How clothes in the USA have changed, for the better I think.
Washington Post article here
Here in Venice, California I can attest it's pretty casual! Flip-flops and shorts can be worn pretty much all year (with a sweat or warm removable upper layer). And the high 80-degree temperature days in October and November (!) are pretty much necessitating that even if it wasn't a look of choice.
That women worse dresses and men suits -- at home, work and school -- almost exclusively up until the 1920s and 30s really is something. Sounds pretty repressed and formal, and uncomfortable. (See temperature reference above. Suit and tie gentlemen?)
Egalitarian
Currently most if not many people are wearing a lot of jeans, sandals (Sanuks), tee shirts and tennis shoes (sneakers, running shoes, etc). Women can wear anything, yoga pants, shorts, skirts, jeans, tee shirts, dresses, as desired.
Better, it's hard to tell someone's socioeconomic class from their clothes in Venice. That guy with a scroungy beard, jeans and sandals can be a CEO for a tech company or a neo-homeless itinerant surfer from Europe with no job. Or one of your friend's friends. That's kind of cool. It takes out the heirs of feigning wealth, as the article alludes to for the 'formal' styles of the past.
Comfort is king, as it should be in my mind. If one needs to express themselves and or flaunt some money etc. with their wardrobe I suppose they can, but that seems out of date at the upper range, again which I think is nice.
The hip techsters who arrived in Venice a few years ago we're wearing a lot of black: like they do in San Francisco. Black boots, jeans, black sweaters and black-rimmed glasses. Looked horrible and out of place in Venice; thanks fully they've gravitated toward comfort over the last few years and this is not seen nearly as much.
My old boss in Emeryville (at a tech company in the Bay Area) work jeans, north face or soft cotton tee-shirts and nice running/hiking shoes. Everyone was free to dress in comfort.
This is cool. 2015. I'll try to take a picture and post it, but you'll see it everywhere in So Cal. Nice.
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