Emma Johnson: Difficult to look good and stay warm

Jan 14 2010 Liverpool Daily Post

BRRRRR! It’s cold. Scrub that, it is absolutely freezing. The snow that came last week has outstayed its welcome and there are threats of more.

Of course, it caused all kinds of chaos. People could not get into work, schools were closed, supermarket shelves were stripped bare of essentials and Hollyoaks had to halt filming.

But, worst of all, the cold snap has totally wrecked my style.

It would appear that, like Sefton Park Lake, my fashion mojo totally freezes up once the mercury drops below zero.

I have tried to make some adjustments, but it is not going well.

The stilettos were the first to go. Even I know that five-inch heels and icy pavements do not cosy bedfellows make.

So out went the shoes and in came the snowboots (they’re actually Uggs, but revealing that would have ruined the alliteration).

I needn’t have bothered. Less than an hour after leaving home for the first time during the big freeze, I was still prostrate on the pavement.

My biggest problem seems to be the fact that around 85% of my wardrobe is far from suited to these Arctic temperatures. It’s not just packed with limo shoes – shoes so high you have to be taken everywhere by limousine – but limo clothes, too.