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Bib Snowpants + Arctic weather + puzzles

Bib Snowpants + Arctic weather + puzzles

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Amy Tector
Dec 18, 2022
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Bib Snowpants

The snow, the snow, the glorious snow has arrived. Huzzah! With it comes the eternal question — what ski pants can I wear? If you are shortish and roundish like me, this is a tricky one because ski pants DON’T KNOW ABOUT LYCRA OR SPANDEX.

That’s right my good coconuts, they have a hard waistband. I think we can all agree that hard waistbands, like doctors endorsing cigarettes, CD binders and witch trials are OVER.

What is a girl (middle aged woman) to do? I have searched high and I have searched low… Either the ski pant is too tight and I can’t zip it up without foregoing a future where I can bend or breathe, or the ski pant is too long and my feet (even in ski boots… even in skis!) completely disappear.

At this point you might be thinking, Amy what do you even NEED ski pants for? You grew up in the Eastern Townships in the 1980s — wear those jeans on the slopes, girl! While I do respect a Jeans Skier as much as the next gal, I am old, I am shiversome and I n…

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