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How to rock the slopes

January 23, 2012 12:28

ByJan Shure, Jan Shure

2 min read

Let's be honest here. For women, there are two imperatives when dressing for the slopes. And only one of them is practicality.

The other, of course is looking good, though in skiing as in most other arenas, looking fabulous depends, to a significant degree, on looking appropriate.

In this case, "appropriate" is about dressing for infinite quantities of snow and ice, temperatures that veer between below-zero and midday melting and, of course, the actual skiing.

Add to this the potential to fall down - thus rendering, for example, achingly fashionable, elbow-length cashmere gloves about as useful as a pair of Jimmy Choos on a mermaid - and you quickly realize that practicality is an undervalued virtue.