm actually wearing them right now. They're awesome - they might even trump the ones I bought in New York! (Though I at least have my ear muff things from New York that are pretty skookum, so it balances out.)

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While I agree that fingerless gloves are excellent, I don't see how the "fingerless" part helps with cold weather. My fingers are the only part that ends up getting remarkably cold, gloves or no gloves, unless I'm handling snow.

I think it can be said that "'TitleX' or 'Title Y'" is officially a Seil thing now.

I saw a Spanish guy doing to Bartman.
 

They're helpful because you can smoke cigarettes without taking your gloves off.

And also probably other fingers-related program activities, I dunno. Typing? I could stand to have warmer hands while I'm typing.

I assume you don't live somewhere where it gets cold? XD

Seil lives in Canada, and not even Lev's magic palm-tree city.

Fingerless gloves are nearly useless to me, speaking as a Wisconsinite. Even fingered gloves let your fingers get cold pretty quickly and I can't stand wearing mittens (having my fingers all bunched up and ruining my dexterity drives me batty, since they pathologically squirm to try to get free).

Best solution I have are a combination of the two, oddly. They're fingerless gloves with a mitten attachment that flips out of the way and velcros to the back.

They're practical, but they make you look like a tool if you're in anything other than heavy snow-wear.

But I live in georgia so ehhhhh
 

I hate hats and I hate Ear-muffs, my solution is my patented two-bandana system. I'm not so good with gloves so I tend to just stick my hands in my pockets. I hate big cost so I jump to the under armour and thermals with a light jacket in cold weather.

When I'm fully geared up for work at its coldest/windiest, not counting pants/shirt, I wear long underwear, thick socks, hiking shoes, ice cleats, gaiters, snow pants, a sweater over my shirt, a parka over that, two pairs of gloves (sometimes with the outer pair being fingerless), a balaclava, a neck warmer, a toque, and snow goggles if it's snowing hard. At this point, I am essentially impervious to heat loss.

That's just in super cold and windy weather though (because I'm stuck in it for hours on end). Up to about -20 C, I usually just wear a couple sweaters, a toque, and some gloves. After that, I add more as necessary.

Edit: And yeah, the benefit to fingerless gloves in the cold is manual dexterity and grip. Plus they still keep your thumb covered. Quite a few come with a mit that you can flip over your fingers when you don't need them. I don't generally use them though except as an outer layer.

Fingerless gloves are a godsend when you're in marching band and need to play a clarinet. Otherwise. Eh, I'll take normal gloves.

My favorite winter-wear item has to be scarves though. I love scarves in general.