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Unread 01-12-2012, 03:48 PM
 
Location: Sandy Eggo - Kensington
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Having read more of the OP's posts, sonce the time he first made this comment, I'm wondering how he dares dress 'dumpy casual'. Isn't he worried about being mistaken for one of the bums he complains about?
I can't be the only one to figure out that when the OP was still living in SD, he/ she was living downtown in a flophouse down the street from the largest homeless shelter in the city. I also believe he/she was jobless, carless and spent the day riding the trolley to nowhere. So I can see why in the OPs mind, everyone in SD dresses like a bum and can't speak English.

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Unread 01-12-2012, 03:59 PM
 
Location: Sandy Eggo - Kensington
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When I moved to San Diego, I was still wearing stockings and heels to work. It didn't take me long to shed those for jeans and flip-flops. I was genuinely surprised when I was told I was over-dressing!
Just curious, how does one go from wearing stockings and heels to jeans and flip flops, on the job? In my day to day dealings at work and with the public, I've never once seen anyone wearing flip flops to the office. I assume you work for a small company or something?
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Unread 01-12-2012, 05:01 PM
 
Location: Chula Vista, CA
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Just curious, how does one go from wearing stockings and heels to jeans and flip flops, on the job? In my day to day dealings at work and with the public, I've never once seen anyone wearing flip flops to the office. I assume you work for a small company or something?
^ I've been following this thread and thinking the same thing. I know you don't have to dress to the nines in San Diego, but I'm just curious as to where folks work that allows flip flops. Granted I always worked at Fortune 100 companies, but even in San Diego we were in "Business Casual," and that did not include "slippas."
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Unread 01-12-2012, 05:19 PM
 
Location: Minneeeesoootah
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I've noticed the laid back casual style of dressing also. When we first came on vacation we were over dressed and we were just wearing average summer clothes. Maybe the heat makes people very relaxed and that translates into their clothing choices.
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Unread 01-12-2012, 05:33 PM
 
Location: Ocean Beach, San Diego
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I have not seen rubber flips at work, but plenty of leather sandals in the classic flip flop design
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Unread 01-12-2012, 08:37 PM
 
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Just curious, how does one go from wearing stockings and heels to jeans and flip flops, on the job? In my day to day dealings at work and with the public, I've never once seen anyone wearing flip flops to the office. I assume you work for a small company or something?
When I moved from my home state to California, I went to work in a one-man office...just me and my boss. He wasn't very stringent on dress code and I could wear jeans/t-shirts/rubber flip flops to work. We did have clients come in maybe twice a week, but even then he didn't think it was necessary to dress up. When I knew we were having more formal meetings, I did throw on the occasional suit, however, I always felt claustrophobic.
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Unread 01-12-2012, 08:39 PM
 
Location: southern california
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its a southern cal thing. very strange, in SF people dress.
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Unread 01-12-2012, 10:16 PM
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Location: Richmond, CA
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its a southern cal thing. very strange, in SF people dress.
Uh. kind of but not really. Perhaps more so than in SD but certainly less so than a place like New York. Like I said much earlier in this thread, I like that San Diego doesn't put so much on fashion. Makes it much easier to just be comfortable. I don't think SD is dumpy though, Seattle comes closer to that.
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Unread 01-12-2012, 10:24 PM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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I've noticed the laid back casual style of dressing also. When we first came on vacation we were over dressed and we were just wearing average summer clothes. Maybe the heat makes people very relaxed and that translates into their clothing choices.
I realize you're from Minnesota, and sometimes, warm means it gets above freezing. But I have to ask you what heat? We ***** if it gets above 75.
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Unread 01-12-2012, 10:27 PM
 
Location: Here&There
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Uh. kind of but not really. Perhaps more so than in SD but certainly less so than a place like New York. Like I said much earlier in this thread, I like that San Diego doesn't put so much on fashion. Makes it much easier to just be comfortable. I don't think SD is dumpy though, Seattle comes closer to that.
Seattle, where a few men wear skirts otherwise it's GRUNGE. The only fashion in Seattle are the young Japanese tourists coming through.
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