What to wear in the evening

Depending on where you are, jeans usually do the job for me, if not jeans with thermals underneat are ace, tshirt, jumper, jacket! It shouldnt bother you too much the cold!

Just shove some jeans and a shirt on ;)

:DYou will be so tired in the evening that you wont care what you wear .one of the nice things about skiing is that no one really cares what you look like.

the key is layers, jeans are fine but probably not the warmest. I always find that the bars and restaurants are so hot that you end up peeling of a few layers, as you can see from this picture this apres-ski malarkey can be quite hot!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/17670938@N03/1845665297/

I'm sure Mel won't mind seeing this!!

As someone else said on this thread earlier unless you go to one of the glitzy resorts then fashion seems to go out of the window a little bit during the evening.

I always assume it's going to be cold outside and very warm inside in the evenings so it's jeans, tshirt/shirt , optionally a zip up fleece/track top, and warm (ski) jacket. If the evenings are warm like they can be in my experience then for go the warm jacket.

If you plan on eating in smarter restuarants smarter jeans or moleskin trousers and perhaps boots are a consideration. However dress for the conditions, if it's dumping down with 2 feet of snow at resort level people won't expect you to show up in dress shoes.

Rossfra8 wrote: jeans with thermals underneat are ace, tshirt, jumper, jacket! It shouldnt bother you too much the cold!

Living and working in the cold for four mounths of the year, the above is what I wear most. The thermal pants/leggings/longjons (preferably thin soft merano wool for me) stops the cold shock of being outside on your legs, but if you end up in a warm place you can strip down to the T-shirt. The extra layer on your lower half doesn't seem to overheat you too much.

Don't look to the locals for clues as to dress. People aclimatise to the cold if they live with it. I remember one year when we had temps of -40C. When the temps got back to just below freezing, I saw a postman doing his rounds in shorts.

Trencher

Where the hell you like! In most ski resorts people just wrap up warm. I tend to go with Jeans boots and a jumper. Its only really poser resorts like Courchevel people dress up and even then it is no where near like a night out in london. Just wear what you feel comfortable in!

Hi

I only started skiing a couple of years ago. I bought myself a pair of Peter Storm walking boots which I wear in the evenings. This year in Austria was very mild and there was no snow in the village so I just wore trainers to walk to the bars but walking style boots are a must if you want to go toboganning, etc. In the evenings my other half and I wear jeans, t-shirt, jumper/fleece/zip top and ski jacket although again the ski jacket wasn't really needed for the evenings this year in Austria. Depending on how cold it is and how far you have to walk anywhere you may also need a hat, scarf and gloves. It's true about going for breakfast and dinner in your ski gear. You may want to change out of your ski clothes right after coming off the slopes before some apres ski though - only because if you are just learning to ski you might become quite hot and sweaty with the effort! Nobody really wears anything really smart - casual is definately the order of the day.