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Rural SW Washington here. Rural but not poor either!
Washington has a reputation for not dressing up ever. That there is no restaurant anywhere even in Seattle that you couldn't get in and get a table wearing plaid flannel. Even the most expensive places.
One of my favorite stories about differences in cultures between east-coast and west-coast people was when I was working for a nonprofit based out of Seattle, where we would have a national conference every year. The attendees were mid level social work professionals who worked with the homeless... or ran programs that did.... so not particularly snobby types, right? Well, we spent the day wearing office-casual kinds of clothes at the conference, and then a group of us met for a drink at the hotel where they were staying. After having a couple drinks, we started talking about going out to a popular local place for dinner, and the ladies from Detroit and Chicago and Washington DC et al all wondered what they should go change into for dinner. We locals looked at them oddly because we obviously weren't going home to change first (I lived an hour away), we were planning to go as-is. They simply wouldn't HEAR of that! They needed to dress for dinner. And they did! They went up to their rooms and came down dressed to the nines, in pretty evening dresses... and we went in flannels, and the whole group of us went out and I bet few of the locals even noticed the difference within the group. We're just not that into formalities here.
I wear dresses most every day, whether working or home... but they're casual dresses, that I can wear with sneakers or sandals or boots, depending on the weather. If your rural folk are like our rural folk, I'd bet you could wear pretty much whatever you want, and still fit in. Rural people don't necessarily dress up to go out, but dressed up people will be out and about pretty much anywhere. People just don't pay attention either way... No one will laugh and point.
For women yes lots of jewelry. Especially all of that metalic bracelets, nails etc. Lots of Make-up, lipstick, highlighted hair (ceramic coating) to add that show room shine.
For women yes lots of jewelry. Especially all of that metalic bracelets, nails etc. Lots of Make-up, lipstick, highlighted hair (ceramic coating) to add that show room shine.
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