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If you are looking to move to Chicago, you should be worried more about winters than summers.
I change into new clothes if it’s a long walk on a hot day. Public trans is always hot so you’ll be sweating whether it’s summer or winter with everyone packed in with heaven jackets and hats on.
Best to just keep a refresh kit at work. Deodorant, new clothes, hair care, etc.
I have about a 15 minute walk.
Summer, I’ll change my shirt on really hot days so i’m not drenched when I get to the office. same with people who take the El.
Winter - it’s cold AF. And I’m from New Hampshire. Chicago is cold. A. F.
I’ll walk in running shoes and leave 1 or 2 pairs of nicer shoes in the office.
Plan to change shirts and give yourself time to tidy up. Depending on where you are working, many office buildings have cheap gyms with locker rooms and showers in them. I honestly walk, duck into the bathroom and change clothes quickly, spray some perfume and use body wipes
Summer is like, one month here. Just make sure whatever your commute looks like, there is a very short door to door runway between public transit and your home / office. It gets so cold your nose hairs freeze when you breathe. TBH on days like that, no one really cares what you are wearing...
Prepare for winters instead. You’ll need to wear significant winter boots so your feet don’t freeze off. Bring socks and shoes to change into once you get to the office.
If it’s higher than 75 degrees Fahrenheit and I have the option to take public transit or Uber I will because I know I’m going to have back sweat and then be smelly.
I guess if I changed my clothes when I got to work that might be different but why would I want to add more time to daily routine.
People say worry about the winters but it’s honestly not bad if you dress warm. I would much rather walk 10 min in freezing weather with appropriate clothing that be dripping sweat in 90 degree weather and being sweaty/smelly all day.
Forget summer. Winter is what you should be worried about. I moved from Texas and the summers in Chicago aren’t “hot.” Summers here are like a regular spring day in the south. Winters though.... HELL. 🥶
It’s been high 80s-90°F here for basically all of July and most of August. It’s the hottest these two months. Weather now will start to taper off.
I wear more or less whatever I want
I rock one really nice Patagonia jacket all winter long and I'm straight. The snow always turn to slush so I'd plan your footwear around that.
Summers suck. I sweat through everything all the time.
I prefer the heat over the cold. I think a lot of how you take the summer depends on how hot you typically run. I’m too cold and uncomfortable in anything below 70°. (Why do I live here?)
I’m the opposite - I start sweating as soon as it hits 70 degrees.
Get a North Face Summit Series jacket for winter. Don’t mess around. Also get a tub of moisturizer or your face will fall off.
Winters aren't as bad as the Chicagoans make it out to be. In the last five years we got like three cold days. NY gets colder and more snow on average.
You obviously have already forgotten about this