Jeans and khakis and cotton pants and the snow SUCK AND SHOULD NOT MIX. When you fall on your butt (and this is not an if when there's icy sidewalks around), if you're wearing cotton-based pants, the snow gets sucked right into your clothes and makes you wet and miserable and feels utterly gross. Even if you have long underwear on underneath. Even if you're wearing a long jacket, it can still get into your pants from the calf down. Jeans are the worst because they're the heaviest and will absorb the most water and make your legs feel like leaden weights.
Re: Once it gets below 40F ...
Jeans and khakis and cotton pants and the snow SUCK AND SHOULD NOT MIX. When you fall on your butt (and this is not an if when there's icy sidewalks around), if you're wearing cotton-based pants, the snow gets sucked right into your clothes and makes you wet and miserable and feels utterly gross. Even if you have long underwear on underneath. Even if you're wearing a long jacket, it can still get into your pants from the calf down. Jeans are the worst because they're the heaviest and will absorb the most water and make your legs feel like leaden weights.