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I don’t think grown men and women should wear flip-flops unless they’re actually taking a shower or around a swimming pool.
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“Crocs” are for gardening or very small children, not adults in public.
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As noted by Diogenes the Cynic, baseball caps are acceptable wear only when actually playing a sport, (other sports besides baseball, such as golf, tennis, etc. are acceptable) attending a sporting event, or performing yardwork and other such things. They should not be worn indoors, with the exception of playing or attending sports in an indoor venue.
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Amen on ski jackets. Grownups should not wear ski jackets unless they are skiing.
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I can’t believe I have to mention socks with sandals, but I must. For Christ’s sake, if you need your feet covered, wear proper shoes.
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So-called “Capri” pants. They look ridiculous, like you had to steal pants from a fat midget. Either wear pants or wear shorts.
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Wear appropriate socks. If you are dressed in business attire, wear nice socks. If you are dressed in casual attire, casual coloured socks are acceptable. If you are dressed in summer or sporting attire, white socks only.
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For fuck’s sake, don’t wear a beige suit in January (if you live in Canada.)
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Kilts are skirts, and I don’t care what a million Scotsmen and wannabes say; they’re skirts, period. They look great if you’re a bagpiper or a soldier in a Highland regiment. If you’re wearing them to school or work in Des Moines, Oshawa or Sacramento because your last name is MacSporran, you’re a tool.
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Men have to be careful with hats. The fact is that every guy I’ve ever seen wearing a hat just looked like he was trying to be edgy. What a hat says is “Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! I’m wearing a hat! Look! Are you looking yet?”
Unless you live in Australia during the summer, in which case you’re mad to not be wearing a hat outside, of course.
I think it’s hilarious that some of us will walk down the street thinking our outfit is the picture of perfection, and another Doper will walk by and just think “what is wrong with that person? Don’t they know they look terrible in that?”
I’m also pretty amazed at how many people won’t wear shorts. I’m not campaigning for them, I just didn’t realize so many people disliked them.
I don’t like belts. I don’t like the way my pants ride on me when I wear them so I wear suspenders a great deal. But never, never, suspenders with short sleeved shirts. Also, buttoned suspenders only, for me at least.
I don’t wear jeans, T-shirts outside the house, or shorts outside the house. I simply don’t like the way any of them look on me. I very rarely wear enclosed shoes or socks, my feet feel claustrophobic in them. I only wear athletic shoes for exercising, as I don’t like the way they look or feel.
I’m the same way.
I’m also surprised (or maybe puzzled is a better word) at the dislike of pleated pants - the vehemence with which they’re reviled by some seems way out of proportion to the difference they actually make. That they look like crap on everybody seems to be the accepted Truth in some circles, but I’ve never noticed this alleged horror myself. The Dockers I have on right now are pleated, and I think they look fine… 
I’ve heard that it’s cultural, and that only in North America (particularly the southern US) do adults wear shorts when not exercising. Like running shoes, kind of. I have to say that when I was in Europe, I assumed that any adults in shorts were American.
Personally, I feel like a little kid in shorts. They do show too much leg, but they’re also just… not what adults wear. Even in hot Toronto summers, I noticed that most people in shorts were either teenage girls/very young women with the legs to carry them off, or older adults (middle age or above) in knee-length walking shorts.
I also can’t stand shorts. I look stupid in them.
I also detest hight-waisted, tapered pants. If you have any sort of mass to your thighs, regardless of whether it’s muscle or fat, you’ll wind up looking as though you’re wearing hammer pants.
I think gum chewing while speaking to someone else is really gross.
I also don’t like wearing sneakers with anything other than workout attire, which I don’t wear unless I’m working out.
Even if you’re slender, they create a buldgy-looking midsection; if you’re not, they only add to the problem!
Thou shalt not wear:
A hat of any type while indoors
A baseball cap with the brim facing any direction other than frontward
Neck or facial tattoos
Flip flops unless at the beach/pool or in the gym shower
Crocs
Running shoes with dress/business wear
Cholo shorts (those stupid mid calf wannabe gangbanger/vato pantlets)
Pants around the middle of your ass
Any kind of “thug” look
Socks with sandals / dress socks with shorts
Anything that looks like a Bedazzler might have been part of its creation
Scrubs unless on your way to/from working in a medical job
PJs in public
Slippers in public
White socks up to your knees
High-waisted jeans
The color orange, unless hunting
Chukka boots
Piercings anywhere but the earlobes or, if you’re female and have the waist for it, belly button
Ear gauges
Bug lensed sunglasses
Anything written across your ass, particularly, “Juicy.” The last thing I want to imagine is your ass juice.
Violation of any of these will immediately brand you a complete dolt once I’m Grand High Poobah and Lord of Everydamnthing.
Yup. I’m not a serious barefooter* or anything, but I’ve gone days without wearing shoes. I don’t see why it’s unsightly, unless she was wading through mud or something. I like seeing how black the bottom of my feet can get, but I wash them every night. And going to church barefoot is just rude.
- there are some people who will go EVERYWHERE barefoot, and will make a big deal of it if someone says they can’t (there are no rules against it - but of course stores can refuse to serve you anyway). I don’t want to deal with that, so I wear shoes when shopping or whatever. But at home, at college, or at work? No problem.
I will not wear:
[ul]
[li]white pants or skirts[/li][li]red, orange, yellow, bright pink[/li][li]acrylic sweaters[/li][li]anything with a visible logo, label or brand name[/li][li]anything that is shiny, glittery or has sequins or beads[/li][li]pants with “on seam” pockets - my big hips make them stick out, thus making my hips look even bigger[/li][li]those pointy-toed shoes that seem so popular lately[/li][li]big bug-eyed sunglasses[/li][li]big gaudy beady jewelry (like this or this)[/li][li]anything with horizontal stripes[/li][li]I stopped wearing underwear a few years ago[/li][li]I prefer not to wear synthetic fabrics[/li][li]belts[/li][li]athletic shoes (except for the rare times I go to the gym)[/li][li]anything with a “cowl” neck[/li][/ul]
Exception- nipples and clits are OK. Hot, even.
I will not wear:
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[li]cap sleeves, or short sleeves unless it’s a t-shirt (I love 3/4 sleeves)[/li][li]white pants or shorts[/li][li]clothing with “shiny” threads in it unless it’s Christmas[/li][li]pleated pants of any kind[/li][li]belts unless I’m wearing slacks with belt-loops and a tucked in shirt (rare)[/li][li]peep-toe shoes[/li][li]those tops with the band around the bottom (old lady clothes!–I can’t believe they’re selling those in the Juniors section now!)[/li][li]tops that are clingy enough to show the rolls caused by my bra-band. Ewwww.[/li][/ul]
I pretty much won’t wear any sort of “girl” clothes: skirts, dresses, flouncy things, heels, ruffles, sleeveless/shoulderless/backless things, lowcut things, or sheer/very thin fabrics. Whenever I do I feel like I’m dressing in drag. If I can’t wear a nice pair of slacks, a nice blouse (preferably with a jacket) and sensible low-heeled shoes to a function, I simply don’t go. Fortunately our lifestyle (two introverted sofware geeks) doesn’t offer too many opportunities for things like formal dinners, so it hasn’t been an issue.
I also prefer not to wear sandals or other open-toed shoes in public. Nobody really needs to see my toes, thanks. Ditto my legs. I love shorts in the house, but I won’t wear them out in public. At least not until I’ve lost some of the weight my WoW addiction has caused me to gain back recently.
I won’t wear anything snug-fitting. I hate the way it feels, and if I do wear something too snug, I spend the whole day tugging at it.
I won’t wear pants without functional pockets. Since I don’t carry a purse, I need someplace to keep my keys and wallet.
I hate:
–Crocs
–Uggs
–These unholy Croc/Ugg hybrids (http://www.sahalie.com/jump.jsp?itemID=12578&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1%2C2%2C6%2C47&iProductID=12578) I seem to be having issues with my links today.
–Sweatpants worn outside the house, especially if they have elastic around the ankles
–Slippers worn outside the house
–flip-flops
–Pants with things written on the ass
–Leggings or tights as a substitute for pants
I work at a hardware store. There is one guy who regularly comes in wearing sweatpants under shorts. I was also amused by the woman who came in wearing heeled work books, jeans, a knee length dress over the jeans, a workman’s Carhartt sweatshirt over the dress, a dustmask on her head over her nicely done hair, with a sprinkling of sawdust.
Oh, and you really don’t need to wear your bright yellow Victoria’s Secret PINK UNIVERSITY sweatsuit with cropped pants and you UGG boots to the hardware store.
Wearing shorts when you’re just out and about is pretty logical and smart when it’s 30 degrees out. I can understand why people from, say, the UK or Germany wouldn’t get that, because it just doesn’t get very hot there.
C’mon now. Hotness is a state of mind, just like coolness. 
Never been to Australia, have you?
My thoughts exactly, but no-one else I know agrees with me, unfortunately.
I can’t remember the last time I had shoes with anything less than a 3.5 inch heels (barring workout shoes). I also, after a brief flirtation with a Coach purse, will not wear anything obnoxiously branded. Not that I don’t want high quality stuff, but the whole purpose of that seems to be to call attention to the fact that one is wearing premium whatever and that strikes me as a little attention whorey for my tastes.
And I will never wear crocs.