Best Women’s Ski Clothes & Cute Ski Outfits [UPDATED 2024]

Do you really need all this gear for skiing? Yes! Stick around and find out more.

I’m Kim, The Abundant Traveler, and welcome back to the channel. I’ve been skiing since I was a little girl, but in my 20s, I was a certified Austrian ski instructor. I lived in Kitzbuhel, Austria. I’m headed to Vail, and it’s so important to have the right gear when you are on the mountain. Let’s talk about what to wear when you’re going up the mountain.

Right, first of all, let’s talk about underwear. Underwear? Yeah, underwear. So, girls, you can wear your sports bra if you want, and personally, I just wear a regular bra. Make sure to wear comfy, wicking underwear if at all possible because you’re either gonna fall and get wet or you’re gonna get hot and sweaty and get wet. And once you get wet, you don’t stay warm.

Second of all, what is most important after your underwear, the most important layer is the base layer. I would suggest just wearing a gorgeous – I love this pink, this is a bula, it is a base layer, it is super warm and super long. What I love about it is that it covers my heinie just a little bit. Another thing that I like about this bula actually is the sleeves are extra long, and you can pop in your thumb through here, which keeps your wrist cold – I mean your wrist warm, which keeps your wrist warm, not cold!

On the bottoms, you need to have a great pair of long underwear. This is just a simple black pair. There are different weights and different strengths of long underwear. I like this. These are from Patagonia; I wear these all the time. They’re women’s, they’re long. What is super important about your long underwear is you want to make sure that it either goes higher than your ski boot or all the way down to your ankle in your ski boot, so you’re not going to get any blisters when you buckle down your ski boots.

It’s very important to have good-quality ski socks. I love these Thorlos. I love the fact that they have a little bit of extra padding and a little bit of extra heel. What’s really great on a ski sock is more padding on your shin because you will actually lock down your boots and tighten them, and having that extra shin guard is fantastic.

And the next step is, for me, I wear a vest. However, I’ve got to go get my vest because I forgot it over there in my stuff that I’ve already packed for Vail. So, I’ll be right back – okay, so, I’m back. I love this vest! It’s a Patagonian vest. They have great gear; it lasts a long time, it’s fantastic, and what I love about this is it zips from the bottom all the way to the top.

It’s extremely important when you are skiing on the mountain or snowboarding to have layers. Lots and lots of layers, and it’s also important to be able to take on and off your layers very easily.

And then we get to the outer layer. So, the outer layer is where you want to be stylin’. I love these Nils ski pants. Nils is not the least expensive option out there, but they’re super high quality. They’re really, really long because I am 5 foot 11. I need long ski pants, and it is great. You want to have a ski pant that has a snow guard that goes over your ski boots. So, this will actually go over the top of your ski boot, so when you fall or in your skiing and powder or whatever you’re doing, the snow will not get up inside and make your feet cold, your legs cold, and everything like that. I love these Nils! I suggest buying just a straight black pair; it doesn’t matter what new ski coat you buy or what base layer you wear; it’s like having an LBD, a little black dress, just having black ski pants.

So, after the ski pants, this is my favorite thing. It is brand new for this season; it is from Descente or if you’re living in Italy, it’s called Descente, depending, but it’s a French brand. This is the most delicious ski coat I have ever had in my entire life. It’s nice to be stylish, but if you’re cold and miserable, then it doesn’t; it’s not worth being stylish. So, these coats are not only stylish but they are functional, as well. I think I’m gonna put it on. It looks good in my little hood! So, I could do the rest of the video like this.

And this particular hood goes over the top of most ski helmets, so if you’re riding up the lift and it’s a little colder than normal, you can just pop this up like this over the top of your ski helmet, and you’re good to go. Or when you are after skiing, and you’re going to apres, and you have hat hair, and you didn’t bring a hat, you can actually walk around town like this and look very cute, very cool, and very chic. Ok, I’m in Austin; it is 70 degrees, and it’s too hot to be wearing my jacket, so I’m going to take that off.

This is the most important thing out there on the mountain; you have to have good gear to stay warm and comfortable, but the most important thing is to have your helmet to stay safe. It is just not cool to not wear a helmet anymore. So, this is my helmet; I love it. I’ve had it for a couple of years. It was a gift from my dad for my birthday because he didn’t want me to crash and hurt myself. Most people are satisfied with your helmet, just having this, me personally, I like to wear these little beanies. This is Turtle Fur, and I put this beanie on like this. Make sure that whatever you put underneath your helmet, that it covers your forehead here between your goggles and your helmet or you will end up with a terrible headache just because of the cold, right here.

So, I put my beanie on, then I put my helmet on, then the next step is good quality goggles. This is extremely, extremely important. If you can’t see, you cannot get down the mountain. The best goggles in flat light are either yellow or orange or pink hues, rose hues. Ones that are lighter lenses are better because they allow more light in. And I love these, yeah. Guess what, they’re pink; you’d- they attach to the back of my helmet and so they are on all the time.

So, I’ve got my head covered, I have my head warm, I have- I can see while I’m skiing, I’ve got my helmet, I’m doing great, but there are a couple of accessories that I think are really necessary. As I pull this off, I have hat head, yeah, hat head; let’s talk about hat head for a moment. I always bring an extra hat for my hat head. These are just a couple that I love- that I love to bring with me. This is one of them, and it just depends on how I feel. So, some days I’m wearing this one; I just, you know, do my thing, ready to go apre skiing, sing all the songs we all know and have a drink after skiing. So, this is one of the hats and this depends on how I’m feeling. This is another one, and this is soo fun with this little thingamajig ease here. So, here’s my hat.

There are a couple of accessories that I like to use all of the time. I have an extremely long neck. I like to wear these fun, colorful Turtle Fur neck warmers. So, I have really long hair, as well, and I like to twist up my hair and just put it back here like this, and you just do this with your helmet, your goggles, it drops down here, and you’re good to go. Or you can be a bandit. I like these better than the fleece because they’re thinner. I also have three or four of these because every day I wear a different one and as girls, we like to change our outfits. And it’s a cheap, inexpensive way to change your outfit. Also, after you’ve been sneezing and breathing in this all day, you definitely want to have a clean one for the next day. It’s like changing your underwear.

High-quality gloves. Again, if your feet are cold, your miserable. Well, if your hands are cold, you’re miserable. I do love these Swanny; you can see they’re kind of worn out. I’ve had these for years. I probably had these ten years. I love them; they’re fantastic! These particular gloves have a place to put in a hand warmer here; they’re leather on the top and leather on the bottom, which means that they’re not going to get wet.

Another accessory that I always bring with me because at the end of the day, you’re cold, you’re wet, you’ve either sweated through your stuff, or you’ve fallen down and you’ve gotten your clothes wet, or you’re badass and you’re just skiing powder, nothing but powder, and it’s all up in your face and you got wet anyway. So, this is an accessory that I absolutely love. This is called a hot tonic, and this dries your boobs out, it dries your boots out, it dries your gloves out; you can put it on anything. It works for you simply just like this. You turn it on, and it just blows hot air through these little tubes into your boots. Sometimes I take it, and I just do this, and I dry up my gloves every day because after 2 or 3 days, you have sweated in your gloves, and they’re gonna be wet the entire time. So, this was, believe it, was less than a hundred dollars. Again, I’ve had this for years, so it is definitely worth buying one of these and having one of these.

So, this is everything that I would be wearing when I go up on the mountain, and there is nothing like skiing! If you’ve never been, it is worth going; it is an amazing experience to be on the mountain, just you, the snow, the beautiful Bluebird day, hopefully, and the wind just going by. It’s just- it’s just a phenomenal experience.

Do go, do get ski instruction – very, very, very necessary. Do get ski instruction; don’t go up there by yourself and think that it’s no big deal. It’s a big deal! I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you so much for watching; make sure to subscribe and let me know if you have any great gear that you like to wear when you’re going skiing. I’m Kim, The Abundant Traveler, and I’ll see you on the next adventure!